¡Uno! Reviews

The history of Green Day is a sequence of "Who would have thought?"
Who would have thought that a trio of Californian punk apparently some 'losers would have churned out one of the most successful records of the 90s - "Dookie" revitalizing itself a kind? And who would have thought that in the next decade, after a slack period, he churned out an ambitious work as "American Idiot," which would have been a success just as important?
And who would have thought that, after another rock opera as "21st century breakdown", they would have dropped everything to go back to rock straight?
Yet this is "¡A", the first album of the trilogy that will conclude in January. Yes, because all'annunncio of three albums in four months, many have thought, "Olé, we're lost them. They are fitted to the head. "
Instead.
It remains that the trilogy is an ambitious and risky, these days, previously attempted only by equally ambitious band (Van Halen from the golden age, or Kiss, who released even 4 and simultaneously). But it is offset by the result, at least from what we hear so far. "¡A" is a Mr. disc of songs-songs. Forget the "concept album" (a term that makes me the jitters every listener as it exits the mouth of any musician), forget the works that become rock musicals. Here there are 12 songs almost all of about 3 minutes, even 40 minutes of rock 'n' roll. Previews you've heard about are representative. "Oh Love" is the first single: Widely melodic, a tribute to the power-pop Green Day had attended the "side project" Foxboro Hot Tubs.




More power and pop, to tell the truth. The melody is always there, as in "Kill the DJ", which resembles' the Clash, as well as "Carpe diem". Ah, the good old punk is still there: fast agreements and drums are there who surrounded him in "Let yourself go" and "Loss of control".
The result is a great record, funny and unexpected, that shows a pure creativity and remarkable. Too bad that this creativity is accompanied by something that is the opposite of "Who would have said," so it's the stereotype: Billie Joe enters rehab for substance abuse. But this news does not dirty the result: "¡A" is an album to put in repeat as if nothing had happened, waiting for surprises (music) that Green Day will we see in the coming months.