CHOCOLATE KINGS

Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM)

Rock Progressivo Italiano

3.96 | 533 ratings

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GKR

My first review of a PFM album. One could say that perhaps it would be better to start with the two first albums... ou Isola de Niente... but I love so much Chocolate Kings...

The album has a heavy historical background. The tile of the album and of the main song refers perhaps to the Marshall Plan (planned to endebt the European nations and conect them to USA, already preparing the Cold War to come) or to Imperialism as a whole (as others Italian artists would follow the same approach - Area, Eugenio Finardi, Stormy Six...).

The album seems to be carefully produced, and is a surprisingly short one. The instrumental passages shows the best alignement of Mauro Pagani's acoustic habilities and the band furious playing (most furious than ever, I suppose).

The low point is the vocals. They should have sticked with something more closely to what they were already doing. The Peter Gabriel emulate did not work very well. Maybe they should have hire Peter Gabriel himself!

Well, lets dream... and give 4 stars.

GKR | 4/5 | 2013-3-14

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