FKA twigs ends months of speculation by announcing details of her highly anticipated second album. Titled MAGDALENE, the album will be released on 25th October 2019 and is the follow up to FKA twigs’ critically acclaimed Brit Award and Mercury Prize nominated debut LP1.
Indie edition is pressed on Red Vinyl.
Created in a period where her confidence was knocked following heartbreak and laparoscopic surgery, MAGDALENE is the sound of twigs reconfiguring, emotionally and physically. As she sings on ‘Mary Magdalene’, the MAGDALENE album track that opened her highly-praised, sold-out live shows earlier in the year, “A woman’s time / A woman’s work / A woman’s time to embrace / She must put herself first”.
MAGDALENE is produced by FKA twigs and, as with LP1, the recording process has been directed by her at every stage. It was recorded between London, New York and Los Angeles over the last three years and features major contributions from Nicolas Jaar alongside a host of other collaborators. MAGDALENE sees FKA twigs creating a whole new artistic universe and it is, without doubt, her most masterful, innovative work to date.

Fetch the Bolt Cutters is the fifth studio album by American singer Fiona Apple. It was released on April 17, 2020, and is Apple's first release in nearly eight years, since The Idler Wheel... in 2012.

植根于德国实验摇滚，具有艺术摇滚以及Lo-Fi的审美观，融合一些相对于传统摇滚乐较为边缘的风格诸如 bossa nova和lounge-pop，甜蜜的60年代流行调子，左倾马克思主义的虔诚拥护者，近一半时间用人们难以理解的法语演唱，拥有两位声音超凡的女歌手，使用简单传统甚至过时的乐器却制造出最未来派的声音，永不停歇的实验姿态。”提起Stereolab, 熟知的人们总是愿意拿这些词句来向别人讲述。然而音乐不是文字，连同上述这些放在同一支乐队身上甚至显得矛盾的描述一起，即使再添加若干或通俗或玄奥的形容词，你还是难以对Stereolab有完整的概念。别无它法，想知道Stereolab的音乐到底是什么样子，只能去亲自聆听。
也许你会质疑，“用文字来描述都这般复杂，真正听起来会不会很晦涩不好消化？”我的答案是：“NO”。很显然，那正是它的魅力所在！
举目回望，来自英国伦敦的Stereolab已经跨越了自己独立音乐生涯的十年，经过多年的发展和坚持不懈的实验探索，Stereolab颠覆了流行音乐的概念并成为90年代以来最具亲合力和商业价值的另类团体，影响了大批号称Post-Rock的后起之秀，和芝加哥实验团体Tortoise以及The Sea and Cake等构成了后摇滚王国里一道最绚丽的风景。
然而，这一切傲人的成绩都因为2002年末一条来自Stereolab官方网站的消息而显得黯然失色。"It is with great regret and deep sadness that we announce the death of Mary Hansen"（怀着极大的遗憾和深切的悲痛，我们宣布并哀悼玛丽·韩森的死）。这条新闻震惊了所有关注他们的乐迷，就连乐队成员自己一时间也难以接受这样一个突如其来的残酷事实——12月9日，骑着脚踏车的Mary在伦敦街头发生交通事故，被一辆卡车夺去了年仅36岁的生命。
Mary Hansen是个可爱的澳大利亚女孩，1966年1月11日出生在Queensland（ 昆士兰州）一个叫 Maryborough的小镇上。80年代后期来到了伦敦，通过艾塞克斯郡一支死硬的激进主义乐队Wolfhounds，Mary结识了同样具有“左翼政治思想”(Left-wing)，当时和Wolfhounds一起发展，相互扶持的McCarthy乐队。而McCarthy算得上是Stereolab的半个前身，后来的Tim Gane（Guitar/moog）和Laetitia Sadier（Vocal）当时都在那个乐队里任职。在McCarthy解散之后，这对情侣于1991年着手组建了Stereolab。
经过和Gane及Sadier的几次接触后，Mary于1992年正式加入乐队。作为Stereolab的第二歌手和吉他手，从单曲Lo Fi开始，她参与录制了包括倍受评论界青睐的Mars Audiac Quintet（1994）， Emperor Tomato Ketchup（1996）以及2001年的回归之作Sound-Dust等日后发行的所有唱片，和Sadier, Gane, 以及鼓手Andy Ramsay一起成为乐队的核心成员。另外，High Llamas'乐队的Sean O'Hagan（Guitar/keyboard）也时常的出现在Stereolab的录音和演出当中，他和The Beach Boy相像的编曲思路，无不使本来就对60年代流行歌情有独衷的Stereolab散发出更多醇熟华丽的复古气质。虽然不是正式成员，但Hagan对Stereolab的贡献举足轻重。今日阵线的其他队友还包括 Richard Harrison（Bass）和Morgane Lhote（Farfisa）。
过去的十年间，Stereolab共出版过八张专辑和数量繁多的EP，而发行于各个厂牌之下限量版本的单曲更是数不胜数。这一切都源于Tim Gane惊人的创造力——他负责乐队所有旋律部分的创作。“当连我们也自己搞不清到底都写过哪些歌的时候”，Mary开玩笑地说，“我们不得不劝Gane稍微节制一下自己的才华”(备注：乐迷们正巴不得Gane的才华越来越横溢呢)。
聆听Stereolab的音乐，似乎是在收听信号传输自‘未来’的AM无线电广播，那种混合在一起的声音当然很酷，可当你试图归纳自己获得的感觉时，却常常只能坐在那里抓耳挠腮理不清头绪，神秘感油然而生，却更加令你着迷，大多时候你愿意保持这种感觉，可偶尔地，在你感到惊讶的同时也会好奇他们究竟是如何制造这些声音的？
“偶然性占很大比例”，谈到作品的‘加工过程’，Mary较为详细地介绍了他们在录音室里的工作细节，“Tim不时地带来一些录音带，里面录着他创作的‘动机’，比如Metronomic Underground这首歌，最初仅有20几秒钟长。我们坐下来，开始工作，其中包括我去领会歌词的意思以及学习如何用法语来发音，声响方面则是顺其自然地让它自行发展，我们仅仅是把声音一曾曾地堆积上去。除非 Tim突然有了绝妙的主意，其他时候他宁愿弄乱一切。人声及电子合成器都是最后才加进去，而在芝加哥的时候，John McEntire（Tortoise乐队的领军人物，Stereolab的制作人）还会在音乐中加入包括鼓机在内的所有其他音效。虽然我们喜欢老旧的录音方法，但对歌曲的编和写我们不会遵照传统的方式”。
一直以来，乐队的歌词都是由Laetita Sadier撰写。由于Sadier是土生土长的法国人，所以很多歌曲都是用法语演唱，对于这种和其他大多数人一样并不了解的语言，Mary能投入地用它来演唱吗？
“是的，毫无疑问”，Mary果断的回答。“用法语来演唱有很大的不同，我的意思是，某一类东西用英语是无法表达的。对于我来说，演唱法语歌曲趣味横生，你可以唱你想唱的东西，这主要取决于你的情绪好坏，有时你也可以什么都不唱。很多法语歌曲非常抽象因为法国是一个很哲学的民族，所有的时间里，他们都在以哲学的方式生活和思考！”
除了生动丰富的编曲及Gane一手流利的刷弦吉他，Stereolab之声中最耐人寻味的部分当属Sadier和Mary二人用柔和细致的嗓音共同营造的虚幻之境了。Sadier那沉着暖味的女中音演唱在音乐中居主导地位自是无可质疑，然而若是少了Mary那轻快回环，永远不离其左右的"la la la or ba ba ba"和声，我相信Stereolab的声音品质肯定是要打折扣的。这就好比爵士乐领域的天才搭档——Charlie Parker和Dizzy Gillespie的萨克斯与小号的合奏，美感总是从两者相互启发又针锋相对的化学作用中才得以流露。Mary相对于Stereolab的重要作用，曾有乐评人作过很中肯的评价："Laetita Sadier's voice will never sound as good as it does with Mary's voice with it"（有玛丽一起时的萨迪亚总是比她单独出现的声音出色）。当人们为Mary的灵魂哀悼的时候，也何尝不为那消失的完美唏嘘不已。
这一个月以来，无数的乐迷在Stereolab的官方网页上向Mary和她的家人表示敬意。经过家人的商量，Mary被埋葬在她的故乡Maryborough。圣诞节的第二天，乐队成员邀请一些亲友和歌迷参加了在底特律召开的鸡尾酒晚会，出席者将漫谈并发出一些声响，互相敬酒同时大声地传达一些爱，Mary将听到这一切并让她知道人们永远都会怀念她。

LP1 is the first full length studio album by FKA Twigs. It will be released August 12, 2014.

Post是冰岛歌姬Bjork在1995年发行的专辑.
　　这张专辑比上一张(处女作Debut)更为隐晦,更为成熟.这张犹如史诗般的专辑把人们的耳朵从泛滥的舞曲和工业化的流行乐中苏醒.可以说来得正是时候.
　　第二张专辑能够远远超越第一张作品的艺人并不多.但Bjork显然是一个例外.更强的节奏感,更具创意的制作,对世界更宽广的洞察力,Bjork的这张专辑在时隔10年的今天,听起来同样如同10年前那样令人耳目一新.通过这张经典的专辑,Bjork不仅仅改变了90年代的唱片界,同样改变了我对音乐的理解和感知.是本人强烈推荐的一张专辑.
　　This Icelandic marvel is such an original that, even after four Sugarcubes albums and a brilliant solo Debut, she remains an acquired taste. "Army of Me" is a turbulent, darkling tune that's almost conventional next to the gloriously eclectic material that follows. Working with Tricky, Soul II Soul/U2 producer Nellee Hooper, and string arranger/one-hit wonder Deodato, Björk looses her helium-fueled voice and surreal wordplay on Gershwinesque pop (the adorable "It's Oh So Quiet"), ambient dub ("Possibly Maybe") and all kinds of fresh dance/pop hybrids ("Enjoy," "Hyper-Ballad," "I Miss You"). Too raw and adventurous for mass success, perhaps, but a more unique, engaging, oddly accessible artist just doesn't exist. --Jeff Bateman

Here it is: Damon Albarn's next solo album has been announced. The "sort of folk soul" project (as he described it to Rolling Stone), made with the help of XL Recordings head Richard Russell, is called Everyday Robots. It's out April 28, Revolt reports.

Every record I make has an archetype,” says Clark. “‘Strange Mercy’ was Housewives on Pills. ‘St. Vincent’ was Near-Future Cult Leader. ‘MASSEDUCTION’ is different, it’s pretty first person. You can’t fact-check it, but if you want to know about my life, listen to this record.” ‘MASSEDUCTION’ is the culmination of years of writing, with songs crafted from voice memos, text messages, and snippets of melodies that came to Clark while traveling the globe. Special guests on the album include Thomas Bartlett on piano, Kamasi Washington on saxophone, Jenny Lewis on vocals, and beat production from Sounwave. Greg Leisz and Rich Hinman add pedal steel, and Tuck and Patti Andress contribute guitar and vocals respectively on select tracks.

Japanese pressing of her debut album includes the UK bonus track, 'Play Dead' along with the Japanese only bonus track, 'Atlantic'. 13 tracks in all, including lyrics to all tracks . 1994 release.

FKA Twigs announced Thursday that her mixtape Caprisongs — her first collection of new music since 2019’s Magdalene — will be released on Friday, Jan. 14. "CAPRISONGS is my journey back to myself through my amazing collaborators and friends,” the singer wrote of the mixtape on Instagram. “CAPRISONGS… it’s bronzer in the sink, alco pop on the side, a cherry lolly, apple juice when ur thirsty, friends in the park, your favourite person, that one sentence somebody said to you that changed everything, a club pre-game, your bestie who is always late but brings the most to the party, meeting a friend at the airport, just togetherness.”FKA Twigs also shared the mixtape’s 17-song tracklist, cover art, and guest list, with artists like Jorja Smith, Daniel Caesar, Shygirl, Rema, and Dystopia appearing. Caprisongs also boasts the previously released single “Tears in the Club,” featuring the Weeknd.“It’s my stubborn caprisun ass telling me to work thru my pain by delivering at work, don’t think just go studio and create,” she continued. Prior to Caprisongs and “Tears in the Club,” FKA Twigs returned to music after a two-year hiatus with “Measure of a Man,” which featured on The King’s Man soundtrack.

On the 7th of April, Arca will release his third full-length album. Available via XL Recordings, the self-titled record is the first to feature the Venezuela-born, London-based producer’s untreated singing voice. He sings in Spanish – the language of his childhood home, Caracus. It stands as a defiant, delicate statement of intent, and cements his position as one of this turbulent decade’s defining musicians.
Previous work has incorporated snatches of song and Arca’s rapping, but on Arca, his voice is front-and-centre on eight of the album’s 13 tracks. Frequently, he has used his first-takes, untreated and without post-production: clicks of saliva and burrs of the throat carry melodies of staggering richness and delicacy.
His masterful production knits together vocal tracks like “Sin Rumbo” and first single “Anoche” with instrumentals like “Whip” and “Urchin”, each as extreme as the other. Across the album, the tectonics of pure digital sound, his own piano playing and voice combine, weaving the album together like folds of skin, or wounds healing post-trauma.
Arca has made some of most brazenly forward-thinking music of recent years, both on his previous solo albums Xen (2014) and Mutant (2015), and in collaboration with fellow futurists Björk (Vulnicura), Kanye West (Yeezus), and fashion collective Hood By Air.
Arca represents a stunning step forward in his celebrated catalog, one that will excite his long time fans and find him many new ones.
The album features stunning artwork from long time Arca visual collaborator Jesse Kanda and is available on CD, single vinyl LP with gatefold sleeve with three 24”x12” prints & printed inner sleeve.
‘Piel’, the first song to be released from the album, was met with widespread acclaim. Pitchfork stated “The first taste of Arca does more than subvert the expectations we have of Ghersi, it annihilates them” while i-D described Arca’s music as “pure, fragile and sincere, full of wounded experimental, electronic majesty”.
Following Piel, came Anoche, the second song and first video, again in collaboration with Jesse Kanda.
Major press is forthcoming from The FADER (Cover), New York Times, Dazed & Confused (Cover), i-D (Cover), Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Slate, Spin, Vice and more.
“Here’s my voice and all my guts: feel free to judge it. It’s like a bullfight: you’re watching emotional violence for pleasure. So this is a character who, almost as a mockery of the transaction, goes uncomfortably deep, into self-mutilation. ‘You want gore? Here’s gore’” – Arca on Arca
“Intelligent, impassioned and inspired by integrity, Arca’s continued growth as an artist promises to be one of the most exciting journeys of the coming years. The musician has no plans to stop either, telling us in no uncertain terms: ‘I want to make music until I die.’” – Dazed
“Arca was making body music for the active mind.” – New York Times

How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful’ is the brand new album from Brit and Grammy Award winning multi-platinum selling musical artist Flore nce + The Machine. , a collection of songs, written and recorded over the past 12 months. Produced by Markus Dravs (Björk, Arcade Fire, Coldplay) the third album by Florence & The Machine is live-sounding, tune-rich, unhinged in all the right places and powerful in all the best ways. In voice and, ultimately, outlook Florence has never sounded better.
In a press release, Florence said:
I guess although I’ve always dealt in fantasy and metaphor when I came to writing, that meant the songs this time were dealing much more in reality. Ceremonials was so fixated on death and water, and the idea of escape or transcendence through death, but the new album became about trying to learn how live, and how to love in the world rather than trying to escape from it. Which is frightening because I’m not hiding behind anything but it felt like something I had to do.

Claire Elise Boucher, known professionally as Grimes, is a Canadian musician, singer, composer, and visual artist. Her music incorporates elements of varied styles and genres including dream pop, R&B, electronic music, and hip hop.

Zaba (stylised as ZABA) is the debut studio album by English rock group Glass Animals, released on 9 June 2014 by Wolf Tone/Caroline International and on 17 June 2014 by Harvest Records in the US.

Claire Elise Boucher, known professionally as Grimes, is a Canadian musician, singer, record producer and visual artist. Born and raised in Vancouver, Grimes began releasing music independently in the late 2000s, releasing two albums, Geidi Primes and Halfaxa in 2010 on Arbutus Records.

2014’s Too Bright showcased Mike Hadreas stepping out saucily onto a bigger stage, expressing, with the production help of Portishead’s Adrian Utley, emotions arranged all along the slippery continuum from rage to irony to love. Here in 13 new ferocious and sophisticated tracks, Mike Hadreas and his collaborators blow through church music, makeout music, an array of the gothier radio popular formats, rhythm and blues, art pop, krautrock, queer soul, the RCA Studio B sound, and then also collect some of the sounds that only exist inside Freddy Krueger. Tremolo on the electric keys. Nightclubbing. Daywalking. Kate Bushing, Peter Greenawaying, Springsteening, Syreetaing. No Shape was produced by Blake Mills, the man behind Alabama Shakes’ Grammy Award winning album. He added precision and expansion. Some things are pretty and some are blasted beyond recongition. Records like this, records that make you feel like you’re 15 and just seeing the truth for the first time, are excessively rare. They’re here to remind you that you’re divine.

Set My Heart On Fire Immediately is the fifth studio album from Perfume Genius released on Matador Records. It sees artist and musician Mike Hadreas re-teaming with GRAMMY-nominated producer Blake Mills and features contributions from musicians Jim Keltner, Pino Palladino and Matt Chamberlin. It was recorded in Los Angeles, where Perfume Genius settled in 2017 with longtime partner and musical collaborator Alan Wyffels.
The album explores and subverts concepts of masculinity and traditional roles, and introduces decidedly American musical influences. Throughout Hadreas plays with themes of love, sex, memory and the body, channeling popular music mythologies while irreverently authoring its own – from the delirious, Cyndi Lauper-nodding celebratory pop of ‘On The Floor’, specters of Elvis on haunted tremolo waltz ‘One More Try’, to the harpsichord-punctuated baroque pop of ‘Jason’, and gliding steel guitar and Balearic rhythm of ‘Without You’.
“I wanted to feel more open, more free and spiritually wild,” says Hadreas, “and I’m in a place now where those feelings are very close - but it can border on being unhinged. I wrote these songs as a way to be more patient, more considered - to pull at all these chaotic threads hovering around me and weave them in to something warm, thoughtful and comforting.”
First album taster ‘Describe’ captures this sense of fleetingness and living in the moment through a heavy fog of grizzly distortion and tumbling slide guitars: “It started as a really somber ballad. It was very minimal and very slow. And then it turned into this beast of a song. I started writing that about when you are in such a dark place that you don’t even remember what goodness is or what anything feels like. And so, the idea was having someone describe that to you, because you forgot or can’t get to it.” Its accompanying video, self-directed by Hadreas, envisions “an end of the world where there are no boundaries, there are no edges, no rules, or the rules are completely new with how you interact with each other and the space around you.”
Indies Only double LP edition on transparent blue vinyl

流行组合Chairlift前成员Caroline Polachek全新专辑Pang将于10月18号正式发布

A huge return in these parts from one of our most favourite voices.
The descent into darkness is a trope we find time again across history, literature and film. But there’s also an abyss above. There’s a winding white staircase that goes ever upward into the great unknown — each step, each turn, requiring a greater boldness and confidence than the one before. This is the journey on which we find Angel Olsen.
+ Available whilst stocks last on a limited crystal clear vinyl edition.
Olsen’s artistic beginnings as a collaborator shifted seamlessly to her magnificent, cryptic-to-cosmic solo work, and then she formed bands to play her songs, and her stages and audiences grew exponentially. But all along, Olsen was more concerned with a different kind of path, and on her vulnerable, Big Mood new album, All Mirrors, we can see her taking an introspective deep dive towards internal destinations and revelations. In the process of making this album, she found a new sound and voice, a blast of fury mixed with hard won self-acceptance.
“In every way —from the making of it, to the words, to how I feel moving forward— this record is about owning up to your darkest side,” Olsen said. “Finding the capacity for new love and trusting change, even when you feel like a stranger. This is a record about facing yourself and learning to forgive what you see. It is about losing empathy, trust, love for destructive people. It is about walking away from the noise and realizing that you can have solitude and peace in your own thoughts, that your thoughts alone can be just as valid, if not more.”

2時間が1秒?
富士山にとっては、そのくらいの感覚なんです。
1年12ヶ月366日を、73分12秒で。
「3776を聴かない理由があるとすれば」以来約4年ぶりとなる、富士山ご当地アイドル3776(みななろ)のフルアルバム、「歳時記」。
富士山を構成する様々なものの気持ちになって、井出ちよのが歌うオリジナル曲「2037年のバレンタイン」「八十八夜」「リピーター」
等に加え、ポップまたはアバンギャルドにアレンジされたわらべ歌も多数収録。どこか懐かしい、どこか新しい、そんな体験をお届けします。