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Korova Milkbar - Korova Milkbar

posted by: maurice on 11 March 2010

UK Division

The Korova Milk Bar (korova is Russian for "cow") appears in the novel and film A Clockwork Orange, twisting the milk bar into a less innocent place. The bar serves milk laced with drugs. You can request: vellocet (opiate), synthemesc (synthetic mescalines), drencrom (adrenochrome). By serving milk (instead of alcohol), the bar is able to serve intoxicating libations to minors. In the film, the bar has furniture in the shape of naked women and the milk is served from their nipples. At the back of Korova Mikbar’s album the same letter type is used as in the movie 'A Clockwork Orange'.

The band Korova Milkbar from Italy is less famous and I think that also will be the case after this album. The mixture of Alternative Rock and Post-Hardcore is promising in the intro "Eco" but falls apart in the rest of the album. Korova Milkbar isn’t good at songwriting and also the breaks in the songs aren’t smooth all the time. Combining Deftones, Underoath and Refused doesn’t mean you have an enervating album in your hands.

The lyrics are in Italian and the clean vocals of Riccardo Maruti are nasal and therefore this album is hard to digest. The music in “Blu” is similar to the Deftones; the vocals are totally taking down the intentions of Korova Milk Bar. His screaming vocals are way better and songs like “Polvere” and “I Fiori Del Male” are easier to digest. Still the mixing skills of Korova Milkbar aren’t at the same level as in the bar from the novel and movie.

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