Bellini - The Precious Prize of Gravity

First new album in four years. Features members of GIRLS AGAINST BOYS, SOULSIDE, UZEDA. Features guest appearance by members of SILKWORM. LP format includes CD version. RIYL: THE JESUS LIZARD, X, HUSKER DU, GIRLS AGAINST BOYS, THE EX, PJ HARVEY. It’s been exactly four years since we last heard from Bellini. Four years is a long time, but when you’re husband-and-wife punk rock power couple Giovanna Cacciola and Agostino Tilotta, it can seem like a long holiday in the face of their nearly 25-year career of collaboration. Coming back from holiday, the two reunite with bassist Matthew Taylor and drummer Alexis Fleisig (also of Girls Against Boys) to unleash their third and most thunderous album, The Precious Prize of Gravity. Recorded as always with long-time collaborator Steve Albini, Precious Prize is Bellini’s most accomplished production yet. Tilotta wraps a hundred notes per minute around the towering, sturdy rhythm section while Cacciola’s poetic lyrics and smoky melodies alternately recall Grace Slick and PJ Harvey. With no less than four songs centering around the deaths of loved ones (including the heart-wrenching “The Thin Line,” featuring the surviving members of Silkworm), Precious Prize is lyrically Bellini’s darkest album yet. Never wanting to repeat themselves, the songs are more complex and progressive than the comparatively stark Small Stones, with a driving, X-inspired cowpunk vibe throughout. No doubt the spirits of fallen friends and loved ones informs Precious Prize, but it‘s Bellini’s restless creativity and determination to pay tribute to the past by dragging it into the present that is the real honor here.

Tracks : 1. Wake Up Under A Truck (3:35) 2. Numbers (3:05) 3. Daughter Leaving (3:09) 4. Susie (3:51) 5. Tiger’s Milk (3:04) 6. The Man Who Lost His Wings (4:27) 7. Save The Greyhounds (2:41) 8. The Thin Line (4:18) 9. The Painter (2:44) 10. A Deep Wound (3:14)

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