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Rating: "The Silencers", more than being a band, is a brand belonging to the enigmatic face of Jimme O'Neill, a blond with a hooligan cut capable of exploding into devilish poses when, in the blues of his strongest tracks, he opens his clear eyes and chuckles. The Silencers of Jimme O'Neill are a band that started too late, towards the end of the '80s, to bring out their records of new wave, "essential" blues, and Celtic pop rock to achieve international fame.
When the artists of the new wave had already given their best, when perhaps even Celtic and/or epic rock, in its most prominent representatives, had almost said it all, this spectacular work comes out in which, inside delicate new wave frames, O'Neill serves American root rock and epic whistling in the style of "Belfast Child" in "Just Can't Be Bothered"; a pure British ballad, slightly rougher than one of the Smiths, in "The Art Of Self Deception"; a Morrissey born among the jagged Scottish shores, in the acoustic "Afraid To Love"...
And still, the type of rock that Jim Kerr never knew how to compose, lives in "This Is Serious/John The Revelator". Not yet satisfied, still in the usual wave frame, in "I Want You", "Rosane", and the even more spectacular "Electric Storm", O'Neill fully re-emerges his Celtic identity with pop rock ballads arranged like electrified Celtic folk songs.
The soft rock of "Bulletproof Heart" travels very well and the anorexic blues as much as the hallucinated "Robinson Crusoe In New York", while the very delicate and dreamy wave of "One Inch Of Heaven" and especially the rhythm and blues of "Hey Mr Bank Manager" mark the step a bit. Finale for the epic "When The Night Comes Down", all voice and background, where you would expect the arrival of about eighty bagpipes (which don't come), and off we all go home, in the province of Glasgow of course.
A really nice album, rich in moments of high inspiration, worthy of being placed among the unmissable ones, in the list of those who appreciate the new wave as well as those who are lovers of sounds, atmospheres, and suggestions (or more simply records) coming from that part of the world. But also on the list of those who love the good music of the '80s. Or rather not: "Dance To The Holy Man" is from 1991.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Bulletproof Heart (04:58)
Some say this is a dangerous place
Dangerous women lipstick mace
Men disappear without a trace
Stay anonymous hide your face
In this town you`d need a
Bulletproof
Shatterproof heart
When I came here I was innocent
Soon found out what trouble ment
Now I regret the times I`ve spent
In your towerblocks and tenements
In this town you`d need a
Bulletproff heart
In this town you`d need a
Bulletproff
Shatterproof heart
Watch your step
Don`t open your door
Watch your step
They want to settle a score
Watch your step
Don`t open your door
Open your door
Some may say this is a dangerous place
Searchlights circles
Watch this space
Men disappear without a trace
Anonymous faces lost in the maze
In this town you`d need a
Bulletproff heart
In this town you`d need a
Bulletproof
Shatterproof heart
In this town you`d need a
Bulletproff heart
In this town you`d need a
Bulletproof
Shatterproof heart
Shatterproof heart
Shatterproof heart
In this town
In this town
In this town
In this town
In this town
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