Artist: Spiritual Front
Title: Open Wounds
Genre: Nihilistic Suicide Pop
Release Date: 3rd May 2013
Label: Trisol / Mannequin Records
Album Review
If you have a wound, you should cover it with sterile material and see a doctor as soon as possible. The main thing is that the wound isn’t infected. But what if the wound is on your heart and you got infected by love? Unfortunately, there is no plaster for hearts and no doctor can help it. But there is a medicine to ease your pain – music. The best way to prove it is the SPIRITUAL FRONT’s ‘Open Wounds’.
This time musicians made kind of tribute to themselves. First of all, finally we have the song ‘Hey, Boy!’ in a record, and don’t have to wait for another show or watch the lives on YouTube to enjoy this wonderful piece. The other songs are well known too. What a great present: such songs as ‘Soulgambler’ and ‘Song for the Old Man’ and really old stuff revisited. Now there are more instruments, richer arrangements, new versions and visions. The pieces from the earlier times, when SPIRITUAL FRONT was a solo project, could be most interesting. And you could think, what a masochism it is, to open all of your old wounds and make them blood again. And you are right, but “masochism is not such a bad thing. Pain as desired mean to reach a pleasure,” - says Simone Salvatori, the frontman of the band.
The bonus CD is another present for die-hard fans. Another eleven tracks represent the atmosphere of making-of the album. That’s what Simone said about it: “This record could rebalance and purify the strange, dark vibrations that came out from the disc 1, at the same time it was a good chance to show a different side of SPIRITUAL FRONT, the side closer to the filmic attitude, creating a sort of inner landscape.” In the late January there is another present, the ‘Open wounds’ was released as vinyl! In the conclusion it is only left to say, that if you still haven’t heard this album, you should do this as soon as possible, and if your heart wounds aren’t open after all, you never loved.
Tracklist
| CD1 01. Soulgambler 02. Hey Boy 03. Song for the Old Man 04. The Devourment of the Will 05. Delation/I live Through You 06. Autopsy of a Love 07. We Could Fail Again 08. Nectar on Your Lips 09. A Long Summer for the Dog of Satan 10. Eucharist of Sodomy |
CD2 01. Autopsy of a Denied Love 02. The Indulgent Waltz 03. Soulgambler Theme 04. The Bent Invocation 05. Nectar Like Lips 06. Letter from Guyana 07. Hey Frail Boy 08. The Forth Summer 09. We Could Lie Again 10. Purple Cross House 11. Promise Like Bullet |
Line-up
Simone Salvatori – Vocals, guitar
Andrea Freda – Drums
Federico Amorosi – Bass
Giorgio Maria Condemi – Electric guitar
Website
www.spiritualfront.com / https://www.facebook.com/spiritualfrontofficialpage
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 10
Sound: 10
Total: 10 / 10
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