The cruel poetry of addictions and obsessions
After his rather self-explanatory album Fuck the War (which included a little jewel entitled Butterflies), Ralph Buckley makes a spectacular comeback with an album that bears a deceptively colourful cartoon figure on the cover, and the equally deceptive title cocoa krispies & lucky charms.
What awaits the listener is a journey into the desperate world of addictions and obsessions, accompanied by sometimes almost joyful melodies, whose discrepancy with the themes of the songs made me think of Paul Roland. Morphine, alcohol, love gone bad, utopian dreaming and for dessert, some kind of ironic existential dilemma: which weighs more - the death of a bee or of God himself?
The tragic aspect of our existence, the absurdity and inhuman materialism of the world we live in are illustrated in this half-hour album with poignant tenderness and sincerity. The sweetness of the melodies makes this poignancy even more painful; but this is why art is here - to denounce and exorcise ugliness by speaking of it through beauty.
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