Hermanos are one of those rock solid bands which, because of all the thought and all the work they put into their songs, deserve a sure status of local heroes. It's no wonder why you have people like Maria João and Maria Rita covering their stuff, and with arguably lesser outputs. And yet again, like Silo, they are some of most underrated people out there - actually they don't even exist anymore. Most people here in Portugal only know them because of the hit single Ana Júlia and are completely astray about anything else.
So what makes these guys so good? Okay, just bear for one moment the structure of Last Romance. The vocal melody is simply other-wordly. And the lyrics, boy, these lyrics will kill you! Just check out this shit:
And just by seeing you I think about changing - uh uh uh - my TV player as a way of taking you somewhere you might want to go to and to go with the wind and to both of us to leave home is to take a stride.
Wow! Is this poetry or something? How many solid rock guys will you have making lyrics of this calibre? Okay okay, maybe Dave Matthews, I'll grant you that. But not much more people.
And what about the beautifully saint-exupéryan verses of Beyond What We Can See:
Fetch one more for dinner tonight, for today I'm going there to see you, take the sound off that TV so that we may talk.
Boy, can these guys play with simple people's concepts! The whole thing is so melodically and rhythmically articulated, and the small ensemble arrangements are so in-your-face culminating in the beautifully spacious coda. Boy, can you not see the beauty in these guys' work?
04/08/08
11.29.2008
Last Romance
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