这是传奇乐队The The离开4AD加盟Epic后的首张专辑，Matt Johnson摒弃了在4AD的Gothic Rock风格，而变成当时最为风光的New Wave，只有在同名歌曲Soul Mining中能找到些许4AD的影子，同时这也是The The后来转向后朋的暗示。这张专辑后The The脱离了地下的身份，一跃成为英伦炙手可热的乐队。这张专辑作为The The销量最好的专辑，被不停的再版再再版，经典性可见一斑了……

暌违6年，Adele终于宣布全球瞩目的第四张专辑《30》将于11月19日全球发行，先行单曲《Easy On Me》10月15日全网上线！

英伦天团Coldplay全新宣传曲“Coloratura”发行，表演视频同步上线，由Paul Dugdale执导，在大不列颠圆屋酒店拍摄。
乐队第九张专辑“Music Of The Spheres”即将于10月15日发行，已公开的预告片中将专辑歌曲片段串联在一起，由每首歌代表一颗星球，一段炫丽宏伟的太空旅行就此在眼前展开。

Dream Pop/Jangle Pop from Liverpool,UK
Member： Audun Laading ； Stephen Fitzpatrick

温暖慵懒的轻吟、纯净恬淡的曲风与有如夏夜微风的爵士情调，让肯妮贝儿Corinne Bailey Rae自2006年起缔造无数傲人成绩。2006年肯妮贝儿以首张同名专辑《追风箏的女孩Corinne Bailey Rae》空降英国金榜冠军，成为该排行榜近30年来，继安妮蓝妮克丝Annie Lennox与娜塔莎Natasha Bedingfield后，第三位以首张作品空降专辑榜冠军的新进女歌手。这样的表现无愧英国BBC国家广播电台网站，当初誉她为「2006年十大闪耀推荐新星Sound of 2006」的头号代表。首张同名专辑发行后，获得英美乐评一致高分推荐，纷纷预告一颗即将照亮世界的璀璨新星已经诞生。这样的预言在2006年进入尾声之际确实得到印证：肯妮贝儿的首张同名专辑除了荣获英国音乐权威杂誌Mojo，选为2006年度最佳专辑之一；在英国著名杂誌Q主办的Q Awards颁奖典礼上，肯妮贝儿更突破重围一举拿下「年度最佳新人Best New Act Award」的大奖。
出生英国里兹的肯妮贝儿，自小在一般教堂礼拜中演唱诗歌展现天生好歌喉，学生时期攻读古典音乐，并拉得一手绝佳小提琴才能，随后在获得人生第一把电吉他，开啟肯妮音乐另一扇门，同时开始试著词曲创作。签入EMI音乐集团前，肯妮早已累积十年演唱经历，简洁纯净恬淡创作风格，揉合各种不同音乐对她的影响，完成此张倍受讚誉的首张同名专辑。当中更不乏放克灵魂作品〈Call Me When You Get This〉，并佐以典雅弦乐点缀；〈Choux Pastry Heart〉带著微甜鬆软音感谱写出对於情爱世界期望，让人徜徉在一个不见压力的男女亲密关係之中；而〈Butterfly〉以及打造爵士灵魂外衣的〈Seasons Change〉，都是肯妮展现令人震撼且最具实力之明证。
肯妮贝儿在迈入2007年之际，可说完全绽放她的光芒，不但常驻销售排行榜，更在2007年全英音乐奖Brit Awards中获得「全英最佳女歌手British Female Solo Artist」、「全英年度最佳单曲British Single」以及「全英年度最佳新人British Breakthrough Act」三项提名。她的魅力同时横扫大西洋彼岸，在第49届葛莱美音乐奖Grammy Awards公布的入围名单中，肯妮贝儿亦为「年度最佳歌曲Song of the Year」、「年度最佳录音Record of the Year」以及「年度最佳新人Best New Artist」等热门奖项的候选人，而她在全美的唱片销量更已大破白金。

by William Ruhlmann
Rushed out less than nine months after the surprise success of Dire Straits' self-titled debut album, the group's sophomore effort, Communiqué, seemed little more than a carbon copy of its predecessor with less compelling material.

For the true follow-up to 2002's Every Day — since 2003's Man with a Movie Camera soundtrack had actually been recorded four years earlier — J. Swinscoe & co.'s Cinematic Orchestra produced another soundtrack, this one virtually invisible. Not long after Every Day's release, Swinscoe began writing music for another Cinematic LP, but in another direction from where he'd gone previously. This was a series of quiet, contemplative instrumentals, with Rhodes keyboards and reedy clarinets, simply begging for a narrative (call them orchestrations for cinema). With scripts for each supplied by a friend — each track got its own story, together comprising different scenes from a single life — and a series of unpeopled photographs supplied by Maya Hayuk, Cinematic Orchestra had the narrative they needed for their invisible soundtrack. (Added vocals from Fontella Bass, Lou Rhodes, and Patrick Watson represent the same person at different ages.) The results form an intensely affecting record, but one whose monochromatic format unfortunately serves no large purpose; when every song attempts to become a mini-masterpiece of melodrama, patience grows thin. Swinscoe tells us that he wanted to record an album where "leaving the spaces as empty as possible was paramount," but he can hardly complain if we choose to leave him the space to himself. [A U.K. version of the album was also released.]

"It felt like we were in a movie that had a totally implausible ending..."
Slowdive's second act as a live blockbuster has already been rapturously received around the world. Highlights thus far include a festival-conquering, sea-of-devotees Primavera Sound performance, of which Pitchfork noted: "The beauty of their crystalline sound is almost hard to believe, every note in its perfect place."
"It was just nice to realise that there was a decent amount of interest in it," says principal songwriter Neil Halstead. The UK shoegaze pioneers have now channelled such seemingly impossible belief into a fourth studio opus which belies his characteristic modesty. Self-titled with quiet confidence, Slowdive's stargazing alchemy is set to further entrance the faithful while beguiling a legion of fresh ears.
Deftly swerving what co-vocalist/guitarist Rachel Goswell terms "a trip down memory lane", these eight new tracks are simultaneously expansive and the sonic pathfinders' most direct material to date. Birthed at the band's talismanic Oxfordshire haunt The Courtyard - "It felt like home," enthuses guitarist Christian Savill - their diamantine melodies were mixed to a suitably hypnotic sheen at Los Angeles' famed Sunset Sound facility by Chris Coady (perhaps best known for his work with Beach House, one of countless contemporary acts to have followed in Slowdive's wake).
"It's poppier than I thought it was going to be," notes Halstead, who was the primary architect of 1995's previous full-length transmission Pygmalion. This time out the group dynamic was all-important. "When you're in a band and you do three records, there's a continuous flow and a development. For us, that flow re-started with us playing live again and that has continued into the record."
Drummer and loop conductor Simon Scott enhanced the likes of 'Slomo' and 'Falling Ashes' with abstract textures conjured via his laptop's signal processing software. A fecund period of experimentation with "40-minute iPhone jams" allowed the unit to then amplify the core of their chemistry. "Neil is such a gifted songwriter, so the songs won. He has these sparks of melodies, like 'Sugar For The Pill' and 'Star Roving', which are really special. But the new record still has a toe in that Pygmalion sound. In the future, things could get very interesting indeed."
This open-channel approach to creativity is reflected by Slowdive's impressively wide field of influence, from indie-rock avatars to ambient voyagers - see the tribute album of cover versions released by Berlin electronic label Morr Music. As befits such evocative visionaries, you can also hear Slowdive through the silver screen: New Queer Cinema trailblazer Gregg Araki has featured them on the soundtracks to no less than four of his films.
"When I moved to America in 2008 I was working in an organic grocery store," recalls Christian. "Kids started coming in and asking if it was true I had played in Slowdive. That's when I started thinking, 'OK, this is weird!'"
Neil Halstead: "We were always ambitious. Not in terms of trying to sell records, but in terms of making interesting records. Maybe, if you try and make interesting records, they're still interesting in a few years time. I don't know where we'd have gone if we had carried straight on. Now we've picked up a different momentum. It's intriguing to see where it goes next."
The world has finally caught up with Slowdive. This movie could run and run...

Zaba (stylised as ZABA) is the debut studio album by English rock group Glass Animals, released on 9 June 2014 by Wolf Tone/Caroline International and on 17 June 2014 by Harvest Records in the US.

Over the course of two EPs, two singles and a stripped-back live album, Puma Blue has established himself as one of the UK’s most vital new talents, quietly amassing over 50 million streams in the process and selling out shows from London to LA and Paris to Tokyo. Now he’s set to build upon his growing underground acclaim by releasing his long awaited debut album ‘In Praise of Shadows'.
‘In Praise of Shadows’ is a delirious dreamland of soulful vocals, D’Angelo-ish guitars and muted electronic beats. Its fourteen tracks are a contemplation on “the balance of light and dark, the painful things you have to heal from or accept, that bring you through to a better place” says the 25-year-old Puma Blue, real name Jacob Allen “It’s about finding light in darkness - and realising that it’s what got me here today.”
Puma Blue’s nocturnal, soul-searching sound was born from a decade in which the 25-year-old was plagued with insomnia, “for literally a decade, I just couldn’t sleep,” says the cult-acclaimed London songwriter/producer. That certainly helps to explain the hazy, late-night “voicemail ballads” of the early EP releases that propelled him to prominence, 2017’s ‘Swum Baby’ and 2018’s ‘Blood Loss’ earning him a reputation as affecting chronicler of unrequited love and inner turmoil.
It’s an intimacy still present across ‘In Praise With Shadows’ but there’s also a new maturity and lucidity to the way in which Allen deals with his demons and celebrates beauty across his debut album, influenced no doubt by his journey over the last two years in which a blossoming romance has finally helped him to sleep whilst a burgeoning career forced the previously bedroom-bound songwriter out into the open, driving him to find new perspectives on loss, love and everything in-between.

2008 sophomore album by Metronomy; the discerning music aficionado's favorite Electronic band. Joseph Mount writes and records music using the name Metronomy. Oscar Cash, Gabriel Stebbing and Joseph Mount perform that music live and still call themselves Metronomy. Joseph Mount lived in Devon for a time, moved to Brighton and has finally settled for a while in London. Nights Out is a timely, thrilling Pop album, a future Electro-Pop classic - a wholly original mashup of electronic, falsetto-laden brilliance, and a thoroughly modern, freakishly danceable record to be listened to from start to finish. 12 tracks. Because.