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Madrugada | The Nightly Disease

Everything between the Tea Party and Tindersticks.
CD, Virgin

Tekst: Martÿn ter Haar

Publicatiedatum: 08 mei 2001

Madrugada is Spanish for a special kind of light sometimes seen at sunrise. And this is where I am supposed to write, like all reviewers before me, that Madrugada's music sounds more like the long Winter nights of their native Norway, but I won't. For the darkness of Madrugada's rock noir is not the darkness of cold arctic winters, but the darkness of decadent parties in slightly decaying mediterranean towns that are reaching their end just as the sun begins to rise. Like singer Sivert Høyem explains in opening track 'Black Mambo': "Gonna knock you down with the liquour and love." Said song is a blatant Doors rip-off, not in the least because Høyem sounds a lot like Jim Morrison, but one that would not be out of place on a Best Of compilation of that band. Other obvious influences: Iggy Pop ('Lucy One'), Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Joy Division, or anything else between Tindersticks and the Tea Party. And everything under tight quality control, so that crooned ballad 'Step into This Room and Dance for Me' and the hard rocking 'We Are Go' are of the same high quality we've come to expect from Scandinavia or even better. This is exactly the kind of record that makes the sun rise after a long pole night.