“Before, I thought I ran on a chaos engine,” Florence Welch told the Guardian in June 2018, shortly ahead of the release of High as Hope. “But the more peaceful I am, the more I can give to the work. I can address things I wasn’t capable of doing before.” This newfound openness gives her band’s fourth LP an unvarnished vulnerability. “Hunger” opens with a startling admission of Welch’s teenage eating disorder, while “South London Forever” and “Grace” both make peace with the excesses that decorated her rise to fame. Such lyrical heft affords the Londoners a chance to explore a more delicate, restrained sound, but there’s still space for Welch to blow the roof off. A fiery confessional that majestically takes to the skies and forms the album’s centrepiece, “100 Years” uncorks some vintage Florence. No one, we’re reminded, chronicles sadness quite so exquisitely, or explosively.

Fiona Apple (born Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart) is the critically acclaimed, Grammy winning alternative pop/piano rock singer-songwriter from New York City. She has released three studio albums, her second album When the Pawn… (1999) held the world record for longest album title until 2004 when Soulwax released their Most of the Remixes… album which contains 100 characters more.

对于阔别多年的一支90年代最具影响力之一的摇滚乐队来说，这是一个激动人心的时刻，或许在我出生懂事的那个年代已经错过了乐队的风华正茂。而新专辑的到来也让全世界的碎南瓜迷激动流泪，而这第九章录音室也有Billy Corgan本人和Bjorn Thorsrud制作完成，而按照 Billy Corgan之前的意愿，为了之前“Teargarden By Kaleidyscope”的形式，也就是分批一首一首新单曲的发行，并且免费提供下载，不过个性十足的Billy还是觉得有些东西放在一起才是那么回事儿。

Daniel Knox is a Chicago musician and composer of dark balladry whose latest album, Evryman For Himself, spins Waits-ian yarns of life’s outsiders, outcasts and would-be iconoclasts with a rich, resonant voice that, unlike Waits’ throaty growl, is a sharp, clear croon that alternates between a deep baritone and a high falsetto. These vaudevillian vignettes are set against a backdrop of Knox’s piano and fleshed out by the bass, drums, horns and miscellaneous instrumentation (kazoo! musical saw!) of a full band that includes Jason Toth, Paul Parts, David Coulter, and Ralph Carney, and as the music bounces and twists and provokes like a circus sideshow barker, the lyrics tell the dark stories of the freaks inside the tent with equal parts wry wit, sorrow, and sincerity.