Post-rock band God Is An Astronaut's third album on their own Revive Records. Don't you love it when your most anticipated release of the year lives up to your expectations. Undeniably my favorite band at the moment has pulled off a stellar release that shows a maturing in their sound. That band is God is an Astronaut. This albums is nine tracks of perfection and will most certainly be a contender for my Top 10 picks of year unless something completely miraculous happens. Their sound is undeniable, but on Far From Refuge, they have taking that sound to a new emotive level. The compositions are intricate and well thought out with moments that explode into quietness. Torsten, Neil and Lloyd are a force to be reckoned with as their brand of post-rock screams into your speakers. --Somewherecold.com

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Mono《Hymn to the Immortal Wind》
黑洞唱片荣誉发行，Human Highway Records官方指定发行，中国地区独家发行！
温暖春意，黑洞唱片亮色系列正式起航，推出Post Rock界著名日本乐队MONO的全新专辑《Hymn To The Immortal Wind》中国地区引进版！
MONO乐队10年音乐里程之见证，首次运用交响元素，MONO后摇音乐全新超凡体验汇集于《Hymn To The Immortal Wind》。
全24页全彩色内页文案，7首出色作品，造就2009年最完美的概念性专辑！
发行时间：2009.4

Alcest起初是由neige,hegnor,arguth三人共同组成的黑金属乐队,成立于1999年.随着时间的推移,Alcest逐渐演变成neige一个人的音乐载体.而音乐风格也由最初冰冷生猛的黑金属向shoegaze乃至后摇滚转变.

Black Metal?Shoegaze?Post Rock?
You choose
Music from another world. A world full of beauty, intense joy and light, but also filled with yearning and nostalgia. The debut album by ALCEST is a record that already now can be regarded as a peerless landmark.
Neige - All instruments and vocals*, composition, lyrics, recording
*Guest vocals on 'Sur l'autre rive je t'attendrai' by Audrey Sylvain.
Cover picture by Rachel Robinson
Layout by Fursy Teyssier
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Other pictures by Fursy Teyssier and Neige.

2016年1月初，差不多是一年中最冷的时候，惘闻在大连完成了乐队第九张唱片的录制，与以往不同，我们第一次找来了Wouter和Lode兄弟俩作为唱片的制作人。这张唱片总共收录了6首长曲和1首录自于废弃厂房中的人声作品，它们都是在过去的三年中创作的，最终的录音在原始创作的基础上改动了不少，乐队希望在一个作品中表述更多的内容和情绪，做更多的线索和矛盾冲突，而制作人则希望把一切脉络梳理的更清晰，双方的这种拉扯达到了最终的某种平衡结果。对惘闻而言，它是我们认知和探索自身和外在世界的又一次尝试。

过去的几年，感觉时间轴绷上了弹簧，加速度使人充满了莫名的兴奋和窒息感。才刚习惯的十年一代的讲法也已经过时，眼前的生活如速度失控的幻灯片般闪烁变幻。移动网络似乎把人与人拉得很近，其实是改变了我们的存在方式，让今天的“关系”成为一堆堆坚硬的数据模块, 不灭不净，无法交融，你甚至不能选择不参与其中，随之深深坠入时空堆积过载又不断撕裂的缝隙中。

越过岁月鸿沟就是Sweet Home, Go了？是的，不过是另一个岁月鸿沟，英语的。音乐总是或轻或重，但它从来不是精神糖果或者情绪解药，但我总是幻想着它那强大的气流能让时间暂停，把你我从冰冷的深渊喷到九霄云外，然后摔到粉身碎骨。

惘闻 2016年4月11日于大连

MONO’ s 9th album “Requiem For Hell” to be released on October 14th!
This album was produced, recorded and mixed by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago, and mastered by Bob Weston. Steve Albini, the producer and one of the main participants of this album, was already a producer for 3 of MONO’s albums in the past, and just last year, his band Shellac played their first Japan tour in 23 years as a co-headliner tour with MONO. After the recordings, MONO and Shellac shared the stage again in North America.
“Requiem For Hell” features 5 songs. Unlike the last double album “The Last Dawn / Rays Of Darkness”, which re-visited the band’s early sound, MONO introduces strings once again, showing broader dynamics and a wider range of sounds.
From TAKAAKIRA ‘TAKA’ GOTO / MONO:
“This album is a series of songs from a flood of inspirations in 2015. After writing song after song and giving them titles, we stumbled upon Dante’s “Divine Comedy” and the story struck a chord with us. “Divine Comedy” is a story about travelling down to Hell, through to purgatory… this is when we decided to use Gustave Dóre’s illustration from “Divine Comedy”’s last scene as the main cover.”
“Requiem For Hell” comes as a 2xLP in a special slipcase cover with a die cut hole on the back side, printed inner sleeves and an engraving on side D, showing a foetus.
Comments Taka Goto:
“Our long-time friend Jeremy (the owner of our American label Temporary Residence) had his first-born, she was named Ely. Jeremy had been sending us photos and her heartbeats from long before she was born. When Ely was born, we decided to dedicate one of our songs to her, with hopes of her listening to it when she is grown up, and decided to use her heartbeats as an intro on the song “Ely’s Heartbeat”.

New EP from Athletics
Engineered & Produced by Kevin Dye
Mixed & Mastered by Gregory Dunn
Artwork by John Cannon