美国的俄亥俄州阿克伦是一个盛产后摇滚乐队的地方，像The Six Parts Seven,、Silencio,和 Mortimur等乐队皆出自于此，If These Trees Could Talk也不例外。在初期的小试牛刀之后，乐队09年的全新专辑《Above The Earth, Below The Sky》由他们自己独立发行，一经推出就得到了乐迷的一致好评。深受Mogwai、Red Sparowes和Explosions In The Sky等前辈影响的If These Trees Could Talk，其音乐还是扎根于传统后摇滚之上，并彻底舍弃了人声。如唱片名《Above The Earth, Below The Sky》所言，整张专辑描绘的亦是一幅癫狂的景象，像是在天地之间掀起的巨浪，奔腾不息，欲罢不能。激昂的节奏是专辑给人的第一印象，紧凑庄重，回荡迂回，有时却戛然而止，便像天际坍塌、万物重生一般。

This Will Destroy You are releasing a live album called Live In Reykjavik, Iceland. It features 11 live versions of the band’s material, with all songs performed and recorded at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland. Album art and track listing are below. It will be available digitally on October 22nd and physically via 3xLP / 2xCD on October 29th via Magic Bullet Records.

新澤西三人組的第八張大碟，成熟多元(Noise-pop、Jangle-pop、Shoegazer、Post-Rock、Country)的樂風，配合極其窩心而絲絲入扣的夫妻合唱。

The second full length from Radiation City, Animals in the Median, features songs recorded over the span of a year in both rural Washington and urban Portland. You can hear focused songwriting, lush arrangements, and gorgeous harmonies. You can hear the celebration and lament of a sea change year which saw the passing of matriarchs, the betrayals and betrothals of loved ones, the baring and bruising of hopeful hearts in an increasingly dangerous world. Moreover, you can hear a band edified, coming into their own in rich and simple gesture.

Anyone can pick up a guitar, strum a few chords and channel their inner Bob Dylan. In fact, many do just that, claiming originality when, really, they’re a shameful tribute act in disguise. That’s not what Montreal’s Leif Vollebekk does. The multi-instrumentalist may draw inspiration from many of his musical forefathers and he does cast a cloud of nostalgia over every song on his second full- length, North Americana, but the results are genuinely his. North Americana layers up with each listen, transforming acoustic tracks into fully-formed works of beauty, whether it’s the subtle organ seeping in at the end of highlight Cairo Blues or the fluttering violins on Takk Somuleidis, which bears the distinct signature touch of…

Third release from Bay Area's Not To Reason Why. Features 3 songs totaling 30 minutes. Instrumentation: Piano, Drums, Guitar Bass, Violin and Flute.

‘Hello Memory‘ is the upcoming debut studio album by Brooklyn synthpop trio Little Daylight. It’s scheduled to be released on digital retailers on July 15, 2014 via Capitol Records.
Following the promotion of its debut EP ‘Tunnel Vision‘ released in 2013, the new album comes preceded by the official singles: ‘Overdose‘ and ‘Siren Call‘. Alongside the pre-order of the album, the trio released the song ‘Love Stories‘ as a countdown single on iTunes on May 20th.
The band released the album’s opening track ‘My Life‘ as the second countdown single on iTunes on June 6th. The track “Mona Lisa” was released a the next countdown single on June 23.

提到Angelo Badalamenti大家应该都想到美国著名导演David Lynch的电影配乐来着...从Blue Velvet到Lost Highway，恐怕这些原声大家都有收藏，那你绝对不会不知道Badalamenti的“御用女声”Julee Cruise。
Julee Cruise有着非常飘渺的嗓音，不同于仙音的那种彻底纯净，她的声音还带着Dream-Pop女声的迷幻质感，非常不经意的就让人边听边做起白日梦——一如Lynch鬼魅电影中的一些华丽，超现实的镜头一般，还带着情境和几分说不出来的哀伤。
被Badalamenti发现是在80年代，当时他正在为Lynch制作Blue Velvet的原声，听到Julee的嗓音后他立即邀请她演唱了电影的片尾曲Mysterious Of Love，伴随着电影最后平和却有点失落的结局，这个演绎完全是恰倒好处。从这开始，她同Baladamenti以及Lynch的合作关系就确立了。
1989年Julee推出自己第一张个人专辑Floating Into The Night，其中的大部分歌词都是Lynch写的，作曲部分由Baladamenti完成，其中一些作品如Mysterious Of Love，Falling（双峰镇），Into The Night等都收录在Lynch的电影作品中。这张专辑没有刻意去突出她声音的任何“净化”和“天籁”，有的更多的是Lynch电影世界的各种光怪陆离的色彩和情感，听过之后只有平静和惊叹两种反差，尤其是Into The Night这首歌，像谜一样存在着谜底和答案。其他作品像I Remember，I Float Alone等都值得推荐。
The Voice Of Love的发行整整搁了5年，然而依然是一场让人精彩的感叹。这张专辑相比下要更温柔一些，This Is Our Night绝对是我听过的最舒缓的作品之一。这张连同上张专辑一样，在AMG都是4星以上的评分，而且都是曲曲动听迷人，耐听程度也十分经的起考验。
9年后的2002年，让所有人望穿秋水的The Art Of Being A Girl终于发行了，封面还是突显出Julee同其他女歌手不同的另类感觉，还是那种无论走在哪听着她都让人感觉在做梦的回归，唯一不同的，是这张专辑略带一些电子的风格。
不知道是不是先入为主，还是她同Lynch总是相互呼应，听到她的音乐总让人想到Lynch的电影，Still Dreaming，Still Floating，分不清现实与梦境。
时间流逝，但总有些东西历久弥新。

Tom Krell, aka How to Dress Well is back with a new album. Total Loss is out in September on Acéphale in North America and Weird World internationally. (Update: It will be out sometime this fall.) Listen to first track off the album, "Ocean Floor for Everything", and check out his tour dates below.

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released 29 October 2012
All songs arranged/performed/produced by Lauren O'Connell, except:
Drums on "Dancing in the Dark" by Carlos Cabrera
Drums/piano/bass/vocals/arrangement/production on "Other People" by Will Sturgeon
Album artwork by Jehan Choo

Ophelia 5:09
Life Is Sweet 5:10
Kind & Generous 4:07
Frozen Charlotte 5:23
My Skin 5:30
Break Your Heart 4:47
King Of May 4:09
Thick As Thieves 6:56
Effigy 2:30
The Living 3:16
When They Ring The Golden Bells 4:10
(silence) 0:20
Ophelia (Reprise) 5:03