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ARTIST
SPIRITUAL FRONT
TITLE
Open Wounds
FORMAT
2CD/BOOK
LABEL
TRISOL
CATALOG #
TRI 476CD
TRI 476CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
12/9/2022
2013 release. Songs are like open wounds. Music can hurt. Can strike new wounds and tear up old ones. No one is more aware of this than
Simone "Hellvis" Salvatori
. His feverish music is a diary of his failures and triumphs, a deep scar running through his work. He finds pleasure in the pain it causes him, sheds tears for the lust it evokes in him. Like an Italian
Johnny Cash
, he clads his life in intimate ballads of becoming and withering, of sex and death.
Spiritual Front
is the folk noir crossbreed of
Ennio Morricone
and
Nick Cave
-- suicide pop from a decadent otherworld. Where secret passions are whispered into darkness, where dream and waking, intoxication and hangover dance closely,
Open Wounds
feels at home: Morbid mafia folklore for hedonistic self-destructors, murder ballads for decadent lotus-eaters. Like a heavy red wine, Spiritual Front's music gets better and better over the years -- ever more exhilarating, ever more effective. As if Simone Salvatori had to reach a certain age to understand his music properly. As if he had to accept that living means suffering. Now, the erotic enchantment of his masterpiece
Armageddon Gigolo
is back. On
Open Wounds
, it mates with delicate prowess and baffling arrangements that would invoke envy in every mafia orchestra. Sacred profoundness turns to sweaty sheets when Simone Salvatori sings for his soul, when he trembles, hope, loves, suffers and lives. The machismo and his guitar, joined by the orchestra --
Open Wounds
is the epitome of suicide pop. Sexy to the brim, sensual even in the face of certain death, full of whipping urgency. To this, the bonus CD comes as a sharply accentuated contrast, uniting instrumentals, alternate versions and stunning reworks: A calm and very moody view into the artistic life of this abyssic gigolo. This second album is like the cuddling after the all-consuming act of love that is
Open Wounds
-- and Spiritual Front is the lover that disappears before dawn. Only a dream? The wounds tell a different story. Double-CD in book format (appr. 14x21 cm); bonus-CD includes 11 tracks; hardback book with elaborate thread stitching; 40-pages extra-booklet, art print on high-quality paper.
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