很少有人像 St. Vincent 一样，骄傲地把吉他摇滚的大旗扛进 21 世纪。最初她在担任 Sufjan Stevens 的巡演乐手时崭露头角，接着在 2007 年发行了首张专辑《Marry Me》，而后更以一系列广获好评的专辑与合作作品 (例如她与 Taylor Swift 共同创作的冠军单曲《Cruel Summer》)，奠定其吉他战士的声誉。

又名 Annie Clark 的 St. Vincent，其形象就跟其音乐一样百变。她于 2021 年发行复古概念专辑《Daddy’s Home》，以纽约 70 年代灵魂乐与华丽摇滚音景为灵感，设立其乐风和造型的分水岭，象征那白金色假发和时代广场式的宽大风衣从此一去不返。在《All Born Screaming》中，她更挥别制作了《Daddy’s Home》的常年合作伙伴 Jack Antonoff，首次亲自操刀制作。

“创作这张专辑时，我花了许多时间独自在录音室里工作，努力为自己找到新的音乐语汇。”St. Vincent 告诉 Apple Music：“我的其他专辑都是跟别人共同制作，但这张专辑的每个细节几乎都由我把关。促成此专辑的许多动力也就像我在想：‘好吧，我现在在录音室里，而一切都必须从混乱开始。’”

就 St. Vincent 而言，要利用这种混乱状态，首先要提炼出最自我的基本成分。从各方面来看，吉他手都是最后一批被模拟声响（analog）所定义的音乐人，他们得通过效果器、琴弦和音频信号传输，来创造特定音色，而这必须倚靠专业技能和手感，但有时这样的探索过程就十分混乱。

St. Vincent 表示：“我所谓的『混乱』，是指电在电路中的流动。无论是模组合成器还是鼓机，都利用混乱来玩出各种声响。我可能尝试了三小时，结果只做出六秒的片段，但那六秒捕捉到了凤毛麟角，很令人兴奋，而这极可能是只会发生一次的事，并且非常仰赖手感。于是我就用这片段来写出整首歌。”

专辑歌曲包含了带有泥沼般黏糊的、也令人心惊胆战的《Flea》，以及缅怀已故电音制作人 SOPHIE 的《Sweetest Fruit》，St. Vincent 巧妙平衡了明暗交织的乐声与情绪，而这并非她独力完成的。“我能够尽情探索、尝试和挥洒。”她说：“我还很幸运有许多好朋友参与了专辑录制，他们带来了很棒的能量。”知名鼓手 Dave Grohl、Warpaint 的 Stella Mozgawa，爵士鼓演奏家 Mark Guiliana 和威尔士音乐人 Cate Le Bon 等人都名列本作的制作阵容。

Cate Le Bon 不仅在专辑同名曲中献声，也为遇到瓶颈的 St. Vincent 提供指引建议。“我发现自己有点太纠结于细节，每个自行制作的音乐人都会遇到这种状况。”St. Vincent 说：“于是我打给 Cate 说：‘我需要妳来帮我一下。’我想，在制作过程中，当我需要有人握着我的手，拍拍我的头，递给我啤酒，然后说‘一切都会好起来’的时候，她就是那股让我安心的力量。”

虽然 St. Vincent 在《All Born Screaming》中成功捕捉了血淋淋的人生经历，包括各种不确定性和每个昙花一现的瞬间，但旋律仍旧琅琅上口。“对我来说，这张专辑就像地狱里的某一季。”她说：“就像你跪着爬过碎玻璃，不过是用一种有趣的方式。我们最终得出的结论是：‘对，人生确实很难，但值得去过，我们必须好好生活。既然不能跳过、闪躲，那不如就走一遭吧。’它布满了黑与白，以及火焰的颜色，我认为这张专辑的音乐听来就是如此。”

Last February, Caroline Polachek shared one of the best albums of 2023: her fourth solo LP, Desire, I Want to Turn Into You. Now, on Valentine’s Day, she’s back with Desire, I Want to Turn Into You: Everasking Edition, a new version of the album featuring seven additional tracks and four new songs.
The new Everasking Edition includes the previously-released duet version of “Butterfly Net” featuring Weyes Blood, as well as the song Polachek premiered on Stephen Colbert’s show last October, “Dang.” Also featured are four new songs, titled “Meanwhile,” “Coma,” “Gambler’s Prayer,” and “Spring Is Coming with a Strawberry In the Mouth,” the latter of which is a cover of an Operating Theatre song.

小山田圭吾（元フリッパーズ・ギター）のソロプロジェクト、コーネリアスが再始動。約4年ぶりとなるニューアルバム（4作目）では、幻想的なシンセがダブサウンドをイメージさせる先行カット<2>、水の音をテーマに優しいコーラスを重ねるギターロック<4>のヒット2曲に、スズムシの鳴き声を取り入れた優しいタッチの<6>、ボサノヴァフレイバーが温かいムードを生み出す<9>など、ギターとシンセサイザーを融合させた超次元的音楽を繰り広げている。

細野晴臣/Haruomi Hosono – bass,guitar,flat mandolon,flat vocal
松任谷 正隆/Masataka Matautoya – piano
鈴木 茂/Shigeru Suzuki – electric guitar
林立夫/Tatsuo Hayashi – drums,percussion

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.

Caroline Elizabeth Polachek is an American singer, producer and songwriter. Raised in Connecticut, Polachek co-founded the indie pop band Chairlift while studying at the University of Colorado. The duo emerged from the late-2000s Brooklyn music scene with the sleeper hit "Bruises.”

The full-length debut from the shapeshifting UK duo is a virtuosic display of theatrical mayhem, dazzling production, and surprisingly lustrous pop music.

Natalie Mering’s majestic fifth record is a dispatch from the center of catastrophe—an idiosyncratic set of love songs and secular hymns with lushly orchestral arrangements.

The Spanish superstar’s third album is a showcase for Rosalía’s exceptional range. It aspires to stretch itself out across genres and play with form, and attains exactly what it sets out to achieve.

Mitski’s sixth album is an austere, nuanced, and disaffected indie-pop record that, in part, addresses her turbulent relationship with her own career.

Venturing to push the boundaries of her primarily synth-based work, SPELLLING took on the ambitious task of orchestrating and self-producing an album that features an ensemble of 31 collaborating musicians. The Turning Wheel incorporates a vast range of rich acoustic sounds that cast SPELLLING’s work into vibrant new dimensions. The double LP is split into two halves - “Above” and “Below.” Lush string quartet shimmer combines with haunting banjo and wandering bassoon leads, as the album progresses from the more jubilant, warm, and dreamy mood of the “Above” tracks to the more chilling and gothic tone of the “Below” tracks. This progression is anchored by SPELLLING’s familiar bewitching vocal style that emphasises the theatrical and folkloric heart of her songwriting.

"Pay Your Way In Pain" is the first single ahead of St. Vincent's highly anticipated new album Daddy's Home, produced by pop producer and long term collaborator Jack Antonoff. "I was inspired by the classic records of the 70s. Stevie, Sly, Stones, Steely Dan, Chords, Groove. The days when sophisticated harmony and rhythm didn't sound heady - they just sounded, and felt good. Lots of guitar. But warm sounds, not distortion and chaos. Hopefully a turn nobody will see coming" - Annie Clark.

Tamara Lindeman’s songwriting has reached stunning new heights. With a full band supporting her, her new album draws upon the natural world to create unforgettable moments of calm and beauty.

Producer, songwriter and director Sevdaliza releases her highly anticipated sophomore album Shabrang on 28 August in roaring 2020. Produced entirely by herself together with long-time collaborator Mucky, the 14-track album is the long awaited follow-up to the 2017 debut album ISON .
In just a few years time Sevdaliza established herself as an iconic, highly creative, versatile and independent artist who has landed on many celebrity moodboards. Her stunning visual for HUMAN or her debut album ISON has collected over 25 million YouTube views to date and masterpiece Shahmaran about mental slavery, won 2 UK Music Video Awards. Sevdaliza toured 35 countries in the last 2 years and amassed thousands of fans globally (Spotify 200,000, Youtube, 300,000, IG 230,000)
In 2020 Sevdaliza will return with her follow up album Shabrang. "Shabrang is mentioned in Persian mythology, although there is no direct translation to capture it's essence, the Farsi phrase Shabrang literally translates to color-palette of the night. This" palette "is visualized in the tones in Sevdaliza's black eye on the album cover . The black eye represents the years of physical and emotional turbulence. In Sevdaliza's words "This album represents to me that the essence of it all to me is love. It is a deep letter to myself, my own bible I have to write in order to trust and believe in life. Trust in myself and my character as a human being. "
Born in Iran and residing in the Netherlands, Sevdaliza has been a strong independent force in the creation of her art. She is a producer and engineer, an independent art director with a critical eye for detail and storytelling and a unique songwriter. Her music has been described as "genre-bending", drawing on various genres including alternative electronic, indie, triphop, alternative R&B and the avant-garde.

Kelly Lee Owens' masterful second album Inner Song finds the convention-blurring techno producer and singer/songwriter diving deep into her own psyche—excoriating the struggles she's faced over the last several years and exploring personal pain while embracing the beauty of the natural world.
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It's a leap in artistry from a musician who burst forth on the scene with a confident, rich sound, and Inner Song is endlessly enticing when it comes to what Owens is capable of.
Inner Song follows the star-making debut of her 2017 self-titled album, a quixotic blend of body-moving beats and introspective songwriting that garnered numerous accolades from the music press. Owens has indeed come a long way from her background as a nurse, since then she has remixed Bjørk & St Vincent, released an indelibly clubby two-tracker, 2019's "Let It Go" b/w "Omen" and
teamed up with like-minded auteur Jon Hopkins on the one-off "Luminous Spaces."
Her latest album also comes off of what Owens describes as "the hardest three years of my life" an emotionally fraught time that, in her words, "Definitely impacted my creative life and everything I'd worked for up to that point. I wasn't sure if I could make anything anymore, and it took quite a lot of courage to get to a point where I could make something again." So while the lovely cover of
Radiohead's "Arpeggi" might strike some as an unconventional way to open a sophomore effort, to Owens the winding take on the classic tune—recorded a year before work on Inner Song properly kicked off—represents the sort of sonic rebirth that's so essential to Inner Song's aura.
Inner Song was largely written and recorded over a month last winter. As with her debut, Owens holed up in the studio with co- producer and collaborator James Greenwood —and letting loose in the studio and being open to whatever sonic whims emerge was essential to Owens' craftwork. The evocative title of the album is borrowed from free-jazz maestro Alan Silva's 1972 opus, which was
gifted to Owens Smalltown Supersound's Joakim Haugland for her 30th birthday: "I'm so grateful for him and his perspectives—he's always thinking outside of the box. Those two words really reflect what it felt like to make this record. I did a lot of inner work in the past few years, and this is a true reflection of that." The hair raising bass and tickling textures of Inner Song drive home that, more so than ever, Owens is locked in to delivering maximal sonic pleasure—as evidenced by the decision to make the album's vinyl release a sesqui album, or triple-sided album: "Im still obsessed with frequencies that don't do well on vinyl if they don't have the space."
"The power of conceptualizing who you are has really informed this album" Owens states about Inner Song's essence, and her second album is truly a discovery of self— the latest statement from a fascinating artist who continues to surprise, gesturing towards a rich and varied career to come

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

Petals For Armor is the debut solo album from Grammy® Award-winning artist Hayley Williams. The first single from the album, “Simmer”, marked Hayley Williams’ first new music release since Paramore’s chart-topping 2017 album, After Laughter.
“I’m so ready and so incredibly humbled to get to share this project,” says Williams. “Making it was a scary, empowering experience. Some of my proudest moments as a lyricist happened while writing Petals For Armor. And I was able to get my hands a little dirtier than usual when it came to instrumentation. I’m in a band with my favorite musicians so I never really feel the need to step into a role as a player when it comes to Paramore records. This project, however, benefited from a little bit of musical naïveté and rawness and so I experimented quite a bit more. I made this with some of the closest people to me. Their respective talents really shine bright throughout the record. I like to think we all make each other better and the result is some

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.

Billie Eilish的第三张录音室专辑《HIT ME HARD AND SOFT》，由Darkroom/Interscope Records发行，是她迄今为止最大胆的作品，汇集了风格多元却又和谐统一的曲目合集——最好从头到尾完整听遍——正如专辑标题所暗示；新专在歌词与声音上会既有力量又不失温柔地触动你，同时跨越不同音乐流派，不拘泥于流行趋势。在她的哥哥、也是唯一的合作伙伴FINNEAS的帮助下，两人在家乡洛杉矶中一同完成了这张专辑的创作、录制和制作。新专继《WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?》和《Happier Than Ever》两张广受欢迎的专辑之后，进一步拓展了Billie Eilish的音乐世界。
新专将于5月17号发行 共收录10首曲目