Terminate l’introduzioni di rito, parliamo un po’ delle canzoni. Il disco si apre con un pezzo strumentale surfeggiante “alla
.
(…a quanto pare c’è un King Kong da tastiera anche a Roma!) e quindi un brano-dedica al mitico
.
che abbiamo sempre apprezzato, ma ecco il pezzo che non ti aspetti e che cambia le carte in tavola:
con le sue chitarre decisamente powerpop-sixties fa da apri-pista a sonorità che prepotentemente si ripresenteranno anche in
.
) non si dimenticano MAI.
Complessivamente questo disco è una piacevole sorpresa. Devo ammettere che non è stato facile assimilarlo perchè ho sempre apprezzato il lato “Queers/Weaseliano” dei
ma dal secondo-terzo ascolto in poi ho senza dubbio rivalutato il disco, e posso affermare che i pezzi “della svolta” sono quelli che mi sono piaciuti maggiormente. Magari ai puristi del punk rock potrà anche non piacere ma una cosa è certa: non è un album che annoia e sicuramente non terminerà nel dimenticatoio. Consiglio senza alcun dubbio l’acquisto del disco.
A little bit after 7″
In 3D! came out, I finally got a chance to hear
the new full length of
Killtime, Italian veterans of the punk rock scene
just ahead of it’s release.
Recorded and produced by
Mirko Ravaglia
at
Panic! Studio in Rome,
Planet Of The Apers is seeing the light
through three distinct labels:
Bad Bad Brain Inc for Europe,
Dumb Records for Japan (increasingly having focus on Italian elite ) and
Sexy Baby Records for the United States. Artwork and layout was done by the
ubiquitous
Riccardo Bucchioni.
Now that we’ve finished the ritual of
introductions, let’s talk about ‘the songs. The album opens with an
instrumental surf piece similar to “the
Queers“,
Alpha Male Monkey
Attacks Men (so to speak reminds me of
Rollerdog/Wipeout/Squid Omelet) that serves as an introduction to
Planet Of The Apers, a
track that we already got to enjoy on
In 3D!.
Then follows a super
fast song
Talkin’ Talkin’ Talkin’ (… apparently there is a King
Kong of the keyboard also in Rome!) And then a song-dedicated to the
mythical
Joe Queer.
All portends a disc is not very far from the
typical sounds of
Killtime that we have always enjoyed, but here’s the
piece that you do not expect, and that changes the cards on the table:
Be True To Me with its guitars definitely powerpop-sixties works as
open-track to sound that will come back strongly in
Happy Summer,
Over And Over Again and the fantastic final track
You’ll Stop The
Rain.
The turn powerpop is interspersed with more modern sounds like
Take A Look Around And Smile close to the sound of the last
Green Day
and
Bomb this Place filthy and bad song, just to make it clear that
love (
Queers) is not EVER forgotten.
Overall, this album is a
pleasant surprise. I must admit that it was not easy to assimilate
because I always liked the side “
Queers/Weaselian” of
Killtime but
from the second/third listening then I definitely reassessed the disc,
and I can say that the pieces that have a “turning point” sound are the
ones I ‘ve enjoyed the most. Maybe the punk rock purists may not like
but one thing is certain: it is an album that definitely will not get
bored and will end in oblivion. I recommend without any doubt the
purchase of the disc.
