AKT - Déntrokirtòs (2007)
Fresh stuff = great music!
When you listen to some new bands, you may say that everything has been invented and previously composed and that there are no new bands with a unique sound, because they sound like some older band, and that may be true, but the good news are that if a new band appears and uses lots of sounds and styles to approach a proper and own sound, it's always a pleasure listening.
This band called Akt, is one of the coolest Italian bands that have appeared in the last few years, i previously reviewed their EP called Fraktal.One which features some covers of one of their main influences which is King Crimson, i enjoyed that EP, but now believe me that this album is excellent.
In 2007 they released this album called Dentrokirtos and what a shame that i didn't know them last year because i may have put it in my top 5 of the 2007, the band had originally 4 members but one of them left Akt and now they continued being a trio, (power trio maybe?). So Dentrokirtos, an album that has almost 50 minutes of great and enjoyable music that has a variety of sounds and styles, and 7 different songs going from the 4 minute to 9 minute lenght.
The album opens with Spazzadiluvi which as i mentioned above, will remind you of King Crimson Belew-era because of the guitar sound, the Crimsonesque style continues until the half of the song when vocals enters, kind of spoken word with Italian lyrics but nothing to do with that classic Italian vocal style from 70's bands, at the end it has some cool music, punched bass lines and great keyboard work.
Elicrisio begins with an acoustic sound, percussion and then some nice guitars and piano that make a kind of happy sound but after some seconds vocals enters and produce a sound like very...
