Over the past decade, Cass McCombs has established himself as one of our premier songwriters. It’s a career that has twisted and turned, from style to subject, both between records and within them. Diverse, cryptic, vital and refreshingly rebellious — just when you think you have him pinned down, you find you’re on the wrong track.
However, Mangy Love, his Anti Records debut, is McCombs at his most blunt: tackling sociopolitical issues through his uniquely cracked lens of lyrical wit and singular insight.
McCombs uses himself as a mirror to misguided and confounding realities, confronting them head-on: “Rancid Girl” reads like a ZZ Top study in Kardashian politics, “Run Sister Run” a mantra for a misogynistic justice system, “Bum Bum Bum” displays a racist, elitist government through the allegory of sadistic dog breeding; the album is sewn together by a common thread of ‘opposition,’ most directly articulated in “Opposite House”, with allusions to mental illness. ‘Laughter Is The Best Medicine’ provides a possible recipe for healing, with the help of an authentic medicine man, the legendary Rev. Goat Carson. The severity of his lyrics is contrasted by the music, which ventures into groovy realms of Philly soul, NorCal psychedelia and New York paranoia punk, articulating the spontaneity and joy of his live show better than ever before.
The record is unquestionably a work of great studio aptitude: a carefully arranged, high-fidelity production by veteran Rob Schnapf and Dan Horne. And as usual, McCombs is joined by many notable members of his eclectic musical tribe, whose names are proudly displayed on the back cover.
Mostly written during a bitter New York City winter and while traveling in Ireland, Mangy Love is Cass at the top of his game, reaching new sonic heights, creatively evolving lyrically, and resulting in his most provocative and complete record yet.

2012 studio album from Leeds based Shoegaze/Alt Rock outfit IlikeTrains. The Shallows explores our relationships with technology. Set to a dark motorik pulse and haunted by machines, production duties were handed to Richard Formby, celebrated for his work on the Mercury Prize-nominated Two Dancers by Wild Beasts. The Shallows deals with themes of information overload, charts a history of how our tools have shaped us, and asks how our recent reliance on digital technology to obtain information has changed the way we think and retain knowledge.

Recorded on a budget, The EP established Arcade Fire before they were signed. Features the 7 tracks 'Old Flame', 'I'm Sleeping In A Submarine', 'No Cars Go', 'The Woodland National Anthem', 'My Heart Is An Apple', 'Headlight Look Like Diamonds' & 'Vampires Forest Fire'. Rough Trade. 2005.

Foals have announced the details of their fourth album, What Went Down.
The follow-up to 2013's Holy Fire, which was recorded in France, will be released on 28 August.
The first single from the album will debut exclusively on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show on 16 June.
The Oxford based group teamed up with producer James Ford, who has previously worked with Arctic Monkeys, Florence and the Machine, Jessie Ware and Mumford & Sons.

睽违两年，2013最新第二张专辑《Olympia》，Austra刻意将观察渗入日常生活各层面的浪漫中细细咀嚼，小心翼翼地编排组合，以既工整又戏剧化的方式表现关于生活、友情与爱情的点滴细节。虽经过悉心推敲编排，却透出自然灵光，没有矫饰做作之感。相较于上张专辑所有创作全出自Katie 之手，这张新作多共同创作的空间，不只Maya与Dorian参与创作工程，合音歌手Sari也贡献其力，谱写部份歌词。Katie在歌声和创作中，赤裸面对自己的人生并拥抱每个人的优点，《Olympia》的冷冽清醒令人悸动不已，唯有认真地审视现实生活，才有可能逃离它，实现内心对浪漫的向往。

如果愛是天賦
理解，是否將成為我們之間
永恆的詛咒？
經常，外在的一切巨大如星辰
看起來那麼肯定
退而求其本
我們呵護內心藍綠藻般微小的夢
直到太陽出現
直到月亮出現
2012年十月，Hush！樂團首張創作專輯《X》，終於在蔓生枝枒中勇敢綻放。
10種姿態、無限溫柔，不在主謂語之間懵懂，Hush！ 以第三人稱捕捉青春絮語、
韶光輕逝，道盡異常灰色的城市中，最顯而易見的美麗。
也許，理解依然是痛苦的吧。
每次的善體人意，都像是包覆銅線的絕緣體，安靜而存在，認份而不擁有。
「還是平行地生長交叉地活」，陰極陽極之間，彷彿能夠聽見Hush ! 這麼唱著。
2012，Hush！《X》
等待集體出竅

尽管意念可以迅速在音乐中迷荡，却还是无法找到一个确切的词语去很好的概括或者形容它。
Hole有着古典剧开幕一样奢靡的前奏，噪音和弦乐在音乐声中描绘了一个诡异的场面，扭曲的电吉他在人声后面如影随形，和钢琴、鼓一起支撑整首曲子，对立之间互相渗透，用人声沟通的旋律悄然落幕。
opus 40的名字给人一种错觉，混在其中的弦乐远离了那些惯常的摇滚元素，hudson line的jazz风格的前奏和主唱收敛起来的充满爆发性力量的嗓音，光滑的音色浸润在SAX的随性中。
The funny bird中将噪音旋律后营造出的环境在试图扭曲既有的和谐，电气化的主唱的声音像挣扎在水中一般。无助的音效和高昂的激情毫不留情的碰撞。
pick up if you\'re there中幽怨的旋律很是让现在的我喜欢，我一直不能很深入的neo-folk在这首歌里面深深吸引了我，或许是丰富的多的旋律以及音乐中迷雾一样的云层笼罩了我的思绪，那段电吉他效果在阴森恐怖的城堡中比女声显的正义的多。
Goddes on a hiway丰富的旋律和抚慰人心的音色质地浸渍在几乎是天堂般的柔光里，带有不同于传统摇滚色彩的交响乐般闪烁着异彩的威严，指亮了那些崎岖的人生之路。

Artist：The Temper Trap
Album ：Conditions
Date ：2009.06.19
Label ：Liberation Music
Style ：Alternative Rock
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dougy - vocs/guitar
jonny - bass
lorenzo - lead guitar/keys
toby - drums/programming
澳大利亚的四人组合Temper Trap，2009年BBC推荐最具潜力新人，在推出了一些EP后，终于在上月飞行了他们的首张大碟。
主唱dougy充满磁性的唱腔、lorenzo清脆的吉他声效、toby的细碎鼓拍、还有jonny制造出的充满脉动的旋律，不愧为人们期待的乐队，一张不能错过的专辑。

self-released EP which is sold on live venue

少年不識愁滋味，為賦新詞強說愁。好似灑脫卻充滿框架，好似追求、期盼什麼卻只是不斷印證自己的可笑一般。其實就是醜奴兒自己心裡的對話與拉扯，希望能藉由歌詞的意境，讓悲傷的人看見自己的模樣，在片刻抒發後，認清自我。總體而言，文字創作的方面，我們希望以文字作為一面鏡子反面對照自我，也許表面較為負面但期盼人們依舊能意識到作為一個「人」不該遺忘的本質。

The dø is a Finnish-French indie pop band founded in Paris in 2005. The band is composed of Olivia Merilahti and Dan Levy. The duo has been backed on stage by three different drummers: Jérémie Pontier, José Joyette, and Pierre Belleville.

陈粒 首张专辑 《如也》
没签公司，没有团队，没有包装，单枪匹马，一个人一把琴，每首单曲网络点击都非常火爆，在各个原创音乐排行榜上也常居榜首。在办了四次场场爆满的民谣专场后，陈粒终于发布了自己的首张专辑 《如也》。
“要挣钱，要养家，要过好日子，当时就那个水平，别人也都那么干，限制太多，给钱太少，社会不开明，市场不成熟，都是理由。但今天谁要听这些理由？大家只看结果，任何理由没有，这就是你干的，你的历史。 ”
点开她的豆瓣小站，最显眼的位置永远留给这段话。
“我以为十个听歌的人里面，只有一个人会去看现场。” 陈粒这样对大家说。可事实：第一次办专场：广州站，320人，长沙站350人，武汉站，505人......在即将进行的首专巡演中，前几站的预售票也是出票两小时就售罄，成都站甚至还没发布开售的消息就在两小时内售罄。这对于一个进军民谣不到一年的歌手来说算是相当令人吃惊的好成绩了。
却从没有任何所谓的“偶像包袱”，常和微博上的乐迷欢乐互动，演出空隙里时不时来一段儿“单口相声”，给乐迷签名直接签“老公”二字，时而自黑时而自恋。这一切平易近人的举动，也都让广大乐迷对陈粒好感倍增。
陈粒已发布的单曲，几乎是首首好评。《奇妙能力歌》，诗。《祝星》以爱人的名字命名，直接又美好；《历历万乡》充满江湖气息，大气不失细腻；《性空山》作词绝美，陈粒的独特嗓音更把这首好词演绎得毫无缺憾；《走马》更是简陋的demo版就潦倒了一大片文艺女青年，当然也有直男。
首张专辑《如也》除了录入六首备受好评的已发布单曲之外，陈粒也为乐迷们带来了九首全新单曲，数量质量都堪称良心，却也是水到渠成。九首新歌，仍然一如既往地有她独特的风格，既有对自由的追逐，也有对恋人的渴慕。
2015年3月起，她将带着这张《如也》进行全国大范围的巡演，当她路过你的城市，不妨走进livehouse，听一听这个传说中现场比录音更棒的声音。
实体专辑的设计也跳出常规，值得珍藏。陈粒在微博上承诺，到了演出现场，见专辑就签，追着你给你签。
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Sara Lov is an American singer and songwriter. Lov was born in Hawaii in 1970 and later was raised by her mother in Los Angeles after the divorce of her parents. At the age of four she was kidnapped by her father, who was in the midst of a custody battle, and she was taken to Israel.

Anna Ternheim's first official full-length release in the U.S., Halfway to Fivepoints is something of a journey through her already successful international career. A critical darling in her native Sweden--where her debut album, 2004's Something Outside, earned her a Swedish Grammy® for Best New Artist--Ternheim has included some of her oldest and newest material on this album. The lone cover song on the disc is an exquisitely strippeddown and slowed cover of Fleetwood Mac's eighties hit "Little Lies." Together, this collection features quickly-written love stories, tales of loneliness, messy lives, stalkers and therapeutic kiss-offs to formers lovers. In tracks like "Lover's Dream," she sought to bring the listener into another realm, one akin to the grainy, black-and-white world found in the memorable 1922 film Nosferatu. It's appropriate, as Ternheim's voice lends a cinematic quality to the disc, at times conjuring Orton's contemplative alt-folk and even the timeless wisdom of Joni Mitchell--sometimes within the same song (as on the album-ending title track). Throughout it all, there's a class to these songs, a beauty to them, and to the transportative quality of Ternheim's sometimes breathy, sometimes sweet voice.

李志个人第七张专辑

Angus & Julia Stone来自澳大利亚悉尼的兄妹组合。ANGUS的声线是清新的男声，像春天清爽的风，一个有想法的男孩真絷的表达。JULIA的声音则像是一个充满愁绪的小女孩喃喃地向你诉说与要求，他们的音乐轻快，富有想像力，每一首的可听性都很高，是真正热爱音乐的人才能做出的音乐。