中离！
——生活是一句哑谜，在你想都还没想好问题究竟是什么，答案却呼之欲出。
“中离”是网路时代流行术语，
意指那些游戏才玩到一半，各种因故离开的玩家。
这一生就像是线上游戏，当每接到一个任务，就意味将要拓荒一部分阴影地图，或解锁更新的关卡。这款游戏的目标只有一个：认识你自己。直到你“登出”的那天，你能回馈给游戏的，就是你每次做选择时，你内心中的信念和专注。
在这场长达“六十万小时”的开放任务里，你可能会玩到一场别人已经玩过的游戏；也不一定你玩得很吃力，却透过和同在的玩家们一起狂欢过、争吵过，而合解过、道别过。
有一条特别窄的道路在这款游戏，专门服务那些不满足于普通玩法的职业型选手，他们走上这条路，就像点选高难度模式。纵使每一次战斗都可能旋即输尽，但不同的惊险历程却也伴随最高意志的低语，只要你准备好，祂便会告诉你那把终极钥匙在何处。
从最高难度游戏过关的人，即自动中离且不受到任何游戏惩罚！中离者将与每一世代的中离者们相遇；正因为他们都曾展现同一种过人勇气，所以他们是心心相映的。他们也将永驻青春，在隐藏的伺服器里携手维持有意识的和谐，而他们获得的奖赏？是接近无所不能。
邱比沉迷于时空之外，透过写歌和内心的真我连结，从混乱臣服当下。
11首独特视角的先锋歌词跟未来世代无缝接轨，邱比的极简之曲透过沈安华丽的西岸风格，共谱当今流行之最；邱比邀请义大利电音诗人Alfa Hydri为《中离》作序、平面设计师龙佑玟再度设计专辑封面。
一面是刚烈真情的激流，一面是遗世独立的雍容。邱比把他最大的希望寄托在未知，用《中离》携手他的乐迷们一起脱胎换骨，成为出凡入圣的平衡探险者。
“这张新专辑声音听起来非常清脆、干净、瞬态好！『纯粹』是最高赞誉。听众可以第一次好好地认识我的歌声。利用全新的麦克风与有别以往的唱歌方式，全辑在人声处理上做到了自然的现场感，一口气听完，像一趟神奇的旅程。”—— 邱比
当你一鼓作气听完《中离》，你全身的小细胞都会开始用最鲜活的方式运作，最初可能有点辛苦，但不久后你就会越来越舒缓。紧追那无声的悸动，他会引领你穿越时空，发现古老的无限矿藏！

Start to finish, FLOTUS is imbued with that magic energy that comes when an artist stumbles upon the thrill of the new—something that makes them crazy enough to want to start the whole process over again. The album is bookended by two long-form pieces: the first, “In Care of 8675309,” is most reminiscent of where Lambchop has been, while the second, the sprawling, hypnotic “The Hustle,” suggests where they might still be headed. The latter seamlessly shifts between movements, a foundation suggestive of krautrock and early electronic music, gorgeously ornamented with perfectly placed piano and horns. Drawing upon a diverse palate of influences and transcending each one, it’s a stunning piece of work—certainly one of the most impressive achievements of Lambchop’s catalogue.
Watching an established artist work with a new set of tools is a gift and a true litmus test for authenticity—the result depending not on the tools, but on the unique sensibilities of the artist using them. FLOTUS is anchored by those sensibilities and is brimming with the many hallmarks of Lambchop’s catalogue: the same beautifully nuanced arrangements, the same unparalleled ability to capture the eternal in life’s quotidian struggles. Kurt Wagner has made a new path to the same old joys, and in the process, he found a record that sounds like no one else—or, completely, unmistakably, like himself.

Modeselektor & Apparat reunite for the sublime and succinctly titled 'II'. With peerless production sheen and the lushest intentions they bridge the gap between classy Teutonic trance, garage-grooved UK soul music and ambient indie-pop on eleven exquisite compositions. Sascha Ring aka Apparat's voice is a key factor, coming off like Thom Yorke's sweeter, blue-eyed soul brother for the most part, while the production is an insoluble combination of their tastes exhibited via the Monkeytown label, and that classic feel for pill-belly melody and intricate, involving arrangement equally adept at enhancing your headphone commute as it is to soundtracking stadiums and heaving clubs. The ghost of Burial looms large throughout, haunting its clipped 2-step rhythms and forlorn melodic figures from the lonely interlude to the depressed voices and snappy punctuation of 'Ilona', keeping each song teetering on the balance of soul wallow and euphoric salvation. The previous single 'Bad Kingdom' is the most obvious highlight, but our favourites moments lie in the brooding ten minute drone techno ascendance of 'Milk', and the wet-eyed trance tingle and woodblock grooves of 'Therapy'. We're sure you'll have your own percy, though, it's just one of those that albums that you can't deny on many levels.

Son Lux has gone from the solo project of Ryan Lott to a trio, featuring Ian Chang on drums and Rafiq Bhatia on guitar. They have announced their forthcoming LP Bones, the follow-up to 2013’s Lanterns and last year’s Alternate Worlds EP, and it’s due out June 23 via Glassnote.
In addition to announcing the record and personnel changes, Son Lux have premiered the first single “Change is Everything” via NPR. The track expands on the immediacy of Lanterns and seems to be geared to a larger audience, masterfully honing huge melodies to go along with the, at times, dark and propulsive pulse of Son Lux’s music.

Montreal band Braids have announced their new album, Deep In The Iris. This is their third LP and the follow-up to their sophomore album, Flourish // Perish.
Driven by roomy acoustic instrumentation and tasteful electronics, Deep In The Iris is easily Braids’ sunniest and most immediate record. While the icy, airless production of their second album Flourish // Perish suited the songs’ inward gaze, the widescreen warmth and full-bodied punch of Deep In The Iris are the perfect complement to its unflinching lyricism. -Arbutus Records

Experimental pop shooting star Paul Dixon aka FYFE has comprehensive their lengthy anticipated introduce longplayer. Control is the identify for the report that comes on March 9 via Believe. It might function 11 monitors, such as the earlier revealed components For You and Conversations. The musician additionally added their song Lies for NOTHING BUT HOPE AND PASSION‘s free download sampling station Nothing But… Dreampop, previous this present year. Furthermore, FYFE also launched a whole new tunes video clip nowadays. Consider Holding On right here.

Trans Am will return this spring with their 10th studio album. Fittingly titled Volume X, the upcoming effort arrives May 20 via Thrill Jockey Records. Recorded at San Francisco's LCR Studios, the full-length is armed with 10 mostly instrumental tracks that the post-rock outfit produced themselves.

On Metronomy's new Love Letters, songwriter Joseph Mount arrives with another rearview glance at pop and rock history, aging backwards into a gray space between late psych and early glam.

Son Lux's new LP Lanterns isn't piecemeal beats or hastily assembled instrumental clutter, rather it begs to be heard as the lingua franca of the past and the future, something that connects the analog and digital realms. And sometimes it totally gets close.