Search - Verdena :: Il Suicidio Del Samurai

Che bella! the italian radiohead?

capstrmbn | philadelphia, pa | 06/28/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"i was living in Rome last year when this album came out... actually, it was during my first week there. i was walking around the cobbled streets in the Brooklyn-equivelent of Trastevere, and approached one of the many vendors of bootleg CDs. I gazed across the dozens of albums carefully aligned atop the spread bedsheet, and one caught my eye. it was called "Il Suicido Dei Samurai"... the title made the album seem worth the five euro investment on a band i had never heard of. how pleased i was to find out that the album lived up to all of my hopes. Imagine a Bends-era Radiohead sung in the most euphonious language on the planet, and you get this album. if you want to buy something on the fringe... a rare and relatively unknown offering... a glimpse of another country's underground music scene... get this album! it won't disappoint."