Fake News new album review Penguins Tacticians Nuclear edited by Umberto Saved.
“Only change is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
What does it mean to grow up? What does it entail? Does growing inevitably imply change?
It seems to revolve around these three questions FAKE NEWSthe new recording project by Penguins Tacticians Nuclear.
For everyone, there comes that moment in life when you realize you have to make a choice, not necessarily of course. You can also decide to stay in your past securities and not question them, but the alarm bell of life will ring and tell you that if you want to change yourself and what surrounds you, it is the complex but essential moment of becoming an adult. Wanna do it? Are you willing and ready to endure the inevitable suffering?
Riccardo Zanotti in my opinion he made the difficult and sacrificing choice to accept all his fears and angers, knowing that one day all this would make him a man. He has transformed his personal journey into the cry of a generation.
Let’s be clear, to each his own growth, because it all depends on the context you live in and what characterizes it. They are young, famous and talented and this makes the difference in the story. We know success is always a double-edged sword. Neither rankings, nor numbers, nor money nor advertising fill the heart of the author who at this point, as told in ZENthe album’s opener, would also sell his soul to the devil to find some peace for himself.
There is always a vein of melancholy that surrounds their poetic research, MEMORIES it is its flag.
Single that preceded the release of the album, it contains all the delicate nostalgic feeling that surrounds them and that characterized their previous successes. They manage to be simply moving in their attempt to tell a theme like memory. If you remember, it tells of a heartbreaking thing like the loss of one of the most identifying faculties, HIKIKOMORI describes the loss of oneself, starting from the phenomenon of oriental voluntary isolation, to narrate the loneliness, unbearable, so as to feel sorry for oneself and for one’s ‘soul in pain’, without discounts but like a caress.
Growing up yes, but never forgetting the fun, thanks to MELTING POP we dance and let loose a bit, giving space to our more light-hearted side. The images told are their strong point but the music instead seems to go towards a more experimental environment for them in sound.
How many meanings can a word i PTN extension they know it well, and a good lyricist like Zanotti makes it shine in WEDDING RING. Play with the word, so faith becomes: love, religion, rock & roll but also synonymous with hope, trust and fear. He manages to glide over things with the lightness of mind of someone who is aware that despite everything even faith “is nothing special”.
Self I’M NOT COOL tries to explain the difficulty of the mainstream mask and the enterprise of having to make it coexist with the desire to maintain one’s alternative being, BARFLY instead it is a finished love, because they are too far away or perhaps because the enchantment has given way to disenchantment. And if then, looking back on the difficult moments, they still seem happy to us then everything becomes more difficult because it seems to have lost that world we had in one hand.
Every trip must have a self-respecting closure, CLASS DINNER and their.
With the romanticism that distinguishes them, they tell us about the simplicity of a class reunion, organized every year. Anyone who has had this experience knows that one cannot free oneself from the melancholy of the past that is now gone, the slumbering affections never forgotten, all the memories and promises. Among these slideshows there are us who try to tell ourselves without fragility to demonstrate to the past that we have not encountered failures.
Side note: the smashing success of YOUNG WANNABES, which has now become the manifesto song for their repertoire, and anthem to sing at the top of our lungs. Shout the verses of the gods Penguins Tacticians Nuclear therefore it takes on a cathartic value for those who, even unknowingly, would like to grow but feel they don’t have the strength, a bit like the primitives who drew the fights with the beasts in their caves, a stimulating act of human courage. Why grow up, and Richard he knows it well, it is one of the most difficult things that human beings will find themselves doing, especially when the dreams of the past collide with a different present made of uncertainty, falls and difficulties. You need to be as much as possible here and now in touch and at peace with your present.
TOP SONGS: Young Wannabe – Faith
VOTE: 8.5 out of 10
Nuclear Tactical Penguins fake news tracklist
- Zen
- The last time
- Hold On
- Stage Diving
- Memories
- Melting pot
- Perhaps
- Wedding ring
- Dentist Croatia
- Hokikomori
- Young Wannabes
- Barfly
- I’m not cool
- Class dinner