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Rocky evokes by turns wild expanses and encounters by means of a real opening both in the styles tackled (from the Italian crooner ballad A Spasso to the disco A Life of Ease) and the arrangements upsetting the patterns The Married Monk had endeavoured to develop so far. Drums and machines equally share the rhythmic sections and guitars often give way to keyboards.

Finally, Yann Tiersen brings his sensibility to the strings of Roma Amor and Hollidays, supported in this song by the cello of Joey Burns from Calexico.

The Married Monk thus develops a vintage but definitely modern sound which proves that pop music, for Christian is a true songwriter, can try out new ideas without disowning its origins. The most relevant example of this is undoubtedly the incredible version of Robert Wyatt's Sea Song, which they had already played on stage and which, more than a mere cover version, is a real tribute to him.

01. Greyhound 02. Stuck 03. Roma amor 04. Holiday 05. Death in savannah 06. A life of ease 07. Painful summer 08. Sea song 09. A spasso 10. Ola mujeres 11. All I have 12. Ancora tu 13. Cyro's request