Reviews by Time Bomb

Everything is simple , in the world of Katy Perry. While other pop stars venture into ever more intricate concept or try the scandal , Katy goes straight to the point with extraordinary precision . "Teenage Dream" of 2011 had five singles on the Billboard and a re very lucky it has consolidated a trademark of pop pure and uncomplicated. The new album of the singer, "Prism " , follows the same strategy and no doubt will get results similar to its predecessor , if not more : the first extract " Roar ," with its pounding beat and a lyric video full of emoji , is already was one of the most successful and predictable year. ( Those who have spent the last few months to make comparisons with " Applause " by Lady Gaga can not be taken seriously : I really wonder if a song that mentions "Rocky" sold more copies than one that mentions Koons ? )
Scrolling down the tracklist, there are at least ten potential singles as effective because Katy Perry and his collaborators (not even worth to mention them , so are the same that you find in every pop album of the last decade ) can build a track for each situation : " Birthday" and "This is how we do " seem tailor-made to become anthems for parties and hen parties very ignorant , while the ballads are divided between the declarations of unconditional love ( " unconditionally ", " Double rainbow " ) and sorrows of young divorcee ( "Ghost ", " By the grace of God" ) . The universality of the lyrics ( more personal than "Teenage Dream" , but still very general ) goes hand in hand with surprising musical choices ever , made ​​on purpose to deceive the radio and drill the brain : there will be a refrain in the head or a song, but the entire album.
The only traces in which you can not say that Katy Perry has taken the most obvious are the first two promotional singles "Walking on air" and " Dark horse " : the first is directly from a compilation of Festivalbar mid- 90s ; the second , of inspiration and grime with the inevitable presence of an average rapper known, is the darkest and most powerful song of the album " Dark horse " shows that the singer could explore other genres without losing places in the standings , but with " Prism "wants to win easy . And when a solo album after only a couple of plays sounds like the greatest hits of a decades-long career , you have to give up: Katy Perry won handily .

TRACKLIST :

Roar
Legendary lovers
birthday
Walking on air
unconditionally
Dark horse feat. Juicy J
This is how we do
International smile
Ghost
Love me
this moment
Double rainbow
By the grace of God

Sometimes they come back , it is appropriate to say . And - damn - if they come back pissed ... already , because the version of Sepultura Domains year 2013 came knocking on our doors preceded by the dose of prejudices and customary skepticism , for sconfessarci dramatically with an album that - for the first time for some years now - really sounds like a album of Sepultura . Those of the golden age , before the diaspora of the two Cavalera .
The Brazilian band / U.S. has now come to the thirteenth studio work and , despite the upheavals of heavy line-up, seems to have found - also thanks to the supervision of Ross Robinson ( who not coincidentally was the mastermind behind the landmark 'Roots' in 1996 ) - a vein that seemed forgotten , either for intrinsic evolution of the components , you want to change the internal alchemy due to changing workforce .
Sure, there is certainly less desire to experiment compared to the last three albums ... but let's be honest : who really cared and 100 % of Sepultura in the research phase of a new sound and an alternate identity ? Probably a few . And it is for this reason that a healthy, solid, cazzutissimo return to a winning mood and well-known is the crucial move , the one that makes it interesting this new disc. Pace of fan evolution at all costs, the "new " and " surprising " ... because it is clear and adamant : If you find your identity and winning formula , especially in extreme metal , it is never wise to deviate too much. Indeed . It is the antechamber of the disaster, on average.

So , it seems that we have reached a moment that maybe some did not believe would ever come : the moment when it becomes clear that would not make sense , and it is not in the plans of the band, no reunion with the two defectors Cavalera . Why Andreas Kisser , Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr., Derrick Green and the new Eloy Casagrande are able to do justice to a brand as glorious as that of Sepultura .
In these 10 tracks Kisser and his show to be in full control of the situation : the battleship Sepultura , also in their hands , can continue to travel and havoc in the name of the most uncompromising thrash metal . And most importantly, so obviously they can not be ignored even by the most ardent detractors , those for which there are no Sepultura without Max and Igor Cavalera .

Of course, if you are looking for news and emotions never felt before , you have the wrong address . If a dose of healthy horse thrash with tribal influences is what makes you go into orbit , here you will find bread for your teeth. Although, maybe , you'd never said.

TRACKLIST :

Trauma of War
The Vatican
Impending doom
Manipulation of tragedy
tsunami
The bliss of ignorants
Grief
The age of the atheist
Obsessed
From chaos blade or

Okay , I confess : before you buy " Transformer" not even know who he was, Lou Reed. I have some mitigating circumstances : I was twenty , I was raised in Italian songs until I had received as a gift from an uncle -sighted , " Penny Lane " / " Strawberry Fields Forever" (the single ) and since then I was all Beatles until lap of the decade, when I had fallen in love ( because of Enzo Caffarelli, the reviewer of " Hello 2001"), Genesis , Jethro Tull, Van der Graaf Generator , Gentle Giant , and Audience ( God forgive me ) Amazing Blondel .
Then it happened that huge thing of Ziggy Stardust , so one day I put together many of the pennies pocket money and I bought it, all together, "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust " (of course) by David Bowie, " Roxy Music" Roxy Music , "All the young dudes " by Mott the Hoople , " the human menagerie " of Cockney Rebel and - while I was there - "No pussyfooting " by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp .
Stuff that I have left their mark, and still do not know if it's a good sign or a bad sign. The mark left by " Transformer" , I'm sure of , it was good , because from there started my discovery of the Velvet Underground , which are certainly a cornerstone - although at the time I was not much aware - the history of rock . Oh , it is true that even without buying "Transformer" probably the Velvet Underground I would have come anyway, sooner or later , but , in short, better before , right?
However, in "Transformer" I have gratitude, and I will not be so ungrateful as to deny it. So , it is with some emotion that I put in the player in this edition commemorative CD ( "Transformer" I had never bought it back in Cd; Lou Reed, you already know if you've been following the series of reviews of Rockol dedicated to "large hard rock " , I consider that the most significant work is" Berlin " ) . But the "Transformer" own two vinyl editions : the first is the Italian press , RCA , printed on lightweight , flexible vinyl that was called " Dynaflex " - a beautiful piece of crap , believe me. Do not believe there has ever been a stuff of Dynaflex name ? I think that Alzheimer's has now completely senile ? Here it is: " Dynaflex : Ultra- thin pressings of high -grade virgin vinyl Introduced by RCA Victor in late 1969 . Although crap Considered by most collectors Because they do not seem flat When held , they actually have much quieter surfaces then most of the popular records pressed by RCA in the mid -to -late- 1960s two to the extraordinarily high percentage of re -grind vinyl used in all but its Red Seal , Vintage Series , and Original Cast pressings . Also dynaflex was less prone to breakage and permanent warpage in shipment. Its lighter weight and reduced shipping costs allowed for the use of a higher grade of vinyl Because less material was required. They were supposed to lie flat on the turntable two to Their Own weight , but forgot RCA That many people had changers with 8-inch turntables . "
Now you believe it? Well, back to the disk. That edition of " Transformer" - that of the RCA Italian - had censored the cover : yes, because the guy in the white T-shirt , jeans and biker hat photographed on the back (a kind of " Querelle " ) was performing , clearly visible under jeans, a powerful erection that the Puritans Italian record had not seen fit to show the sensitive public of our country ( and so , while we were there, they took the opportunity to also cover the groin of the transvestite - heels -high - socks- veiled - curls - blacks portrait him well on the back cover ) . These details I've learned later , a few years later, when I bought another copy of the album , all import and this did not have that golden apron with the words " Produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson " that was used as protection of the sexual morality of us impressionable young Italians ( " but the guys Italian venivan already on ! " as Ron had to sing in those days , right ) .
Well, the CD version restores the original photograph while leaving the macho smoking - in the sense that it has the obligatory pack of cigarettes tucked into the left sleeve T-shirt - alone in the back of the CD , and by moving the nervous disguised inside, the back cover of the book (OK , I wanted to keep him for the final but I'll tell you now : the macho and the transvestite are the same person , Ernst Thormahlen . and while you are there tell you something else , which I learned from the book cd : it seems that Lou Reed himself has revealed that " the massive erection " above was simply " a banana, a big banana " tucked into jeans Ernst ) . Side A of the album, and the booklet , instead remains as it was in its original form : the face of Lou Reed photographed in black and white by Mick Rock , with dark eyes and an astonished ( a Frankenstein effeminate ) , and under him the shape of a guitar profiled in orange and green. Impossible not to notice the resemblance to Lou Reed, in this photo , with the Frank'n'Furter of Tim Curry in "Rocky Horror Picture Show" - and before some smartass raise the finger to specify that "Rocky Horror Picture Show " the film is 1975, and that " if anything, then it was Tim Curry copy by Lou Reed ," specifically that Tim Curry in 1973 already carrying around for years the "Rocky Horror Picture Show " in theaters first in London and then Broadway.
Anyway. When Lou Reed, in the early seventies , he left New York to London, as the first solo album released folkeggiante " Lou Reed " and then, came into contact with David Bowie, then about to explode with " Ziggy Stardust " , you was persuaded to get produce from him a second job (the meeting , for the history , took place in New York, Bowie recalled, " I stood aghast when Lou accepted me to work with him as a producer : I was terribly intimidated because I knew that great things had done before then . ") Then , in fact , Bowie made ​​it abundantly assist in the task by Mick Ronson - and did well , I think.
Now perhaps you would like to know something about the music and the songs on this record, after I 've done it with long memories of childhood , the cover photo and details of historiography . But I have a little ' afraid to tell you my thoughts " as critical " ( ha ha! ) To " Transformer" . And fear came to me rereading two reviews (of different hand , of course) appeared sull'autorevolissimo "Rolling Stone" . In the first , released in January 1973 Nick Tosches writes : "I think the album is not even remotely express the potential of Lou Reed, who should set aside this arty stuff about homosexuality and begin to spit out his visionary " . In the second , released in March 2002 Rob Sheffield writes: " A poster of glam , outrageous in its entirety as it is the same Lou Reed , Bowie and he no longer worked for any other disc, but ' Transformer ' stands legendary careers of both . "
So , in the space of three decades "Rolling Stone" has completely revised its opinion on the disc. Here , it is the same thing happened to me , but (I say this with regret ) in the opposite direction : the "Transformer" I liked it and was curious and " intrigued " ( verb then this was not so fashionable) thirty years ago, so today I sound unnerved and slombato , artifact and overall insincere . This does not mean that I do not recognize the greatness of " Walk on the wild side ," unquestionably one of the great rock songs of all time: I'm happy to pass it dozens of times a radio province of right-thinking and tail ( so no one understood that " but she never lost her head / Even when She Was giving head" means " but she never lost control / even when it was a blowjob " had not understood even those of the BBC British, who in fact passed on the track in the original version - not like the Americans, who had demanded for a single expurgated version ) . With his title stolen from a novel by Nelson Algren set in New Orleans, with the riambientazione on the sidewalks of New York and its parade of characters such as figurines of an album - collection dedicated to Andy Warhol's Factory - Holly Woodlawn , Jackie Curtis, Candy Darling , Sugarplum Fairy - the song is explicit and didactic as "Trash ," the documentary film by Paul Morrissey in whose cast includes all the above mentioned and many others ( yes , I saw the film , I'm just giving me airs of intellectual : If you want you can also see you in Italy is released on video by RaroVideo , [Link removed - login to see] ), even if for a detailed and dispassionate sarcastic and more accurate description of the characters ( " Little Joe was an idiot ! " ) I refer to the version of " Walk on the wild side " published on the double live album "Take no prisoners " - taken from one of the four concerts in May 1978 at the Bottom Line in New York , one night when Reed was particularly good mood and had want to talk.
Obviously, the reference version is that of "Transformer " with acoustic guitar by Lou Reed, the choruses " du - du du - du du - du du du du ," the phrase sax Ronnie Ross pilfered to " Mr. Big Stuff "by Jean Knight. And with the bass Herbie Flowers , indeed, with " the" lows : Why Herbie , which quell'ipnotica sentence had played acoustic double bass , electric bass with suggested doubling it ( not for artistic reasons : he wanted to earn the pay of an second round of study, 12 pounds - and it is a malignancy : he told him, in the documentary " Classic albums - Transformer" ) . It is obvious that " Walk on the wild side " is a great song : just a great song can unscathed a cover Italian Monti- Dossena signed and titled " The Kensington Gardens " ( with all due respect to Patty Pravo who has sung she knows how to do ), the use of a commercial for Honda ( " do not settle for walking ..."), and a version of Tori Spelling ( in the serial "Beverly Hills 90120 ) .
And it's a great rock song (especially the arrangement is great , Mick Ronson ) also "Vicious " which opens side A of the disc ( " Vicious , you hit me with a flower ..."), and that would look in a record of the Velvet Underground . And it's a good song "Satellite of Love" , all things considered. But - excuse the brutality - " Perfect Day ", now risen to excessive levels of popularity that have distorted the languid perversion (after version beneficial " all-stars " of the BBC, and after entering the soundtrack of " Trainspotting " ) , heard again today looks very little, a little song -sweet romantic - decadent bowiana "Letter to Hermione " - I'm curious to hear the new album by Lou Reed, "The raven" , the voice of the freak of nature that responds to Antony 's name (it is curious but not revealing, if not decisive intervention dell'effeminata production bowiana and some changes in the text - which originally spoke of " summer day" and not " perfect day " - the acoustic demo of " perfect day " which is one of two bonus tracks of this CD reissue ) .
The other ? " Andy's Chest " seems an outtake of " Hunky Dory ", " Hangin 'round " I would have liked to hear rather by Mott the Hoople (even in this there is an acoustic demo CD as a bonus track ) , " Make-up " - with the insistent tuba Herbie Flowers - is a kind of pale anticipation of " Caroline says" ( that appears, there beautiful , in "Berlin "), " Wagon wheel " and " I'm so free " are , as they say the Anglo-Saxons , " disposables " - in short , if you can safely do without, as they are massacred by irritating choruses , " New York telephone conversation" is a joke vaudeville or so ( so that you know it : it is the sigletta of "Brand new " the MTV program ), and " Goodnight ladies " , the song that closed the tracklist of the album , it seems written by John Kander and Fred Ebb for the soundtrack of the film "Cabaret " by Bob Fosse, released just the year before - but Joel Grey , " master of ceremonies " of the film alongside Liza Minnelli, would make it much more sparkling and mischievous ( listen for yourself " Two ladies " and " Tiller girls " ) .
But I would not have spent so much time and so many words and so much attention to talk about this album, if you do not ritenessi still important . Maybe it is ( was) , rather than for its intrinsic merits , for the consequences that led to: Lou Reed has brought to the fore, he did it again become a character (even by ranking ) , and probably served to give him full confidence in their ability after the eclipse period following the release by the Velvet Underground. Not surprisingly, after "Transformer" Lou Reed wrote an indisputable masterpiece as " Berlin " (if you want , I find the review in the archive of Rockol ) , not by chance , after politely take pride although the distances by the music and songs of "Transformer" ( " I am the best imitator of myself. so , since all were making money imitating , I thought there was no reason not to do it too . Why not? Did I create Lou Reed. Personally I have very little in common with the character Lou Reed, but I can impersonate him well, very well. "
So , "Transformer" is for several reasons a disc - poster : because it symbolizes the best the public image of Lou Reed early seventies, because it is the fruit of a joint effort of three of the most important figures of the time - the same Lou , David Bowie and perhaps not as widely revalued Mick Ronson - and why , with its obvious insist on gay issues (but a very gaysmo camp , today we would say platinettiano ) , embodies the spirit of his time, as long as the glam rock lived his short but great season . Can listen to it in part to leave unsatisfied , own it's practically mandatory.

(Franco Zanetti)

TRACKLIST :
"Vicious"
" Andy's Chest "
" Perfect day "
" Hangin ' Round "
" Walk on the wild side "
" Make up "
"Satellite of Love"
" Wagon Wheel "
" New York telephone conversation"
" I'm so free "
" Goodnight ladies"
bonus tracks :
" Hangin 'round (acoustic demo"
" Perfect Day (acoustic demo)

In my opinion the best dance track from this 2013!
It reminds me of 90s piano disco...Great vocals by Ayaha Marar..

Tell the truth : how many expected it to Elisa publish a disc entirely in Italian ? A number of you have guessed waiting for her at the gate . So , whether you are among those who simply prefer it when he sings in Italian , whether you belong to the school of the envious - because for years you feel that if you want to repeat music in Italy , you have to sing in Italian " because of Elisa there n ' is one in a million " - rejoice, for the big day has arrived. At sixteen years of onset record , he released his first work of Elisa entirely sung in our language : "The soul flies." And not beat around the bush , we tell you now that in order to stagger the capacity of authorship and singing of the nightingale gritty of Monfalcone it takes a very different test. Despite the new idiom , the eleven songs that make up the album is not in fact betray a style now familiar , conquered and consolidated over time , often made ​​of cinematic atmospheres , in which ethereal sounds and dilated - also thanks to the arches of David Rossi, already next Coldplay , Goldfrapp and Moby - blend with the grit of an Anglo-Saxon rock . But let's get to the content : this record tells about love and relationships , facts of complexity ( " while the others swim , here you can get lost among all these waves " ) , errors ( " has escaped us all " ) and change ( " as a kind of remote control to return to where to go when " ) , narrated with a pen clean and clear , not at all hungry for easy rhymes, but eager to communicate feelings and moods. It ' nice to hear her sing the soul that " dance, when he realizes that you are there to look at her " ( "The soul flies" ) , it is intriguing to read between the lines a statement of strength : "I do not think so fragile, do not stop me before I heard the crash " ( " Cursed maze ") and is tender fill them say to his daughter ," You know iron and biscuit " ( " That's all right now . ") So mature and readable style that effortlessly distinguish the three songs that bring a completely different signatures , those of: Luciano Ligabue who wrote an emotional song for his son and preferred to entrust the voice of a mother ( " Your way " ) , Tiziano Ferro also present in a significant cameo voice ( " I discover what is happiness " ) and the inevitable Giuliano Sangiorgi ( " Behold" , the soundtrack of the new film by Giovanni Veronesi , "The last wagon wheel " ) , now one of the most popular authors . It is curious to see how , over Ligabue, Ferro also has sewn a song that deals with the theme of motherhood, not as a growing awareness of ( the theme of " In your own way "), but as a disruptive change. To make the glue to all of these songs is the voice always well-measured by Elisa and her talented interpretation, which knows how to communicate even the nuances . Feel such as trembling " A thread of silk into the abyss " and you seem to see it slide down into the depths , the stubborn search for that thread of silk , before breaking down , kept her away now united with her love ( " I do not know if I understand correctly, you do not want to come together to seek " ) .
A close collaboration is the song " Still Here" - written by Elisa music by Ennio Morricone and included in the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino 's latest film , " Django Unchained " and here present in the final version ( used in the film was a demo ) . Delicate and enveloping, more classical matrix , as it is obvious that given the composer . Overall, let us say that this eighth album by Elisa , which she produced and arranged , runs well and have sung in Italian only did nothing to the musicality of his language . The risk was , it is clear , but the obstacle has been circumvented with elegance and talent. Then one says that Elisa there is one in a million.

Now some people think that the ravages of paranoia when you find yourself having to go into the studio for the " fateful second album ." Or, even worse , for the third , maybe one called "... to repeat the glories of the second." The second Nirvana album is titled " Nevermid ." Thirty million copies sold. The symbol of a generation. The epochal time . The most important record of the nineties. The disk that once came out he pulverized the charts , completely overturning the canon , the disc that has the duty flannel nightshirt from peanuts , pass in a few months from the outskirts of the city on the covers of magazines. It was 1991 and nothing will be as before . Here , two years after this cataclysm came out " In utero " . And you can not talk about " In utero " without first passing by " Nevermind ."

The gestation of " In utero " ... Kurt , after " Nevermind " begins to show signs of ... let's call it impatience. 'Nevermind ' as we see it, is an album too much product , too clean and reasoned , light years away from " Bleach" . By Butch Vig so before you go to Jack Endino and then Steve Albini (very interesting letter to his trio little to convince them to record with him. You can find it here). The approach of Albini is completely different than that of Vig for " Nevermind " is that of which the Nirvana , of which Kurt needs : in a few weeks ( " If it takes more than a week to make a disc , someone is doing some shit , "said Albini , but he had not reckoned with the weather , the location and Courtney Love ), the disc is ready . The band works casting , recording in total isolation in nothing more total Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. It's freezing outside , it's snowing bad and the only thing that Nirvana can do is work on the disc. For Novoselic , in his words , the experience is comparable to a stay in a gulag. After four months, the album is released , but not before the label we put hand to make it more " accessible " . The pieces that end up in the final tracklist are twelve and today , twenty years later, we know them by heart . " Heart-shaped Box" , " Rape Me ", " Dumb ", " Pennyroyal Tea " ... I will not go into a description of " In utero " by reviewing each piece : again, twenty years have passed and the only thing that we can do to celebrate this anniversary , is to take " in utero " is face ache and make up its mind . At least that's what I believe. This is the third and final full-length album of Nirvana , and today twenty years have passed . We have a cool head , at least enough to broach the subject.




" In utero " was originally titled " I hate myself and I want to die" , which is also the title of one of the pieces coincidentally excluded from the final tracklisting . Can you imagine a more brutal way to express a state of mind ? We can even remotely imagine how he could feel Kurt Cobain in that period? No, I do not think so. At least , I do not but I try. And this is what I mean when I say that a record like " In utero " must be addressed belly : I can not do as recently suggested Dave Grohl , I can not look at " In utero " trying not to think about all the rest ; to listen to him as if it had just come out . I can not help but feel a palpable desire of Nirvana (the real heart of the matter) to produce an album hard and indigestible , the need to bring everything back to a more human level , of being left after the atomic explosion caused the exit of " Nevermind ": " Teenage angst has paid off well / Now I'm bored and old" (from " Serve the servants " ) . I can not help but see the face of Kurt Cobain sings to me while wearing his condition ( " What else should I be / all apologies / What else should I say / everyone is gay / What else could I write / I do not have the right / What else should I be / All Apologies " ), going from light to darkness , from pop to punk almost more raw , so brutal and so ironically thin ( " I think I'm dumb / or maybe just happy / Think I'm just happy " ) , almost schizophrenic (" I am my own parasite / I do not need a host to live / we feed off of each other ") and to leave me helpless to deal with the large empty makes its way into my head. That 's what distinguishes " In utero , most of all, and after twenty years is still his undeniable strength. Sensational . Disks as well , if I may use this retromaniaca nostalgia, do not come out anymore because people like Kurt Cobain no longer exist.

The mammoth Super Deluxe Edition just out celebrating the twentieth anniversary of " In utero " reinventing the original disk enriched with b-sides , demos, instrumental versions of the original ( the mix of Albini ) , a novel ( "Forgotten tune" , instrumental ) and seventeen songs live , all spread over three discs plus a dVD ( "Live & Loud: Live at Pier 48 , Seattle, WA - 13/12/93 " ) . So much material much of which is suitable , as always, to satisfy the hunger of many collectors and feticcioni . The most interesting things , in my opinion, are listening to " Heart-shaped Box" and "All apologies " for the way they were designed in the studio in 1993 prior to the revision of Scott Litt (the producer of REM , the man named by the label to write a "set " before the release of the disc) , lost in the raw simplicity of the seven more instrumental " Jam" on the second disc ( and stand face to face with the essence of a sound: sensational ) and highlight how , rightly , live in that makes up the third is not present "Smell Like Teen Spirit ." Oh, and then there is " Marigold " , a tiny seed and so fragile that will bloom in a few year the Foo Fighters. A moment no small feat . Let's focus on that and let the rest do his duty .

Why " In utero " now, after twenty years , it is still a distillate squassante of anger, life and death.

"Out of the ground
into the sky
out of the sky
into the dirt "

TRACKLIST

" CD1"
" Serve the servants "
" Scentless Apprentice "
" Heart-shaped Box"
" Rape me "
" Frances farmer will have her revenge on Seattle "
" Dumb "
"Very ape"
"Milk it"
" Pennyroyal Tea "
"Radio Friendly Unit Shifter "
" Tourette 's "
"All apologies "
" Gallons of rubbing alcohol flow through the strip "
" Marigold "
" Moist Vagina "
" Sappy "
" I hate myself and want to die"
" Pennyroyal Tea ( Litt 1993 mix) "
" Heart-shaped Box ( Albini 1993 mix) "
" All Apologies ( Albini 1993 mix) "

" CD2 "
" Serve the servants " (2013 mix) "
" Scentless Apprentice " (2013 mix) "
" Heart-shaped Box" (2013 mix) "
" Rape Me " (2013 mix) "
" Frances farmer will have her revenge on Seattle " (2013 mix) "
" Dumb " (2013 mix) "
"Very ape" (2013 mix) "
"Milk It" (2013 mix) "
" Pennyroyal Tea " (2013 mix) "
"Radio Friendly Unit Shifter " (2013 mix) "
" Tourette 's " (2013 mix) "
"All apologies (2013 mix) "
" Scentless Apprentice " (Rio demo) "
" Frances farmer will have her revenge on Seattle " ( Laundry Room demo) "
" Dumb " (Word of mouth demo) "
"Very bee" (Rio demo instrumental) "
" Pennyroyal Tea " (Word of mouth demo) "
"Radio Friendly Unit Shifter " (Word of mouth demo) "
" Tourette 's" ( Word of mouth demo) "
" Marigold " (Upland Studios demo) "
"All apologies " ( Music source demo) "
"Forgotten tune" ( Rehearsal ) "
" Jam" (Word of mouth demo) "

" CD3 "
"Radio Friendly Unit Shifter "
" Drain You"
" Breed"
" Serve the servants "
" Rape me "
" Sliver "
" Pennyroyal Tea "
" Scentless Apprentice "
"All apologies "
" Heart-shaped Box"
" Blew "
" The man who sold the world"
" School"
" Come as you are "
"About a girl"
"Endless , Nameless "

No getting around it : the eleventh album of Korn is not a masterpiece , it's a job well done at home , but not brilliant ; " The Paradigm Shift " sees in some ways a timid return to the past , thanks to the reintegration plan stable Brian "Head " Welch , in terms of riffing and song form , but this only happens on some tracks , in many cases you will hear a barely concealed intention of spreading from the point of view of the band of the verb Bakersfield relying on solutions easy to hold on public , read choruses Pop -Rock .

We left them struggling with an album interlocutory , or the " Path To Totality ", which had done so much their noses to the " purists" , after two years it seems that the door wide open to the visions dubstep has been closed , or perhaps it would be better say ajar , just enough to circulate some of the same breath in this new effort. From a general view shows the attempt to give life to something that is more heavy in the more pull , putting a little ' by the trappings typical sound of the guitars to make room for a musical texture more relaxed and less nervous sublime Ray Luzier 's drumming , impossible not to stop and listen to beat hard on the leather , a little ' more than a shadow on the bottom of Fieldy , appears to play a role and will not ever rises to a tool carrier for a track, while the evidence of Jonathan Davis, despite some questionable choice and some lament too , is always at high levels.

A " Prey For Me " was entrusted with the task of giving the ball rolling : the first notes bodes well , guitar and drums come together , creating a riff simple , but effective , thirty seconds of headbanging unrestrained, immediately after comes the chorus and suddenly became apparent the side to be "radio hit" , to tell the truth and pleasant guessed , the next "Love & Meth " appears vivid memories of years gone by with a reference to the previous " Follow The Leader " and " Take A Look in The Mirror " , the beginning is always instrumental to great effect, in the best tradition , on this track the search for a refrain easy to store and pimp produces good fruits : the melodic line is poignant and epic , achieves its purpose . From the third track onwards, the level begins to wane : " What We Do" has the usual opening words guerraiolo , but the solutions adopted by the two axemen begin to know "heard " in this case would have been better to avoid even the falsetto Jonathan Davis, who incessantly repeats the title of the track. "Spike In My Veins " belongs instead to the more recent past, here is electronics to lead the way , but the result is not the best , the emotional tension drop off significantly , "Mass Hysteria " leaves no sign, a trace typical of Korn but devoid of particular points of foothold to be remembered ; among others , there are no particular episodes that stand out , apart from the tribal " Victimized " that thanks to a pace more pressing arouses the attention of the listener and the single " Never Never " despised by many for its markedly commercial , but the chorus of which hardly go out of mind , to avoid " Lullaby For A Sadist " , the ballad you do not expect from Korn , for the remainder of the last two " It's All Wrong "and" Tell Me What You Want " although not of gems, nevertheless endeavor to close the album just as it had been open , or with massive doses of tritaossa riffs and growling vocals brush up on which is good.

The work done is not to be despised , one must look at the right way , realize the fact that " Korn " and " Life Is Peachy " belong to the past, where it needs to be , Korn are so targati 2013 and " The Paradigm Shift" is full advantage of the artistic career of the band, a photograph that may not appeal to those who do not appreciate their new course, but it will certainly be devoured by those who does not dwell too much to wonder if it was a business move or not.

Last week, Britney Spears has released a new single . It is a piece built entirely around a loop pounding on which Britney sings and speaks very little. It is not a pop song , not in the traditional sense of the term : it is pure dance and even the lightest . A piece like this, and there are also very similar to the last album of Madonna , at one time would have been only material from disco and radio specialist , but a few years (say, by the arrival of David Guetta with his successful collaborations ) a series of many pop stars have moved closer to the dance swapping the catchy melody with straight cash . The dance has responded in two ways: becoming heavier integrating dubstep or becoming retro (a good example is the Disclosure ) . A Swede , however , found a third way , and judging by the results obtained , it is the right one. In no time, DJ Avicii has become among the highest paid in the world and his first album ( "True" ) can only grow its status . He just turned 24 years old.
The single " Wake me up" is one of the best-selling songs of the year thanks to a formula unusual and , admittedly, brilliant: a banjo folk à la Mumford & Sons and a black soul voice alternating with colossal breakdown EDM to blow up the public. The trick works great , and is repeated in succession "Hey brother" with the voice of bluegrass Dan Tyminski , in " Addicted to you " with the folk singer-songwriter Audra Mae , and " Dear boy" with the help of promising Danish MØ ( whose style resembles that of Lana Del Rey ) .
In the second half of the album, banjo disappear , but leave room for other surprises. Nile Rodgers lends itself to two songs, along a path started in the 70s and again this year with Daft Punk : " Shame on me " and especially " Lay me down " (sung by American Idol Adam Lambert) draw a link with " Random access memories" imitating , rather than the sounds, the intentions. Curiously, the most classic house track of the collection is a cover of " Hope there's someone" Antony . And being one of the most beautiful songs of this era , it also works nell'ardito experiment asked her to sing in a thin voice Scandinavian surrounded by synthesizers and lasers.
When Avicii in March showed a preview of the album Ultra Music Festival in Miami , the reactions were divided between the " do not understand" and " you must die ." Soon after , the DJ was forced to explain in black and white , because he had brought the country to the EDM festival par excellence. Another artist you would be scared , it would shake the master's and started working from scratch on an album that, according to an audience of tens of thousands of people, had no chance . Six months later, "True" is still the compilation was supposed to be schizophrenic , is the work imperfect but effective way of those who want to destroy the divisions between the genders , it is the most ambitious mainstream album of the year and , above all, an international bestseller .


TRACKLIST :
"Wake me up"
" You make me "
"Hey brother"
" Addicted to you "
" Dear boy"
" Liar liar"
" Shame on me"
" Lay me down "
" Hope there's someone"
"Heart upon my sleeve"

Twenty-first studio album by Motorhead : Aftershock is yet another concentrate hard & heavy clanking , with spurts of bluesaccio and the usual attitude based on Jack Daniel's and Sizze . Lemmy did not just scare audiences across the world with his recent health problems , which forced him to cancel several dates of the recent tour. However, as they say in these cases , all's well that ends well , and the publication of the new work is the best possible proof of how things for the power trio are putting their best.

While waiting to see them on stage, where despite the nearly 68 Motorhead frontman of the springs still give lessons noise at all , Aftershock offers delicious ideas as the initial title track , the sparatissima End Of Time and Do You Believe , which is very reminiscent of close to the wonderful Life 's A Bitch 2004 contained in Hell , considered by many the ultimate masterpiece of Our . There are also digressions on speed gun , such as the blues alcolicissimo Lost Woman Blues and Dust And Glass , or the piano in this saloon Crying Shame and the riff AC / DC Keep Your Powder Dry , or the taste of Seattle ( !) in the verses of Silence When You Speak To Me , where Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee have fun homage to Man In The Box Alice In Chains .

To tell the truth fourteen pieces are too many , or Death Machine Queen Of The Damned in the long tired . Nothing that whatever happens to damage the overall result of a solid work and guarantee of blows . In short, everything is normal . And thank goodness .

We can consider Drake as the " market leader " of the new generation of rappers made ​​up of guys like Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Big Sean , Tyler The Creator , His is the record of eleven # 1 on the R & B / Hip -Hop Billboard charts, won her the Grammy , as the guarantee of success when its name appears in the feat . Market leader but that is separated by intention and style from the rest of the other rappers of his peers
. I still remember with pleasure the interview that the Italian sports journalist (but expert - of - music) did when he was still with Mario Balotelli for Manchester City. To the question " What music do you listen more closely today ? " Hoping that quoting Oasis (it was trained on the Gallaghers , big supporter of the City), Balo answered with his candid Bergamo "I really like Drake , especially his lyrics " and from there was born a long and hilarious misunderstanding because the giornalistone not knowing Drake (but not knowing how a lot of contemporary music ) , he thought he was referring to Nick Drake ( half followed questions on failure , depression and suicide, accompanied by muted responses , the ' embarrassment and the crazy laughter , in short) .
I recalled this anecdote , because if it is true that there are similarities between the current world of hip -hop and the world of football , in fact Drake has more than one point in common with the national Marion . Both young and cafoncelli tormented , talented and insecure, cold but with shots of unmanageable emotions ( take a look at Drake gossip news in recent months ) , in their own way with sensitive and problematic relationships with the opposite sex generated by an excess of demand and supply . " Nothing was the same" reflects even more this portrait. At the forefront are the single , released in the weeks before the album, including the muscle " Started from the bottom" and " Hold On , We're going home " with its sounds 80 years (remember the Rhye ? ) Who remember Marvin Gaye . In the long intro "Tuscan leather" he rattles off rhymes in his manifesto ( " I'm tired of hearin ' ' bout who you checkin ' for now . Just give it time , we'll see who's still around a decade from now" ) while "Worst Behaviour" gets even make the gangsta , citing Ma $ e of "Mo ' Money Mo ' problems" . In short, safe and badass .
Then comes the b-side , that melancholy and thoughtful, where he puts together rap and singing , made up of thoughts on how to change the relationships with friends and family with the success ( "Too much " ) , scars of love ( "From time" under the melancholy piano chords of Chilly Gonzales ) and ex -girlfriends never forget ( "Wu Tang Forever" , away from texts and atmosphere of collective hardcore New York ) . Typical of Drake , but this time if possible even more introspective and accentuated .
In "Own it" (whose hook reads " Next time we fuck, I do not wanna fuck / I wanna make love . Next time we talk , I do not wanna just talk / I wanna trust . Next time I stand tall I wanna be standin 'for you / and next time I spend I want it all to be for you " ) and" Connect " (produced by Hudson Mohawke of TNGHT ) support for text , atmosphere and way of singing it is impossible not to think ' influence that Frank Ocean has led to the so-called post -soul , and even when the good and willing Drake plays in that field , the difference is noticeable .
There is also space for the melancholy electro à la James Blake ( " 305 to my city") and the atmosphere and cash equivalents ( " Come Thru " ) . However, nothing new . At the end of Kanye West has already covered all these stages years ago with his gait as novel Barbarian ( in " Furthest Thing" is pure style K.West .) The long piece that sees the collaboration of Jay -Z does not add anything to the work .
The disc is then varied, the pleasant sounds and texts rather interesting especially when compared to the average of the hip -hop , will be a success , and you can bet , good Balo will love him a lot .



TRACKLIST :
"Tuscan leather"
" Furthest Thing"
" Started from the bottom"
"Wu -Tang Forever"
"Own it"
"Worst behavior"
"From time"
" Hold on, we're going home "
"Connect"
"The language"
" 305 To my city" (ft. Detail)
"Too Much"
" Pound cake (ft. Jay Z ) / Paris Norton Music 2 "
" How thru"
"All me"