我们设法做一张真正意义上的唱片，于是《台风》诞生了。科特琳娜•加缪在《孤独与团结》中有一句话：“我总是觉得身处大海之上：在巨大幸福的中心受到威胁。”这是我们创作《台风》的初衷。台风，意味着被动接受，且无力反抗。当这种被动感占据着你大部分生活的时候，就巧妙地形成了人们常常诉说的压力。它像一个漩涡，但压力和台风不一样，台风短暂停留，压力无孔不入，甚至有可能，你终其一生都在被动接受。根本不存在出口，也找不到出口。这场台风曾经在我们内心翻滚地跃跃欲试，现在我们将它捕捉，为荒诞的世界平添一点意义。
主唱：王海洋
电声吉他：刘遥
原声吉他：刘遥、王海洋
贝斯：康淮钰
鼓：董宇
键盘：冯文翔
倍大提琴：李梦圆
萨克斯：刘冬
打击乐：郭子敬
合声：赵婉辛
采样：王海洋
音效：黄磊
录音／混音：郭子敬
录音监制：王海洋、刘遥
企划：以太
封面出境：毛毛
专辑封面设计：涂婓
We managed to make a real album and “Bull’s Eye”was born. Katrina Camus has a phrase in solitude and solidarity: "I always feel on the sea: threatened in the center of great happiness."This is the original intention of our creation of “Bull’s Eye”. A typhoon means passive acceptance and inability to resist. It subtly forms the stress when this sense of passivity occupies most of your life. It is like a whirlpool, but the pressure and the typhoon are not the same. The typhoon stops for a short time, and the pressure is pervasive. It is even possible that you have been passively accepted for the rest of your life. There is no export at all . This typhoon has been trying to get excited in our hearts. Now we catch it and add a little meaning to the absurd world.

个来自未开发的大自然东马岛屿上的女生，身材娇小却在YouTube上累积了超过150万网友，Zee Avi用她的歌声再度证明了一句俗谚：「音乐无国界」。用创作获得Brushfire唱片公司的赏识，将自己的才华与传奇人物连结在一起。以拿手的吉他、夏威夷四弦琴(Ukulele)，搭配上独特慵懒舒服的嗓音，打造自成一格的音乐氛围，Zee Avi一手包办专辑所有词曲创作。首支主打曲在Folk领域中混搭爵士味觉的“Bitter Heart”，令人想起多项格莱美奖加冕的Norah Jones相同质感；接下来散发淡淡闲适乡村音韵的“Honey Bee”；利用夏威夷四弦琴弹奏、带来新纽奥良Swing Jazz风味的“Just You And Me”以及“Kantoi”；让人回忆起Peggy Lee/佩姬李“Is That All There Is”的“Is This The End”；美国热门影集「私家医情」第二季结局配乐“Monte”；翻唱80年代英国首席乐团The Smiths主唱Morrissey /莫里西歌曲、唱出爽朗Acoustic的“First Of The Gang To Die”…等。听着Zee Avi的歌声，如同躺在沙滩上迎着微风拂面、阳光暖暖包围，似乎什么事都变得不重要。

There are few voices more deeply embedded in the iconography and mythology of American indie rock than that of Chan Marshall. Under the musical nom de plume of Cat Power, Marshall has released music for nearly 25 years now and her prowess as a songwriter, a producer, and most notably—as a voice—has only grown more influential with time. Wanderer, Cat Power’s stunning 10th studio album, marks a pivotal moment in both Chan Marshall’s life and her career. In the six years since the release of 2012’s Sun, Marshall has travelled the world, given birth to a child, and parted ways with her previous record label. Even though it was, in many ways, a period of profound upheaval and radical change, those experiences resulted in a record that is arguably the most assured artistic statement of her career. Produced by Marshall and mixed by Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck), the album includes appearances by longtime friends and compatriots, as well as guest vocals courtesy of friend and recent tourmate Lana Del Rey. Wanderer is, in many ways, a quintessential Cat Power record, with Marshall’s clarion voice front and center in a set of songs that remarkably stark and straightforward. But, if old Cat Power records might easily have been viewed as repositories for pain, Wanderer is, at its heart, a testament to the transformative nature of songs, an album-length imagining of alternate paths, redemptions, connections, and open-ended possibility.

Hi,
We could do the usual record company “bio” about this new record, but, seriously… who gives a fuck.
The world is a mess. This is just music. Music by someone who tends to believe that change starts in your own backyard. I’m just optimistic enough to believe that kind of thing can still help people.
It doesn’t have any answers, other than maybe that there is no answer, the dust never settles, everything is out of control, etc. But it offers this: you can make changes. Thus, you can change the world. Right?
Maybe if there’s anything we have any true control over, it’s how we see things. There’s a song about that here. The “our” of “In Our Cathedral” is the collective “our” — all of us. Your point of view. As the great Roger Miller once said, “You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd, but you can be happy if you've a mind to.” He said it better than I did.
The other thing we can do while everything’s such a mess is just try to be kind. Why not? We all have bad days, but why not put in the effort whenever possible? Nobody has it easy, however their story may appear from a distance. So why not try to be nice? Starting with yourself. That’s a nice change for the world right there. Good things will grow out of that. There are some songs along those lines here as well.
I’ve been through some stuff, but I’m no expert. I’m trying to dead reckon my way same as anyone. I’m really just talking to myself here, looking for what’s really there under all the defenses. But maybe it could help you too?
Or: Fuck all this jibber jabber and see if you like this new record.
Here are 15 new EELS tracks that may or may not inspire, rock, or not rock you. The world is going nuts. But if you look for it, there is still great beauty to be found. Sometimes you don’t even have to look for it. Other times you have to try to make it yourself. And then there are times you have to tear something apart to find something beautiful inside.
Best wishes on future endeavors,
E
EELS guy
Some trivia pertaining to THE DECONSTRUCTION:
It was performed by E, Koool G Murder and P-Boo
with The Deconstruction Orchestra & Choir
It was produced by E
and some songs were produced with Mickey Petralia (marking his first time in an EELS production chair since the ELECTRO-SHOCK BLUES album).
It was recorded at The Compound, Los Feliz, CA
and at The Pie, Pasadena, CA
It’s dedicated to our fallen brother, Bobby, Jr.

《金桔希子》是落日飛車沈寂五年後的新作品，在成員的更迭後，重新探索新的曲風，從以往六零年代的車庫搖滾晃入了七零年代的成人抒情，但仍然不改飛車輕鬆愜意，浪漫中又帶著戲謔的情境氛圍。