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IDLEWILD - Post Electric Blues

2009 (Cooking vinyl)
pop-rock
by Roberto Mandolini
6

Gli Idlewild continuano a suonare sempre più "americano" e in alcune tracce del loro sesto album in studio, "Post Electric Blues", assomigliano incredibilmente ai R.E.M. di "Life's Reach Pegeant" e "Document". Lontani sono i tempi di "100 Broken Windows" e "The Remote Part", quando Roddy Woomble e compagnia seguivano su Parlophone l'ascesa dei Coldplay accompagnandoli anche in tour.

Le intenzioni, d'altro canto, sono chiare fin dalla prima canzone dell'album, "Younger Than America": chitarre brillanti e voce corposa in primo piano. La malinconia della natia Edimburgo è un ricordo lontano: oggi le canzoni degli Idlewild inseguono la gioia del primo Springsteen ("Readers & Writers") e la solarità alt-country di ballate come "(The Night Will) Bring You Back To Life".

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06/10/2009

This article is an English translation of the original Italian text by Roberto Mandolini, published on OndaRock.it. It was translated with the help of artificial intelligence, under the editorial responsibility of OndaRock's editor-in-chief, Claudio Fabretti.

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Tracklist

  1. 1. Younger Than America
  2. 2. Readers & Writers
  3. 3. City Hall
  4. 4. (The Night Will) Bring You Back To Life
  5. 5. Dreams Of Nothing
  6. 6. Take Me Back To The Islands
  7. 7. Post-Electric
  8. 8. All Over The Town
  9. 9. To Be Forgotten
  10. 10. Circles In Stars
  11. 11. Take Me Back In Time

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