Green Day 21st Century Breakdown recensione - Radio Butterfly, Web Radio & Music Magazine

Here they are here the ready Greens Day to take him on the shoulders, after a long period of break, the whole weight of the 20 million of copies sold of American Idiot with the whole planetary success that of it is achieved. To dir the truth the Californians had tried to confuse the waters wearing the cloths of another band, the Foxboros Hot Tubs, a project (besides succeeded) garage-rock alternative that has seen them protagonists in 2008 but you/he/she has not served to appease the curiosity of how much they wondered as you/he/she would have been the successor of the album revelation of the last decade.

Well, if American Idiot had marked the turn in the sound of the trio of Berkeley, this 21st Century Breakdown is not able whether to be its natural consequence. After having crossed that threshold that has brought them to be from band punk of reference of the years '90 to heirs (punk) of the Who Armstrong, Dirnt and Three Cool have decided to again go beyond that thin line and to again venture him in a concept album. The job is separated in three parts: Heroes and Cons, Charlatans and Saints, Horseshoes and Handgrenades and it tells the vicissitudes of Christian and Gloria a young couple that stirs in the contradictions and in the hopes of the new century.
Always punk-rock, but seasoned by an artistic awareness and by a musical ability that, mixed by the regal one of Buthc Vig (manufacturing historian of the Nirvanas), the artistic evolution of the group it makes even more vivid.

The disk goes besides the three accords of the first single extract Know Your enemy and shows us the epic side of the Greens Day with the title track 21st Century Breakdown, a puzzle composed by three parts inserted with precision by incisive guitars and by the perfect melody of Billy Joe that the Lennon of Working Class Hero quotes. The delicate intro of plan and violins of the Gloria Lives! you/he/she is broken by the distorsions and by the choirs that they give a new dimension to the passage; also in the following Before the Lobotomy a first acoustic part leaves to the place to schitarrate in full style punk. The sweet ballad Last night on Earth from the taste of Beatles closes with style the first part and show the most romantic side of the album "Sending all my love to you.You macaws the moonlight of my life every night Giving all my love to you."
The second part opens to the insignia of the hard rock with East Jesus Nowhere with an intro worthy of Marylin Manson, for then to return on more consistent beaches to the band with Last Of the American Girls, where the rhythmics of battery and lower part he/she marries him the vocal trajectories of Billy Joe, that damage the correct touch to a passage in full Green Day style. The closing of the second chapter Charlatans
And Sainst is submitted Syndrome, that has the whole air to be a ballad except the classical change of rout that makes the passage explode in the end for the first three minutes to Restless Hearts.

The last part opens with the rough Horseshoes and Handgrenades, with a guitar grunge and the voice of harder Armstrong of the usual one. Instead The Static Age is one of the most pop episodes of the album but extremely godibile, thanks to the usual alchemy that is created in the simple notes played by the band and by a refrain that it seems done he/she waits for for being sung to squarciagola "The can'ts see to thing in the video - The can'ts hear to sound on the radio - In stereo in the static age." Perfectly appropriate also the refrain of 21Guns, that is prepared to become one of the tormentonis of the album, with the electric guitar that he makes space after the strophe characterized by the acoustics as in the famous Boulevard Of Broken Dreams. Before reaching the conclusion him it passes for the animated American Eulogy that it precedes the big end with See the Light, with an acoustic intro that recalls "Tommy" of the Who, the group that has inspired the band in this phase of the career more than every other.

If the Greens Day looked for a confirmation with this job you/they have centered in full the objective. They have succeeded in taking back the scheme of the concept album of American Idiot succeeding in the difficulty assignment not to be repeated. The passages are of great level and they reinstate the trio punk-rock more famous than the world on the tallest peak of the olimpo of the rock. If this is the street that Armstrong and companions intend to cross we can be sure that will continue to give I/you/he/she work us of great thickness and unforgettable songs. Can you/he/she be asked to a punk-band more?