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Release date: April 27, 2010
Label: SideOneDummy – Rude Records
Producer: Ted Hutt

Style: Rock, Punk
Related bands: Bruce Springsteen, The Gaslight Anthem, John Mellencamp, The Clash, D Generation, Ryan Adams, Butch Walker

[voto: 3.5]

Intro:
This is the debut album for the St. Marks Social led by Jesse Malin who, after a ten-year solo career, is the leader of a band once again.

Best Tracks:
Burn The Bridge, Revelations, Burning The Bowery, All The Way From Moscow

Notes:
Jesse Malin, though criminally underrated from the general public, is very appreciated by a number of well-known colleagues like Lucinda Williams, Ryan Adams or Bruce Springsteen (thanks to him and to "Broken Radio" from "Glitter In The Gutter" for letting me know about him in 2007).

In this new adventure, we find Jesse with a regular band but his nasal voice and his typical way to sing, sometimes graceless and some others gently low, are so distinctive that one might recall his name when listening to any project with Jesse Malin singing.

Anyway, comparing "Love It To Life" to the last records, the main difference I have noticed are guitars, they are more distorted, dirty, sometimes punk (listen to the anthems "Burning The Bowery" and "Burn The Bridge") and with a few brit influence, while folk and acoustic guitars are relegated to a handful of songs (ie: "The Archer" and "Revelations"). Speaking about melodies, they are typical of this 42-year-old New Yorker, the songs are filled of nocturnal urban moods (I think to the Clash oriented "Disco Ghetto"), they're often gloomy and with a "loser" feeling but never totally desperate.

This is not Jesse Malin's best album but his songs are always successful in catching me and getting inside, and even this new album does not disappoint my expectations.

Band

Jesse Malin – vocals
Randy Schrager – drums
Matt Hogan – guitars
Tommy USA – bass

Tracklist

01. Burning The Bowery 3:35
02. All The Way From Moscow 4:04
03. The Archer 3:41
04. St. Mark's Sunset 3:12
05. Lowlife In A High Rise 3:39
06. Disco Ghetto 3:44
07. Burn The Bridge 2:55
08. Revelations 4:03
09. Hey You (3:58)
10. Lonely At Heart 3:57

Discography

The Fine Art Of Self Destruction (2002 Artemis)
The Heat (2004 Artemis)
Glitter In The Gutter (2007 One Little Indian)
On Your Sleeve (2008 One Little Indian)
Mercury Retrograde (2008 One Little Indian)
Love It To Life (2010 SideOneDummy)

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Release date: April 27, 2010
Label: SideOneDummy – Rude Records
Producer: Ted Hutt

Style: Rock, Punk
Related bands: Bruce Springsteen, The Gaslight Anthem, John Mellencamp, The Clash, D Generation, Ryan Adams, Butch Walker

[voto: 3.5][EN]

Intro:
Album di debutto per i St. Marks Social di Jesse Malin il quale, dopo una decennale carriera solista, torna ad essere il leader di una band.

Best Tracks:
Burn The Bridge, Revelations, Burning The Bowery, All The Way From Moscow

Notes:
Jesse Malin, benché criminosamente snobbato dal grande pubblico, è un artista apprezzato da diversi colleghi, spesso più noti di lui come Lucinda Williams, Ryan Adams o Bruce Springsteen (grazie al quale l'ho scoperto nel 2007, avendo i due cantato insieme in "Broken Radio" da "Glitter In The Gutter").

In questa nuova avventura troviamo Jesse accompagnato da una vera e propria band, anche se la sua voce nasale e il tipico modo di cantare, a volte sgraziato altre delicatamente sommesso, persino nei pezzi più rock, sono talmente caratteristici che, probabilmente, farebbero ricondurre al suo solo nome qualsiasi progetto in cui dovesse cantare. Rispetto agli ultimi dischi, comunque, la maggiore differenza che noto è nell'uso delle chitarre, più distorte, sporche, a tratti punk (ascoltate gli inni "Burning The Bowery" e "Burn The Bridge") e con qualche influenza brit, mentre le chitarre acustiche e folk sono relegate a una manciata di canzoni (es.: "The Archer" e "Revelations"). Invece, le melodie sono tipiche del quarantaduenne newyorkese, le canzoni sono pervase di umori urbani e notturni (penso alla clashiana "Disco Ghetto"), spesso malinconiche, da "loser" ma mai profondamente disperate.

Non è il meglio di quanto prodotto finora da Jesse Malin, però le sue canzoni riescono sempre nell’intento di catturarmi ed entrarmi dentro e in questo senso anche il nuovo "Love It To Life" non delude.

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