NUDE

Nude is a conceptual album, like many in the Progressive Rock scene, but it has to be analyzed by its different aspects, the musical composition, the originality, the depth of the theme. The first time I listened to it, I was fascinated by Andy Latimer's melodies that showed a deep connection with the story that makes up his concept. In the end, it shows us a story with the sensitivity that impresses on the music and the history written in the lyrics. Well, to the subject, Nude tells us the story of a Japanese soldier at the time of the Second World War. The album begins with the experience of living in a country like Japan at that time, calling on the armed forces to fulfill their country and sees in its own flesh the horrors of war on an island in the Pacific. These horrors paralyze him and make him lose his sense, which he recovers perhaps days later. To his surprise, he is alone on a deserted island, he was simply so indispensable, he did not figure or maybe if, like a low in the Japanese army. History takes its turn, he has to stay there and follow the rules that were established, to fulfill his duty, hoping that help will soon arrive to take him with them. This was a real story of that soldier, Hiroo Onoda who spent 30 years on an island, thinking that the war was still going on. It shows the human side of a soldier who, being only one piece on a huge board in that war, was ignored and left to his fate. Musically it is very well done, in my particular taste Drafted and Lies are my favorite, but it really is to listen complete. I liked it a lot as they carry a style of narrating a story with a very good development and in the end the climax and resolution that leave us the message of the album.