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Secret Alliance

by Clever Square

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1.
Loose Lips 03:02
Prickle ancient woman, if you let the dread pass by You wouldn’t have to figure out the topography of lungs The Korolev is rotten, there’s no need to fly so low Do the math and give your pledge to the economy replay A little worried to be with you From the belly to the lips If it’s mean I’ll get you there But if it’s safer to be with you From the previous page you dared Into the rabbit hole again The crystal clear society can afford a million views It only wants you to feel the rules dripping down in your shoes Dancing, dancing with your eyelids If you don’t have the guts to shout it A little worried to be with you ‘til it’s coming back again If it’s mean I’ll get you there But when you’re reaching the thick of it In a blown out cold handshake To the last frontier again
2.
Golden Wires 03:05
Sputtered out into this world, now you can go on Plastered in the ladies’ room, if you’re getting bored Tell them tales of alien wounds, leaving out what’s next Find out ways to find out ways to protect you from wrong So what else can go bad? Electricity shines on everyone From the top of the world In revisioned boats ready to set sail Leave it as a child would leave his own bloody demands With pictures of his family by the telephone By them all a gutter preserves a syrup, later on Drink it all to the foundations of its wildest foam Drink it all to the enduring leaders of this war Shake it at the respectful leaders of this world
3.
The stakes have all been set high, you feel the strain The monuments of “well done”s you dive in deep It’s gonna take me back to where I came from It’s gonna take me back to where I bleed In meaningful surprise you set the table Repeat then change your habits and your moods It was smaller when I woke up… grew bigger with the rise of the moon The endless time it takes to… sweat all over the skin they made for you But you’re staring at the signs, clear As we celebrate the highway As she elevates to my space As she elevates to different things This morning when I woke up I felt the sting This morning when I woke up, it kept calling me It’s gonna take me back to where I came from Right back to where it all is said and done You cannot change the way it’s always been then The endless time it takes to find a rule
4.
The enemy in life comes to me on a kite Surrounded by hundreds of wounded knees What part of me survives when I’m systematized? Afraid of the future painted over me And if anything’s a try I shall kick it real high Flies up in the sky and stops on a nest In a future of birds we’ll be two opened eggs Take care of the time we share Be occupied by it The offers you’ve got looking good on the outside Are buried in powder raining over lenses If the enemy’s alive I’ll be institutionalized Keep shaking the right hands for the play
5.
Loyal dog legs steering at their lord Couldn’t stand being taught to hail the proper Karl Limited mutations of our love Never left unplayed, just hail the proper Karl But it’s a wild life of unlimited frustrations It’s been aged in mysterious medications If it don’t work out Just hail the proper Karl Who couldn’t follow rules but he couldn’t break the law The clumsy country Karl Oh, it’s a life to be spoken, it involves minor openings Well I don’t care for the motion of this car But it’s a wild life of unlimited mutations Tell a story where you would gather nations If it won’t work out Just hail the proper Karl
6.
Rattled in meaningless masses, in a way I feel better than you do Offer your beautiful asses to the truth I’m leaning forever to praxis in refining the moves that you do Faking the all-of-you speeches to the woods Hold it and see what a crate is revealing to you Maybe I’ll see what a crater lake is to you In time we’ll make it all better and seek a new position In time we’ll make it all better and see our new position Of all the truths of this day I’m feathery in decision And it’s going to haunt me forever to check if I’m better positioned If sometimes I feel imprisoned I’ll stick a wish to the mirror In time we’ll make it all better and seek a new position To see our new position
7.
Little Flaws 03:19
Your life inside this bar is getting shorter, when you hit the third encounter At first you got what surprised you and now she’s getting stoned on goodbyes The paradox is served with the third beer and the ones that you deserve I could become part of it all, but that’s not a steam I smoke All the traces leading to the floor You criticize the system you adore ‘Cause it’s got little flaws The apartment whisperers come home But they’ve got little flaws This theatre of life you put on to get it done The thoughts you leave before the toilet flushes No need to be so drastic anymore I adore the wilderness you have in store I adore it when it’s obvious you don’t know Your little flaws And hope that you are coming back for more Of your little flaws
8.
Leave the house like you found it I’m thinking of a brighter opinion to share with you To figure out a simple place, an exit from my broken space I’m leaving the lights on Once I’m gone, I am gone All tied up to start the meal In your new leather jacket On the edge of a pyramid You swallow up life from a limb But you speak a different alphabet It’s like we’re part of an experiment And forever I grow higher But once I’m gone, I am gone With violins on the run And there is no proof That your heart belongs to credit cards So you saturate Eat more sugars and grow elephantine
9.
Though the sad tornado between your sad sad eyes Turned me into a spider crawling back and forth Showing downsides and sad baby’s eyes Empty wallets and white collar pith Why can’t you be honest with yourself? When the bark comes peeling off the world Exposing its filthiest innards Floating with my car to the tigers’ cave It used to be larger than life Now I know it is a solid waste of space Steal a street sign and close the roller shutters I have found some precious time for us When the doors are closing off before me To show me the filthiest innards I have found some precious time for us So if the world stops spinning ‘round I’ll show you my filthiest innards
10.
You’d better not give me the right to choose You’d better not give me the right to To think that I woke up so small and pale I’ve got to safely wipe my eyes Besides just trying to fight for more You’d better not scan me laser-wise I suppose I am a valuable prize “I see you as double reality, a wondrous spark through my mechanism” And it mends my pride to hide from it Or to unleash myself from it There’s no meaning on either side of this table And the need for more perpetual convictions If I’m waking up, I’m waking to rely on those Are the neighbors building stashes of illusions? Everything you do reveals itself to be right or wrong before sundown The judgment it will break your tiny bones, you cannot make friends with the prisoners
11.
Mr. & Mrs. K 03:10
May you not allow me to read and find out all the truth About our lives inside this womb, any friendship we abused If there’s any life out there, there are shattering things ahead I’ll take the risks of embassy and move to third dimension things I’m racing for the crystal light: the object of my fantasy Let’s take the flame birds to town tonight See how they glow in shiny streams I’m standing tall above the corners of my seasons Somebody knows I’m almost crying at that vision Where did it go? You’ll find the desert of my wisdom I really need, I really need an intuition

about

Giacomo D’Attorre – lead singer of Clever Square – has been through a lot of late. With his band. In his personal life. Even just with the state of the world. This fire has fuelled Clever Square’s new record Secret Alliance, eleven tracks that explore feelings of frustration, disillusionment, and disconnection, and chronicle what it’s like to be swept along by a world that “gets noisier everyday”.

The record was inspired by a creeping realisation; of coming change, and a sense that D’Attorre was “losing contact with who I was before, for the good and the bad.” New needs and desires surfaced; old ones disappeared. Thus he began writing around ideas of rethinking yourself, and “acquiring a new conscience of mutation”.

The darker realms of science fiction informed much of D’Attorre’s thinking here; Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury – ‘Mr. & Mrs. K’ was inspired by The Martian Chronicles – and Flannery O’Connor, whose The Violent Bear It Away proved particularly inspiring. All of this is perfectly framed by Clever Square’s shuffling, quirky indie, and cute melodies. Soft and worn around the edges, like the perfect flannel shirt, there’s a gentle, shambling quality to the music; “blue collar”, D’Attorre calls it. Guitar lines gently bloom, Fender Rhodes organ is sprinkled throughout, and the acoustic strumming sounds easy and unhurried.

From the relaxed bustle and acoustic picking of ‘Hail The Proper Karl’, to the joyous, bouncy ‘Little Flaws’; from the stripped back melancholy of ‘Obsolete Epsilons’ to the arena-ready vibes of indie classic ‘Golden Wires’, D’Attorre has crafted a spell-binding, mesmerizing set of songs that delight on first listen and reward deeper inspection.

“It’s a hymn to privacy, to the joys of secrecy, and solitude,” he says of Secret Alliance. That he wraps such heartfelt, profound topics in gloriously laid-back indie adds to the charm, and cements Clever Square’s status as one of Italy’s finest contemporary bands. The world might seem increasingly complex and be spinning ever faster, but Secret Alliance slows it down just enough to savour the scenery and think about charting a path back to something a little more manageable.

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released April 29, 2022

recorded by: Marco Giudici
produced by: Francesco Lima
mastered by: Matt Bordin
art by: Giacomo D'Attorre
layout by: Supernulla

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Clever Square Bologna, Italy

The Clever Square is an indie-rock band born in Ravenna, Italy, in 2005. Their music is inspired equally by the american indie-rock tradition and the british pop invasion. Led by Giacomo D'Attorre - songwriter, singer and guitarist - the band has seen many different incarnations throughout the years. ... more

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