2020
Set My Heart On Fire Immediately 豆瓣
7.9 (41 个评分) Perfume Genius 类型: 流行
发布日期 2020年5月15日 出版发行: Matador
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
how I'm feeling now 豆瓣
7.6 (42 个评分) 查莉XCX Charli XCX 类型: 流行
发布日期 2020年5月15日 出版发行: Asylum Records / Atlantic UK
How I'm Feeling Now (stylized in all lowercase) is the fourth studio album by English singer and songwriter Charli XCX, it was released on 15 May 2020. The album is a "do-it-yourself" collaborative process with Charli XCX involving her fans in the recording process. The recording and title were inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. In April A. G. Cook and BJ Burton were named as the album's executive producers.
Petals For Armor 豆瓣
6.7 (19 个评分) Hayley Williams 类型: 摇滚
发布日期 2020年5月8日 出版发行: Atlantic
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
Song for Our Daughter 豆瓣
8.0 (24 个评分) Laura Marling 类型: 民谣
发布日期 2020年4月10日 出版发行: Chrysalis
My new album Song For Our Daughter is coming out this week, ahead of our planned schedule. In light of the change to all our circumstances, I saw no reason to hold back on something that, at the very least, might entertain, and at its best, provide some sense of union.
It’s strange to watch the facade of our daily lives dissolve away, leaving only the essentials; those we love and our worry for them. An album, stripped of everything that modernity and ownership does to it, is essentially a piece of me, and I’d like for you to have it. I’d like for you, perhaps, to hear a strange story about the fragmentary, nonsensical experience of trauma and an enduring quest to understand what it is to be a woman in this society. When I listen back to it now, it makes more sense to me then when I wrote it. My writing, as ever, was months, years, in front of my conscious mind. It was there all along, guiding me gently through the chaos of living. And that, in itself, describes the sentiment of the album — how would I guide my daughter, arm her and prepare her for life and all of its nuance? I’m older now, old enough to have a daughter of my own, and I feel acutely the responsibility to defend The Girl. The Girl that might be lost, torn from innocence prematurely or unwittingly fragmented by forces that dominate society. I want to stand behind her and whisper in her ear all the confidences and affirmations I had found so difficult to provide myself. This album is that strange whisper; a little distorted, a little out of sequence, such is life.
I want you to have it.
--Laura Marling
The New Abnormal 豆瓣
8.7 (155 个评分) The Strokes 类型: 摇滚
发布日期 2020年4月10日 出版发行: RCA Records
The NYC band’s first album in seven years is sluggish and slight, rendering their signature sound as background music.
color theory 豆瓣
7.3 (26 个评分) Soccer Mommy 类型: 电子
发布日期 2020年2月28日 出版发行: Caroline
Wise beyond her years, Allison is a songwriter capable of capturing the fleeting moments of bliss that make an embattled existence temporarily beautiful. With color theory, Allison’s fraught past becomes a lens through which we might begin to understand what it means to be resilient.
'color theory' investigates a traumatic past in exacting detail; in doing so, Allison finds inroads for healing through self-acceptance, and occasionally, humor. (“I’m the princess of screwing up!” she declares at one point.) This isn’t a quest to uncover some long-since forgotten happiness so much as it is an effort to stare-down the turmoil of adolescence that can haunt a person well into adulthood. Allison is a gifted storyteller, one who is able to take personal experience and project it to universal scale. On 'color theory', she beckons in outsiders, rejects, and anyone who has ever felt desperately alone in this world, lending them a place to unburden themselves and be momentarily free.
Circles 豆瓣
8.5 (37 个评分) 麦克米勒 Mac Miller 类型: 说唱
发布日期 2020年1月17日 出版发行: WARNER BROS / WEA
Circles is the upcoming sixth studio album by American rapper Mac Miller. It was being worked on by Miller before his death, and will be released posthumously on January 17, 2020, by Warner Records. Production was completed by Jon Brion.
黑潮時刻 豆瓣
8.1 (166 个评分) The Weeknd 类型: 放克/灵歌/R&B
发布日期 2020年3月20日 出版发行: Island
The Weeknd release their fourth album album, 'After Hours.'
The Weeknd is the alias of alternative Canadian R&B enigma-turned-pop star A bel Tesfaye, whose aching accounts of emotionally and physically toxic indulgences have translated into mass recognition. The singer and songwriter made his early-2010s breakthrough with morose ballads that seemed to have no designs on mainstream appeal. Within a few years, however, he was at the top of the charts and the rest is history.
Fourteen tracks total, Including 'Heartless', 'Blinding Lights' and 'After Hours'.
Fetch the Bolt Cutters 豆瓣
8.8 (107 个评分) Fiona Apple 类型: 流行
发布日期 2020年4月17日 出版发行: Sony Music Entertainment
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.
恆久傳說 豆瓣
8.1 (212 个评分) Taylor Swift 类型: 民谣
发布日期 2020年12月11日 出版发行: Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift的第九张录音室专辑,距离上一张专辑《folklore》的发布仅五个月,是其 "姊妹专辑"。
这张专辑以室内摇滚和独立摇滚为基调,在《folklore》的独立民谣/乡村风格基础上进行扩展,并围绕其之前未曾谈论过的一组新颖的叙事故事。
《evermore》专辑中还邀请了老朋友Bon Iver、HAIM和The National客串演唱,首发当日由Swift执导的主打单曲〈willow〉的MV也同步公开,专辑受到音乐评论家的普遍赞誉。
Djesse Vol. 3 豆瓣
8.7 (13 个评分) Jacob Collier 类型: 放克/灵歌/R&B
发布日期 2020年8月14日 出版发行: Hajanga Records
Djesse Vol. 3 is the third record in the Djesse series by Jacob Collier. Djesse is a planned collection of four volumes which was announced 29 October 2018, each record describing a different part of the day. The title Djesse, which is pronounced with a silent D (/ˈdʒɛsi/), is a reference to Collier's own initials.
Future Nostalgia 豆瓣
8.3 (190 个评分) Dua Lipa 类型: 流行
发布日期 2020年3月27日 出版发行: 华纳唱片
英伦新势力Dua Lipa全新专辑“Future Nostalgia”正式发行!2021年部分巡演场次现已公布。
“来自一位敢于袒露真心的明星的完美流行乐。” -5星满分评价,NME杂志
“重新塑造这个时代的迪斯科舞曲” -5星满分评价,《Wonderland》杂志
“这张专辑将改变她的职业生涯和整个流行音乐格局” -5星满分评价,《The Irish Times》
Dua Lipa备受期待的全新专辑“Future Nostalgia”现已正式发行,共收录了包括全球大热单曲“Don’t Start Now”、“Physical”以及最新释出的单曲“Break My Heart”在内的11支单曲。
Dua Lipa回忆起当时确定这个新方向时的场景,“我当时在拉斯维加斯,刚刚结束一档广播节目,一边听着OutKast(嘻哈双人组,1993年发行第一支单曲)和No Doubt(1987年组建的美国摇滚乐队),一边散步。我当时想,这些唱片至今仍然是我所钟爱并与之息息相关的,为什么我觉得歌曲一点都没有过时?我怎样才能做出这种既有怀旧感,又不和现代脱节的作品?”于是“Future Nostalgia”便诞生了。
2019年底,Dua Lipa在MTV EMAs、ARIAs、AMA等颁奖典礼上惊艳亮相并表演了单曲“Don’t Start Now”,迄今单曲播放量已超5亿。自2015年发行首支单曲,Dua Lipa就成为了炙手可热的年轻艺人之一。她的首张同名专辑“Dua Lipa”全球销量超400万,单曲销量超6000万,一举成为Spotify史上播放量最高的女歌手专辑,同时她也是YouTube播放量过十亿的最年轻的女独唱歌手。
2021年,Dua Lipa将开启“Future Nostalgia”主题巡演。
沉醉音乐的女人 豆瓣
8.2 (66 个评分) HAIM 类型: 摇滚
发布日期 2020年6月26日 出版发行: Polydor
Women in Music Pt. III is the third studio album by American band Haim. It was released through Columbia Records on June 26, 2020. The album was originally set for release on April 24, 2020 but was delayed due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and "the changing nature of travel policies and quarantines across the world." The album's release was later moved to June 26. It was produced by Danielle Haim, Rostam Batmanglij and Ariel Rechtshaid, and was preceded by the singles "Summer Girl", "Now I'm in It" and "Hallelujah". The song "The Steps" was released alongside the album pre-order.
Chilombo 豆瓣
7.5 (13 个评分) Jhene Aiko 类型: 放克/灵歌/R&B
发布日期 2020年3月6日 出版发行: Def Jam Recordings
美国灵魂歌手,词曲作者Jhené Aiko发布第三张录音室专辑《Chilombo》,H.E.R., Future, Miguel, John Legend, Nas, Ty Dolla $ign等群星助阵!
民间故事 / 民俗志 / 民间传说 / 霉丽传说 Eggplant.place 豆瓣
7.8 (282 个评分) Taylor Swift 类型: 民谣
发布日期 2020年7月23日 出版发行: Republic Records
The album was conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic. Aaron Dessner of The National was isolating and quarantining with his family, when Swift had approached him in late April to write some songs remotely together. 11 songs were written with Dessner over the next few months, while the others were written with Jack Antonoff, William Bowery and Bon Iver. "I thought it would take a while for song ideas to come and I had no expectations as far as what we could accomplish remotely," Dessner wrote in his tweet, "But a few hours after sharing music, my phone lit up with a voice memo from Taylor of a fully written song -- the momentum never really stopped."
The album's release was announced by Swift on her social media accounts hours before its midnight, July 24, 2020, launch. It follows her seventh studio albumLover, released almost a year prior. The album has eight deluxe CDs and vinyls that are only available for a week for the physical copies, all of which have different covers and photos.
An accompanying music videofor the lead single "Cardigan" will be released along with the album.
Pick Me Up Off The Floor 豆瓣
7.8 (12 个评分) Norah Jones 类型: 爵士
发布日期 2020年6月12日 出版发行: Blue Note
Norah Jones didn't mean to make another album. After she finished touring 2016's Day Breaks — her beloved return to piano-based jazz — she walked away from the well-worn album cycle grind and into an unfamiliar territory without boundaries: a series of short sessions with an ever-changing array of collaborators resulting in a diverse stream of singles (with Mavis Staples, Rodrigo Amarante, Thomas Bartlett, Tarriona Tank Ball, and more). But then an odd thing happened. Slowly but surely, the session songs Jones hadn't released congealed into that very thing she'd meant to avoid — an album, lucky for us. Because Pick Me Up Off The Floor is not some disjointed collage. It holds together beautifully, connected by the sly groove of her piano trios, lyrics that confront loss and portend hope, and a heavy mood that leans into darkness before ultimately finding the light.
In This Moment 豆瓣
Polly Scattergood 类型: 流行
发布日期 2020年7月3日 出版发行: Future Paradise
Polly Scattergood returns with her fourth studio album, In This Moment. Sonically, the album is powerful and cinematic, scattered with moments of raw intimacy and delicate soundscapes. Encompassing grief and joy in equal measure, the album documents various snap shots of life including her journey towards motherhood. Each song is a snapshot of a moment in time. Like a soundtrack to a compendium of photographs, it is a collection of experiences that come together to create an album.
In part documenting Polly’s journey towards motherhood, encompassing grief and joy in equal measure, some moments are older than others, but all are now reflected upon from a slightly new perspective. Polly began recording this album shortly after having her first child, and on a very human level felt this massive sense of freedom, peace, and also wonderment which opened her up artistically to writing again.
Sonically, she loves music which feeds her, hearing new things on each listen, and so tried to create many layers and textures within the sounds…fires crackling…breathing. She even had a few field recordings of bells and the sea from time living in Fuerteventura a few years ago. Polly and her producer, Glenn Kerrigan, weaved them into the soundscape very subtly, so occasionally you will catch glimpses of them. Worlds within worlds.