After nearly 30 years, X return with ‘Alphabetland,’ an album that lives up to their hype. Read our review
Perhaps the reason they were able to pull it off is because three of the songs date back to their formative years. They’d cut demos of “Delta 88 Nightmare,” “Cyrano deBerger’s Back,” and “I Gotta Fever” around the time they made, and even released them as bonus cuts on reissues in recent years. “Delta 88” and “Fever” are both lickety-split punkabilly ragers, while “Cyrano”
is a sweet, swinging retelling of the Rostand play with a hook that stays in your head . Although the musicians sound more mature playing these songs than they used to , you can hear how rejuvenating it is for them to rage on some classic X. Likely building off of that feeling, the group wrote eight more tracks that also might as well have been teleported from the early Eighties. When Doe and Cervenka sing, “Let me go free/Don’t tell me I can’t … to a promised land,” they sound like the mean it, as if the past 40 years never happened. They still lambaste class disparity , joke about infidelity , and chronicle life’s mundanity in a way that sounds cool.
The only head scratcher is the album’s closing cut, “All the Time in the World,” a jazzy, spoken-word track with Cervenka’s bummer verses about dying and atmospheric guitar courtesy of the Doors’ Robby Krieger; it’s a novelty you won’t want to hear more than once. But even then, Cervenka’s sentiment lamenting that everything in life “was fun while it lasted” would fit right at home on any of their previous records.
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