PASIJOVÉ HRY VELIKONOčNÍ/PASSION PLAY

Strangest than their usual work. It's esoteric sounding rock take on biblical themes (Easters). In fact, translation is bad. It should be The Passion Play, because it means this Christian thing, not more often used adjective (do something with passion).

Lyrics are mostly biblical (Old Testament I suppose, but that is hard for my, I'm strongly persuaded atheist and these words means nothing to me). But one have to understand the situation. Faith in god back in 70s was oppressed. Not banned, you also wasn't killed for wearing denim clothes, but people were persecuted to some extent. So Plastics took this as an rebellion thing. It's much different from for example Neal Morse's work (made in relatively free society and country, where you don't expect to have your career and a lot of things in life over just for your belief), it's more dark, but not offensive. It reminds me Pink Floyd tracks such as "Carefully With That Axe, Eugene" and "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun" ("Kazani na hore"), or hypnotic saxophone in next track.

If this is example of RIO (here it's in opposition to comm regime), then I like it. Just how many beatings, house raids, prison stays they had to survive and still had the energy to create such ANTI effort. 4(+)stars, because I feel that I can't understand it as much as believer can. But I do believe, in love and freedom. My own way.