SECONDHAND DAYLIGHT
MAGAZINE
- Ref. XM050B
- VIRGIN RECORDS, 1979.
Ce second album du groupe fondé par Howard Devoto, risque, encore aujourd'hui, de faire crisser quelques oreilles les plus intégristes. A des lieues de l'instantanéité et des jets pop de sa formation initiale, The Buzzcocks, il élabore ici (en compagnie de quelques futures figures de la new wave à venir : Barry Adamson, Dave Formula) un chapelet de compositions associant chant bilieux, propos apocalyptiques et écriture aux développement tortueux, presque virtuoses. Se dessinent ici les lignes de forces d'une sorte d'art punk (on oserait lâcher le terme " pomp punk ") qui encapsulait la rage de son temps dans une enveloppe glaciale et un cadre narratif, un dispositif bien loin d'inviter l'auditeur à toute activité propice au défoulement physique et psychique. Mal-formé et mal-aimé dès sa genèse, ce disque à l'enveloppe incertaine intrigue pourtant encore aujourd'hui et quelques artistes de maintenant, de Radiohead à TV On The Radio, lui doivent probablement quelque chose. JdN
"One of the most astonishing and powerful albums of all time, Secondhand Daylight contains nine songs of twisted, bleak, funny, weird, disturbing and exciting music that are far, far more ambitious, near-epic in scale than anything Magazine had attempted before: three pieces here; "Feed the Enemy", "Cut-Out Shapes" and "Back to Nature" take the grandeur of the last album's "Parade" to the logical limit and succeed incredibly. Howard Devoto builds on his role as tortured, sniping, harsh poet to staggering extremes here, while the band, including ace new drummer John Doyle, are a stunning combination of energy and rhythm. The band were taking post-punk as far away from the origins of punk as possible, even (whisper it), embracing some prog-rock tendencies as they moved on; think about it, extended intros, complex playing, an unashamed love of the keyboard...yet, Devoto's lyrics are as far from prog as possible, bringing it all back down to Earth with unparalleled regret and bitter cynicism." http:www.rateyourmusic.com
Interprètes
Pistes
- 1 Feed the enemy
- 2 Rhythm of cruelty
- 3 Cut-out shapes
- 4 Talk to the body
- 5 I wanted your heart
- 6 The thin air
- 7 Back to nature
- 8 Believe that I understand
- 9 Permafrost
- 10 Give me everything (*)
- 11 I love you, big dummy (*)
- 12 Rhythm of cruelty (original singleversion) (*)
- 13 TV baby (*)