2012
The Haunted Man 豆瓣
7.1 (9 个评分) Bat For Lashes 类型: 流行
发布日期 2012年10月15日 出版发行: EMI
The Haunted Man is the upcoming third studio album by English recording artist Bat for Lashes. It is set to be released on 15 October 2012 by Parlophone.[1] In May 2010, Bat for Lashes stated that although she had enough songs to put out as an album, she wanted to take more time working on new material as she had been on tour for so long and found it boring to write songs about being on tour.[2] The album was preceded by the lead single "Laura", which was released on 24 July 2012.[3]
The album's artwork was photographed by American photographer Ryan McGinley,[4] and features Bat for Lashes naked carrying an equally naked man on her back.[1] Bat for Lashes told the NME: "I really wanted to strip things back in honour of women like Patti Smith; just these raw, honest women. I had no make-up on, it's just me and my haunted man!"
Outlands 豆瓣
Deep Sea Arcade 类型: 摇滚
发布日期 2012年4月3日 出版发行: Ivy League
Long-awaited debut full-length record by these Australian musicians who seemed to be young prodigies on their first recordings.
Deep Sea Arcade sound like The Zombies throwing a beach party for Portishead. Their music is Blue Velvet with A Clockwork Orange flashes.
Led by vocalist Nic McKenzie and bassist Nick Weaver, the band combine their love of 60’s beat, surf and psychedelic rock with 80’s new wave, Madchester and trip hop. The pair, friends since meeting at high school in Sydney, penned dozens of songs and experimented with every sort of sound in their bedroom before finding their perfect counterparts in drummer Carlos Adura and guitarists Simon Relf and Tim Chamberlain.
On the surface they are many things, but it’s what lurks beneath that makes this band so exciting. Deep Sea Arcade plan to release their debut mini-album entitled If The Devil Won’t Take You in the coming months.
The best songs are 'Lonely in Your Arms' and 'Don't Be Sorry', both of which had been previously released as singles.
Close behind comes a fantastic new song called 'Steam'. The rest is pleasant but not as captivating as their earlier songs.
Flume 豆瓣
8.0 (10 个评分) Flume 类型: 电子
发布日期 2012年11月20日 出版发行: Future Classic
Mean Sun 豆瓣
Brasstronaut
发布日期 2012年5月22日 出版发行: Unfamiliar Records
Emerging in 2008 with their debut Old World Lies EP, the Vancouver based sextet has developed a distinctly unique sound that continues to defy genre pigeonholing. Their ability to weave together unexpected textures of clarinet, slide-guitar, trumpet, noise, synthesizers, voice and rhythms has garnered them international acclaim from notable critics such as Gilles Peterson, BBC1, CBC Radio3, Exclaim!, Q Magazine, Toronto Star, to name a few. Other achievements include winning the 2010 Socan Echo Prize, a Polaris Prize nomination, a #1 Hype Machine listing, and also having completed a creative residency program at the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts. The UK’s Independent newspaper has even called the band’s sound “a new way forward”.@yoco
About A Feeling 豆瓣
5.2 (5 个评分) Summer Heart 类型: 电子
发布日期 2012年4月25日 出版发行: Sommarhjärta // Nomethod Records
"Fall into a blissful whirl of vision and harmony with Swede, David Alexander aka Summer Heart. He provides chill dream pop vibes with mellow vocals that still gives a scintillating increase of your heartbeat."