Il breakup album era forse un ammennicolo che mancava alla carriera rutilante e allegramente sgangherata dei Deer Tick, dal verace spirito rurale, senz’altro più dei contemporanei, furbi arraffa-premi e contratti pubblicitari. Senz’altro uno dei radi meriti della band era ed è la capacità di lasciarsi andare, andando oltre gli intellettualismi e i vezzi (a volte fin troppo oltre).
Qui si eccede, però, in senso opposto alla caciara sdentata di “Divine Providence”: languide e pigre ballate di country da osteria (“In Our Time”, “The Rock”), larvali repliche Dylan-iane (“Big House”), esiziali tentativi hard (“Pot Of Gold”), in un’ennesima prova di resistenza per l’ascoltatore, impegnato a entrare in una qualche sintonia col greve raspare della voce di John McCauley.
Un disco da evitare.
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06/10/2013
This article is an English translation of the original Italian text by Lorenzo Righetto, 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.
Tracklist
- 1. The Rock
- 2. The Curtain
- 3. Just Friends
- 4. The Dream’s In The Ditch
- 5. Mirror Walls
- 6. Mr. Sticks
- 7. Trash
- 8. Thyme
- 9. In Our Time
- 10. Hey Doll
- 11. Pot Of Gold
- 12. Big House
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