Fifth stage

"You have to live in Britain for a long time." Thus could have sounded the motto of The Charlatans - a quarter -century excerpt group, glorious representatives of the mastchet wave, which were in the shadow of Happy Mondays and Stone Roses . Despite the fact that Madchester himself is a city musical phenomenon, which arose due to the fact that in the factory Manchester, where the culture of rock clubs was developed, they brought Eisid House and MDMA and local rock groups under the influence of expanding consciousness of substances began to connect the sound of the past (Big-bi and psychedelia of the 1960s) with the electronic rhythms of the future-he did not last long. He was quickly supplanted from the consciousness of British youth with a sexual-aggressive brit-pop and quasi-ethnic grunge.

“Modern Nature” is a hymn of life that continues and will continue.

In the early 1990s, the heroes of Madcheter, at all pairs, flew into the wall of the crisis-discord in groups, problems with drugs, but The Charlatans were able to slip through the stormy beginning of a new decade, which was buried under the foam of his colleagues, and, on the contrary, released their most successful album in 1995. Question the existence of The Charlatans put a real catastrophe - automobile; In it in 1996, the keyboardor Rob Collins, the main writer of songs, around the Hammond-Organa of which was built the sound of the group, died. “We had to learn how to write songs,” Vocalist Tim Burdessa, who was forced to take the leader’s place, recalls briefly. The Charlatans were able to bring to the end the plate “Tellin 'Stories” (1997) launched with Collins - dedicated it to the departed friend, and she became the promise of a new life given at the funeral. "How Can Youve us?" In the heart of this plate? " -The most optimistic names in the history of rock music.

The new, 13th in a row, The Charlatans album “Modern Nature” also began with death. One of the founders of the group died, drummer John Brooks, who got a terrible diagnosis - brain cancer. “In a strange way, his death gave us a starting point,” says Tim Burges. “Modern Nature” is at the fifth stage of death - neither a drop of anger, nor a shadow of depression, only an adult awareness. The whole album is like an affectionate sun, suddenly in a spring warmer in a gloomy February. The Charlatans Major rock, holding on the guttaper vocals of Bergeses, the agricultural of Bas Martin Blanc and the unchanged Hammond-Organ, make even lighter and joyful bravura and state-owned choirs on the sakes. “Modern Nature” , rolling on the listener with salty waves of warmth and love, is the anthem of life that continues and will continue.

Let's live for a long time and for a long time about those who have left.

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