2008年6月29日 星期日

eslite music recommends this week


試聽
Richard Swift as Onasis(2CD)/Richard Swift
在過去的專輯中皆扮演如M.Ward般貼心溫柔男聲的richard swift
在2008年所發行的這張專輯中(其實是兩張EP合起來)改玩草根味極重的藍調搖滾
偶而還流散出點點DUB深沉氣味
原本就很習慣使用四軌樂器錄音的他讓這張專輯聽起來更髒更粗糙!
喜愛the white stripe,美式藍調,車庫搖滾的同學們不可錯過的作品!!
推薦曲目:disc1 track 3/4,disc2 track 3


june panic/Songs from Purgatory (3CD)
試聽
箱型車內,小公寓裡,潮濕的地下室中......june panic在不同的地方做著一樣的事:
以廉價簡陋的四軌機器和麥克風錄下自己的創作
songs from purgatory這張專輯網羅了1991-1996年間
他在自己廠牌底下只做卡帶發行的珍貴錄音
現交由secretly canadian重新修復發行
我們聽見的不只是june嗚咽的歌聲和LO FI音質
而是他對音樂的熱忱與真心.

2008年6月26日 星期四

eslite music recommends this week


My Brightest Diamond/A Thousand Shark's Teeth
試聽
以Shara Worden為首的紐約獨立樂隊my brightest diamond被譽為兼具bjork的張力與kate bush的空靈。主導詞曲創作的她融合了各式各樣的元素:歌劇色彩濃重的戲劇性唱腔,古典室內樂編制,搖滾的器樂搭配,鼓點節奏效果,爵士的悠揚,甚至父親的手風琴,編曲奇特有趣,感受得到童話色彩又夾雜著現實的沉鬱無奈,是張富有個人特色的音樂作品。推荐曲目:2/5/11


Mahjongg/Kontpab
試聽
極盡光怪陸離的奇裝異服,好像亂七八糟五彩紛陳的繽紛風格時則暗藏秩序!
開場曲由部落式的敲擊帶出電器跳舞節奏,又漸漸引出多部合唱!
nu wave/no wave/punk/funk/electro共治一爐!
最不按牌理出牌的麻將樂團2008最新專輯
K records榮譽發行,pitchfork7.9高評推薦!!!!!!


smoosh/free to stay
試聽
今年16歲的asya和14歲的chloe在2006年時便發行了她們的第二張正式專輯free to stay
以鼓,keyboard為中心的smoosh最近更拉入好姐妹maia彈奏bass
專輯的流暢成熟和完整讓人不禁讚歎......我16歲時究竟在幹嘛呀.........

2008年6月25日 星期三

2008/06/25:獨立/搖滾/電子/黑膠 新到貨



將將將!!!!
新貨又到!!!!!!

DVD
The Sky Remains the Same as Ever / Mono

LP
A Thousand Shark's Teeth / My Brightest Diamond
Night Falls Over Kortedala / Lekman, Jens
Richard Swift as Onasis / Swift, Richard

電影配樂
Faust Brock, Timothy / Olympia Chamber Orchestra
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Brock, Timothy / Olympia Chamber Orchestra

實驗搖滾、後搖滾
Glow Pt. 2 (2CD/Remastered Ed.) / The Microphones
Memory Drawings / The Drift
Guitar Trio Is My Life (3CD) / Rhys Chatham & His Guitar Trio All-Stars

實驗電子
You, Me & Everyone / Pedro
The Outside / Lipp, Eliot
Music from the Films of R. Swift / Instruments of Science & Technology

獨立、另類搖滾
Sex Death Cassette / Rafter
Dig That Treasure / Cryptacize
A Thousand Shark's Teeth / My Brightest Diamond
The Evening Descends / Evangelicals
Freedom Wind / The Explorers Club
Phylactery Factory / White Hinterland
Hymns for a Dark Horse / Bowerbirds
For Emma, Forever Ago / Bon Iver
Shots / Ladyhawk
Kontpab / Mahjongg
Songs from Purgatory (3CD) / June Panic
The Impossible Shapes / The Impossible Shape
How We Lost / Windsor for the Derb
Calm Hades Float / Windsor for the Derb
Minnie Greutzfeldt / Windsor for the Derb
Wagonwheel Blues / The War on Drugs
Moonbeams / Throw Me the Statue
Richard Swift as Onasis (2CD) / Swift, Richard
Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink / Bodies of Water
59.59 / Sian Alice Group

2008年6月24日 星期二

eslite music recommends this week


試聽
丹麥dream pop樂團RUMSKIB首腦KEITH CANISIUS的個人專輯
遵循了rumskib的夢幻氛圍並以更shoegazing的方式呈現
專輯中並請來manual的jonas munk參予
略帶新浪潮風味的電氣節奏,夢幻迷濛又甜美
特別推薦最後一曲AI;濃厚的中國風味
雖被同事們戲稱幾乎可以當作古裝線上遊戲的背景音樂.....(SORRY)
但耳朵還是忍不住被強烈的吸引著.......瞪鞋迷快來買吧!!!


peasant/on the ground
來自美國賓州的damien derose化名為鄉下人,還把專輯取名為on the ground.....
種種跡象透露出這是一張純樸又自然的專輯,沒有太多炫技也沒有實驗元素
鄉下人很專心的彈吉他和唱歌,纖細而不娘的真誠嗓音和流轉的撥弦
如果你也喜愛elliott smith,nick drake等低調又簡單的民謠創作人,請試聽


試聽
以才女leah hayes為首的scary mansion,是來自布魯克林的三人樂隊
無論是hayes的歌聲或是音樂本身,在很多時候聽起來都有點像cat power
不過sacary mansion似乎更深沉黑暗,除了慢板的慘情民謠之外
也會偶而出現扭曲的吉他音效和令人喘不過氣的風琴及小提琴
leah hayes同時也是兩本圖文書的作者,看過她的畫大概可以想像她寫出的歌會是什麼樣子

2008年6月17日 星期二

2008/06/20:獨立/搖滾/電子/黑膠新到貨



Beach House/Devotion
試聽
夢幻唯美迷濛dream pop男女雙人組合第二張專輯

Crystal Castles/Crystal Castles
試聽
近日備受矚目多倫多髒髒electro pop男女雙人組合處女專輯
破報上的介紹

Destroyer/Trouble in Dreams
試聽

Sun Kil Moon/April (2CD)
試聽
red house painter主音個人project,sun kil moon,2008最新作品,一樣慘到不行.

Peasant/On the Ground
試聽

The Crash That Took Me/Orchestrated Kaleidoscop
試聽

This Will Destroy You/This Will Destroy You
試聽
和天空爆炸同樣來自德州的後搖滾樂團"他們要摧毀你"!

Under Byen/ Samme Stof Som Stof
試聽

She & Him/Volume One
試聽

Silver Mt. Zion/13 Blues for 13 Moons
godspeed分支樂團聖錫山距離上一張專輯相隔三年之久的第五張專輯
袁智聰的介紹

夏日必備歡樂花草區
Apples in Stereo/Electronic Projects for Musicians
試聽
曾經來台表演的歡樂sunshine pop立體聲蘋果2008年最新專輯

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin/Pershing
試聽

OF MONTREAL/ SATANIC PANIC IN THE ATTIC
OF MONTREAL/THE SUNLANDIC TWINS
Of Montreal/ Hissing Fauna, Are You the destroyer?
試聽
妖妖放克花草樂團of montreal今年十月即將發行新專輯Skeletal Lamping
在那之前我們先聽聽舊專輯
ps.主唱越來越愛化妝 看官網

TAHITI 80/PUZZLE
TAHITI 80/WALLPAPER FOR THE SOUL


Architecture in Helsinki/Fingers Crossed
Architecture in Helsinki/In Case We Die
Architecture in Helsinki/Places Like This
試聽

Atlas Sound/Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but
試聽
Deerhunter主腦Bradford Cox個人project

Deerhunter/Cryptograms
試聽

Balmorhea/Rivers Arms
試聽

Gregor Samsa/Rest
試聽

瞪鞋區
Pia Fraus/In Solarium
試聽

Daysleepers/Drowned in a Sea of Soun
試聽
如專輯名稱般泅泳在湛藍海水中的清涼夢幻感!

Tears Run Rings/ Always, Sometimes, Seldom, Never
試聽
和monster movie一樣的必殺shoegazing

Soundpool/Dichotomies + Dreamland
試聽
鼓機型shoegazing

Dreamend/As If By Ghosts
Dreamend/Maybe We're Making God Sad and Lonely
Monster Movie/Transistor
Monster Movie/ All Lost
Monster Movie/Monster Movie
Monster Movie/TO THE MOON

Experimental Aircraft/Third Transmission
試聽
monster movie中的美麗女聲就是來自Experimental Aircraft的女主唱Rachel Staggs

Airfields/Up All Night
試聽

Asobi Seksu/Citrus
Asobi Seksu/Asobi Seksu
Televise/Outside Out
Wry/ Whales and Sharks
Air Formation/Daylight Storms

SECRET SHINE/AFTER YEARS
試聽
海德的介紹

For Against/ Shade Side Sunny Side
試聽



Cat Power/Myra Lee
Cat Power/Dear Sir
Spoon/Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Peter, Bjorn & John/Writer's Block
Panda Bear/Person Pitch
Azure Ray/Hold on Love
Frente/MARVIN THE ALBUM
Unkle/ Never, Never Land (US Version)
LCD Soundsystem/45:33

MOGWAI/Kicking a Dead Pig: Mogwai Songs Remixed

New York Dolls/New York Dolls


New Young Pony Club/Fantastic Playroom
試聽
女主音Tahita Bulmer領軍,來自倫敦的NEW WAVE五人組合,從頭跳到尾的青春節拍!

Yma Sumac/Recital
試聽

A Weather/Cove
試聽

Keith Canisius/Ferris Wheel Makeout
試聽

Efterklang/Parades
試聽

GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR!/LIFT YOUR SKINNY FISTS LIKE ANTENNAS TO
GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR!/F#A#∞
GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR!/SLOW RIOT FOR NEW ZERO KANADA
GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR!/YANQUI U.X.O.
A Silver MT. Zion/Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upwa
Envy/ Abyssal
Envy/ A Dead Sinking Story
Envy/All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead
Envy/Compiled Fragments 1997-2003
Hrsta/Ghosts will Come and Kiss Our Eyes
Om/Pilgrimage
Jesu/Conqueror
Jesu/Lifeline

Takemura, Nobukazu/ Sign (+CD-R)
Aphex Twin/ 26 Mixes for Cash (2CD)

HUSKER DU/ZEN ARCADE

Andrew Bird/Armchair Apocrypha (US Version)
Arcade Fire/Funeral (US Version)
Arcade Fire/ Arcade Fire EP
Vashti Bunyan/Just Another Diamond Day
FUGAZI/INSTRUMENT SOUNDTRACK
FUGAZI/ARGUMENT
JOAN OF ARC/ JOAN OF ARC, DICK CHENEY, MARK TWAIN
OWEN/I DO PERCEIVE
jr的介紹

Mum/Please Smile My Noise Bleed
Vashti Bunyan/Lookaftering
Current 93/Black Ships Ate the Sky
Current 93/Sleep Has His House

Ogurusu, Norihide/Modern
Snow Patrol/Songs for Polar Bears
Snow Patrol/When It's All Over We Still Have to
Brighter/Out to Sea
Owen/At Home with Owen
The Hold Steady/Boys and Girls in America


Jatun/ Jatun
Menomena/Friend and Foe
The Apples in Stereo/New Magnetic Wonder


The Field/From Here We Go Sublime
Avey Tare +Kria Brekkan/ Pullhair Rubeye
A Place to Bury Strangers/ A Place to Bury Strangers

Axe Riverboy/ Tu Tu to Tango
Damon & Naomi/Within These Walls

Johnston, Daniel/The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discover
Lazycame/Finbegin
Les Savy Fav/ Let's Stay Friends
Lodger/Grown-Ups
Nile/Treasures from the Catacombs

The Pipettes/ We Are the Pipettes
Scissors for Lefty/Underhanded Romance
Sally Shapiro/Disco Romance
Stars of the Lid/And Their Refinement of the Decline
Rosie Thomas/These Friends of Mine
Tunng/Good Arrows


Aarktica/Matchless Years
試聽

American Music Club/The Golden Age
試聽

Auburn Lull/Begin Civil Twilight
試聽

Autistic Daughters/Uneasy Flowers
試聽

Bauhaus/Go Away White

Black Lips/Let It Bloom
試聽

Blitzen Trapper/Wild Mountain Nation
試聽

Boris/ Smile
試聽
袁智聰的介紹

Powell, Bud/ Live at the Blue Note Cafe Paris 1961

Collett, Jason/ Here's to Being Here
試聽

Cut Copy/In Ghost Colours
試聽


Daturah/Reverie
試聽
德國後搖滾樂團2008最新專輯

Dengue Fever/Venus on Earth
Dreamers/Day for Night

Drive-by Truckers/Brighter than Creation's Dark
試聽

Everybody Else/Everybody Else
試聽

Can/Ege Bamyasi
Can/Future Days
Can/Monster Movie
Can/Tago Mago
Faust/Faust

Fuck Buttons/Street Horrrsing
試聽

Robin Guthrie + Harold Budd/After the Night Falls
Robin Guthrie + Harold Budd/Before the Day Breaks

Headlights/Some Racing, Some Stopping
試聽
喜愛stars式甜蜜男女對唱的人一定要聽聽看喔

Ida/Lovers Prayers

Lidell, Jamie/Jim
試聽
白人騷靈不是只有賈斯汀......
我七月就要去fuji rock看jamie lidell,再向各位報告!!

Mouth of the Architect/ The Ties That Blind
Nada Surf/Lucky
試聽
nada surf2008最新專輯
袁智聰的介紹

Sandro Perri/Tiny Mirrors
試聽
Sandro Perri 在後搖滾廠牌Constellation下也以Polmo Polpo之名發行了好幾張專輯
當他以本名sandro perri獻聲時聽起來更民謠也更平易近人
有devendra banhart的溫柔轉音也有robert wyatt的知性深度
喜歡有創意的民謠的同學們萬萬不可錯過的佳作!

Picastro/ Whore Luck
試聽
什麼是sleep rock?請聽picastro便知
成員包括Jamie Stewart(Xiu Xiu) 及 Owen Pallett(Final Fantasy)

Scary Mansion/Every Joke Is Half
試聽
才女leah hayes擔任主唱
他還出過兩本很酷的圖像書 here

Siouxsie/Mantaray
試聽

St. Christopher/ Golden Blue
試聽

Testbild/Une Teinte Intense
試聽

Tex La Homa/Some Lost Bliss
試聽

The Harpeth Trace/ On Disappearing
試聽
雖然是三個其貌不揚的叔叔但the harpeth trace的音樂卻像從電晶體收音機傳出來一樣懷舊又舒服
充滿echo效果和柔軟呼吸的歌聲和鋼琴吉他綿密的彈奏
推薦who konws where you are向下滑落的和弦緊抓著心跳
georgia may 是甜蜜蜜的dream pop!

The LK/Vs. the Snow
試聽
瑞典electro/noise pop兩人組合

The Teardrop Explodes/Kilimanjaro
八零年代初期英國利物浦post punk樂團

Unwed Sailor/Little Wars

Thalia Zedek/ Liars & Prayers

The Dillinger Escape Plan/ Ire Works
The Dillinger Escape Plan/Calculating Infinity
The Dillinger Escape Plan/ Miss Machine
試聽

Anti-Flag / A Benefit for Victims of Violent Crime

Soul Asylum/Welcome to the Minority (3CD)
試聽


Nine Inch Nails/ Ghosts I-IV (2CD)

Ola Podrida/Ola Podrida
試聽

Daniel Lanois/Here Is What Is
試聽

電電
Fennesz/Endless Summer

Boys Noize/Oi Oi Oi
試聽
來自柏林electro小子Alexander Ridha化身為boys noize首張專輯

Kiln/Dusker
試聽

合輯
VA/Bollywood Steel Guitar
VA/Club AC30 #2
VA/Thai Pop Spectacular 1960's-1980's
VA/Omar Souleyman: Highway to Hassake-Folk
VA/Ethnic Minority Music of North Vietnam
VA/Ethnic Minority Music of Southern Laos
VA/Latinamericarpet: Exploring the Vinyl Wa
VA/Leave Them All Behind 2

電影原聲帶
Tracy Fragments /迷走青春
Shortbus/性愛巴士

黑膠
Burial/Untrue (2LP)
Siouxsie/Mantaray (2LP)
Smith, Elliott/ Figure 8 (2LP)
Smith, Elliott/XO
Sigur Ros/ In a Frozen Sea (7LP)
Portishead/Third (2LP)
Portishead/Third (2LP/+12"/+USB)
Moby/Last Night
Goldfrapp/Seventh Tree
Dylan, Bob/The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Kevin Drew/Spirit If... (2LP)
MY BLOODY VALENTINE/ ISN'T ANYTHING
MY BLOODY VALENTINE/LOVELESS
Arcade Fire/Funeral
Arcade Fire/Neon Bible (2LP)

DVD
Kurt Cobain: About a Son Documentary
BJORK/LIVE AT THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE

2008年6月11日 星期三

送!海!報!Sigur Ros第五張全新專輯預購中!


現在就到信義音樂館預購Sigur Ros新專輯
Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust

我們送你對開海報!
海報就是專輯封面藝術家Ryan McGinley的作品




初回進口版:七月四日確定發行!
精裝限量版:預計九月中發行,附DVD(PAL系統)
預購金額:300元
ps.待專輯到貨後補足差額及領取贈品海報
(因海報數量有限,將以初回進口版預購者為優先贈送)

sigur ros
官方網站
試聽連結


快來快來快來快來預購!!!!!

2008年6月10日 星期二

男人的柔軟


artist:coulter
title:culture
label:hairball 8
year:2007
試聽

coulter以coulter leslie為首(詞曲/vox/gt/kb),專輯開場曲那引人注意的拔辣弦樂簡直會讓人以為在聽SUEDE,有時候也很像the smiths,尤其coulter也和morrisey一樣倡導素食主義,也為動物權而唱(track 9.drowning in their blood)雖然來自西雅圖,在他身上找到的卻是許多英國的經典聲音.去吃素


artist:takka takka
title:we feel safer at night
label:Ernest Jenning Recording
year:2007
試聽紐約四人團takka takka雖然不帥,還有點胖,但以厚實風琴和可愛鈴鼓及誠懇動人歌聲所建構出的溫暖音樂卻的確讓我無法抗拒!!!完全不標新立異,半唸半唱像bob dylan/lou reed等前輩一樣吸引著我們的耳朵,專輯同名曲we feel safer at night編曲起死回生那邊聽了讓人覺得:人生真美好!2008年她們也即將發行新專輯migration,密切注意中!


artist:the truly me club
title:popstar on the lam
label:sonic boom recording
year:2007
試聽
精通多種樂器的波特蘭DIY音樂人jason parker的個人project:the truly me club
以轟隆隆的風琴為基底,層次豐富的主唱+合聲增加了歌曲的深度與廣度,純真的貼心歌聲唱的是帶有ambient氣氛的indie pop,偶而點綴電氣節拍之後又有點像her space holiday,好聽呀!


2008年6月5日 星期四

iLL / Dead Wonderland



前supercar主腦中村弘二,2008年發行了最新作品dead wonderland
捨去前作sound by ill艱澀冷僻的實驗性電音,這次他又開口唱歌,重回song-based路線
但是令人驚訝的是聽完這張專輯,感覺他好像去獨自旅行了一年半載
更孤芳自賞,全曲目皆弦樂份量極重的中慢板,部分演奏曲目更是充滿著濃厚的民族音樂迷幻風味

而專輯的設計也如名稱dead wonderland一般灰色無機

call my name不斷重複旋律的主歌和簡單的副歌,是他標準的好聽歌曲,可嗅得超級車時期的氣味,halfway終端及末段弦樂極具表情的悲劇性演奏令人動容,snake head以吉他效果大玩印度迷幻民族演奏曲,許多歌曲皆是以兩個和絃打死,只以最後的弦樂揚起高潮.

iLL絕不畫地自限的反骨孤高性格,也許大部分的前SUPERCAR樂迷都不買帳,但對我來說雖不算驚艷,但還是驚喜
聽到他蠻不在乎卻又充滿執念的歌聲就覺得好像遇到夢中老友一般懷念,call my name.....