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Coexist review

Posted : 11 years, 6 months ago on 27 September 2012 12:13 (A review of Coexist)

Success is a double edged sword. It's even more if overwhelms you to your first album, recorded after school in the family garage. So, you find yourself having to take a break, because all that fuss you're not used to it, you want to take back your life, your affections. And 'what happened to the XX, invested, rightly, by a veritable wave of fame. All of them were looking for, all they wanted.
Now, after the break, Romy, Oliver and Jamie are back with the second, and needless to say, highly anticipated, studio effort, "Coexist". Eleven tracks sprouted from the "combination of three different souls but that they complement each other," as he told us Jamie, producer and DJ, in a recent interview.
"Angels", not only is the new single but also the song that opens the album, and from the very first, we realize that something has changed. The dark atmosphere give way to the sounds of dreams, between the electro and house, very special. The voices of Oliver and Romy blend to perfection. Love is certainly one of the main themes of "Coexist" tacked in all its aspects: the meeting, told in "Sunset", one of the most successful songs of the disc, captures with its melody punctuated by percussion rhythms so light be almost impalpable, in the rediscovery of the "Reunion", characterized by a thin vein dark and tormented, enriched beat mood, and the nostalgia of one who has gone in "Missing", caressing and touching at the time same. "My heart is beating in a different way," goes the song, and the beats seem to hear them seriously.
A hard really inspired, this "Coexist", thoughtful and well-constructed. The maturity of Jamie as a producer and DJ is heard in songs such as "Fiction", in which the electronic blends perfectly with the guitar, scratchy, and the voice of Oliver, crystalline and impact, and "Tides" where the intro sung by Romy and Oliver introduces a song a cappella rhythmic but slight. Many echoes 80's sounds and melodies, as in "Unfold" and "Swept Away" at the beginning melancholic ballad that turns into a crescendo of clapping and attractive cash house well studied.
The disc ends with "Our Song", dreamy track and whispered, very close to this new creature of XX: a ray of sunshine that pierces the darkness.


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¡Uno! review

Posted : 11 years, 6 months ago on 27 September 2012 12:09 (A review of ¡Uno!)

The history of Green Day is a sequence of "Who would have thought?"
Who would have thought that a trio of Californian punk apparently some 'losers would have churned out one of the most successful records of the 90s - "Dookie" revitalizing itself a kind? And who would have thought that in the next decade, after a slack period, he churned out an ambitious work as "American Idiot," which would have been a success just as important?
And who would have thought that, after another rock opera as "21st century breakdown", they would have dropped everything to go back to rock straight?
Yet this is "¡A", the first album of the trilogy that will conclude in January. Yes, because all'annunncio of three albums in four months, many have thought, "Olé, we're lost them. They are fitted to the head. "
Instead.
It remains that the trilogy is an ambitious and risky, these days, previously attempted only by equally ambitious band (Van Halen from the golden age, or Kiss, who released even 4 and simultaneously). But it is offset by the result, at least from what we hear so far. "¡A" is a Mr. disc of songs-songs. Forget the "concept album" (a term that makes me the jitters every listener as it exits the mouth of any musician), forget the works that become rock musicals. Here there are 12 songs almost all of about 3 minutes, even 40 minutes of rock 'n' roll. Previews you've heard about are representative. "Oh Love" is the first single: Widely melodic, a tribute to the power-pop Green Day had attended the "side project" Foxboro Hot Tubs.




More power and pop, to tell the truth. The melody is always there, as in "Kill the DJ", which resembles' the Clash, as well as "Carpe diem". Ah, the good old punk is still there: fast agreements and drums are there who surrounded him in "Let yourself go" and "Loss of control".
The result is a great record, funny and unexpected, that shows a pure creativity and remarkable. Too bad that this creativity is accompanied by something that is the opposite of "Who would have said," so it's the stereotype: Billie Joe enters rehab for substance abuse. But this news does not dirty the result: "¡A" is an album to put in repeat as if nothing had happened, waiting for surprises (music) that Green Day will we see in the coming months.


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Goodbye Kiss review

Posted : 11 years, 10 months ago on 13 June 2012 12:02 (A review of Goodbye Kiss)

The best single of late 2011-start 2012!!!
It' s quite unusual from a rock-electronic band like Kasabin to have done this old-style tune!
It reminds me of Bacahrach chords style!


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The Kid review

Posted : 12 years, 4 months ago on 16 December 2011 04:23 (A review of The Kid)

Maybe not a well-known movie of him, but I watched it some days ago and I found it very interesting and touching..
Contains a very positive message: " In life doesn't matter if you're rich but It would be waist if u haven't a person to share with.."
A very good incursion of Willi's talent into comedy!


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Megaroman review

Posted : 12 years, 4 months ago on 12 December 2011 12:17 (A review of Megaroman)

Seen now is quite cheap :.But when I was a child I remember to like it...
Note that withouth this the Power Rangers would never existed!!!


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The Last Night review

Posted : 12 years, 6 months ago on 10 October 2011 01:12 (A review of The Last Night)

One of the best italian movies of the last 20 years in my opinion, though it was not well understood as it came out.
A surrealistic, coral and intense movie that I suggest everyone to watch one time in life!


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The Butcher review

Posted : 12 years, 6 months ago on 10 October 2011 01:05 (A review of The Butcher)

Another failed movie.
the book was very awesome and sexy..the movie is a crap..
Terrible acting by our Pariettona!


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The Sinking of the Laconia review

Posted : 12 years, 6 months ago on 3 October 2011 11:44 (A review of The Sinking of the Laconia)

I thought it was another Titanic, Instead I found it interesting and it tells the true story of the sinking of an English boat and the death of 1.700 italians soldiers


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La solitudine dei numeri primi review

Posted : 12 years, 6 months ago on 28 September 2011 11:37 (A review of La solitudine dei numeri primi)

Fantastic book..Fantastic film..and soon will be a fantastic album made by the legendary Mike Patton!!!!
Highly suggested!


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That's Amore review

Posted : 12 years, 8 months ago on 23 August 2011 05:34 (A review of That's Amore)

Another crap reality that put us italians dpwm..terrible...How that Domenico could have any success remains a mistery to me!!!


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