Time has proven the validity of Steve Wynn as a writer and performer, a strong name for those who haunt the American classic rock and indie, one that was able to cross at least three decades Music without loss of enamel, clarity, freshness and creativity. The past year has been republished Dream Syndicate Medicine Show, the first band of Wynn, an album that remains one of the masterpieces of that in the eighties underground rock that managed to escape from overproduction, keyboards and batteries treated with steroids. Even after the experience with the Dream Syndicate, Steve Wynn has made good records, both as a soloist with the Miracle 3 , his last military band where his wife Linda Pitmon on drums and the bass is given to where Jason Victor. The latest album is titled with the Miracle 3 Northern Aggression and it is a pleasant return to the heights of its post-production Syndicate, such as album Here Comes A Miracle and Static Transmission , the latter with the same Miracle 3.
The album title refers to the ever dormant rivalry between northerners and southerners in the United States, as stated in the Wynn: "when we arrived in Richmond in Virginia to record this record, I called my friend Stephen McCarty and in the midst of converting him I told him to leave our Yankee aggression outside the door. He paraphrased the sentence with which people below the Mason-Dixon line defined the civil war, war of aggression northerner. We laughed but the above sentence, I found it funny, ironic and appropriate when it became the favorite phrase of the whole session and then the title of the album " .
Asciutto e aggressivo ma anche melodico e psichedelico Northern Aggression riprende gli antichi amori di Wynn, in primis i Velvet Underground e vi aggiunge una dose di americana attraverso alcune ballate venate di un solitario umore sudista ( tra tutte la splendida The Death Of Donny B , una delle ballate più toccanti dello scorso 2010) consegnando una riuscita collezione di canzoni ed uno spirito rock a denominazione di origine controllata..
Inizia alla grande ed in maniera decisa Northern Aggression , Resolution è una delle tracce più riuscite, si ricollega un po’ ad Amphetamine ,un titolo che è un must dei suoi live shows, è leaden colors and icy atmospheres, Suicide and Velvet Undreground playing in an animated film is dark and more classically rock We Do not Talk About It that dampens the frenzy of the first avant-garde music with a dose of psychedelia filtered. No One Ever Drowns recalls the mists of the indie sound of Miracle 3, so as to come up with the Cure's A Forest , a very Nordic decor contrasts with the general disk. We were in Virginia in the south, adds Wynn "in the session left the door of our nervous ways, talking quickly, feeling perpetually revved up by the Yankees to slip into a slow, relaxed and mysterious modo di fare sudista” . E difatti poco a poco il southern mood fa capolino, Consider The Source è una ballata lenta e ammaliante dall’aria ipnotica , The Death of Donny B. è un sussulto delicato nel silenzio della notte , The Other Side apre ad una sorta di lunatico country-rock e Cloud Splitter evoca i disadorni ambienti dei Richmond Fontaine, una band che ha eletto la desolazione a poesia.
Nel finale torna in cattedra lo psycho-rock, in On The Mend le chitarre tornano a fremere acide e visionarie e in Ribbons and Chains i Miracle 3 si divertono a collidere con vera rock n’roll band. Consigliato.
Steve Wynn and Friends saranno in tour in Italia l’11 febbraio a Lugagnano di Sona (Vr), il 12 al Bloom di Mezzago, il 13 al Big Mama di Roma e il 14 a Marostica.
MAURO ZAMBELLINI
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