The album was announced on 16 April 2020 with the single "Gimme Love". It was originally set to be released on 10 July 2020, but on 12 June 2020 Joji announced that the album had been delayed to 25 September 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

George Kusunoki Miller, better known by his stage name Joji and formerly by his online aliases Filthy Frank and Pink Guy, is a Japanese singer-songwriter, record producer, author, and former Internet personality, YouTuber, and comedian.

George Kusunoki Miller, better known by his stage name Joji and formerly by his online aliases Filthy Frank and Pink Guy, is a Japanese singer-songwriter, record producer, author, and former Internet personality, YouTuber, and comedian.

George Kusunoki Miller, better known by his stage name Joji and formerly by his online aliases Filthy Frank and Pink Guy, is a Japanese singer-songwriter, record producer, author, and former Internet personality, YouTuber, and comedian.

George Kusunoki Miller, better known by his stage name Joji and formerly by his online aliases Filthy Frank and Pink Guy, is a Japanese singer-songwriter, record producer, author, and former Internet personality, YouTuber, and comedian.

Maya Arulpragasam化名为M.I.A.的她，首张专辑Arular已被喻为近来最具政治意识的杰出作品，发行以来佳评如潮，各路乐评几乎一面倒地给她最高赞誉。Arular目前以平均89的高分暂居Metacritic网站的2005年第一名，我想它还会停留在头几名好一阵子。
从小于斯里兰卡长大，Maya的童年活在战火的阴影下，持续二十年的内战使斯里兰卡民生凋敝，Maya的父亲也加入了Tamil革命军。这张专辑以她父亲的名字Arular为名，是Maya对自己父亲的致意。
由于战火摧残，Maya跟随其余家人漂泊至南伦敦定居，就读了艺术学校，并在家里自行录制了Arular的歌曲蓝本。随后她获得了前英伦乐队Pulp的成员Steve Mackey协助担任其制作人，最终发行了这张无法被归类的、天马行空的首张专辑。
它充满了跳动的节拍，街头俚语，Rap与刮碟这些Hip Hop元素，绝对是办Party时炒热气氛的最佳唱片。可是M.I.A.的Hip Hop和美国的Hip Hop有著很不一样的质地，美国Hip Hop始终难以摆脱Slum氛围，大部分都绕著毒品、枪械、性这些话题打转，穿金戴银的Rapper总难掩阵阵铜臭味。
Hip Hop对M.I.A.来说只是手段不是目的，她善用了这种最具煽动力的乐种，传达的是她的政治意见，那当然是彻底反战。
不论是专辑封面的坦克车、炸弹、自动步枪这些图案，或是内页里的和平标志，她想传达的都是家园被战争摧毁后自身对于和平的渴望，而如Fire Fire、Freedom、Bucky Done Gun这些歌曲，也都对杀戮做出了最直接的指控。
也许听者会以为，音乐就音乐，何必扯上那么多意识形态。这样也行，Arular论音乐性一点也不输其他优秀专辑，打个简单比方，连一向对Hip Hop音乐很无能为力的我，都可以让Arular在音响里连续播了两三天，聆听经验只能用过瘾两字来形容。如果Beastie Boys有什么接班人在排队，我想M.I.A.应该已经排到很前面的顺位了

Khruangbin present: Live At Sydney Opera House, Australia
The globe-trotting, genre-bending Houston, Texas trio Khruangbin closes out their year long collection of live albums with the announcement of Live at Sydney Opera House, a double LP exclusively comprised of Khruangbin compositions, available December 1st on Dead Oceans, in partnership with Night Time Stories Ltd. In conjunction with the announcement today the band also released “People Everywhere (Shifting Sands Remix),” their own fresh take on The Universe Smiles Upon You classic.
The effort bookends an ambitious year-long undertaking for the band that pays homage to their ever-sharpening live show celebrating the band’s improvisational prowess and iconic setlists.
Here, career-spanning songs like “A Calf Born in Winter,” “Maria También,” “So We Won’t Forget,” “Shida” and “Friday Morning” arrive in their full interplanetary glory, recorded at one of the most celebrated venues on earth, the Sydney Opera House. The band’s debut solo performance at the famed Opera House arrived in style in November 2022 with a three-night sold-out run cementing themselves amongst the innumerable stars who have also taken the stage.
The double LP follows four live albums from the band... released earlier this year with guests including Kelly Doyle, Ruben Moreno, The Suffers and Robert Ellis from Austin, Texas’ Stubb’s, Nubya Garcia at NYC’s Radio City, Men I Trust at RBC Echo Beach in Toronto and Toro Y Moi at The Fillmore, Miami. more

Khruangbin has always been multilingual, weaving far-flung musical languages like East Asian surf-rock, Persian funk, and Jamaican dub into mellifluous harmony. But on its third album, it’s finally speaking out loud. Mordechai features vocals prominently on nearly every song, a first for the mostly instrumental band. It’s a shift that rewards the risk, reorienting Khruangbin’s transportive sound toward a new sense of emotional directness, without losing the spirit of nomadic wandering that’s always defined it. And it all started with them coming home.

专辑介绍：
一网友说“听到耳朵不舍得休息”
他们的首张专辑"A Mouthful"夺得了法国流行榜冠军。独立民谣风格的乐团，带点电子。
自从在一个电视广告中听到那首On My Shoulders，我便开始四处寻找这个声音，结果《A Mouthful》如愿以偿、毫不失望地成为08年听过的所有新专辑中我最喜爱的一张。
然而，当我向朋友推荐这支叫作“The Do”的乐队时总觉得有些怪异，我只好接着介绍The Do的成员为Olivia B.Merilahti和Dan Levy，来自法国巴黎和芬兰赫尔辛基的一对新跨国组合。可喜的是，这种美好的异样感同样体现在The Do的音乐里，太多不同的曲调和愉快的转折让人无从期许接下来会继续得到什么。
听Stay (Just a Little Bit More)这样的歌曲让我想起了久违的The Cardigans，Olivia升起的高调唤起些许Blonde Redhead的印象，那些有趣的童音部分则人想到Cocorosie，而突然一首hip-hop曲风的queen dot kong让人彻底败倒。据Olivia所说，对他们第一张专辑《A Mouthful》影响最大的是冰岛的另类流行女王Bjork，他们共同的魅力都在于打破各种风格之间的屏障，以打造自己独特的声音。
Thedø的音乐跨度之大,即兴的难以想象.只前面几首你完全可以相信Thedø是一个堪称完美的民谣乐队,一转眼她们就变成了不带电的CSS(夸张了点),有点令人摸不着头脑,《queen dot kong》就基本就是变成女子版的Eminem了(毫不夸张)!歌曲在Folk-Blues-R&B之间转换,但却不是完全融合在一起.总体而言,前半部分比较美,后半部分比较暗.
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