Souvlaki is the second studio album by the English rock band Slowdive. Recorded in 1992, it was released in the UK on 17 May 1993 by record label Creation, then on 8 February 1994 in the US.

在80年代末至90年代，英国出现了纯粹以吉他噪音实验为目标的乐队与风格，并且获得了相当大的成功，在英国独立摇滚中可谓独树一帜。敏感的乐评人称这一类音乐风格为“自赏摇滚”（Shoe-gazing）。“自赏摇滚”这一名称很是贴切，既包涵了乐队的音乐风格，又暗示了乐队特立独行的生活态度。 My Bloody Valentine就是这类摇滚的代表人物，Loveless是该乐队的第三张专辑，被公认为是该乐队最成功的代表作，在世界范围内都有巨大影响，这张专辑和乐队名称甚至一起出现在了经典游戏Final FantasyVII的片头CG里。

Adorable's hugely overlooked and grossly underappreciated debut album, "Against Perfection", is easily among the finest pieces of pure pop pleasure I have in my ridicously bloated CD collection. If you enjoy the darker, moodier side of pop music (especially if you listen to British alt/indie rock), and if you have a sweet tooth for the 3-4 minute single, then this album is for you.
Opening track "Sunshine Smile" is simply breathtaking. This song is so good, it is worth the price of the CD alone. Alternating between an infectious arpeggiated guitar melody (with an absolutely killer harmony part that sounds sooooo good!) and a crushingly heavy guitar riff that would make the Reid brothers weep with envy, this track encapsulates what the very essence of the Adorable sound is: unbelievably catchy and emotional vocal lines combined with melodic and abrasive sounding guitar parts that work in tandem to create something that is at once both beautiful and destructive.
Many Adorable fans cite the track "Homeboy" as the band's zenith and it's easy to see why. This track is easily one of the most infectious pop tunes I have ever heard. The fact that I sing this song in the shower almost daily is a testament to that (laugh). Combining a brooding bass line with simple but effective guitar parts and moody vocals, this track is a homerun for British pop music. Whoever thought that something this dark, moody and angry sounding could also be so incredibly infectious? Adorable proves it can be done with flying colors (as long as those flying colors are all different shades of black---laugh)...
While the band largely stick to this winning formula throughout the record, they do manage to eschew the "one-trick pony" trappings of such bands as The Jesus & Mary Chain by offering songs with wider and more spacious dynamics, such as the introspective sounding "A to Fade In" and the quiet, but still brooding, "Still Life" and "Breathless."
The album closes on a triumphant note with the dramatic "I'll Be Your Saint"---another song that could easily serve as an exemplary example on How To Write A Good Pop Song for all prospective musicians.
To sum up, this is a wonderful record from start to finish. And you don't have to enjoy bands like Jesus & Mary Chain, Echo & the Bunnymen & The House of Love to appreciate it. This album is for anyone who treasures well-written pop melodies and music with genuine feeling and emotion. Give yourself a nice little treat and order this album as soon as you can!

Japanese band based in Saitama and formed by Makoto Igarashi and Mihoko Tanouethey. They released this one album before switching to another project: Roly Poly Rag Bear.
くるり、□□□、ス－パ－カ－好きは必聴！！マイブラのポップな部分だけを抽出したようなドリ－ミ－なギタ－サウンド！！切なくて泣ける傑作です。

The Away Ep was a collection of our first songs that were ever recorded which was to be released by Unexplainable Recordings somewhere between 2007 and 2008. The Away EP is:
01. Gigi
02. It's not over till we're dead
03. I can't see it here
04. L'astrologue
In addition here are some demos and tracks from 2007-2009 that never found a home.

The Bilinda Butchers "HEAVEN" is a soundtrack set to the diary by Nakajima Ume, a young woman who lived in Japan from 1836 to 1864. The diary's entries catalog her catastrophic marriage to a cruel nobleman, and her later introduction to a young, idealistic poet whose expressions of sympathy inspire her to escape from her unfortunate circumstances. When her friendship with the poet is discovered, Ume is sent away to a distant village, where she falls into a deep depression and eventually learns of the poet’s death. Though the news of the poet’s death initially disturbs Ume, she soon discovers within herself a new sense of clarity and motivation. Her diary ends with a final pronouncement: she will drown herself in order to reunite with her fallen lover.
Released by Orchid Tapes on Vinyl
Released by Fastcut Records on CD
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released 15 July 2014
The Bilinda Butchers - "Heaven"
Based on the story written by Michal Palmer and Michelle Yoon
Read at thebilindabutchers.com
The Bilinda Butchers are:
Michal Palmer: Vocal, Guitar, Synth,Bass
Adam Honingford: Vocal, Guitar, Bass
Ryan Wansley: Drums
Produced & Mixed by Lukas Untersteiner & Michal Palmer
Engineered by Lukas Untersteiner, Michal Palmer & Jonah Strauss
Mixed at Shipwreck Studios in Oakland, California
Mastered by Chris Hanzsek in Seattle, Washington
Art by Megumi Tsuji (tsujimegumi.net)
Art Editing by Brian Vu
Free download from Orchid Tapes: orchidtapes.bandcamp.com

Recorded in San Francisco
"The Lovers' Suicide!" based on the short story "A Street Singer" by Lafcadio Hearn.
Title is spelt wrong on the artwork (back cover and center label) as "The Lover's Suicide!"

Duly impressive is the shear magnitude of Skywave's sound. At live shows, the band is known for soundchecking at half-volume, then cranking it all the way up at curtain time for an unsuspecting soundman. Bassist Oliver Ackerman designs his own effects pedals, including the Supersonic Fuzz Gun and a series called Total Sonic Annihilations, which Skywave employ to help achieve their massive sound. His clientele includes Keith Fullerton Whitman, who used FX-pedal-augmented, laptop-produced guitar tones to construct 2002's beautiful Playthroughs. Synthstatic is similarly experimental in its delicate treatment of extreme noise, and its oscillating high-volume dynamics more than live up to the band's promising URL. The record even sounds potent on laptop speakers.
If only for its formalism is it impossible to call Synthstatic a great album. Bands following similar formulas in different genres might be pilloried, and Skywave will doubtless endure their own share of derision. But some forms of rock, given an occasional tightening of the bolts, never seem to grow stale. Had it been released 15 years ago, a work of this songwriting caliber would likely have been wildly acclaimed. As it is, Synthstatic lacks any shred of originality, but is probably the best of all possible end-results from a monument built completely out of scrap material, a shoegazing "Junkyard Workshop" that, like any successful tribute, enforces the significance of its forebears while managing to hold its own ground.

Jim和William Reid兄弟出生在苏格兰寒冷的东Kilbride。 年少失业的他们，厌恶80年代早期的音乐，于是在1983年他们俩录制了自己的小样， 但没有哪个唱片公司愿意理睬他们。当时他们把自己的乐队叫“草莓声明”。

1984年 THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN 初步成型，由Jim担任主唱，William弹奏吉他， 招来的Douglas Hart演奏三弦贝斯，Murray Dalglish演奏两件套的鼓。 他们闯入一些音乐会自称是暖场乐队，在Glasgow的Nightmoves 俱乐部首次演出。 因不满音响师的取笑，打碎其设备，成为头条新闻.他们被强行逐出，随后被保镖殴打。 直到他们演出多次才不用在场地周围晃来晃去。

1984年5月乐队在伦敦亮相谋求发展。Bobby Gillespie建议他们送一份样带给 Creation 公司的老板Alan McGee。 那时候Alan McGee为新音乐开设了一个演出场所。在听过小样后， McGee邀请他们在1984年6月9日进行首场音乐会，给另一支乐队的暖场。 就在为数不多的听众面前，他们演出了十分钟，却从此开始了受到人们的注意。 当他们用Bobby Gillespie代替Murray Dalglish后，McGee把 JAMC 签到自己的独立厂牌Creation， 而后发表了首张单曲Upside Down,很快登上英国独立榜榜首，销量35000张，单曲中喃喃而语的唱腔， 坚实稳固的鼓点，尖长的回授音效给人们极深刻的印象。不过他们却时常惹麻烦，在德国乐队成员被捕， 在英国被指控持有毒品，25分钟尖刻的审查引发了在伦敦实验艺术中心的青年人骚乱。 媒体关注着他们发展，唱片公司也有意与他们签约。 但是合约上却提议为商业而改变他们当时身着黑色皮衣，黑色太阳镜， 杂乱发型的形象。他们拒绝接受，于1985年1月转签华纳下属的独立厂牌 Blanco y Negro 。 第二首单曲“Never Understand”固化了乐队的音响特色，一场在伦敦工艺学校的演出最后引发骚乱， 乐队把自己锁在换衣间，乐迷破坏演出场所，在街上狂奔。警察到处追随他们。“Jesus Sucks” 作为第三张单曲。然而，华纳公司的技工拒绝印刷它，认为它过于猥亵或亵渎神明。 当他们在85年11月发表首张唱片 Psychocandy 时，报刊杂志赞颂它有如呼了一口新鲜空气。 回授音效，简洁上口的旋律，松弛单纯的节奏也不同于当时的其他唱片。 JAMC给人的感觉是嘈杂散乱却十分吸引人，配上那些孩子般荒谬可笑的歌词，但它确实很新鲜。那些癫狂而又和谐的，几乎有些迷幻般的猛烈，被Melody Maker杂志的读者公认为八十年代的最佳专辑。

1986年
“Nervous Exhaustion”导致了一重要巡演的取消。而“Some Candy Talking” 因被认为与毒品有关而在电台禁播。 在制作第二张专辑 DARKLANDS 之前，鼓手 Bobby Gillespie 离队组建了另一支乐队PRIMAL SCREAM。从那以后 JAMC 主要成分仍是Jim和William两兄弟, 另外吉他手Ben Lurie一直与他们合作，三人都创作歌曲，由Jim和William轮番演唱，并在他们伦敦自己的录音室（The Drugstore)制作唱片.

1987年
在“April Skies”中，人们注意到他们那特有的回授音效渐隐，而显露出浓重美妙的旋律伴以忧郁的赞美诗，这首作品顺利进入十佳。“Happy when it rains”可爱之极，最近被Garbage乐队翻唱。“Darklands”单曲进入前五名，尽管它略显粗糙，但仍佐证了Reid兄弟已成为严肃认真的音乐家。然而，Darklands美国巡演被阻碍不能进行。Jim Reid因用麦克攻击乐迷而在多伦多被捕，在交了多少保释金后被释放。Dolly Parton 邀请乐队参加流行的电视节目。

1988年
一张B面歌曲的选集Barbed Wire Kisses登上十佳专辑榜，89年让人难以置信的专辑Automatic铺路。

1992年
乐队开始巡演，多方面的系列变化已验证乐队接近极限。他们仍带来单曲， “reverence ”。而新唱片命名为Honey`S Dead 。这无疑是乐队展现才华最充分的一张专辑。随后他们与Dinosaur Jr 、 My Bloody Valentine 、Blur 共同举行了声名狼籍的 Rollercoaster 巡演，然后参加第二届Lollapalooza音乐节。

1993年
The Sound of Speed发行，其中包括"Snakerdriver"( 被选在Brand Lee 的电影“乌鸦”原声配乐里），进入排行前三十位，同名电影原声大碟升到15位。

1994年
由Reid兄弟制作（尽管他们原来希望由Lee Hazelwood担当）的专辑Stoned And Dethroned出版。William特地请来他的女友Hope Sandoval（Mazzy Star的主唱）参与演唱。Pogues乐队的Shane MacGowan也参与其中。随后乐队在美国巡演，又一次出现在David Letterman Show节目中，并与Radiohead，Sheryl Crow一起在西雅图演出。

1995年
在AMERICAN旗下推出一张EP，部分新作和B面作品。这些作品后来大都收录在专辑MUNKI中。

1998年初
JAMC 结束了与华纳的合作签回英国本土的 Creation 公司，而在美国将合约签给了SUB POP。随后他们发表单曲了Cracking Up和 I love Rock`n`Rock两支单曲，并开始巡回演出。

1998年
新专辑Munki出版，其中Hope Sandoval和Vanilla Reid(Jim和William的妹妹）参与演唱，Terry Edwards演奏管乐。在英国与The Kings Of infinite Space一起巡演，而后一个夏天参加各种音乐节（Glastonbury/Phoenix/ T In The Park/Belicassim）。又受John Peel的邀请，和suicide一起参加在南部海滩举行的Meltdown音乐节。 在巡演中，由Jim担任主音，William和Ben弹奏吉他，Phil King是贝斯手，Nick Sanderson(偶尔被Geoff Donkin代替）为鼓手。然而在美国巡演的几场演出后，William决定离队，巡演在他离开后继续进行。

1999年
JAMC 的存在已经成为模棱两可的事，虽说他们的唱片仍旧在影响着很多乐队，同时也有难以计数的乐迷在期待着他们，但是 JAMC 似乎已经完成了他们的使命，无须正式宣布解散了。William Reid 已录制了他的个人专辑，准备单飞，预期1999年发行。而Jim 和Ben为自己的新乐队命名为tv69，并和贝斯手Romi Mori一起排练。

全球众多的乐迷似乎在内心深处也会盼望Reid兄弟能再度合作，毕竟THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN这个名字对我们来说是个绝对光彩夺目的焦点。

Digitally remastered and expanded three disc (two CDs + PAL/Region 0 DVD) edition of this 1987 from the groundbreaking British Alt-Rockers. A more subtle and understated album than their debut, it nevertheless contains their biggest chart hit in 'April Skies' and several of the Reid brothers' most loved songs. Premiering a more expansive and nuanced sound, Jim and William wrote, produced and played everything on here. This deluxe expanded edition features all the non-album B-sides, the pre-Darklands Some Candy Talking EP, outtakes, BBC Radio Sessions and much more. The DVD features the promo videos for all the singles, a first time on DVD for the band-made film for b-side 'Kill Surf City', and previously unreleased archival TV appearances, including their only appearance on Top Of The Pops, alongside performances on Belgian TV and ITV's short-lived TOTP rival The Roxy. Edsel.

Feeling no doubt burdened by the various claims of being the new Sex Pistols, and likely fed up with accusations that the walls of feedback were their own trick, the Reid brothers underwent a bit of a rethink with Darklands. The end result must have fallen squarely between two camps -- hardly eligible for sunny commercial airplay, not quite as flailing as the earliest efforts -- but, from a distance, this is an appealing, enjoyable record. Songs were often longer while the album itself was shorter than Psychocandy, walls of sound were often stripped away in favor of calmer classic rock twang and groove, while William Reid took the lead vocal at points, showing he had a slightly sweeter, wistful tone in comparison to his brother. However, the changes on Darklands can be overstated -- the basic formula at the heart of the band (inspired plagiarism of melodies and lyrics alike, plenty of reverb, etc.) stayed pretty much the same, even if the mixes were cleaned up -- compare "Down on Me" to any Psychocandy cut for a good example of the difference. The use of drum machines in place of Bobby Gillespie's rumble tended to enforce the newer focus, but at the album's best, such a seeming dichotomy didn't cause too much worry. "April Skies" made for a great single, while the soaring-in-spite-of-itself "Happy When It Rains" was another winner, one that Garbage more or less made its own some years later for its own similarly titled hit. William's singing turns made for other highlights as well, notably "Nine Million Rainy Days," the overt misery of the title suiting the dark crawl of the song, and the lengthy lament "On the Wall." Darklands is no Psychocandy in the end -- nothing the band released later ever was -- but it's still a good listen.

Shoegazing（自赏摇滚）的奠基者The Jesus and Mary Chain的首张专辑，一般也认为是首张Shoegazing专辑，他们在其中演练了各种吉他噪音和梦幻般的和声，"Just Like Honey," "My Little Underground" 和 "Never Understand"都被认为是另类摇滚的经典。