Star Mafia Boy – Arcana Cabaret 2012

I will not join the ongoing discussion about whether the new album from Star Mafia Boy, Cabaret Arcane is the best of his career, since, as I said in some places, that’s like asking a parent which of their children wants more. What if I have very clear is that what you are doing this currante of Rock’n’Roll is not available to many artists, either in this country or beyond our borders.

I want to emphasize, that if the Arcana is for me his album more Guitar Mafia, with that which has always been cocky, but with a kind of look back at the time of composing the songs. I guess it may be due to feelings of everyone but, as well Gunner said in his review, I think his solo album more Punk and more bad host.

Star Mafia Boy has a problem and is a very intractable problem, because this guy is capable of creating hits as fast as Asafa Powell 100 m snack, hits than any other artist’s hand would give a lot to talk about. But is that we have become accustomed to it does not take mediocre issues and therefore we are satisfied with “the good record of SMB”, “has done it once again ..” or “another kick in the güebos the former leader of … “. And it should be, which is well we are demanding of the turkey, but how many musicians or bands have managed to excite you as much or as well as SMB for so many years ..?.

Commented that for me it was your hard more “Guitar Mafia” and perhaps more a kind of self-review of his career, compressing all the feelings and all his learning in twelve huge topics that makes it clear that people personally marked and musically. More and more clear that we leave it to one of our greatest guitarists, with many records and inspired riffs capable of making available to very few, becoming our bastard cross between Michael Monroe and Mr. Thunders, with some of Keith and much Risi.

If it is impossible for me to judge what is their best album, most still qualify me as one of his favorite themes of Arkana Cabaret, but I remember when I first heard “Suicide Doll”, I closed my eyes waiting for Mike Ness appeared doing a duet with Paco in this issue of part-time R’n’R I find a truly wonderful and make very clear the indisputable talent of the artist from Madrid. And when they began the opening chords of “The immense light of your beauty” I clenched my fists, knowing that this would be the issue that would defeat me, that would eventually open my stomach, and it was really a hypnotic subject and naked, but endowed a great atmosphere.

I usually do “reviews” (to call them that) of emerging bands and discs with very little media attention, so make it about someone who has a lot of criticism is something that makes me hard. But just love this guy like a brother and admire both personally and artistically very much makes it much easier, since it is easier to write when the heart does not have to decorate your sentences because dictates your soul and the words go out alone because you feel them.

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