SONIC YOUTH have created the biggest what rock musicians can create: Nobody can assign them – they are neither a seventies, nor an eighties or nineties band. CONFUSION IS NEXT are not only named after one of their songs, they also smashed a similar way: On “The generation Of This Order” influences from the last 30 years melt to an independent and self-confident sound.

The quite talented quartet from Monza creates a monster from magic and melody of full masterpieces between post punk, post rock and post Metal. The PIXIES and MUDHONEY hit on the WHITE STRIPES and HÜSKER DÜ. In the most distant points of this tension-curve bulging confusion and clarity on each other. From time to time “The generation Of This Order” sounds lilke clean THE CURE songs – in other places the urgency of NIRVANA breaks through.

“Leaves” delivers the licking guitar-thunderstorms which ROBERT SMITH is dabbling in for many years. “Anemones & Elephants” begins like a METALLICA classic and ends in a Noise chaos. “Lichens On The Lich Gate” is riding the emotional roller coaster of JESUS THE & MARY CHAIN and EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY. In the sum this new album of the Italians is a return to the glorious days of the alternative rock, back off the time when ‘alternative’ still meant ‘different’.

“The Generation Of This Order” creates the need that this past has future: Like the name-giving song CONFUSION IS NEXT look at a morning which they already create today by themselves. Not only in their music, but also in the way of distribution: The songs appear under a ‘Creative Commons License’ in the I-net and present themselves multimedia: Immediately two PDF booklets accompany the album through the data highway and provide for audio-visual aural pleasure at the end of the line.

(afmusic)


AFMUSIC released CONFUSION IS NEXT’s third album “The Generation Of This Order” on August 3rd 2009 in two versions: the free downloadable one (as on Trastienda Netlabel, with CIN starting a series of future collaborations between this two labels) and the DELUXE ONE. You can buy this version in two file formats: FLAC or 320Kbps mp3audio. But what does it offer? Downloading directly from AFMUSIC web store you get:

- FLAC or 320 KBPS mp3 audio, improving the sound quality of the album;

- A bonus track, not found in the free download version;

- the “Black Book”, an hi-resolution pdf booklet with 13 additional artworks (if you like the cover of the album you’re gonna love these exclusive images!)

- the “Red Book”, another hi resolution pdf booklet filled with live and studio photos, recording session diary and details, info about the songs and the album…for more than 30 pages!

The album is obviously available at amazon, itunes and so on… but only in AFMUSIC webstore you get all these things! The price is 3.90 eur - if you really liked the album, consider buying it. It would allow us to produce the next one even better!