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-- Rockin' On, July 1999
Words: Tomota Saito. Translation: Mitsuo Tani
Anomie & Bonhomie/Scritti Politti
VJCP-68128 (Toshiba EMI) June 30 on sale
[... color photo of the album ...]
In the 80's, when one could feel the upsurge of "white soul" in the UK, there was a band that made most innovative, most intelligent, and most purest music, as a front runner of the time, or better an outsider of the time. The band was Scritti. There was a band with a lot of prestige and the fame of "musician's musician" in the music industry those days. That was Scritti. There was a band which satisfies the snobbish side of a high-school boy, with the music that could not be characterized in a straitforward way. That was Scritti.
In those 80's days, Scritti's new albums used to come out with the phrase of "long awaited" (, every time Green appeared, his growing beer belly worried girls). This time, the newest album has appeared for the first time in 11 years. This long absense makes one hesitant to describe the ablum with the phrase of "long awaited". Tired and bored by the bonds in the music industry, Green, the genious, hid himself away from the industry and us in these past years.
At first hearing, one will be baffled by the heavy, live groove and rapping, which were not in the dictionary of Scritti. But considering that Scritti was always evaluated high in rendering black music into its own, the new approaches taken in the new album make enough sense. However, it is unfortunate that the approaches taken this time are not novel enough. But in spite of which, one can discern that Green's crystal voice has not lost its brilliance, as if there were no such long absence. Track 7 orthodox and mellow, and track 9 quitar-driven and pop are too excellent. Tomota Saito
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