Gaznevada

condition (record/cover): NM / EX
With original innersleeve.
Inspired by Brian De Palma's film of the same name, here's "Dressed to Kill," the new album from Bologna's Gaznevada, released about a year after "Sick Soundtrack." A 45 rpm single, six songs, just over twenty minutes in length, and obviously priced lower than a standard LP, it's designed to entice fans of a record that further confirms the validity of Gaznevada's offerings, undoubtedly the most complete, interesting, and original Italian band working today. The powerful expressive power of "Sick Soundtrack" hasn't diminished at all: the band's sound, while still frenetic, corrosive, and chilling, has been enriched with new, even more radically dark and disturbing elements. Music from nightmares: and how could it be otherwise, given the content of the crime film that inspired its creation? E. Robert Squibb, Bat Matic, Billy Blade, Andy Nevada, and Chainsaw Sally, who on the inside cover appear "dressed to kill" like the killer in the film, have created an ideal soundtrack to the most violent and sick images of our society, with a charge of lucid and desperate aggression that is unparalleled. The atmospheres of the six compositions, despite drawing from different sources of inspiration (De Palma's work is just one of them), blend together excellently, so much so that the final result amazes for its homogeneity as well as its undeniable charm. "A. Perkins," "Dressed To Kill," "Frogs On The Phone," and the new version of "Going Underground" (one of the most exciting tracks on "Sick Soundtrack") are fast and compelling, characterized by metronomic rhythms and schizophrenic instrumental and vocal spasms, while "D.J." It features a certain slowing down of the tempo but still maintains a hypnotic and obsessive pace; the album concludes with an exceptional, cold, computer-generated reworking of The Doors' "When The Music's Over," which Jim Morrison himself could not fail to appreciate for the intelligence and personality with which it was crafted.