The Divine Comedy
Regeneration

THE REVIEW

It is sad to think that so often the most interesting realities hide in the depths of the market, because this way we are forced to know only what stays afloat, and sometimes it doesn't even satisfy us.
This album, which I personally have never seen lying on the shelves of Italian stores, certainly belongs to the category of "treasures lost in the depths".
The Divine Comedy is a band that has been around for more than ten years, and "Regeneration" is their eighth chapter.

Imagine being thirty years old, living in the grey and desolate suburbs of an English city; imagine that your only joys of the day are the cigarette you smoke on the way to the pub or the beer you savor every evening with your drinking buddy, a few romantic disappointments behind you, and a faint hope that things might change soon. This is what Regeneration talks about: eleven songs wrapped in ironic melancholy and suspended between a tear, a smile, a ray of sunshine, and a drop of rain.

"Bad Ambassador" is a very delightful love song à la Elvis Costello, "The Eye Of The Needle" is perhaps the most touching ballad I have ever listened to, and "The Mastermind" I don't think needs adjectives to be described. A true concept, a pearl lost in the depths of Brit-pop that absolutely needs to be rediscovered and brought back to the light. Have courage and get to work; if there is an album that everyone should listen to at least once in their lifetime, it has to be Regeneration by The Divine Comedy.