2011
Roads To Judah
Douban
Deafheaven
genre:
Rock
release date 2011-04-26
publisher:
Deathwish Inc.
Brought on by the notion that discernible notes bear weakly for this sort of crowd we have brewing another upstart it seems from the Cascadian persuasion of Black Metal. Somewhere in 2007, at least that's when I became conscious of it, black metal bore another fuzzy creation which focused on the condensation of notes into one stream of momentum. To which I found this evolution in music to create a sort single consciousness, each musician and often each title contributing to a trance like solidarity. Beyond that time I have absorbed many of it's imitators and in doing so I have become disillusioned by the rank texture of communism...few even suffice to provide any grasp of tone that this sort music demands, (I'm probably talking about amplifiers and shit...) yet in that statement itself I see a sort of conforming rendering, adhering to the doctrine of a micro-genre of a stupid genre title (Heavy Metal) is succumbing to a coalescing decline, but tremolo picking with what sounds like an entry level stratocaster with it's pickups too loose is hardly reminiscent of someone who happens to actually care about what those notes mean, it all just seems to be a facade for passion. But enough of Fool Hens.
Deafheaven take this sort of strayed formula of Black Metal and craft their own aerial offspring. In this we get a taste for a more intelligent sound, it doesn't stray from the rise and fall, sometimes quietly sometimes loudly, but it does execute with deliberate motive to succeed it's forebears, it tries and accomplishes something new in each stroke with out failing to a dying standard. The typical forest and earth ritual titles are kept to a sort of esoteric medium and it benefits the listening to know that when you close your eyes you're not going to see Missouri and shotguns by the influence of a some obligatory album cover and accompanying track titles. Reviews are a a slant to the right when watching toe eroticism. To surmise, Road to Judah amounts to a success that doesn't define anything but allows the definition that said release adheres to ring with a superior clarity.
Let's just say that very few superior albums have been released in this style since Alcest and Wolves in the Throne Room set the standard for it five years ago. The main difference here appears to be a certain kind of emotional passion, not unlike something you would hear on the great screamo records of the late 90s/early 00s. It doesn't feel as though this band is simply riding the new wave of 'blackgaze' or the cascadian black metal movement so much as they're attempting to set their own new standard for where modern black metal should be going. Maybe neither is true and these guys couldn't give a fuck less about the scene, who knows. What's important is that this relatively short release is incredibly exciting and should be heard by anyone interested in atmospheric black metal of any kind.
你在烦恼什么
Douban
苏打绿
genre:
Pop
release date 2011-11-11
publisher:
林暐哲音乐社
苏打绿 追本溯源 找寻心灵的能量
每首歌都是你的soul mate
回归人群 回馈人群 苏打绿要做站在你身边的人
像个朋友般 给你关怀
苏打绿 问 你在烦恼什么?
像个智者般 点破你的忧伤
苏打绿 问 你在烦恼什么?
坚不可破的 是创作的能量与追寻幸福的勇气
前言
2011是苏打绿能量累积最扎实的一年,于是,等待阿福归队前,暂止韦瓦第计划,苏打绿要站在你身边,当一个贴近大众的歌者,用创作、用歌声当你的soul mate。所以,我们不吝于分享,苏打绿用自己的schedule、自己的发片计划,包括在网络上公布新专辑曲目、分享试听、全曲 《幸福额度》、《喜欢寂寞》 曝光,苏打绿的本源是创作、是人群、也是分享。这一次,苏打绿要分享的,是追求幸福时,你看到的是快乐还是烦恼?而以幸福额度开场,是因为,在开始一场追本溯源之前,扪心自问,现在的人生要什么呢?你现在的感情从何选择?
影像大师 陈奕仁操刀
苏打绿专辑主题 你在烦恼什么?
MV视觉概念有写实 有创意 也有感性
苏打绿这次专辑的主题[你在烦恼什么],是吴青峰用简单的几个字,点出你的烦恼,却也在旋律中带走你的烦恼。好像活着,不可能没有烦恼,学生有学生的烦恼、上班族有上班族的烦恼、年轻人有年轻人的烦恼、老人有老人的烦恼,但苦难与快乐是相对的,如果没有烦恼,怎么尝得到解决烦恼后的快乐!所以人们的敌人不是烦恼,是如何超越烦恼前进,成长,并且得到快乐! 也许简单也许深澳,那是苏打绿知道你的苦,想要为你的打打气,加点油的好听创作。
再次与影像大师陈奕仁合作,苏打绿很期待可以撞击出更不同的火花。导演听过歌曲之后,决定提出一个反映生命里最深层省思的脚本;MV故事里藉由「博物馆」的概念形式做串连,博物馆总是存放着人世间值得存续的珍宝,而影片中的博物馆,是「人生博物馆」,陈列出人的爱恨情痴与烦恼,将生命中发生的吉光片羽摊在一个个独立橱窗展示”: 分别为[MY LIFE]、[MY WORK]、[MY LOVE]、[MY FRIENDS]、[MY FAMILY]五个展示区块。苏打绿成员则扮演博物馆的参观者。你可以在这些区块里看到讽刺的画面,象征着每个不同身份的人所遭遇的烦恼, 而画面的最后众人齐结一起,欢乐的场面,彷佛一切苦难都已过去,在内心深处我们多么渴望,时间就停留在这一刻,永远美好。画面凝成一幅永恒的画像,讽刺的浮现出的字样是[MY DREAM]。
听过这首歌曲,看过这首歌曲的MV视觉,一定会释怀出深深的感动!像在扰攘的城市之外,看到的一道彩虹。而这就是苏打绿整张创作的精神,用音乐传达面对生命应该要有”面对变化”的勇气,也要有” 起死回生”的能力,当苦难过去的剎那,就是人成长的时候。所以,你还在烦恼什么?
A Creature I Don't Know
Douban
Laura Marling
genre:
Folk
release date 2011-09-12
publisher:
EMI
Third album from Laura Marling this young British singer-songwriter. Produced by past collaborator Ethan Johns.
Black Up
Douban
Shabazz Palaces
genre:
Hip Hop
release date 2011-05-31
publisher:
Sub Pop
Shabazz Palaces is an American hip hop duo from Seattle composed of Ishmael Butler a.k.a. Palaceer Lazaro and multi-instrumentalist Tendai "Baba" Maraire, son of mbira master Dumisani Maraire. Active since 2009, they have released four studio albums on Sub Pop.
The King of Limbs
Douban
Radiohead
genre:
Rock
release date 2011-02-19
publisher:
XL Recordings
The King of Limbs is the eighth studio album by English alternative rock band Radiohead, produced by Nigel Godrich. It will be released on 19 February 2011 as a download in MP3 and WAV formats, followed by a physical CD release in the UK on 28 March [1] and a special "newspaper" edition on 9 May 2011.[2] The "newspaper" edition will contain "two clear 10-inch vinyl records in a purpose-built record sleeve, many large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork, a compact disc, and a full-colour piece of oxo-degradable plastic to hold it all together".[3]
The album was announced on Radiohead's website on 14 February 2011, five days before release.[4] The name of the album possibly refers to an oak tree in Wiltshire's Savernake Forest, thought to be 1,000 years old.[4] The tree is a pollarded oak, referring to an ancient technique for harvesting timber for fencing and firewood. Though it does not feature on maps, the tree is said to be 3 miles (4.8 km) from Tottenham Court House, where Radiohead recorded part of their previous album In Rainbows.[5]
苏维埃·波普
Douban
Soviet Pop
genre:
Electronic
release date 2011-10-07
publisher:
Goaty Tapes
2011年夏季,苏维埃·波普的四首歌曲录音,美国DIY磁带厂牌Goaty Tapes出品。
Recorded by Li Qing & Li Weisi at Rose Mansion Analog, Beijing. Inside the first Ring Roa d. Korg MS-20, modular synthesizer, floor tom, microphone.
Soviet Pop let you choose between compositions and songs. This is a tape of songs, dark, minimal, and pedestrian. They even have names like “Worldview Song” and “Samurai Song.” Li Weisi does simple, groovable bass passages and stoic baritone vocals. Li Qing does rhythmic static, noise-generator backgrounds, timbrel burps. Coco Chanel used to say, “before you release your tape, look in the mirror and take three things off.”
50 Words For Snow
Douban
Kate Bush
genre:
Pop
release date 2011-11-21
publisher:
Fish People
We are extremely pleased to announce that Kate will be releasing a brand new album: "50 Words For Snow" on 21 November 2011. The album will be the second release from Kate's own label Fish People and comprises all new material that was recorded during the same period that Kate worked on her album “Director’s Cut”. “50 Words For Snow” will feature seven brand new tracks set against a background of falling snow. The total running time is 65 minutes and the track listing is:
SNOWFLAKES
LAKE TAHOE
MISTY
WILDMAN
SNOWED IN AT WHEELER STREET
50 WORDS FOR SNOW
AMONG ANGELS
Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
Douban Discogs
Mogwai
genre:
Rock
release date 2011-02-15
publisher:
Rock Action Records
Mogwai 组建于1996年,地点是苏格兰的格拉斯哥 (Glasgow, Scotland)。他们被誉为“后摇之王”。乐队成员包括吉他手兼主唱Stuart Braithwaite,贝斯手Dominic Aitchison,鼓手Martin Bulloch以及后来加入的吉他手John Cummings。
Mogwai计划在情人节发行他们的新专辑《Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will》,这张专辑也是他们在Sub Pop下发行的首张专辑.
The Offset: Spectacles LP
Douban
憬观:像同叠
genre:
Rock
release date 2011-12-11
publisher:
ROSE MANSION ANALOG
Compressed, self contained, and brazenly unique, each song by the Offset: Spectacles hits like a short, sharp shock. Percussive guitar and organ scrape at the surface of the left eardrum, and the bass hits like a combination of a synthesizer and a bongo. Get ready to be hectored by the ghosts of Cantonese poets and the Kowloon King. Sure as you can draw a straight line from The Offsets’ birthplace in Hong Kong to the site of their self-imposed exile in Beijing, there’s a connection between their music and the Velvet Underground, just somewhere along the 24 hour train ride things got muddled. Oscillator solos are reinterpreted for guitar, Bo Diddley blues get played drum-less, with only phantom rhythm for company. Songs like “Bodies’ Descendents” and “Snags” may bring to mind the endless empty highway, but the only possibility here is a brief sprint on an overpass above the midnight lights of a rotting port. Today, no escape is possible from a(ny) city, so the Offsets simply claim ownership, pushing back against at the neon signs, TV’s, and computers with a seductive spectacle of their own.
Words by Simon Frank
We're New Here
Douban
Gil Scott-Heron
/
Jamie xx
genre:
Electronic
release date 2011-02-22
publisher:
XL Recordings
So what happens when one of the most exciting young producers around reworks one of the most acclaimed albums from a true legend? The result is Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx's We're New Here which sees Jamie xx re-imagining thirteen tracks from the original I'm New Here album sessions. * In February 2010, Gil Scott-Heron released I'm New Here, his first album in 13 years. Produced by XL Recordings head Richard Russell during various studio sessions in New York, the album was enthusiastically received by fans and critics alike. * Meanwhile, the last eighteen months have been meteoric for Jamie xx. His band The xx's self titled debut album (which Jamie produced) received huge acclaim, picking up 2010's prestigious Mercury Music Prize, while Jamie garnered respect for his remixes (in particular of Florence & The Machine's `You've Got The Love' and more recently Adele's Rolling In The Deep) and solo productions (single `Far Nearer' on Numbers).
Space Is Only Noise
Douban
Nicolas Jaar
genre:
Electronic
release date 2011-02-04
publisher:
Circus Company
Nicolás Jaar is a Chilean-American composer and recording artist based in New York. Among his notable works are the albums Space Is Only Noise, Pomegranates and Sirens.
时间太凶狠, 回忆过于美丽
Douban
时过夏末
/
Summer Fades Away
genre:
Rock
release date 2011-03-18
publisher:
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King Krule
Douban
King Krule
genre:
Rock
release date 2011-12-05
publisher:
True Panther Sounds
King Krule's (formerly Zoo Kid) second release brings with it, an expansion of vision, both musically and thematically. The connective tissue between these five tracks is still Marshall’s stark, direct lyrics, but over the span of the self-titled EP, there is an arresting sonic progression, as his songs open up to become a loose knit meditation and renewal of hope in the face of desperation. Shades of The Streets’ plainspoken and observant ramble dance with the heart on sleeve confessions of Billy Bragg. Archy’s influences are a patchwork for his voice to lay in, woven from several generations music as divergent as the 80s romantics, jazz, no wave and dub.
The first vocal track 'Bleak Bake', for instance, opens with levitating keyboards and Marshall clearing his throat, before sampled strings and 808 drum 'pooms' swoon in and he sighs. 'The Noose of Jah City' drives the knife in deeper -some of his most intoxicating incantations to date- with Marshall singing of being “suffocated in concrete” over a lushly upholstered backdrop of chiming guitars and shuffling sampled beats. While in the gorgeous 'Portrait in Black and Blue' he unleashes a bounding piece of classic croon. But even though the subject matter may at times be harrowing, the songs themselves are never anything less than exquisitely crafted, possessed of an almost spectral beauty, as epitomised in the shimmering instrumental intro “363N63”. Taken as a whole, the “King Krule” EP is the sound of a young man growing up and attempting to grapple with the realities of the world he inhabits, and a fascinating, brutal journey it is too.
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
MusicBrainz Douban Skybridge
M83
genre:
Electronic
release date 2011-10-25
publisher:
Mute Records
Following on from the nostalgic synth-pop of his 2008 release Saturdays = Youth Anthony Gonzalez revives his M83 moniker from his new LA base with a concept album spilling across two discs. Morgan Kibby, who featured considerably on Saturdays lends her vocals once more, along with Zola Jesus. Other guest contributors include Brad Laner, guitarist from '90s noise-rock outfit Medicine.
The album has been produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen, best known for his work with Beck, alongside playing and recording for a breadth of artists ranging from The Mars Volta to Air to Macy Gray.
Golden Age of Apocalypse
Douban
Thundercat
genre:
Jazz
release date 2011-08-29
publisher:
Brainfeeder
93 Million Miles
Douban
Africa HiTech
genre:
Electronic
release date 2011-05-06
publisher:
Warp Records