A trio of guitar, bass and drums.

Thicker, denser, warbling and crunching in time — a motorik masterwork! The new CAVE is roller-rinkin’ rock for the next generation! Jamz from humans being for you to put into/onto your machine.
This long player is CAVE’s first recording as a four-piece. As a result, Neverendless is more concise than any other Cave record, despite clocking in at over 40 minutes. With only four designated inputters, we hear a thicker, denser sound with the shop light burning bright on all those nuances. You can say what you want about music and how things change: Repetition, heaviness and all else Cave does is a part of some very human music buoying on the sonic sea Cave fans have been floating in for some time. Cave just keep on with the jamz. Art for Neverendless is by JANUS ZEBULON, the latest Cave cover artist to provide a visual indicator of the sounds your eyes otherwise might never perceive. But in this form, it’s perfect! Previous releases on Cave Tapes, Permanent, Important, Static Caravan, Trensmat and Drag City.
from wbez.org
As with those simple ingredients at the heart of the Ramones’ pop-punk buzz, the basics of the Neu! formula are easy to imitate but very difficult to equal: the motorik beat that evokes speeding through the night on the autobahn; the echo-drenched guitar lines, at once both wispy and massive, lulling and chaotic; the ambient buzz that splits the difference between sinister/mechanical and ethereal/organic. Plenty, including Neu! co-founder Michael Rother on his Hallogallo 2010 tour, have duplicated those sounds but somehow fallen short of the brilliance of the three albums Neu! released in their early ’70s krautrock heyday. But on its third album, Neverendless, the Chicago quartet Cave gets everything right and then some, adding unexpected twists and turns during a metronomic rush into the darkness that befits the groundbreaking spirit of the band’s more obvious influence.
The biggest key to Cave’s success is that the Missouri-to-Chicago transplants don’t skimp on the melodies: The riffs at the heart of each of the hypnotizing jams on Neverendless worm their way into your subconscious, and they’re as effective at propelling you forward as drummer Rex McMurry’s Naval Clock-reliable snare and hi-hat. But the fact that the musicians aren’t obsessed with slavish imitation also helps in making them the best Neu! disciples since Stereolab; there are plenty of other ingredients bubbling in their stew, from post-rock digital chatter to ’60s psychedelic organ riffs, from space-rock synthesizer squeals to eruptions of Sonic Youth noise guitar. And all of it make you wish Neverendless would never end.

英伦流行乐队Florence + The Machine第二张录音是大碟FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE已经在之前的全英音乐奖颁奖礼（Brit Awards）上赢得了专业乐评人选出的“最佳新星奖”。这支由唱作型女歌手Florence Welch领军，由其他多位音乐人担任其背景乐队的电子组合，在2008年推出他们的首支单曲《Kiss with a Fist》开始，就已经在英国乐坛掀起了一阵不小的波澜。

The Brooklyn-based trio Widowspeak consists of Molly Hamilton on vocals and rhythm guitar, Michael Stasiak on drums, and Rob Thomas on lead guitar. The band create a dreamy vintage sound using stripped-down drumbeats, breathy vocals, and delicately placed guitar leads.
The single “Harsh Realm” is a great tune in which singer Molly Hamilton’s voice has a whispery, seductive, drugged-out vibe similar to [ Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star ] yet she retains a unique enough sound to swim in her own pond. Her rhythm guitar sounds similar to a softer, less gritty version of [ PJ Harvey’s ] early playing as she bounces between some dry chords locked in to Michael Stasiak’s minimalist but forward-moving drum groove.
The sparkles and dynamics of the song come from the band’s lead guitarist, Rob Thomas, who plays some nicely placed, shimmering guitar leads that would fit nicely on any Chris Isaak album or Quentin Tarantino or David Lynch soundtrack. The slow-tempo song “Burn Out” has a very sleepy and dreamy verse, but when the chorus breaks, the band all lock in for a unique, upbeat, and intricate hook as Hamilton sings, “It can wait, everything else can wait.”
Widowspeak’s first seven-inch single is stark but very engaging. Released in early March on Captured Tracks, the first four hundred copies were printed on white vinyl, or you can download it from the band or on iTunes. I highly recommend picking up a copy of this, and I am eagerly looking forward to hearing the band’s upcoming full-length.