后摇界里总有那么几支地球人都知道的鼻祖级乐队。他们即使隔了好几年没有新作品问世，人们也会比记任何一支优秀的新乐队都更要清楚的记住他们曾经的经典。人们习惯性的把他们作为真理般的评价标准，与他们作品相似度越高的作品就是好作品。一旦这样的乐队有意无意的整出一丁点的风吹草动，所有人的眼睛就会在第一时间齐刷刷的投到他们身上。当然更不要说是在沉寂三年后推出新专辑。我卖了这么大的一个关子，我想其实也没什么过分的。因为你们大概都已经猜到，我要说的是Mogwai.。
距2003年的Happy Songs For Happy People时隔三年，Mogwai终于将于2006年3月7日发行第五张录音室专辑Mr. Beast。这对现如今不景气的Post-rock市场来说，无疑是一副加强型的强心剂。三年前的Happy Songs For Happy People，是一张让大部分从一开始就喜欢Mogwai的乐迷们大跌眼镜的专辑：Mogwai这是怎么了？完全没有了当年Rock.Action的狂野，愤怒和爆裂，完全是一副安安静静慢悠悠的念经讲故事的派头，难道Mogwai开始收敛魔鬼锋芒改走温情路线了吗？这对每个他们音乐的狂热爱好者来说都是一种极富毁灭性的暗示。包括我在内。于是在那之后的几年内，我们只好带着不安期待着他们的下一次爆发。
Mr. Beast是Mogwai成立11年来的第5张录音室专辑。由Matador Records发行，在Glasgow的Castle Of Doom录音室录制完成，耗时6个月。由Tony Doogan操刀制作，也就是为他们制作过Happy Songs For Happy People和Rock Action的制作人。第9首“I Chose Horses”中，Craig Armstrong客串了键盘部分，日本Hardcore乐队Envy前主唱Tetsuya Fukagawa在此献声。
真正引人入胜感人肺腑的Post-rock是残酷地美丽着的。Mowai毋庸置疑是这方面的典范。他们最懂得如何置衡残忍与优雅(Happy Songs For Happy People是唯一例外的一次“优雅过度”事故)。在Mr. Beast中，Mowai完全回归到了最佳状态：惊心动魄的吉他噪音，精致尖锐的钢琴片段，广袤空旷的音景空间。温情，这个越来越多后摇乐队开始一味的大范围应用的主题，在Mowai此次的专辑中也不可避免的出现，然而幸好是被保持在了一个相当合理的剂量内。吉他手/主唱Stuart Braithwaite这样阐释新专辑的原动力：“我们在制作这张专辑的时候，有意识的尝试要把它做的更加吵闹，因为我们开始意识到在我们的现场演出和录音室专辑中存在着巨大的差别。这是毫无理由的。所以我们希望能做出一张可以在现场演出中同样能大放光彩的录音室专辑。因为我们喜欢在舞台上演出那些经过我们努力创作得到的作品。”事实证明，Mr. Beast确实是一张极具舞台爆发力的作品。
“那种quiet-loud/quiet-loud结构好象已经成为了我们的标签，但现在那已经变成陈词滥调。” Stuart补充到，“现在有太多人开始在他们的音乐中使用这种结构，所以我们在这张专辑中开始有意识的避免它。其实并非我们发明了它，但是好象人们觉得这就是我们所做的一切，似乎我们的音乐是和这种公式绑在一起的。并且我们其实已经开始厌倦了自己音乐中的这个部分。我们曾在“Like Herod”(97年的Young Team)中将这种结构发挥到了极至，现在我们觉得这种模式已经没什么可再深入发展的空间了。结束了这种模式之后我们进行了一些安静极简风格的尝试(比如03年的Happy Songs For Happy People)。但之后我们发现，在创新的过程中，我们的作品中缺失了很大一部分对Mogwai而言尤为宝贵的噪音！现在我们很高兴能在这张专辑中回归到了原来的状态。因为从某种意义上说，那是构成Mogwai音乐至关重要的一部分。尽管新专辑中大概只有25%的部分可以算是真正意义上的吵闹，但毕竟这次我们是从创作一开始就有意识去注意的这个问题的。”这是乐队成员“重返正道”的悔悟，同时也是每个Mogwai乐迷最欣然看到的“浪子回头”。
Mr. Beast以一曲“Auto Rock”开场。这可能是Mogwai继Young Team 中的“Yes I am a Long Way From Home”以后最棒的一首开场作品。以一段简单淡定，另人微感不安的钢琴主题展开，随后钢琴逐渐被渐强的吉他和与钢琴同步节奏连续击打的鼓点所吞没，场景十分宏大；接下来的“Glasgow Mega-Snake”则是一首标准Mogwai风格作品，这是我听过他们近几张专辑中最过瘾的一首：疯狂脱序的吉他群猛刷，瞬间在你耳边构建起一堵厚实的噪音墙，阵势相当庞大，它带着熔炉般的炽热，你的内心随之急速的颠簸，碰撞，最后塌陷。这首作品的短小精悍，凭空之间瞬间纠集的爆发力，以及最直接的噪音轰炸，都充分证明了Stuart Braithwaite所希望的一切都成真了。他们不再需要quite部分的铺垫，直接loud，照样能做出最震撼的Post-rock。这也是专辑中一个很明显的特点：所有作品几乎均直接切入主题，没有铺垫和罗嗦，最长的一曲也不过5分46秒，整张专辑全长不过40分。这着实拯救了那些被困在现在一些冗长拖沓又缺乏高潮的Post-rock作品中昏昏欲睡的耳朵。
第三曲“Acid Food”，是一首相对温情的作品，加入了Stuart的人声部分，吉他音色温暖而庸懒，有些迷幻的感觉。但这次的尝试似乎略显平庸，并没法和几年前乐队全盛时期专辑中的这类作品相媲美。第四首“Travel is Dangerous”同样也是一首加入人声的作品，是继第二首“Glasgow Mega-Snake”之后新一轮的爆裂，也是我在整张专辑中最喜欢的一首作品。黑暗，天旋地转，金属般的冰冷，你会听到Mogwai久违的残酷。Stuart的声音与器乐融为一体，爆炸的时候各自为营；在此之后的几首作品：Team Handed，Friend of the Night，Emergency Trap，都比较舒缓，把听者的心跳节奏从刚才的喷涌中减慢下来，均采用了漂亮的钢琴旋律搭配简单吉他Riff的形式。
第9首“I Chose Horses”是这张专辑中相当特别的一支作品。Craig Armstrong行云流水般舒缓的钢琴旋律，日本Hardcore乐队Envy主唱那低沉极富磁性的念白，我惊叹这竟是Mogwai的作品。这其中仍然潜在着某种内敛的诡异。第10首“We’re No Here”是最后一爆，而且也是最澎湃的一次。积蓄的最后力量在此一涌而尽，这是野兽最后的咆哮，它愤怒的朝你踉跄而来，然后准确的将你的身心撕裂。这是个高调的结局，我们每个人都欣然瞑目。
有很可观的一部分人认为Mogwai的音乐是极度绝望的。对此乐队成员Stuart Braithwaite持有非议：“我很纳闷儿为什么人们会觉得我们的音乐另人沮丧和充满绝望的，因为我发现只有坏音乐才会另人沮丧。我们都认为悲伤的音乐会出奇的使人振奋，而我们的音乐就应该属于这种悲伤。”确实，在Mr. Beast中，表象似乎是绝望的，可你会从音乐中找到出口，至少是愤怒的冲动。
也许Mogwai的这张Mr. Beast比起曾经的那几张经典作品来说，并没有太多建设性的突破；也许作为后摇界最大的一个腕儿，他们今天再发新作并不能像昔日那样对整个音乐界带来过于轰动的效果；也许，也许…………让我说，也许个屁！我们曾经痴迷的魔鬼好不容易重生了，我们爱的不就是他那份最本色的愤怒、残酷和邪恶吗？那响彻于我们心底的强悍噪音，正是Mogwai为每个没有灵魂的人设计的一次震撼教育。
(转自网易音乐)

With 750 million streams under his belt, Novo Amor’s first new music for 2021 is ‘Haven’ - a single lifted from the OST of a very anticipated new video game. The track also headlines the game’s first trailer, out March 18
Novo Amor follows the release of his second album 'Cannot Be, Whatsoever' with 'Haven', a beautiful new track lifted from the OST of the next installment of a highly anticipated new video game (title confidential). ‘Haven’ also headlines the game's first trailer released March 18th, and fans can look forward to discovering this delicate arrangement of strings, fingerpicked banjo and his now trademark falsetto, in the game itself later this year. Since release in November 2020, 'Cannot Be, Whatsoever' has quickly amassed 30 million streams across platforms taking Novo Amor's total streams to over 750 million. Novo Amor is Ali Lacey. He lives in Cardiff, in a house that’s part-home, part-studio, a place where the distant chatter of a party across the street, Bonfire Night fireworks and the seagulls that congregate on the building site next door bleed into his recordings. He began Novo Amor as a project of sorts - an act of defiance in the wake of a break-up, but along the way, quite unexpectedly, he found something rich and rewarding.

If you'd claimed just a few years ago that Shura would make an album exploring "all that love is', few would have been as surprised as Aleksandra Denton herself (nicknamed Shura at a young age). Ever since the 2014 viral hit 'Touch' - and it's stunning video in which Shura, crucially, ended up alone - an impassioned global fanbase have awaited another record of heartbreak anthems. And when Shura started work on 'forevher', she did so at her most tired and homesick, setting up shop in Minneapolis at the close of a two- year tour cycle for her debut album, 'Nothing's Real'. Here, "religion (u can lay your hands on me)' - along with the seeds of the Minneapolis sound - eventually became a lynchpin for the rest of the album. Just as importantly, it was in Minneapolis that Shura began talking to her current girlfriend online. 'forevher,' then, is a record born from a budding romance, covering everything from the initial pull of desire, to the giddy joy of nally being together, to recognising the moment when the connection develops from lust into something scarily meaningful. Here is a classic London-to-NYC love story, but one told through the lter of dating apps and Skype chats. And whilst how to live - and love - as a queer woman has always been integral to Shura, it's remarkable to hear these stories twisted through such a gorgeous amalgam of in uences: Joni Mitchell and Minnie Riperton, Bon Iver and Frank Ocean, Prince and Ariel Pink. Through these inspirations, Shura's own modern, outlier perspective found a newer, more daring approach to sound and song. The luxurious groove of "side effects' shakes off the shackles of past love, chie y saying goodbye "to that more anxious iteration of me. I don't miss her.' "religion (u can lay your hands on me),' meanwhile, is an unabashedly queer sex-jam - free of guilt, long-term future, and faith itself. As the album progresses, so too does the relationship deepen, with the risks and rewards getting greater and greater. 'forevher' is an album that feels the fear and does it anyway: "princess leia' considers the fact real love means having so much more to lose. Elsewhere, "BKLYNLDN' looks at romantic longing through the lens of texts, anxiety-inducing silences, and what presence and absence really means in today's relationships. The record closes on the epic "skyline,' which builds to an explosive crescendo before levelling out to peace in a way that evokes some of the lusher, linear moments on Frank Ocean's 'Blonde'. For Shura, this soundtracks not only her nal relocation to New York but also a much deeper journey as an artist and young woman. 'forevher' feels the same as it's creator: a little sharper, a little wiser.

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We are pleased to announce Wolf Alice’s debut album ‘My Love Is Cool’ is now available to pre-order on CD and Vinyl. The LP, released on June 22nd, is pressed on gold double heavyweight vinyl with download code and limited edition (first 1000) signed art card.
Long-awaited and feverishly anticipated, Wolf Alice’s debut comes with lofty expectations. Fittingly, then, it’s a record that reaches for the stratosphere. Equal parts gigantic guitars and wistful, wilting beauty, My Love Is Cool is a timeless collection of songs that outweighs any preconceived notions of what Wolf Alice are, or can be.

Brand new album from one of the United Kingdom's most successful exports, former One Direction member Harry Styles.
Features the track 'Lights Up'.
Harry Styles topped the charts, toured the world, and sold millions of albums before going solo in 2016. Born in Redditch, England in 1994, Styles was raised in Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, and he made his first foray into music with a high-school band named White Eskimo.
In 2010, he left home and joined the seventh season of The X Factor, where fate (and Simon Cowell) would eventually lead him toward a life-changing opportunity with four other young men. As One Direction, Styles and his group mates Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, and Liam Payne would release five albums from 2011 to 2015, hitting number one across the globe and selling millions of records to an adoring and rabid fan base that drew comparisons to the fervor at the height of Beatlemania.
In early 2016, after Malik had already parted ways with 1D, the remaining foursome announced their indefinite hiatus. Months later, Styles signed a solo deal with Columbia Records. Reflecting the influence of childhood favorites like Queen, Elton John, and the Beatles, Styles' solo material took a more serious and rock-based approach, while still delivering the pop sound his faithful 1D fans desired.
With the help of Grammy-winning producer Jeff Bhasker (who had worked with Kanye West and Bruno Mars), Styles put together a small band and, after rehearsing the songs, headed to Jamaica for two months to record an album. The self-titled, full-length work was released in May 2017.

The album was produced by Dave Fridmann (Mogwai, Mercury Rev, The Flaming Lips) and features guests Atticus Ross (Nine Inch Nails) and Colin Stetson (saxophonist who has collaborated with Bon Ivor, Arcade Fire). Recorded at Vada Studios, England by Tony Doogan (Grey Dogs, Mogwai, Belle & Sebastian) with Fridmann in full remote control from the US.
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This new album will please old fans and gain new as it has something for everyone. Both transcendent and surprising, As The Love Continues shows that Mogwai are still offering solace from the mundane, supplying the soundtrack to whatever movie you are making in your head.

Third single off their critically acclaimed sophomore album, 'The Bends', originally released in 1995, backed with three non-LP tracks, acoustic versions of 'Fake Plastic Trees', 'Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was' and 'Street Spirit (Fade Out)'. Slimline jewel case.

Horsebeach are a four piece from Manchester, UK who make dreamy, jangly indie-pop.
Ryan Kennedy - Vocals, Guitar, Synths
Matt Booth - Backing Vocals, Drums
Thomas Featherstone - Guitar, Backing Vocals
Tom Critchley - Bass

制作人：Bernard Butler

◎入列「摇滚名人殿堂」和英国「音乐名人堂」伟大前卫摇滚乐团Pink Floyd灵魂传奇最新大碟
◎继《Amused to Death》之后睽违近25年推出回归摇滚的概念大碟，探讨下一代的孩童安危问题，也触及现今社会乱象、充斥暴力恐惧的氛围
◎耗时七年之久的筹备录音，再度力邀曾与Paul McCartney、U2、Radiohead合作的天王製作人Nigel Godrich掌舵，同时招揽Atoms For Peace的Joey Waronker等独立乐团好手助阵
Roger Waters, the creative power and songwriting force behind Pink Floyd, presents Is This The Life We Really Want ?, his first rock al bum in 25 years. The album is produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Paul McCartney, Beck, U2, "From the Basement"), and includes 12 new Roger Waters musical compositions and studio performances.
Roger Waters' last studio album, 1992's Amused To Death, was a prescient study of popular culture, exploring the power of television in the era of the First Gulf War. This long-awaited follow-up, Is This The Life We Really Want ?, is an unflinching commentary on the modern world and uncertain times, and a natural successor to such classic Pink Floyd albums as Animals and The Wall.
Tracks on Is This The Life We Really Want ? include: "When We Were Young," "Déjà vu," "The Last Refugee," "Picture That," "Broken Bones," "The Life We Really Want," "A Bird In A Gale," "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," "Smell the Roses," "Wait For Her," "Oceans Apart," and "Part of Me Died." The lyrics for Wait for Her were written by Roger Waters and inspired by an English translation by an unknown author of "Lesson from the Kama Sutra (Wait for Her)," by Mahmoud Darwish.
The musicians on Is This The Life We Really Want? are: Roger Waters (vocals, acoustic, bass), Nigel Godrich (arrangement, sound collages, keyboards, guitar), Gus Seyffert (bass, guitar, keyboards), Jonathan Wilson (guitar, keyboards), Joey Waronker (drums), Roger Mannning (keyboards), Lee Pardini (keyboards) and Lucius (vocals) with Jessica Wolfe and Holly Proctor.

1 Atom Heart Mother: Father's Shout/Breast Milky/Mother Fore/Funky Dung Geesin, Gilmour, Mason, Waters ... 23:44
Composed by: Geesin, Gilmour, Mason, Waters, Wright
2 If Waters 4:30
3 Summer '68 Wright 5:29
4 Fat Old Sun Gilmour 5:22
5 Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast: Rise and Shine/Sunny Side Up/Morning ... Gilmour, Mason, Waters, Wright 13:00

A Moon Shaped Pool is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, produced by Nigel Godrich. It was released as a download on 8 May 2016. CD and LP editions will be released on 17 June 2016, followed by a "special edition" in September, containing two additional songs. Soon after its release the album was played in its entirety on BBC Radio 6 Music, presented by Tom Robinson.

來自英國倫敦的樂隊 The xx 用他們的首張專輯《xx》驚艷四座，開篇一曲《Intro》便以獨特的重覆結他 riff 奠定了專輯基調：幽靜而略帶哀愁的節拍，淡然且迷蒙飄忽的唱腔，再加上詩意盎然的詞句，為聽眾勾勒出一系列冷洌的畫面。《VCR》中由空靈清響的前奏漸入，淺唱愛情的甜蜜；而在《Heart Skipped a Beat》中則以增強了的節奏帶動聽者脈搏，以簡約風格彰顯複雜情緒。

Low is the eleventh studio album by English singer David Bowie, released on RCA Records in January 1977. Recorded largely in France following Bowie's move to West Berlin and decision to break his drug dependence, Low became the first of three collaborations with musician Brian Eno and producer Tony Visconti later termed the "Berlin Trilogy". The album marked a shift in Bowie's musical style toward an electronic and avant-garde approach that would be further explored on subsequent albums "Heroes" (1977) and Lodger (1979).
Though it was initially met with mixed critical reviews, Low has since become widely acclaimed as one of Bowie's best and most influential works.