Is the Is Are, the highly-anticipated sophomore release from Brooklyn-based DIIV, is an album years and many personal struggles in the making for it's architect, Zachary Cole Smith. Recorded and mixed in various locations in Brooklyn, it showcases everything you know and love about DIIV, and many things you did not, all with an added nuance and depth. It is a 17-song, double-album statement intended to resonate with its audience in much the same way that Bad Moon Rising or Tago Mago has for Smith himself. An extension and deepening of the musical ideas first expressed on 2012's critically-lauded Oshin, Is the Is Are yields a multiplicity of textures, lyrical themes, and moods. It is a more diverse world than Oshin, with different parameters and ideals. Dark and honest to a fault, the new songs are dynamic, loud, quiet, sad; they are songs that hiss and snarl; songs that, as Smith wrote recently, represent "the real me." Smith’s vocals, too, are much closer to the foreground, layered legibly on top of tidal waves of shimmering guitar and melodic bass weaving in and out, leaving a distinct and indelible imprint.

In a Poem Unlimited is an album by U.S. Girls, the solo project of Toronto-based American musician Meghan Remy. It was released on February 20, 2018 through 4AD.

How do you describe an album out of time, concerned with the disappearance of culture, of humanity, of nature, of logic and emotion? Why make this album in an era when attention spans have been reduced to next to nothing, and the tactile grains of making music have been further reduced to algorithms and projected playlist placement. Why wake up in the morning? Why hasn’t everything already disappeared?
Deerhunter’s eighth LP forgets the questions and makes up unrelated answers. It gets up, walks around, it records itself in several strategic geographic points across North America. It comes home, restructures itself and goes back to bed to avoid the bad news.
From the opening harpsichord and piano figures of ‘Death in Midsummer’, it is impossible to tell where the record came from. Is ‘No One’s Sleeping’ an outtake of an aborted Kinks recording session in 1977 Berlin with Eno producing? No. That is nostalgia. If there is one thing Deerhunter are making clear it is that they have exhausted themselves with that toxic concept.
What they spend their time doing instead is reinventing their approach to microphones, the drum kit, the harpsichord, the electromechanical and synthetic sounds of keyboards. Whatever guitars are left are pure chrome, plugged straight into the mixing desk with no amplifier or vintage warmth.
The result is as thrilling, haunting, and unpredictable as anything in their roughly 15-year career.
Deerhunter have made a science fiction album about the present. Is it needed right now? Is it relevant? Perhaps only to a small audience. DADA was a reaction to the horrors of war. Punk was a reaction to the slow and vacant 70’s. Hip Hop was a liberated musical culture that challenged the notions presented wholesale about the African-American experience. What is popular music today a reaction to?

Bright Eyes will release "The People's Key" on February 15th 2011 on Saddle Creek. The People's Key--the band's seventh studio album--is the eagerly awaited follow-up to 2007's acclaimed Cassadaga. Since 2006 the once revolving cast of Bright Eyes players has settled around permanent members Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott, with additional musicians joining them in the studio and on tour. Fully realized and bursting with charisma, The People's Key is an assured and accomplished album, artfully arranged and filled with the engaging and mesmeric songwriting for which Oberst is renowned.

This debut grabs you quickly and vice-like, shaping scruffy garage guitars around indelible hooks and sweet harmonies. Singer/songwriter Juliette Jackson adds a compelling voice, approaching songs with a languid cool that effortlessly switches up to naked longing on “Silent Movie Susie” and “Formidable”. She’s also engagingly poetic on “The Torch”, a simmering, sophisticated farewell to love that promises there’s more than short, sharp thrills to come from The Big Moon.

Ósmy studyjny materiał dobrze znanych w Polsce szwedzkich rockowców z grupy Mando Diao, którzy do tej pory sprzedali na całym świecie ponad 1,5 mln płyt. I pierwszy bez Gustafa Noréna, wokalisty i gitarzysty, który pożegnał się z kolegami w 2015 roku po 19 latach wspólnej przygody.
"Good Times" to opowieść o przyjaźni i miłości, dzięki którym można przetrwać nawet najcięższe chwile. Jak mówili sami muzycy, to zamknięcie pewnego rozdziału i jednocześnie otwarcie nowego przez grupę bliskich przyjaciół, których połączył rock. Klimat radości, beztroskiej zabawy i niesamowitej, pozytywnej energii przebija ze zwiastuna wydawnictwa, którym jest singel "Shake". Nowym partnerem przygody pod nazwą Mando Diao jest gitarzysta Jens Siverstedt. Utwory przygotowywano w sielskiej atmosferze na Gotlandii, w domku letniskowym gitarzysty Jensa Siverstedta.

My Morning Jacket的新专辑大致来说非常之棒，没有失误也少有缺点，但与过去偏向Alt. Country的路线有些不同。这次使用的Sound感觉起来Modern许多，旧乐迷可能得花一些时间习惯。一但频率调对，那种专属于My Morning Jacket的快感体验很快便能重现。
如果音乐风格可以从乐团的名字略见端倪，My Morning Jacket是一个很好的示范。早安夹克，多么可爱的名字，和他们的音乐一样没有心机，简单直接地一目了然。
My Morning Jacket是由五个从肯塔基州来的乡巴佬组成，灵魂人物是主唱Jim James，他同时负责乐团里所有词曲的创作。这伙人身穿格子夹克，留落腮胡，还没中年却已经有了中年男人的模样，俗里俗气的，怎么看都不像一个会成功的乐团。而如果你知道主唱Jim James的嗓子是公认乐坛中最像Neil Young的一员，你对他们的刻板印象也许会自动停止。
继承着美国南方草根乡谣的优良传统，My Morning Jacket成团的时间虽然不长，却意外地获得了大范围的成功。不但在美国本土广受欢迎，他们竟然在欧洲也掳获了许多乐迷和乐评的耳朵。My Morning Jacket的音乐简单易懂，没有繁复的概念铺陈，也没有多余的累赘装饰， Jim James善用自己嗓音的优势，配合轻巧动听的旋律编写，一首首过耳难忘的好歌就这样生产出来。斑鸠琴，刻意调得很松的小鼓，句句滑进心坎里的SlideGuitar，My Morning Jacket用最简单的方式收买人心，不论什么季节聆听，都有自己特殊的风味。
Flaming Lips，Mercury Rev这两个乐团或许是聆听My Morning Jacket最容易想起的名字。早期Flaming Lips不修边幅的粗糙调调，些许Mercury Rev的新迷幻风味，这些讨喜的原素确实都可以在My Morning Jacket的音乐中找到。然而早在第一张专辑他们已经明确走出自己的方向，就是简单做自己喜欢的音乐。
The Tennessee Fire是My Morning Jacket的第一张专辑，专辑于99年发行时，主唱James不过才23岁，而这张专辑的成功也奠定了他们在Darla厂里的重要地位。The Tennessee Fire巧妙的结合了美国独立乐界的硬蕊精神和乡村音乐的优良传统。打个比方，想想有人用九零年代初期Galaxie 500或Pixies式的吉他手法弹奏着七零年代Neil Young/After the gold rush或Harvest这些经典乡村民谣作品的tone调，也难怪这种兼具创新和讨喜的结合能让My Morning Jacket在独立乐迷或传统乐迷身上都找到施力点，进而开创属于自己的新局。
我们可以在这张专辑里听到缠绕的吉他声线和浅显易懂的情绪铺陈，也可以听到清爽明亮的空心吉他和傻里傻气的多重和声。这张专辑就像一本厚实的乡村诗集，而你会想在开阔的绿色山坡，一边啜饮啤酒一边大口大口的读它。这么烦闷的时节，就让My Morning Jacket陪上我们一季吧。

My Little Airport 2014年新专辑《适婚的年龄》，描述到了适婚年龄，因没能力结婚，而过着各种自由奔放拈花惹草生活的人。整张专辑除了曲词创作的阿p和主音nicole，还联同鼓手阿科、bass手阿贤，及后加的结他手陈铭泽＠在草地上一起编曲，部分曾放上网的歌都重新录制。

The 88 have a lot of believers on its side, causing a big enough stir in the local LA scene to attract the attention of TV shows like The O.C. and Jimmy Kimmel as well as KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic. Singing with a sensual Marc Bolan-like set of pipes, singer Keith Slettedahl has a long list of ex-lovers who fuel his caustic muse. Doing the majority of the songwriting as well, Slettedahl's music leans toward mid-'60s power pop filled with hooky choruses and taunt riffs that recall early Kinks. "Hide Another Mistake" is a prime example of this aesthetic, and it's already been picked as a single, yet "All 'Cause Of You" has an emotional vulnerability to the vocals and a jaunty riff that rams the equally strong song home. Well-balanced with a few quieter acoustic songs, this sophomore effort is an assured and altogether catchy work from a band that deserves all the attention it gets.

The Raveonettes are a Danish indie rock duo, consisting of Sune Rose Wagner on guitar, instruments and vocals, and Sharin Foo on bass, guitar and vocals.