二人組ポストロックバンド、naan の 1st フルです。残響レコードから。ゆったりと流れる轟音系ポストロックという感じです。二人組ですが、互いに色々と楽器を鳴らしていて、トランペットが哀愁を漂わせていたり、笛の音が耳に染み込んできたり、お経のようなコーラスが聴こえてきて奇妙な空間になったりします。とりわけ、そこかしこで感じ取れる「和」の雰囲気はとてもいい感じです。いっぽうでその雰囲気は全編からは匂ってこなくて、普通の轟音系だな、という部分もあり、その辺のバランスがやや微妙な気がした。ギターが荒々しい音を奏でたり、ドラムが重く叩かれたりしていて、それ自体は悪くはないのですが、お香臭い空気に浸っているのに唐突に取り上げられてしまうような感じで、いささか違和感が残りました。でも雰囲気はしっかり作っていると思うし、尖っているところは尖っているので、これからも期待していきたいバンドであります

Keith Kenniff mustn’t sleep at all, after releasing the incredible Goldmund album ‘Corduroy Road’ for Type early in 2005 he was already busy at work crafting his second record as Helios; all this while finishing a degree at the acclaimed Berklee College of Music in Boston! ‘Eingya’ is very different from his work as Goldmund, as it incorporates not only his piano playing, but his delicate touch on guitar, drums and his masterful electronic production. It is an album of wordless songs, eleven carefully measured movements, each holding inside it an entire movie’s worth of emotion. Beginning the album on a high with the pastural beauty of ‘Bless This Morning Year’ we witness a showcase already of what Kenniff does best; hearbreaking guitar and piano melodies punctuated by crumbling beats and backed by the most atmospheric synthesizer sounds this side of Eno’s ‘Apollo’. Moving on we are treated to the appetising ‘Halving the Compass’ which blends subtle field recording with the kind of piano melodies so beautiful they could be compared to Virginia Astley or Harold Budd. This is followed by the album’s clear highlight – ‘Dragonfly Across an Ancient Land’; an unsurpassable folk guitar piece with a decomposing percussive background and the sort of melodies that would turn evil tyrants into weeping babies. An album which could as easily appeal to fans of Nick Drake as fans of Boards of Canada or even early Air; this truly has something for everyone. To put it simply – it’s gorgeous.

Jimmy LaValle's varied experience includes stints with Tristeza, The Locust, GoGoGo Airheart, The Blackheart Procession, and Sigur Ros. "Into The Blue Again" sees LaValle handling the bulk of the vocal and instrumental duties. After tracking, he took the concentric billows of feathered keyboards, filmy strings, and chiseled drums to Iceland for three weeks of mixing to tape to maintain Brian Eno-informed translucence. Having shared so much time and space with others on the road, LaValle proves, with this personally charged release, that The Album Leaf resonates most profoundly when he goes it alone.

The Icelandic band's first record since the departure of founding member and singer Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir finds several members of the now seven-strong band pitching in vocals-- including male leads for the first time.

據說新專輯的靈感，來源于1975年的英國電視連續劇"Survivors"（幸存者）：一場基因工程的病毒，奪去95％世界人口的生命。幸存者面對幾近毀滅的世界和破滅的文明，生活和價值觀都需重建。就好像《傾城之戀》，有一天文明毀掉了，在墻根低下我們也許才能真心相對。新專輯里，Epic45用更接近自然的聲音，和迷幻的電音勾勒童年的景象，簡單美好的童年，最接近于那個被毀滅的世界。 《May Your Heart Be The Map》是給那些內心早已迷失的人，或是游走于童年和現實中的人，都不重要。即使我們對快樂的感知和標準，已在現實里變質，如果你能在Epic45的音符里依稀記起童年的那場雪仗，至少能暫時逃離這個價值觀被禁錮的世界，回到童年，那些最本真的快樂，最直白的判斷。 但是這些殘缺的童年影像里，總是摻雜著后天被灌輸價值觀，總是映照出現實里的忙碌壓力和疲憊。這也是Epic45在營造一種仿佛唾手可得卻又飄忽不定的疏離感時，想要表達的東西吧。但是，從專輯的名稱到歌詞，包括專輯封面，你都能感受到一種希望——內心的地圖，總會指向光亮。 (来源： )