Sonic Youth's sixth album.

Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008.

地下丝绒的第三张专辑，由于录音前期发生设备遗失的事故，以及创团成员John Cale的离开，这张专辑的声音平静内敛富有张力

Feels is Animal Collective's sixth studio album originally released in 2005 and features all four band members - Avey Tare, Deakin, Geologist, and Panda Bear.

Water Breaks Stone is Charlotte's most striking album to date showcasing her inner storyteller alongside longtime production partner, Ken Andrews.

Eels来自美国，这支独立乐队并不容易接近，尽管最初的专辑封面充满童真，卡通儿童、飞翔，星空等幻想元素，音乐却异常冷调。无法给他们的风格下定义，主唱Mark父亲普林斯顿物理博士提出平行空间的多世界理论（Many Worlds Theory），但他们毕竟没有成为一支太空摇滚或飞行乐队，呵呵。家庭背景和不幸的童年经历也许会有一定影响，但我更愿意相信是他们发自本能的消极和不置可否。
With Strings Live at Town Hall是他们在纽约的现场，和管弦乐团合作巡演的其中一站。于是他们原本独树一帜的风格得到了充分的张扬，留着鸡冠头、西装革履的弹钢琴，或者欢呼一声揭起盖子，露出自制的鼓。乐声纷繁喧哗，极其广阔，有时却只用一把吉他。一束光打在Mark Everett身上，悠然自得的唱着，四周黑暗。镜头持续后拉，一直将他变成舞台上小小的光亮。
现场演出的拍摄相当出色，要全景给全景，要细节给细节；镜头可以从不断颤动的琴头俯拍下去，也可以从挥舞的鼓棒上摇上来，缓慢向左移动，直至框住独自站在前头Mark背影——我分不清有多少部摄影机。导演在每首歌间隔穿插乐队的纪录片断，访谈或者行走，地铁里弹唱，黑白交织，但其光影的完美效果十分惊人。
类似这种摇滚乐队与管弦乐队合作，看过的还有portishead的新年演出，同样充斥浓厚的电影感。Beth Gibbon手里夹着一根香烟，脸色苍白，声音凄美。Mark抽的是雪茄，也是一副的旁若无人。
不可错过的ＥＥＬＳ现场
这张现场是Eels和管弦乐团合作的巡演的其中一站。他们的音乐中时有的爵士节奏与电声伴奏令他们显得独特。尤其这个现场，又加入了风琴、钢片儿琴等乐器，再加上Eels的成员均属于全能型乐手，表现更是让人惊异。 自制的鼓和异于传统鼓击的位置很令人兴奋！

Cat Power是Chan Marshall的化名，她是以哀伤女歌手和偶尔失常的表演者的身份而出名的。
Cat Power的音乐具有“空虚”或极少主义的特质，有时被归类于哥特布鲁斯。她的专辑被形容为悲伤或消沉，她的声音可以净化心灵。温柔、纯洁、木然的悲痛、舒适怡人、顺从等交替组成醉人的乐章，经常给人带来印象深刻的和谐之音。
是这张Moon Pix，40万张的销量和评论界极高的评价让她成为与Arab Strap、Mogwai等乐队一样的Matador旗下最重要的艺人。她坐上了美国独立女歌手的头把交椅。
失望，低落，忧伤……情感一点点地在这样的歌曲里渗透出来，滴到体内深处，敲击着灵魂，敲击着心脏。Cat Power倾注了深刻、完整而又丰富的情感，聆听。身体和大脑会很长时间处于一种静止状态，所做的一切只是跟着吉他声、钢琴声和Cat Power的歌声一起小心地演进，久久不息。
Cat Power的音乐含蓄而有味道，适合像喝一杯好茶一般慢慢品味。初听者也许并不会被这表面平实的歌声所打动，但是经过细细品味提炼过后的Cat Power将是你绝佳的心灵良药。最爱在午后温暖的天气里，什么也不乾，只是静静地欣赏 Cat Power 。
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1967年10月美国首发黑胶，是Nico的第一张个人专辑，包括五首VU成员参与歌曲：Little Sister (Cale/Reed), Winter Song (Cale), It Was A Pleasure Then (Nico/Cale/Reed), Chelsea Girls (Reed/Morrison), and Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (Reed)。

German reissue of the former Prince protege's 1989 album, currently out-of-print in the U.S..

Wilco乐队虽然在商业上一直没什么值得炫耀的成就，但是在美国的乐评人眼中，Wilco乐队和他的灵魂Jeff Tweedy的名字早已是赞美文章中的熟客，几乎他们的每一张专辑都能在评论界迎来铺天盖地的好评。这一次他们不仅仅继续拥有评论界的称赞，商业商业区的了非常重大的突破，他们的这张专辑在发行首周的销量就达到了8万1千张，成军十年以来首次打入了Billboard 200排行榜前十名，位居第八。
商业上非常畅销的唱片在美国乐评人眼中不一定有好的评价，但是乐评人咬牙称赞的作品一定不会特别垃圾，尽管可能这些叫好专辑的商业成绩并不出众。从1996年开始，Wilco乐队就已经开始引起了美国本土乐评人们的注意，这支乐队在风格上有着独特之处，结合了硬摇滚乐和传统乡村摇滚乐之间的某些共通之处，而在随后的时间里的作品又带有根源摇滚的影子，并且这群富有实验精神的音乐人们的专辑风格经常发生变化，此前他们的作品也许不太迎合歌迷们的欣赏口味，但是现在这样的情况正在慢慢改变。
强烈的电吉他，鼓点，以及合成器的声响，是这张专辑的主要配乐，风琴，中提琴，钢琴的运用则体现出了乐队实验性的一面。令人印象深刻的是两段超长篇章《Spiders (Kidsmoke)》和《Less Than You Think》，这两首长度分别达到了11分钟和15分钟作品风格迥异，前者电吉他环绕，摇滚感觉十足，而后者的沉郁，如同歌名一样将人带入沉思。或许没有特别突出的某支单曲将是这张专辑的不足，不过那首长篇大作《Spiders (Kidsmoke)》可以算作一曲。Wilco乐队对音乐精神的执著不容置疑，这张专辑也是他们在坚持自己的音乐道路中又一个重要产物。不过，尽管这张专辑已经不像以前那样生硬，但是很难让某一类歌迷从中得到充分的满足，喜欢实验摇滚的歌迷可以认真欣赏一下这张专辑，Wilco乐队也许会在将来影响大量无意拘泥于传统的乡村摇滚音乐人。
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来自西雅图的创作女歌手Laura Veirs，除了99年的首张同名专辑外，2003年在欧洲曾在Cocteau Twins的Bella Union厂牌下发行“Carbon Glacier”，获得英国传媒大力赞赏，The Guardian称赞：‘出奇的优美’，Uncut还给予5颗星满分高评并选为当月最佳专辑。
受到爵士吉他手Bill Frisell青睐引见后，与Nonesuch签约后也在美国发行。2005最新作品“Year Of Meteors”，Laura Veirs依旧散发出甜美、浪漫的民谣旋律之音。Q、Mojo、Uncut杂志与AMG音乐网站纷纷给予5颗星高评。
Seattle-based singer-songwriter Laura Veirs calls her 2005 Nonesuch release Year of Meteors "a road record." "It doesn't sound like one," she says, "but it is." Veirs had spent most of 2004 touring in support of the hauntingly beautiful Carbon Glacier, her breakthrough effort and Nonesuch debut. She started out in Europe, where she was greeted with overwhelming critical praise and sold-out houses. Then Veirs worked her way around the States, where she was still just being discovered (though the reviews were also often superlative). The experience was at times heady, other times grueling, and she incorporated it into her new songs. However, given Veirs' vividly descriptive yet dream-like lyrics, you won't learn anything about her actual itinerary. Year of Meteors is no ordinary travelogue, but it will definitely take you on a remarkable journey.
"All the songs are about transportation, motion," Veirs explains. "If you listen to the words, there's always some movement happening, whether it's greyhounds running down a mountainside as mud flows or a person flying off into the sun or someone lurking around the bottom of the sea. I think that's because I was in motion so much of the year. Somehow I knew that all the traveling would come into the songs, but I wanted to remain focused on the bigger things, not just life on the road, so that's why there are no direct references to that." There are, she hastens to add, "love songs related to that experience, like the struggles of being away from home and your partner. Or having my band and the different relationships I have formulated, many of them very close because of the intense circumstances of touring. So it's a relationship record too."
And, finally, it's a band record: a fertile collaboration between Veirs and her studio band, the Tortured Souls (who often play live with her)--Steve Moore (piano, organs), Karl Blau (bass, guitar, vocals), and producer Tucker Martine (drums, percussion, treatments). Viola player Eyvind Kang, another longtime associate, also sat in. As Veirs explains, "When we talked about making the album, we decided to record a lot of these songs as a band first, then do some more of the solo type of songs. It had always been the opposite before, I would go in and record the more quiet guitar parts and sing. This time, half of the record or more are tracks that we did live as a band first. Then we went in and recorded the quieter ones. We approached this from the beginning more as a band album and it really turned out that way."

Originally released in 2001 on Laura's own imprint, Raven Marching Band, "The Triumphs" is a semi-autobiographical, epic musical saga of a young woman traveling the old American west. Mixing Americana with electronic effects and modern percussion, Veirs has created a sparse and haunting record with a clear and original vision.

Genre: Indie Rock / Math Rock
It has been a very long wait since we first heard that AGBPOL would be recording a new album, and it is finally here! Have You Seen My Prefrontal Cortex? is a wonderful collection of smooth melodic indie rock with a math rock zest. these three guys basically self produced this album in their living room, which constantly makes my jaw drop when listening to this final product.
I was made aware of the leak almost two weeks ago and since then i haven't really listened or felt like listening to anything else.
Also, the fact that theyre taking pre orders for this CD for $5 with free shipping (as well as letting people download it for free) proves that these guys are in it for the music. its alll about the music.