2017
无限探索 豆瓣
8.7 (24 个评分) John Mayer 类型: 流行
发布日期 2017年4月14日 出版发行: Columbia
The Search for Everything was preceded by the release of two EPs each featuring four new songs from the album. The album's lead single, "Love on the Weekend", was released on November 17, 2016.The first wave, The Search for Everything: Wave One, released on January 20, 2017.The second wave, The Search for Everything: Wave Two was released on February 24, 2017.
野兽安眠 豆瓣
8.5 (44 个评分) The National 类型: 摇滚
发布日期 2017年9月8日 出版发行: 4AD
★一张挽救主唱Matt Berninger的婚姻、包含对世人的爱与政治控诉的最新专辑。
★首波单曲〈The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness〉获选Pitchfork最佳新曲、告示牌另类成人榜冠军。
2013专辑《Trouble Will Find Me》无疑是The National音乐生涯的里程碑,英美都拿下独立音乐榜销售冠军,欧洲、纽澳都有优秀的成绩,该年底毫不意外入选Pichfork、Uncut等各大年终榜,并获葛莱美奖最佳另类专辑提名。除了音乐,这两年他们为社会公益组织发声也从未停歇,2016年与防治AIDS机构合作的超大型Grateful Dead致敬合辑曲犹在耳,他们的爱还继续散播到西藏文化保护、中南美教育组织等机构。
2016年底美国选举期间,他们力反川普、为希拉里站台,主唱Matt Berninger宣称他爱上了希拉里。第七张专辑《Sleep Well Beast》发行前,媒体及乐迷很难不联想新专辑将围绕在政治议题上,乐团受访时驳斥:「这个世界已经受创近20年,理性或情感上我们要怎么避开政治议题?我不会刻意逃避,任何一点政治都会影响我的女儿、我的朋友,影响每一个人。」
而Dessner孪生兄弟档近年参与了许多合作计划,各自在现代音乐、唱片制作领域有相当成就,大家将各方吸收的养分摊在桌上,抛弃以往的过度严谨,近乎鲁莽地组合各种元素。率先公布的两支单曲〈The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness〉、〈Guilty Party〉就像是拼贴New Order、Philip Glass、与Tindersticks的mixtape,自由流动却依然有着当代艺术般的极简与精巧。主唱Matt还提到:「新专辑是关于婚姻受创,我很开心我结婚了,但婚姻真的很辛苦,我和妻子一起写歌词来了解彼此的挣扎,真的很难写。我的婚姻很健康,但这样对任何事都有帮助!」
2013年畅销小说《控制》的作者弗琳曾提到现代人的窘境:「婚姻失去意义,城市失去意义,整个国家都失去意义。」The National在新专辑中也碰巧呼应到这样的状况,除了对政治的控诉,这张专辑还包含对每一个人的爱,自然地流泄。
Sleep Well Beast was produced by member Aaron Dessner with co-production by Bryce Dessner and Matt Berninger. The album was mixed by Peter Katis and recorded at Aaron Dessner’s Hudson Valley, New York studio, Long Pond, with additional sessions having taken place in Berlin, Paris and Los Angeles.
async 豆瓣
9.1 (138 个评分) 坂本龍一 类型: 电子
发布日期 2017年3月29日 出版发行: Milan Records
日本传奇音乐人/作曲家坂本龙一于3月29日正式发行全新录音室专辑《async》,这也是教授自咽喉癌康复之后的首张专辑,共包含15首歌(第15首歌曲只收录于黑胶中)。坂本龙一称新专辑的构思和录制均在纽约完成,是他来自于对日常对象、雕塑和自然的感悟。
坂本龍一の8年ぶりとなるオリジナル・アルバム!
Ryuichi Sakamoto has announced a new studio album, async, out April 28 via Milan. It’s the Japanese composer’s first studio album since 2012’s Three, with Jaques Morelenbaum and Judy Kang, and his first solo album in 8 years. Sakamoto recorded and conceived of the album in New York, taking inspiration from “everyday objects, sculpture, and nature,” according to a press release.
Semper Femina 豆瓣
7.9 (25 个评分) Laura Marling 类型: 民谣
发布日期 2017年3月10日 出版发行: More Alarming Records
2017 release, the sixth album from the British folk snger/songwriter. Semper Femina is an intimate, devoted exploration of femininity and female relationships, and among her finest work to date. Written largely on the tour that followed 2015's Short Movie and recorded in Los Angeles with production from Blake Mills, it is at once a distinctive and musically compelling collection of songs, run through with Marling's fierce intelligence; a keen, beautiful and unparalleled take on womanhood. Laura's debut album Alas, I Cannot Swim, her second album I Speak Because I Can, and her fourth album Once I Was an Eagle were each nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2008, 2010, and 2013, respectively. She won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist at the 2011 Brit Awards, and was nominated for the same award at the 2012, 2014 and 2016 Brit Awards.
笑容背后 Eggplant.place 豆瓣
7.5 (15 个评分) Paramore 类型: 摇滚
发布日期 2017年5月12日 出版发行: Atlantic
"AFTER LAUGHTER" was recorded at Nashville's historic RCA Studio B - Paramore's first time recording in their own beloved hometown. The album is produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen and Paramore's own Taylor York. "AFTER LAUGHTER" also marks the return of original member Zac Farro back to the band.
Turn Out The Lights 豆瓣
8.2 (13 个评分) Julien Baker 类型: 民谣
发布日期 2017年10月27日 出版发行: Matador
18岁时凭借处女作《Sprained Ankle》获得《纽约时报》、NPR音乐台、Pitchfork、RollingStone.com、Noisey、The AV Club 等媒体一片赞誉的唱作人 Julien Baker,历经人们近两年的漫长期盼,终于带着新作《Turn Out The Lights》以及不变的灼灼真情回归。

在与 Death Cab for Cutie、Belle & Sebastian、Ben Folds 等人同台的同时,Baker 的成长亦有目共睹。录制于美国孟菲斯传奇录音室 Ardent Studios 的《Turn Out The Lights》,由 Baker 本人创作、制作,混音则请到 Craig Silvey(The National、Arcade Fire、Florence & the Machine)操刀。这是 Baker 在音乐与视野上的一次拓展,但在向世界抱持更开明态度的同时,她却未曾失却走入每个人心中角落的魔力。她继续用一种挥之不去的自白方式,思考自己与身边人的生活经历,道出我们共同的内心挣扎:尽管世界与人心充满灰色,我们还是要将其拥入怀中。
相知 豆瓣
7.7 (103 个评分) The xx 类型: 电子
发布日期 2017年1月13日 出版发行: Young Turks
★水星音乐奖得主暌违五年第三张专辑
★荒芜中执拗燃烧的浪漫
★都会喧嚣间最亲密的孤寂
来自伦敦的青年乐队The xx,2009年首张专辑《xx》以初生之犊的姿态,拿下欧洲指标性水星音乐奖,随后几年间,他们纵横各大音乐祭与颁奖典礼,第二张专辑《Coexist》挤下The Script、Bob Dylan、Pet Shop Boys空降英国流行专辑榜冠军,此等天之骄子般的惊人声势,以及身处譁众取宠的当代音乐潮流中,The xx徘徊午夜的极间低迴旋律铺陈起的黑灰色阶,似乎显得格格不入,然而吸纳著Siouxsie and the Banshees、The Cure、New Order、Cocteau Twins以至Aaliyah音乐养分而来的浪漫声响,却敲醒了层层冰雪底层的炙热,写尽了这时代人们藏得最深的孤寂。
2014年乐队灵魂人物Jamie xx首张创作专辑《In Colour》,在The xx失去时空标记的未来场域,投入大量多元声响取洋的缤纷色泽,让人预见了The xx的可能性,亦塑造出暌违五年新专辑《I See You》首支单曲〈On Hold〉的蜕变,与Hall & Oates 1981年冠军曲〈I Can’t Go For That〉交会之际一脚踩进舞池,让好似被时间消磨了的遗憾,不再那麽难以承受,冬阳洒落的和煦蔓延至〈I Dare You〉与〈Say Something Loving〉,依旧浪漫得执拗。
开场曲〈Dangerous〉强悍bassline与管乐驱策下,扬起了The xx至今最果抉、激昂的一回;〈Lips〉取洋自葛莱美提名挪威人声乐队Trio Mediæval的脱俗吟唱乘著Tribal Beat悠缓跃动的宜人风景,以及〈Performance〉凄薄弦乐于一片荒芜中拉扯出的张力,格外令人惊豔;即便〈A Violent Noise〉和〈Brave For You〉回到那个被喧嚣遗忘的街角,遇到我们熟悉的The xx,冰冷得暴戾的梦,也相对辽阔轻盈,美得令人屏息。
末曲〈Test Me〉绝望的最后恳求,在一片极间冰凝的苍白电气中持续坠落,一段Alessi Brothers〈Do You Feel It?〉的琴音乍现,对映著取洋了同一首歌的〈Say Something Loving〉,麻木了心,模糊了时空,即使在阳光洒落的地方,The xx依旧以近乎任性的执著,耽溺于怀疑与悔恨的结,最亲密的疏离,最炙热的冷冽,让人倚著冰牆试图取暖,距离心一步的位置,目光犹疑试探,却怎麽也踩不进去的怅然。
首張同名大碟Dua Lipa首批限量豪華典藏版 (歐洲進口盤) 豆瓣
7.4 (28 个评分) Dua Lipa 类型: 流行
发布日期 2017年6月2日 出版发行: Warner
只可遠觀 不可褻玩
一場黑色流行旋風將席捲而來
無法駕馭的美麗恐怖份子
樂壇全新毀滅性時尚武器
BBC「2016年度之聲」
NME Awards「最佳新人」
英倫危險甜心
杜娃黎波 Dua Lipa
Coldplay主唱克里斯馬汀
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Miguel 兩大男神加持 萬眾期待
首張同名大碟《Dua Lipa》首批限量豪華典藏版
一開口 就要你致命
*囊括已率先席捲12國冠軍+21國iTunes榜前十強的「Be The One」、登記全英金榜Top15並締造金唱片銷售的「Hotter Than Hell」、榮登全美舞曲榜冠軍的「Blow Your Mind (Mwah)」…等8首強勢單曲!
*此豪華典藏盤加收5首全新作品!
流有阿爾巴尼亞族的混血美女,全面展現令人屏息的性感嬌媚!擁有能夠在短時間內鎖定眾人目光的臉龐,姣好身材也是鎂光燈聚焦所在,被時尚界評選『下一位才華洋溢的模特兒』,無論紐約、巴黎、米蘭、倫敦等秀場,都能見到Dua Lipa的身影,不僅如此,還能寫歌、備妥一副好嗓,成為大受歌壇好評的全方位耀眼彗星,率先入席BBC年度新人風向球【Sound Of…】的2016年名單裡頭!
出生英國倫敦的Dua,曾有一段時間跟隨家人移居科索沃(Kosovo),受到搖滾歌手父親Dukagjin Lipa的影響,從小接觸大量音樂的洗禮,14歲開始翻唱鍾愛的Christina Aguilera和Nelly Furtado等歌手的暢銷作品,上傳至YouTube平台。16歲因立志成為一名歌手,搬回倫敦尋夢,憑藉著亮眼外型,率先簽入模特兒公司,有了拓展知名度的起頭。2015年如願進入華納音樂旗下,積極籌備個人首碟。兩年內推出多首暖身單曲驚艷四座,光在2016年就締造1億9千萬串流點播次數,並登上年度重要音樂祭典Lollapalooza舞台,大獲好評!
萬眾期待的首張同名大碟,廣為邀約Stephen 'KOZ' Kozmeniuk(瑪丹娜、妮姬米娜)+Emile Haynie(聯合公園、火星人布魯諾)+Nineteen85 (勞凱利、德瑞克)+Jon Levine(席琳娜、混合甜心)+Digital Farm Animals(尼力、威爾)+美國另類搖滾The A.M.成員Andrew Wyatt(馬克朗森、酷娃恰莉)等幕後高手參與寫歌製作,並飛到紐約、洛杉磯、倫敦、多倫多等地錄音。正點且強烈舞動節奏的「Lost In Your Light」,邀請新節奏藍調PBR&B潮痞代表人物Miguel伴唱,讓無限愛戀激化全身歡愉細胞;出道曲「New Love」再加上「Room For 2」,瀰漫一股黯黑流行電子氣流,吞噬著感官神經,令人憶起近年竄起的Charli XCX、Tove Lo等酷娃們的相似頻率;放大Synthpop能量的「Be The One」,傳達堅持自我信念和毅力,努力追求自己夢想的企圖心,於歐洲掀起滔天巨浪,席捲12國冠軍+21國iTunes榜前十強;登記全英金榜Top15並締造金唱片銷售的「Hotter Than Hell」,突破Spotify的8100萬串流點播次數,當紅的Tropical House元素緊密包覆,回顧一段爛透的戀情,用歌曲撫平傷口;已經穩穩佔據美國舞曲榜冠軍,快速晉陞至英國TOP30之林的「Blow Your Mind (Mwah)」,足以被火辣煽動到意亂情迷;正點破表的「Last Dance」,難以馴服的狂野美感一次享用;在一連串的勁歌熱舞之後,Acoustic吉他和R&B律動交纏的「Thinking 'Bout You」,提供一支扣人心弦的抒情小品!Dua將歌曲渲染出獨特個性,搭上巧思編曲和豐富元素堆疊,處處隱藏著讓人難以抗拒的魅力!
Visions Of A Life 豆瓣
7.5 (67 个评分) Wolf Alice 类型: 摇滚
发布日期 2017年9月29日 出版发行: RCA
The album is incredibly broad in range, refusing to be defined by one idea. From the uncompromising Yuk Foo to the infectious Beautifully Unconventional and Don’t Delete The Kisses, a dizzyingly romantic track which shows their progression and maturity as songwriters. Visions Of A Life is not an album of clichés. It is packed with surprises for those who think they know Wolf Alice. A darker, bolder, more diverse release from the biggest breakthrough independent band of recent years.
无形 豆瓣
8.5 (41 个评分) Perfume Genius 类型: 流行
发布日期 2017年5月5日 出版发行: Matador 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.
蔓延誘惑 豆瓣
8.7 (65 个评分) St. Vincent 类型: 摇滚
发布日期 2017年10月13日 出版发行: Caroline International P&D
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.
诸事此时 豆瓣
7.0 (32 个评分) Arcade Fire 类型: 摇滚
发布日期 2017年7月28日 出版发行: Columbia
Though Arcade Fire have always been comfortable making grand statements, they’ve also been generous with nuance. After joining forces with LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy on 2013’s Reflektor, the Canadian outfit bring in a similarly impressive crew of co-producers—Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter, Pulp’s Steve Mackey—for Everything Now, an album whose jaunty, disco-indebted art-rock is weighted with haunting takes on information overload (the ABBA-esque title track) and nostalgia (“Signs of Life”). “If you can’t see the forest for the trees, just burn it all down,” frontman Win Butler sings on “We Don’t Deserve Love,” a gorgeous yet disorienting ballad at the album’s conclusion. “And bring the ashes to me.”
Crack-Up 豆瓣
7.7 (15 个评分) Fleet Foxes 类型: 民谣
发布日期 2017年6月16日 出版发行: Warner
Fleet Foxes will release Crack-Up, its long-awaited and highly anticipated third album, June 16 on Nonesuch Records. Crack-Up comes six years after the 2011 release of Helplessness Blues and nearly a decade since the band's 2008 self-titled debut. All eleven of the songs on Crack-Up were written by Robin Pecknold. The album was co-produced by Pecknold and Skyler Skjelset, his longtime bandmate, collaborator, and childhood friend. Crack-Up was recorded at various locations across the United States between July 2016 and January 2017: at Electric Lady Studios, Sear Sound, The Void, Rare Book Room, Avast, and The Unknown. Phil Ek mixed the album, at Sear Sound, and it was mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound. Fleet Foxes is Robin Pecknold (vocals, multi-instrumentalist), Skyler Skjelset (multi-instrumentalist, vocals), Casey Wescott (multi-instrumentalist, vocals), Christian Wargo (multi-instrumentalist, vocals), and Morgan Henderson (multi-instrumentalist).
"A rich, ideas-driven record which pulls off a pretty unlikely feat: infusing Fleet Foxes' music with the same sense of transcendence and beauty that they managed the first time, now delivered with an added sense of expansive musical ambition. Confirms that rarest of achievements: a group somehow hanging on to the essence of who they are, while pushing their art into thrillingly unforseen places." Q Magazine
"At a time when indie-rock seems to be growing more culturally marginal by the day, Crack-Up is a defiant artistic statement, an album that dares to feel important." The New York Times
"Likely to be the most remarkable album you will hear this year...the return of one of the most original bands of this century." The Times
"Astonishing. Crack-Up may be the most anticipated release of the year; a welcome return. Ambitious, mature, meticulous." Uncut
名誉 豆瓣 Eggplant.place
7.1 (211 个评分) Taylor Swift 类型: 流行
发布日期 2017年11月10日 出版发行: Big Machine Records
★ 10座格莱美奖得主 史上最年轻格莱美最佳专辑殊荣肯定
★ 坐拥5项吉尼斯世界纪录,21项公告牌音乐奖,19座全美音乐奖,11座乡村音乐协会奖,1座艾美奖,1座全英音乐奖等共计275项奖项肯定,入围提名高达590项
★ 缔造全球1.3亿单曲下载,专辑销量破4000万张的惊人成绩,成为迄今止最畅销音乐作品的保持者之一
阔别三年, Taylor Swift第六张录音专辑《Reputation》11月10日全球发行。
专辑除Taylor一手监制外,再邀三座格莱美得主的御用搭档Jack Antonoff,金曲制单机Max Martin及Shellback等实力音乐人联袂操刀。
8月24日,Taylor Swift首支回归单曲“Look What You Made Me Do”一经释出即轰动全球并宣布Taylor Swift第六张专辑《Reputation》回归消息。首单“LWYMMD”横扫全球99国iTunes榜单冠军,刷新了美国iTunes女歌手登顶速度新纪录。发行当日凭借惊人流媒体量刷新了全球Spotify单日收听历史新绩。稳居Billboard单曲榜榜首之位的“LWYMMD”,成为了继“Shake It Off”,“Blank Space”,“Bad Blood”,“We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”之后,Taylor的第五支公告牌单曲榜冠军作品。首单创造的惊人成绩仍刷新不断,正式版MV也以首日4300万次观看写下单日点击最高记录。
随后的第二支单曲一改之前“暗黑”格调,一曲兼备electro pop及industrial pop风格的“…Ready For It?”作为宣传单曲于9月3日发行,后定档为第二支主打单曲。首周空降Billboard公告牌No.4并写下Taylor音乐史册中的第22支入围Billboard Hot 100 Top 10记录。
回归后的Taylor并不仅以“霸气”诠释新作,随后两支新单让全球乐迷重识亲和力十足的Pop Queen。两首甜蜜新单“Gorgeous”,“Call It What You Want”分别于10月20日及11月2日先后问世,风格更具Radio friendly特性,抹去最初锐气,为整张专辑增加柔情一面。
作为全球最为瞩目的音乐人之一,Taylor Swift凭借5支公告牌单曲榜冠军作品,22支Top 10全球热单,4张连冠Billboard专辑,成为史上最为成功的音乐人之一。首张个人专辑《Speak Now》(2010)空降Billboard专辑榜首位,其热单“Mean”令Taylor成功拿下两座格莱奖杯。第四张录音室专辑《Red》(2012)再度盛产燃爆全球热单“We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”及 “I Knew You Were Trouble”。上一张流行主调的《1989》(2014)凭借"Shake It Off", "Blank Space", "Bad Blood"三首霸榜美国,加拿大,澳大利亚的榜首单曲,令Taylor揽入三座格莱美奖杯,并使其成为最年轻且首位拥有两次“年度专辑”嘉奖的女性艺人。
三年之久,历经全身心投入及精心雕琢,Taylor Swift将已《Reputation》为名,开启主流音乐新纪元。
Stranger In The Alps 豆瓣
7.4 (37 个评分) Phoebe Bridgers 类型: 流行
发布日期 2017年9月22日 出版发行: Dead Oceans
Phoebe Bridgers wrote her first song at age 11, spent her adolescence at open mic nights, and busked through her teenage years at farmers markets in her native Los Angeles. By age 20, she'd caught the ear of Ryan Adams, who listened to her perform her song "Killer" in his L.A. studio, inviting her to come back and record it there the next day. The session blossomed into the three-song ‘Killer’ EP, released to much acclaim on Adams’s Pax-Am label in 2015. In the two short years since, Bridgers has toured or played with Conor Oberst, Julien Baker, City and Colour, Violent Femmes, Mitski, Television and Blake Babies among others.
On September 22nd, Phoebe Bridgers will release her debut full-length, Stranger In The Alps. From the weeping strings and Twin Peaks twangs of opening track Smoke Signals, to the simple heartbreak of Funeral and melancholic crescendo of Scott Street, Stranger in the Alps is a swooningly beautiful record with a gothic heart.
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8.4 (46 个评分) Xxxtentacion 类型: 说唱
发布日期 2017年8月25日 出版发行: Bad Vibes Forever