Lior's sound is a rootsy mix of styles that always harks back to the lyric and melody. The album itself is grounded in the late 60's / early 70's songwriter era, however the arrangements and production approach are quite contemporary. Artists such as Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Nick Drake and Rufus Wainwright are called to mind. It is Lior's voice that has drawn most attention, capable of both power and tenderness, always delivered with soul in its truest sense.

How should we define the Dana hilliot's personality with a few words? That's an amazing game, but it seems that a biography would be more suitable for such a character, or maybe an epitaph, to make it truly short. Well, let's say in bulk and without any hierarchy: Dana Hilliot... Low-fi storyteller, slow-core crooner, indie-folk ambassador, soft-porno songwriter, serial-lover, serial-loser, ex-punk who became a neo-hippie, joyful depressive person, prince of his own darkness, and pretty rough guitarist... The songs of Mr Hilliot wear a serious background on their shoulders, and they won't try to deny it. Yet, this background never changes into a burden: everything is said with a few lines, just the essentials, three minimalistic chords and a steady voice without settings, nor pathos. In his music, grief can be blunt or bucolic, anyway it remains expiating most of the time. Every exhumed memory calls for redemption, so Dana sings his ghosts _ particularly women_, ghosts of fifteen years sometimes, that he lets revive without tearing, nor bitterness. And of course, there is grace too, liveliness, desire, in a corner of nature, earthly or feminine nature... A celebration of timeless feelings, a semblance of inner peace, even if troubles are never really far with that tender schizophrenic guy. That's probably why he decided to invite other musicians on his first album, to feel a little less alone in front of his many internal demons... Therefore, the recordings took place with an occasional band (after a series of solo demos), in April 2004. The crasy idea was to gather six people in two rooms, without a window, for three days. Dana called his friends (Delphine Dori, Jullian Angel, Lunt, The wedding soundtrack, Half asleep) and explained his idea to them. The friends liked the idea, heaven knows why... But the idea was especially to extract a dozen of tracks from master Dana, and transform them to various degrees. Here is the result : 50 minutes of spontaneous folk, dark, troubled, softly delirious sometimes. Now and then, voices start multiplying and the instrumentation grows in size. Actually, the friends did a great job, gathered this way in two rooms, without a window, for three days... Three days, without watching the sun (or hardly), three days attempting to achieve the idea as well as possible. It seems that work does always pay, since the idea has been given a name now, " I was a rabbit and I won ", wholly graved on a round material...

识kt tunstall是因她的一首打榜歌曲<other side of the world>，歌曲旋律的前一小段，其质感简直是与coldplay如出一辙，所不同的是渐入高潮时kt是释放式的，这点与chris自始至终压制住的假声略有不同。 于是在点点好奇心的驱使下，查阅了一下kt的资料，而让我颇感意外的是，她的确与coldplay出于同门。 而赋有戏剧性的是kt的首张专辑<eye to the telescope>将与coldplay的<x&y>一同入围了今年的mercury prize提名。 依旧保持水准而颇具口碑的<x&y>、出生牛犊的<eye to the telescope>究竟花落谁家（当然获得提名的共有12张专辑），我到是很愿意把自己心里的那一票投给kt，纵然是万般揣测也要等到揭晓的那一刻才见得分晓了。
也许从kt的这张脸上我们很难辨认出她拥有1/4中国人的血统，kt的祖母是中国人，而她则从小被苏格兰古镇st. andrew的一个家庭领养，kt的养父母虽经常外出，但kt的童年还算在快乐中度过，而时常从哥哥房间里飘出来的重金属乐，却成为了kt与音乐的第一次接触。
kt年初的首支单曲black horse&the cherry tree的成绩并不算太过显赫，仅排名28，然而我想说也许这样的成绩多半是由于曲风的缘由，随后又放出一首other side of the world，很明显这是kt主动向主流讨好的歌曲，顺利跻身英伦的top 10。 而在伦敦地铁站里kt的大幅宣传海报得以与athlete、chemical brothers等当红乐手一同张贴出，也足以证明初出茅庐的kt，显然已是巨星派头了。
在两支打榜单曲相继发布后，kt的第一张个人专辑<eye to the telescope>也于今年问世。 而各大家媒体也都对本张专辑给予了四星的高评价。 kt将首张专辑的创作录制选在了威尔特郡森林里的小型录音间，kt说“能尽情畅快地从山坡上唱到山坡下，在这么自然的环境下录音是再好也不过了，这真是个可以令人解放的世外桃源。 歌里面描述的多半是日常生活的琐事、就好比我平日与人对话一般的平实，若夸张一点的说，就彷彿是外星人远到地球采取人类的情感样本，并将之串连予以整理纪录一般。”
而整张专辑品下来，也不得不说kt的确是个唱功不俗的声优，而且创作实力了得。 而kt的歌曲中并不会有太过复杂的配乐，基本都是吉他为主。 而专辑中我们却分明可以听出两种迥异的曲风，一种是流畅的英伦吉他流行乐，例如主打曲other side of the world。 另一种则是充满了原著民色彩的跳跃旋律，极具感染力，充分展现了kt奔放、不羁的歌喉，而在部分歌曲的旋律中大量三连音及切分的运用，也表现出了kt呼之欲出的jazz乐感。 但显然此类崇尚民族特色的旋律，英伦的主流并不太买帐，这也难怪black horse&the cherry tree的打榜成绩并不理想了。
也许是唱片公司看好了kt的发展潜力，看得出来在宣传造势上砸了不少银子，使得媒体对这颗英伦新星宠爱有佳，更是将其捧到了“可以与同门师姐joss stone、norah jones、dido等乐坛大姐媲美”这样的高度。 笑笑便罢，把鸡和羊比作同类，这种事情常常出自媒体之手。 而究竟是鸡是羊，是优是劣，相信品过之后，你心里自然就会有了一把尺子。 也非常希望今年的mercury全英音乐大奖可以垂青于这匹女黑马（今年的mercury提名只有两位女性艺人）。

引进版曲目增加6首。
曲目：
1 When Do We Fail Abigail
2 Broken By The Rise
3 Chandeliers
4 Reduced To Clear
5 Petit Mal At A Grand Occasion
6 Even In The Crowds
7 Annalee Argyle
8 Segue In GM
9 If You Bring Me Aubergines
10 A Dark Horse Will Either Run First Or Last
11 reduced to clear
12 41 union drive
13 even through.
14 beauty cream
15 stitch in time
16 instrumental

Japanese edition of the Danish/British trip hop collective's 2004 album features 12 tracks. Copy Controlled. Toshiba.

新浪潮乐队（Nouvelle Vague）以抒情又清新的手法重新演绎了八十年代经典名曲，作品中处处弥漫着一股法国式的Bossa Nova，Chill out味道。该乐队新近迅速窜红，如今已在法国家喻户晓，成为法国独具特色、横跨爵士与流行的大牌乐队。Nouvelle Vague是法语，意为“新浪潮”，在英语中叫做“New Wave”，在葡萄牙语里则为“Bossa Nova”。这是由两个法国鬼才Marc Collin和Olivier Libaux.所组成的音乐出版计划，意图将英国人创造的新浪潮(new wave)经典作品以巴西人的新浪潮(Bossa Nova)方式来演绎。 他们从包括XTC, The Specials, PiL, Dead Kennedys, Depeche Mode, Killing Joke等英国上世纪80年代后朋克时代的著名乐队处借来多首经典曲目，寻来音色甜美的女歌手与他们搭配，除保留原曲的一些基本和弦外，全部以Bossa Nova和六十年代流行乐的形式翻唱。通过巧妙地将这几样南辕北辙的曲风进行融合，最终诞生出的是带有他们独特风格、深具感染力的作品。陌生新鲜的组合加上隽永流长的经典曲目，诞生于巴西的Bossa Nova乐风在法国被演绎出另一种风味，无比的休闲与优雅，慵懒之中藏着绝对至尊的高贵品质。 该乐队同名大碟还没有现世就已经登上多个英国排行榜高位，受到多本权威音乐杂志如《Music Week》、《NME》、《OMM》和《Q》等的一致好评，连时装杂志《GQ》和《Marie Claire》也对Nouvelle Vague的唱片给予极高的评价，将其誉为品位一族必听之选。该专辑一经推出就在世界各地取得极佳的销售成绩，刮起一股难以抵抗的新浪潮风。

Two Way Monologue is the second album release by the Norwegian singer/songwriter Sondre Lerche, released in 2004.

With her breakthrough 2002 debut, Let Go, Avril Lavigne tried to market herself as the bona fide alternative to tarty teen queens, Britney and Christina. Her guitar-pop hits were irresistibly bratty but the whole "Complicated" teen pose was a little hard to swallow, especially since two songwriters called the Matrix--who had at least twenty years on the Canadian singer--fed her most of the material. Having had the chance to live a little, Lavigne returns to make good on her angsty image with Under My Skin, an album rippling with delightfully dour melodies and heartfelt lyrics about loneliness ("How Does It Feel") and fractured relationships ("Don't Tell Me"). Is it clichéd? Sure. Will it scare off her necktie and t-shirt wearing fans? Possibly. But there's nothing quite as satisfying as watching a teen-pop icon actually reveal her soul. --Jaan Uhelszki

Ilya成员
Joanna Swan 主音
Nick Pullin 吉他/作曲
Dan Brown 贝司
一行三人的Ilya来自英伦triphop重镇Bristol布里斯托尔，Ilya的音乐充满电影感，正如大碟名字一样同样凄美动人。唱腔有点爵士味的女主唱Joanna Swan，音色尖锐的吉他手兼作曲者Nick Pullin，和贝司手兼录音棚高手Dan Brown，炮制出了一种融合了电子、爵士、摇滚和电影音乐于一体的浪漫风格。
阴郁的电子氛围、华丽的弦乐背景和主唱空灵的唱腔，在"Bellissimo"里的沉厚磁性声音，跟音乐部分一样有着慑人的感染力，而在一曲 "Heavenly"里却表现得妖娆与神秘。这种将入耳的唯美歌声、歌特式地下气质与戏剧性的电影配乐结合在一起的音乐，无疑会成为喜新厌旧的耳朵们又一追捧对象。　　Ilya传承Bristol（Triphop音乐的故乡）的历史，同时又坚持着创新，吸引更多人再来经历那缓拍升华的音乐旅行。搬来庞大的器乐手阵容，搬演班鸠与香颂、巴西与007、爵士与新古典等类型交错，造就了[They Died For Beauty]异常戏剧化的性格。　　Trip Hop发展至今，企图拓宽风格的尝试不少，惯常以凄美为招牌的女声反而成为最没有表现力的部份，落得似只会流泪的女角对影自怜，却无法与周遭对话。而Ilya的Joanna Swan以其感性声线带着爵士前辈的风范，演绎出可比Zero 7之Sia的风情，光是一曲"Bliss"，连Bebel Gilberto等新Bossa Nova代表的歌迷都能一并接收。　　可以为美而逝，只为美丽永恒，形容 Ilya更是传神。诸如"Soleil Soleil"与"Happy And Weak"这般拼贴着南美墨西哥风，却又迭上合唱的情调；或者"Heavenly"那般并置着歌剧男声片段及彷如Morphine团中那些线条粗犷有力的铜管乐，无一不为装扮得更艳丽更奇巧而努力。甚至，那低吟的"Bellisimo"已是香水广告曲。
Ilya，一个不容忽视的新名字。

《诺拉琼丝：家的感觉》2003春天——她的初试啼声感动了整个世界，超过2千万颗的心得到抚慰。2004春天——那个满怀着8座葛莱美奖的女孩，即将再度用她温暖的声音，拂去你辛劳的尘埃，陪伴你迎接每一天。首张专辑全球突破2000万张的销售量蝉联Billboard流行专辑TOP40长达46周，2003葛莱美奖8项大奖最大赢家与制作人Arif Mardin再度合作，备受瞩目的全新专辑13曲全新作品，全心收录。



☆ 首支浪漫主打Don't Know Why调曲创作人Jesse Harris客串吉他演奏/Norah与贝斯手Lee Alexander共谱　柔美情歌/电影《蝴蝶》英文主题曲Those Sweet Words。
☆ 大破美国iTUNES网站Digital Download单日点选最高纪录，媲美Come Away With Me全新推曲Sunrise/Norah首次尝试轻快节奏/乡村天后桃莉芭顿热情跨刀合唱曲Creepin'in及重新演绎汤尼冯查德经　典之作的Be Here To Love Me。
☆ 特立风格葛莱美奖传奇歌手汤姆威兹与夫人Kathleen Brennan共同谱写新作The Long Way Home。
☆ 特别推荐艾灵顿公爵Duke Ellington名曲Melancholia首次演唱版本Don't Miss You At All。

“ 我喜欢把期望值降低一点，因为这样的话，一旦成绩还不错，你就会享受到意外的惊喜。”2002年2月，诺拉琼丝在Blue Note唱片公司旗下发行她的首张个人专辑《Come Away With Me远走高飞》时，这位当时只有22岁的年轻歌手并不晓得这张专辑发行后，排山倒海而来的成串惊喜。《远走高飞》专辑在商业与口碑方面都获得了压倒性的胜利，不但让诺拉抱走了8座葛莱美奖，专辑的销售数字也直线狂飙，成为一张多白金唱片。

去年四月，诺拉与她的乐团伙伴们在纽约郊区的一间录音室里开始新专辑的录制工作。就像在第一张专辑一样，在这张最新专辑《Feels Like Home家的感觉》中透着乡村、流行与爵士等各式不同曲风色调。在这张新专辑中，诺拉再度与制作人Arif Mardin以及与她默契娴熟的乐团成员们倾力合作演出，自己身兼歌手/创作者与钢琴演奏者三重身分。专辑中的13首歌曲，除了诺拉自己以及她与老搭档 Lee Alexander共同谱写的伤口之外，也收录了几首由与诺拉合作的乐团成员及好友所创作的歌曲，并首次尝试以翻唱的方式，重新演绎Townes Van Zandt的Be Here To Love Me、Tom Waits与夫人Kathleen Brennan合的 The Long Way Home 以及诺拉四年前就构思完成，将艾灵顿公爵（Duke Ellington）的Melancholia填上歌词，并名改为Don't Miss You At All的作品等三首经典老歌。首支单曲Sunrise 带着明亮、活泼的感觉，这首歌曲是由诺拉与Lee Alexander共同谱写的。另外两首由Don't Know Why创作者Jesse Harris客串吉他演奏的慢板抒情曲Carnival Town,Those Sweet Words,及乡村音乐传奇歌后桃莉芭顿（DollyParton）、 著名摇滚经典团体The Band的鼓手Levon Helm以及风琴手Garth Hudson、诺拉的好友吉他手Jesse Harris与Tony Scher、鼓手Brian Blade，还有键盘乐器手Rob Burger等，亦同时为这张专辑带来令人兴奋的感动。

灵感上正是 “Feels Like Home”专辑的核心。诺拉在努力维持《远走高飞》专辑一样的浓醇音乐的同时，她也强调她并不想复制《远走高飞》的成功模式：“我很高兴大家喜欢我的上一张专辑，那纪录了当时的我在音乐上的想法，现在这张专辑则反映出我现在的想法。这就是我对录制唱片的感觉，就像拍快照一样，纪录下当时的心情。录这张专辑带给我们好多乐趣。”

01 Sunrise 日出
02 What Am I to You? 对你来说我算什么
03 Those Sweet Words 那些甜言蜜语
04 Carnival Town 狂欢之城
05 In the Morning 在清晨
06 Be Here to Love Me 留在这里爱我
07 Creepin In 早早来看我
08 Toes 脚趾
09 Humble Me 轻视我
10 Above Ground 地面上
11 The Long Way Home 漫漫回家路
12 The Prettiest Thing 最美丽的事
13 Don't Miss You At All 不去想你

Bjork is one of the most recognized stars in the world. She has sold millions of copies of her groundbreaking albums, she is an icon of cutting edge style, and she has received worldwide acclaim as an actress. Medulla, Bjork's first new studio album in three years, finds her delving deeper than ever before into her haunting and exhilarating sound and vision. Innovative as always, Bjork has this time built the songs on Medulla entirely from vocal tracks, with no instruments appearing on the album, creating a soundscape unlike anything you've ever heard before. Special guests include Rahzel from The Roots, Mike Patton of Faith No More and Mr. Bungle, an Inuit throat singer, an Icelandic choir, the world's greatest human beatboxes and more.

全英音乐奖（Brit Awards）第25届最佳国际专辑 : Scissor Sisters 《Scissor Sisters 》。来自纽约的组合Scissor Sisters的这张专辑夺得最佳国际组合、国际专辑及国际新秀等3项大奖，主音Ana Matronic在台上领奖时更激动地表示：“在美国没有人认识我们呢。”真所谓墙里开花墙外香。