Saigon Kick
Water

THE REVIEW

It's not always easy to be captivated from the very first, brief listen of an album; that's what happened to me with an album dating back twenty-three years.

Saigon Kick comes from California, but you shouldn't consider them a simple perfect-measured blonde with no soul beyond the eyes, because the eyes of Saigon Kick let us understand their world made of a profound love for the Beatles, on which bursts of adrenaline are grafted, without ever letting themselves be taken by guitar frenzy.

“Water” is perhaps the most fitting title for this album: I like to imagine a video where our guys play the title track on the lakebed, with nymphs and elves on the surface caught up in a sensual, ancestral dance, who then join the group in the final chorus...

Returning to reality, another evident love of the band is that David Bowie which they cleverly pay tribute to with the wonderful cover of “Space Oddity”; but this isn't enough to give a sufficient idea of an album made of thousands of different nuances like the unpredictable light reflections that are created on the surface of a body of water; perhaps it’s up to each of us to find the most fitting meaning of an album too elusive to be decoded in a sufficiently objective way.

I can only say that from now on I will be less afraid to dive into the waters of a lake...