Stereophonics
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THE REVIEW

Pure adrenaline.

This is how one can define the latest album by the Stereophonics, an English band that emerged in 1996 under a different name.
Compared to the previous record, this fifth work is immediate, simple, direct, a straightforward album, where the music is, without a doubt, the core around which Kelly Jones's husky voice unfolds. The title, quite peculiar, is the phrase from the censorship guidelines found on the back of DVDs. Ironically, the group wonders if beyond language, sex, and violence scenes, there is anything else that could be censored.

The work stands out from the others for several reasons: the frontman's raspy and scratchy voice, the aggressive and energetic sound, the total fusion of music and lyrics.
The "grittiness" of the sound is immediately noticeable in the album's first track: Superman, where the superhero is an alienated being seeking someone who can understand him. In Devil, Jones asks a girl to be both a devil and an angel. Dakota, the first single released, shows the influence of U2, as the riffs seem to be performed by a great The Edge. In this beautiful track, a metaphor of a journey, music and lyrics blend perfectly to create an "iridescent" atmosphere. In Rewind, the singer asks: "Rewind your time would you change your life today?"; while Lolita turns out to be a tribute to Stanley Kubrick's film of the same name.
This fifth album marks the return of the English group, a great return marked by the almost obsessive presence of good rock, full of adrenaline and energy.