The Adverts
Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts

THE REVIEW

Year 1978, from the burning London, one of the most exciting albums that the "Blank Generation" has delivered is born.

"Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts" represents the spiritual testament of the Adverts and an entire generation of young people without a future.

In addition to the typical urgency and anger that unite the Punk movement, the group adds a more introspective and introverted vein that results in almost epic pieces always accompanied by great expressive fervor and exuberant energy.

The album opens with the splendid "One Chord Wonders", a programmatic manifesto of their music, and continues with no less intriguing and hasty tracks like "No Time To Be 21" (eligible as the flag of the entire English Punk season), "Bored Teenagers", "On The Roof" and the most well-known ""Gary Gilmore's Eyes" (born as a single and included in later editions).

The cherry on the already delightful cake is added with the closing track, "Great British Mistake", where our angry adolescents in the chaotic and crescendo ending, directly bring back to the minds of us voracious and famished listeners the sounds already heard in the amphetamine delusions of the best Velvet Underground!

When you're feeling a bit down but also quite pissed off, the album is what you need to replenish the soul with healthy and vitamin-rich negative energy!

....to be revisited!