On her fourth album, west coast artist Jessica Pratt expands the scope of her artistry, placing her sharpest songs to date within an ever-broadening pool of influences including spectral '60s pop, Hollywood psychedelia and bossa nova. Whereas Pratt's 2019 record, Quiet Signs, floated elegantly in the ether, Here in the Pitch is entrenched in more earthen characteristics, as the title suggests, and her craft is emboldened with a newfound gravitas.

Recorded live at London's Barbican Milton Court Concert Hall during the Europe leg of the ICHIKO AOBA INTERNATIONAL TOUR 2022, this live album features Ichiko Aoba's international debut with strings, supported by one of Europe's premier string collectives, the 12 Ensemble. The album is at times breathtaking in its beauty - such as when lush string arrangements and Ichiko's guitar collide, creating a whirlwind of sound from which her singular voice emerges. Yet at times, the album is so quiet you can hear the clicks of cameras, the shutting of doors, the living breathing heartbeat of the audience. The foundation of the album lies in the songs from 2020's "Windswept Adan", but with never before heard arrangements of recent favorites such as "Seabed Eden", "Asleep Among Endives", and "Hello", this album is exhilarating from beginning to end. Shot by Kumamoto-born, London-based photographer Yuichiro Noda, the album artwork is simultaneously ethereal and earthbound, as light spills around the musicians on stage. Take one listen and step into the intimate world that Ichiko and the 12 Ensemble create together.
Featured Musicians: Eloisa-Fleur Thom, Venetia Jollands, Connie Pharoah, Max Ruisi, and Toby Hughes of the 12 Ensemble.

英国民谣歌手Dido在众人期待中将发行她的第三张专辑，新专辑名为《Safe Trip Home》将于11月4日上市。专辑邀请了不少知名音乐人参与制作，其中还包括DIDO的亲哥哥-Faithless成员Rollo Armstrong。
据悉，新唱片《Safe Trip Home》由Jon Brion (琼·布里昂)和Dido以及Dido的兄弟Rollo Armstrong (罗洛·阿姆斯特朗)联手制作，而在专辑中的一首歌曲《Grafton Street》当中，著名环境音乐大师Brian Eno (布赖恩·伊诺)也参与了创作。
Dido透露说，在录制《Safe Trip Home》时，她曾去美国加州洛杉矶的一所大学里面去深造音乐课程。Dido在接受英国BBC采访时说道，她之所以去大学里面深造音乐课程是因为她想改变一下自己从而能够更真实地去表现自己所想表达的音乐。Dido说：“你能够从学习当中想得更远，你的脑子也变得十分活跃，这很疯狂。我喜欢这样。”
Dido 在2000年与美国著名嘻哈歌手Eminem（艾米纳姆）合作了一首歌曲而一炮走红。　1999年，Dido推出了她的处子专辑《No Angel》，在即将跟歌迷见面的这张《Safe Trip Home》之前，Dido的最新专辑是2003年那张《Life for Rent》。据统计显示，《Life for Rent》在Billboard 200专辑榜中的最好成绩是第四位，截至目前，《Life for Rent》在全美的总销量共计超过了210万张。

All tongues and cheeks aside, "My Finest Work Yet" finds Bird grappling with themes of current day dichotomies and how to identify a moral compass amidst such divisive times. “I’m interested in the idea that our enemies are what make us whole—there’s an intimacy one shares with their opponent when locked in such a struggle. If we were to just walk away would our enemies miss us? How did we get to this point and how can we, through awareness of it, maybe pull ourselves out of this death spiral,” says Bird.

Young Heart is the fourth studio album by British musician Birdy, released on 30 April 2021 through Atlantic Records. The album was announced on 22 January 2021 with the release of the first single "Surrender".

此为24年新专辑首发单曲

Sometimes, Mitski says, it feels like life would be easier without hope, or a soul, or love. But when she closes her eyes and thinks about what’s truly hers, what can’t be repossessed or demolished, she sees love. “The best thing I ever did in my life was to love people,” Mitski says. “I wish I could leave behind all the love I have, after I die, so that I can shine all this goodness, all this good love that I’ve created onto other people.” She hopes her newest album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, will continue to shine that love long after she’s gone. Listening to it, that’s precisely how it feels: like a love that’s haunting the land.
“This is my most American album,” Mitski says about her seventh record, and the music feels like a profound act of witnessing this country, in all of its private sorrows and painful contradictions. In this album, which is sonically Mitski’s most expansive, epic, and wise, the songs seem to be introducing wounds and then actively healing them. Here, love is time-traveling to bless our tender days, like the light from a distant star.
The album is full of the ache of the grown- up, seemingly mundane heartbreaks and joys that are often unsung but feel enormous. It’s a tiny epic. From the bottom of a glass, to a driveway slushy with memory and snow, to a freight train barreling through the Midwest, and all the way to the moon, it feels like everything, and everyone, is crying out, screaming in pain, arching towards love. Love is that inhospitable land, beckoning us and then rejecting us. To love this place — this earth, this America, this body — takes active work. It might be impossible. The best things are.

Sufjan’s masterful new album recalls his intimate singer-songwriter days. But it also draws on his entire catalog, his dazzling musicality, and his lifelong inquiries about love and devotion.

Completed after the death of her producer, collaborator, and close friend, the New York singer-songwriter’s album envisions mourning as a form of meditative practice and constant renewal.

María Natalia Lafourcade Silva is a Mexican pop-rock and folk singer and songwriter who, since her debut in 2002, has been one of the most successful singers in Latin America. Lafourcade's voice has been categorized as a lyric soprano.

Sweeter and more inviting than anything she’s done before, the second-full length by Sarah Beth Tomberlin finds peace in the unraveling.

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You is a sprawling double-LP exploring the deepest elements and possibilities of Big Thief. To truly dig into all that the music of Adrianne Lenker, Max Oleartchik, Buck Meek, and James Krivchenia desired in 2020, the band decided to write and record a rambling account of growth as individuals, musicians, and chosen family over 4 distinct recording sessions. In Upstate New York, Topanga Canyon, The Rocky Mountains, and Tucson, Arizona, Big Thief spent 5 months in creation and came out with 45 completed songs. The most resonant of this material was edited down into the 20 tracks that make up DNWMIBIY, a fluid and adventurous listen. The album was produced by drummer James Krivchenia who initially pitched the recording concept for DNWMIBIY back in late 2019 with the goal of encapsulating the many different aspects of Adrianne’s songwriting and the band onto a single record.
In an attempt to ease back into life as Big Thief after a long stretch of Covid-19 related isolation, the band met up for their first session in the woods of upstate New York. They started the process at Sam Evian’s Flying Cloud Recordings, recording on an 8-track tape machine with Evian at the knobs. It took a while for the band to realign and for the first week of working in the studio, nothing felt right. After a few un-inspired takes the band decided to take an ice-cold dip in the creek behind the house before running back to record in wet swimsuits. That cool water blessing stayed with Big Thief through the rest of the summer and many more intuitive, recording rituals followed. It was here that the band procured ‘Certainty’ and ‘Sparrow’.
For the next session in Topanga Canyon, California, the band intended to explore their bombastic desires and lay down some sonic revelry in the experimental soundscape-friendly hands of engineer Shawn Everett. Several of the songs from this session lyrically explore the areas of Lenker’s thought process that she describes as “unabashedly as psychedelic as I naturally think,” including ‘Little Things’, which came out of this session. The prepared acoustic guitars and huge stomp beat of today’s ‘Time Escaping’ create a matching, otherworldly backdrop for the subconscious dream of timeless, infinite mystery. When her puppy Oso ran into the vocal booth during the final take of the song, Adrianne looked down and spoke “It’s Music!” to explain in the best terms possible the reality of what was going on to the confused dog. “It’s Music Oso!”
The third session, high in the Colorado Rockies, was set up to be a more traditional Big Thief recording experience, working with UFOF and Two Hands engineer Dom Monks. Monks' attentiveness to song energies and reverence for the first take has become a huge part of the magic of Thief’s recent output. One afternoon in the castle-like studio, the band was running through a brand new song ‘Change’ for the first time. Right when they thought it might be time to do a take, Monks came out of the booth to let them know that he’d captured the practice and it was perfect as it was.
The final session, in hot-as-heaven Tucson, Arizona, took place in the home studio of Scott McMicken. The several months of recording had caught up to Big Thief at this point so, in order to bring in some new energy, they invited long-time friend Mat Davidson of Twain to join. This was the first time that Big Thief had ever brought in a 5th instrumentalist for such a significant contribution. His fiddle, and vocals weave a heavy presence throughout the Tucson tracks. If the album's main through-line is its free-play, anything-is-possible energy, then this environment was the perfect spot to conclude its creation — filling the messy living room with laughter, letting the fire blaze in the backyard, and ripping spontaneous, extended jams as trains whistled outside.
All 4 of these sessions, in their varied states of fidelity, style, and mood, when viewed together as one album seem to stand for a more honest, zoomed-out picture of lived experience than would be possible on a traditional, 12 song record. This was exactly what the band hoped would be the outcome of this kind of massive experiment. When Max’s mom asked on a phone call what it feels like to be back together with the band playing music for the first time in a year, he described to the best of abilities: “Well it’s like, we’re a band, we talk, we have different dynamics, we do the breaths, and then we go on stage and suddenly it feels like we are now on a dragon. And we can’t really talk because we have to steer this dragon.”
The attempt to capture something deeper, wider, and full of mystery, points to the inherent spirit of Big Thief. Traces of this open-hearted, non-dogmatic faith can be felt through previous albums, but here on Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You lives the strongest testament to its existence.

The Mexican singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada grew up surrounded by instruments. As a kid, she watched as musicians floated in and out of her family’s bucolic workshop in Veracruz, where her parents spent hours crafting stunning violas, cellos, and guitars. “I saw that music isn’t just a way of making a living,” she says. “I would hear all these musicians trying their new instruments, super joyful and super grateful to my parents, and I was like ‘OK, this isn’t just a work tool. It’s a tool for joy, it’s a tool for passion.’”