L’irlandese Hozier torna con il nuovo singolo Almost (Sweet music) e annuncia l’album Wasteland baby! che sarà pubblicato alla vigilia della primavera. Il brano arriva dopo l’acclamata Movement, promossa da un emozionante video che coinvolge l’artista e ballerino Sergei Polunin.
L’artista irlandese Hozier è tornato con il nuovo singolo Almost (sweet music), preludio al suo secondo album in studio Wasteland baby! (preordinalo qui) che vedrà la luce il 1 marzo 2019. Dopo una manciata di singoli promozionali, le emozionanti Movement e Nina cried power, e la pubblicazione dell’EP Nina cried power, è arrivata finalmente la notizia riguardante il disco. La settimana scorsa, il cantautore di Take me to church ha inoltre rilasciato in collaborazione con Spotify la sessione live Spotify singles, contenente le registrazioni di Movement e dell’inaspettata Say my name, cover del celebre classico delle Destiny’s child (disponibile qui).
Almost (sweet music) racconta con metafore la fine di una storia d’amore nel ricordo vivido dei momenti belli passati insieme, quella dolce musica (“swwet music” appunto) che ne è insieme sottofondo e colonna sonora. Il brano si inserisce appieno nella produzione artistica di Hozier, un’up tempo che sarebbe stata bene anche nel suo primo album: voce calda e toni alti nelle strofe, sincopate a spezzare la ritmica divertita data dal battere di mani, e atmosfere rilassate e accoglienti nel ritornello. La traccia è impreziosita dai cori, a tratti quasi teatrali (“I wouldn’t know where!”) a creare un contatto forte con lo stato d’animo dell’io protagonista.
Testo:
I came in from the outside, burned out from a joyride
She likes to roll here in my ashes anyway
Plagued from the bedside, Stella by starlight
There was my heart, the drums that start off night and day
The same kind of music haunts her bedroom
I’m almost me again, she’s almost you
And I wouldn’t know where to start
Sweet music playin’ in the dark
Be still my foolish heart
Don’t ruin this on me
I wouldn’t know where to start
Sweet music playin’ in the dark
Be still my foolish heart
Don’t ruin this on me
Tell me who, and I’d be thanking ‘em
The numbered lovers of Duke Ellington
Do I owe each kiss to lip and cheek as soft as Chet can sing?
Let’s get lost and let the good times roll
Let’s smoke rings from this paper doll
Blow sweet and thick ‘til every thought of it don’t mean a thing
I got some color back, she thinks so, too
I laugh like me again, she laughs like you
I wouldn’t know where to start
Sweet music playin’ in the dark
Be still my foolish heart
Don’t ruin this on me
I wouldn’t know where to start
Sweet music playin’ in the dark
Be still my foolish heart
Don’t ruin this on me
I wouldn’t know where
I wouldn’t know where
I wouldn’t know where, I wouldn’t know where
I wouldn’t
I wouldn’t know where
I wouldn’t know where
I wouldn’t know where, I wouldn’t know where
I wouldn’t know
The very thought of you in midnight blue [?]
A love supreme seems far removed
I get along without you very well some other nights
Lord, the radio newsreader chimes
Reporting Russian lullabies
She’ll turn to me, awake, and ask, ‘Is everything alright?’
And, Lord, I wouldn’t know where to start
Sweet music playin’ in the dark
Be still my foolish heart
Don’t ruin this on me
I wouldn’t know where to start (I wouldn’t know where)
Sweet music playin’ in the dark (I wouldn’t know where)
Be still my foolish heart
Don’t ruin this on me
I wouldn’t know where to start (I wouldn’t know where)
Sweet music playin’ in the dark (I wouldn’t know where)
Be still my foolish heart
Don’t ruin this on me
I wouldn’t know where to start (I wouldn’t know where)
Sweet music playin’ in the dark (I wouldn’t know where)
Be still my foolish heart
Don’t ruin this on me
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