The Pogues
Hell's Ditch

THE REVIEW

Produced by Joe Strummer. This fact alone should be enough to make us understand that we are dealing with a little musical gem.
The setting? The land of Hell's Ditch. The realm of the eight guys led by Shane MacGowan, and their 13 songs.
This CD takes us directly there, to those Irish lands. The other face of that Britain conquered and queen of '70s rock, and particularly of Ireland itself, which has U2 as its cornerstones.

Here there’s a different air. The mind is light, it travels. Not like on a psychedelic trip due to ‘some little drug’, but as only a dreamer can do.
The first two tracks are worth the entire CD alone. That wonderful "Sunnyside Of The Street", "I know I’m better than before. I will not be reconstrued. Just wanna stay right here, on the sunnyside of the street"... and the equally beautiful "Sayonara", which fans of Brizzi will remember as key parts of the imaginary soundtrack of his most famous book, are perfect pearls of expressiveness that, through different sounds, traditional or of oriental inspiration, manage to convey to us different situations and feelings at their core.

Here there is no space for super-fast scales, perfect vocalizations, or for that music that generally populates 90% of our lives... the feelings, however, are always the same. And it's nice, maybe after a year, to find this disc, put it in the player, travel, and feel at peace with oneself, to then put it back in its place, because the right moment to listen to it again will come, by chance... Ok it’s time for Sayonara...