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The English band’s nervy debut blazes through scraps of jazz, funk, krautrock, dub, and punk. More than a canonized style, it’s their level of control that sets them apart.

英伦乐队 Spiritualized最新专辑《Sweet Heart Sweet Light》带着厚厚70年代的声音，不论歌曲旋律、编曲、录音以及溷音的声音处理，总是让人不其然地联想起那个 「音乐乌托邦」 的年代，如专辑中一曲 《Little Girl》。歌词中更谈及了不少对生命的看法和体验。

“净化”Spiritualized 是由80年代著名噪音乐队Spacemen 3蜕变而来的，Jason Pierce离开乐队之后，没有延续一贯的实验噪音，而是转而探索英式迷幻摇滚，并由此组建了Spiritualized。乐队在92年发行了首张专辑《Lazer Guided Melodies》，取得了相当不错的成绩，接着在95年发行了《Pure Chase》，同样大获好评，而97年的那张《Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space》则被认为是他们最具代表性的专辑，并在当年获得了巨大的成功，紧接着乐队借势又在98年发行了现场版的双张CD《Live At The Royal Albert Hall October 10 1997》，庞大的演出阵容，包括了从管弦乐团到福音合唱团，也使得这次演出异常完美。
Spiritualized的音乐总是带着浓厚的布鲁斯和福音的味道，从60年代以来，很少有英国乐队给人这样的感觉了。“净化”的音乐有一点儿奇怪，他们有足够的能力做出旋律优美的调子，但却往往要用失真的吉他音墙去破坏它，仿佛噪音有一种魔力似的，而主唱的唱腔也总是保持着冰冷的感觉。“ 净化”不喜欢平铺直叙的田园风情，他们更喜欢鳞比栉次的音乐宫殿。
2001年，“净化”推出了第四张录音室专辑《让它没落》(Let It Come Down)，此时“净化”已真正变成以杰森·皮尔斯一人为核心的乐队，包括杰森前女友凯特·雷德利等成员都已纷纷离开。但专辑依旧延续以往的华丽阵容，参与的乐手多达上百人。2003年的新专辑《惊异的优雅》(Amazing Grace)是在几星期内录好的。更多粗糙原始的音效代替了华丽管弦，新专辑的歌曲在结构上更为传统，这和前几张专辑的太空迷幻倾向有着非常大的不同。封面上那赤裸的手臂似乎预示着杰森在追求更“净化”的音乐。专辑中请来了埃文·帕克(Evan Parker)、哈恩·本尼克(Han Bennink)等自由爵士乐巨匠担任乐手。在访谈中杰森对能和这些音乐家合作表示非常兴奋。谈到新专辑的变化，他说道：“其实并没有刻意经营或追求什么，事物的发展往往受很多因素的影响，但我想最主要的一点在于我们总是尝试做一些不同的东西，而不考虑它是不是有正确答案。”谈到杂志的评价，杰森颇为不屑：“在任何一个时期，英国的音乐媒体都会找出六、七张唱片并吹嘘它们是‘划时代的’，媒体就是靠这个运作。我的成就感在于唱片获得了和它的价值相符的回报，以及它完全为我个人的音乐抱负服务。我其实并不需要很多人跟我说这是张伟大的唱片，并从这种赞扬中得到满足，从别人那里得到赞扬是件极容易的事，以至于很少人会对你说：‘坚持下去，你所做的并不如计划中的那样好。’这就和皇帝的新装一样，不是吗？我并不以杂志的赞誉获得满足感，我1995年的唱片《纯粹状态》几乎没有得到任何回应，《NME》给它打了5分，满分是10分。不幸的是《NME》是英国大多数年轻人音乐口味的仲裁者。我可不认为《纯粹状态》在任何一个方面比《女士们先生们我们正在太空里漂浮》差，我更没有兴趣为了讨好媒体去做一张唱片。摇滚乐最让我热爱的一点就在于它的表达，你可以在歌词中述说一些老掉牙和俗世的事物，但当你把这些事物和音乐结合起来，它们就立刻变得富于幻想性，就像令人惊艳具有魔力的诗歌一样。例如你可以说‘我不能停止爱你’或其他类似的话，这些话本身其实是没什么特色的，但和音乐结合在一起，它们就具有了魔力。”
不像“石玫瑰”那样优美，也不是“收音机头”那般沉溺。在顶级的英国乐队中，“净化”是如此与众不同的一个，它是一种缓慢而持久的药物，用来医治灵魂和心灵。

Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space is the third studio album by English space rock band Spiritualized, released on 16 June 1997.

Suede is the debut album by English alternative rock band Suede, released in March 1993 on Nude Records. At the time the fastest-selling debut album in British history, Suede debuted at the top of the UK Album Chart, won the 1993 Mercury Music Prize, and is often credited with starting the Britpop movement. The sound of the album has been compared to The Smiths and the early David Bowie era.

无疑Suede是近乎完美的乐队.有好听的歌,有足够多的话题跟新闻,有资历,有阅历.10年来的这张单曲集,对他们有感情的人一定会带着很复杂的心态在听.毕竟Suede已经改变了太多.从最初的So Young,到风光无限的Beautiful Ones,以及内敛的Wild Ones,每个时期的Suede都作出了不可多得的精品.这样的乐队选择告别,也许正当时吧.

The Vaccines have shared 10 rare and unheard tracks with this week’s issue of NME.
‘Isolation’ (Recorded in RMS rehearsal space and Justin’s bedroom, London, May 2012)
‘If You Wanna’ (Recorded in The Grove rehearsal space and Justin’s bedroom, London, May 2009)
‘Panic Attack’ (Recorded in RMS rehearsal space and Justin’s bedroom, London, September 2011)
‘Delicate’ (Recorded in RMS rehearsal space and Justin’s bedroom, London, May 2012)
‘Wreckin’ Bar (Ra Ra Ra)’ (Rec. in Ritz rehearsal space and Justin’s bedroom, London, July 2010)
‘I Wish I Was A Girl’ (Recorded in RMS rehearsal space and Justin’s bedroom, London, March 2012)
‘Wetsuit’ (Recorded in The Grove rehearsal space and Justin’s bedroom, London, May 2009)
‘Nørgaard’ (Recorded in the basement at Red Light Management, London, May 2010)
‘No Hope’ (Recorded in RMS rehearsal space and Justin’s bedroom, London, October 2011)
‘Runaway’ (Recorded in Deluxe rehearsal space and Justin’s hotel room, Melbourne, January 2012)

"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...

The hugely anticipated second full length album from Loyle Carner, following on from his fantastic debut which made our top ten records of 2017.
‘Not Waving, But Drowning’, Loyle’s new album, gives yet more evidence - as if it were needed - of his razor-sharp flow and his unique storytelling ability. Yes, he can rap, but he allies that with the sensitivity of a poet, the observational skills of a novelist, and warmth of your best friend. The album opens with ‘Dear Jean’, a letter to his mother in which he’s telling her that he has found the love of his life, “a woman from the skies”, and he’s moving out.

Whirlpool is the debut album by British shoegazing band Chapterhouse. The album was reissued in 2006, on the label Cherry Red, with seven bonus tracks taken from three EPs (Freefall, Sunburst, and Pearl) released in the same time frame as the album. The Cherry Red reissue also included, for the first time, lyrics to all of the songs. The album spent 3 weeks in the UK Album chart in 1991, peaking at number 23.

LUSH来自英国著名独立音乐大本营/唱片公司4AD。独立公司的意思是指不附庸于任何一家超级垄断唱片公司址下，完全实行自立、自主的独立操作原则；更重要的是每个独立唱片公司都有一个个性强烈的音乐指向/氛围，即其旗下的乐队/个人都有一个大概统一的音乐风格范畴；另外，这类唱片公司一般是将艺术家创作的自由度放到最大，而不会为了商业效果而去过分的约束、限制。4AD是这一领域佼佼者，它不但坚持了20年屹立不倒，不为大公司所吞并，而且始终坚持了自己独立的音乐态度。

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.

Damage and Joy is the seventh studio album released by The Jesus and Mary Chain, planned for release on March 25, 2017. It is the group's first album in eighteen years, and marks the group's first collaboration with producer Youth.

The Half Open Sky Gives Us Hope is the creation of one man and his computer in his South East London flat.
Taking influence from many genres of music, the tracks, full of lilting strings and powerful percussion sound like the soundtrack to an as yet unwritten film.
The debut album 'The Explorer' is out now on Team Fossil Records as a Limited Edition Digipak and as a digital download on iTunes and Amazon.
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