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同样来自96年，同样在滚石的用心之作，粤语歌曲对我来说，歌词听起来很费劲，但不影响欣赏歌曲的流畅编排。除去《夜太黑》的爵士配置，这张还加入了弦乐以及 club 乐队，听感上丝毫不会疲劳。

Also from 1996, and also a carefully crafted work by Rock Records, Cantonese songs sound quite challenging to me in terms of lyrics, but it doesn't affect the enjoyment of the song's smooth arrangement. Aside from the jazz setup of "The Night is Too Dark," this album also incorporates strings and a club band, making it feel completely refreshing.

我是在KTV中听到了这首歌，林忆莲是大陆地区耳熟能详的艺人，但这首歌确实是第一次听到，其中 灵魂乐式的萨克斯和非常雷鬼的鼓组一下就抓住我了：为什么90年代的歌曲可以这么前卫？回去之后完整听完整张专辑，我就确信这确实是一张制作非常用心用钱的专辑，值得一试。PS：这似乎是我第一次听到流行歌中全程穿插萨克斯，非常棒。

I heard this song in a KTV, and Lin Yilian is a well-known artist in mainland China, but this is indeed the first time I've heard this song. The soul music-style saxophone and the very reggae-like drum set immediately caught my attention: why can songs from the 90s be so avant-garde? After going back and listening to the entire album, I was convinced that this is indeed an album that was made with great care and investment, worth a try. PS: This seems to be the first time I've heard a pop song with saxophone interspersed throughout, it's fantastic.

This is exactly what I wanted from a Sunset Rubdown revival that I didn't know was happening until it did. It's arch and slightly off-putting and pretentious in all the ways Sunset Rubdown should be (see also: the collected works of Dan Bejar).

This is Peel Dream Magazine's 4th album and I genuinely cannot describe what type of band they are.

This time they're embracing Sufjan Stevens-esque baroque indie pop but in their usual way of dabbling but never committing.

A very sonically diverse record full of creativity. Sometimes that results in some misses, other times in absolute gems. Overall you get a relatively cohesive, adventurous record that is equal parts frivolous and dense. There are several tracks I’ll be coming back to later.

It's good, decent, but not as memorable or anthemic as Solace. IMHO

Seems to have moved on from the wonky pop of the last couple of albums into straighter dance, more like Daphne than Caribou. But there’s still some top tunes in here. As for the AI that everyone seems to be talking about…I don’t get the fuss. As a fan of The Knife and their shape-shifting vocals it doesn’t seem out of place. I think it allows Dan’s voice to take on many different guises during the album, ironic as the music itself seems to lose some of the quirks that made Caribou a more interesting prospect.

Thanks to @cass for posting about this on blood.church! I really like it and I can obviously hear the Porter influence but some of the detailed layering on this also reminds me of CFCF’s Memoryland which is easily one of my most-spun albums of the 2020s. I have a feeling this one’s gonna get a lot of play this fall as well.

One of the greatest pop tunes of all time. I still wonder exactly what the involvement of Alan Braxe was on this track. Sample? Something more?

Reminds me of Tennis in a lot of ways, which is just fine by me. It's janglier, and a bit more uptempo, and there male and female vocals are shared more. The band have really got it. If I had to choose I'd say I prefer the tracks with female vocals.

El 'Village Green' post-moderno. Estar hasta los huevos de tu trabajo y marcharte al campo, donde echas de menos solamente las personas que importan. Infravaloradísimo dentro de la discografía de Grandaddy.

Pinkerton es un descalabro. Rivers pierde la chaveta, pinta las paredes de su cuarto de negro y se encierra durante un año entero a analizar con excels y gráficos los secretos de las canciones de los Beatles y Oasis e intentar replicar, como si fuese una IA, la fórmula de la canción pop perfecta.

Y la cuestión es que el tio lo consigue. Sí, en el camino pierde toda la personalidad y lo orgánico de su sonido, las letras se convierten en un copia/pega de frases genéricas sin sentido entre sí y en los punteos se dedica a repetir, nota a nota, las melodías vocales, pero las canciones funcionan como un tiro.

i’ve been trying to make some things that sounds basically exactly like this project from saeph for a couple months and i’m going to go delete all my ableton projects now.

after hearing it performed live in a church i am 110% certain this is one of the top 10 albums of the decade already.

even better in reverse!

when Joey Valence said "let the numbers speak / never once put a number on a spreadsheet" I realized where my life went wrong

this belongs on any best albums of all time list.

five stars for 'dance yrself clean' alone.

a weird thing about memory is that I can very clearly remember hearing "Do The Strand" as a kid from when my brother first discovered Roxy Music, meaning I would have been... 9? 10? But I remember basically no other moments from this album. It's good! I love the organ & sax on "Editions of You".

really good gritty loops without being overpowering

My close friends know I'm often a bit critical of "constraint breeds creativity" as a concept — in the mouths of executives, it often justifies keeping artists poor. But Travelling Circuits feels like an exploration of the concept at its purest: created during a music residency in the New Forest region of England, all of its tracks are explorations of British folk music via shimmering 80s-esque synths. Each treatment of the seven folk melodies (and one original folk song?) leaves me wondering why no one has done this before. But perhaps they have: albeit a completely different genre and palette of sounds, the closest cousin to this album I can think of is René Werneer's Ecoutez Tous Pauvres Et Riches, a… More

Se me ha hecho pesadisimo este disco, es psicodélico bien ejecutado, pero que poca gracia.

Milhanas' fado-inspired pop is something I didn't know I needed until I heard it, and once I did, I couldn't get enough. One of my favorite albums of all time.

I listened to this album on a whim and I loved it, but I didn't realize how much until I listened to the just-released accoustic versions. Honestly, they just drove home for me how delicious the sound of the original album is—not to knock the lyrics, but they're just not the same without the production.

Favorite song: My Lady of Mercy

"Sound is the blood between me and you" ❤️

This is one of those records that will stay with you for ages whether you want it to or not. Crushing guitars, haunting vocals, Just all-round menacing music. I saw someone somewhere say that this band sound like the first season of True Detective and, like... yeah, that's pretty much it.

és realment satisfactori trobar totes les peces d'un puzzle al lloc

Muy elegante, muy hardcore.
Solo soportaría semejante champú de gritos si vienen de parte de Jeff Rosenstock o, en su defecto, de Touché Amoré.
Discazo.
No excelente, pero discazo.

the last punk band. they do not miss. ever.

THAT'S MY MF'N GOAT!!!

existence is painful, but at least dudes rock.

10 seconds in and already locked the fuck in. YES!!!

O álbum autoentitulado da banda parece tentar esquecer o que faz eles serem tão importantes, mas ainda acidentalmente atinge uma qualidade considerável com as escritas e as composições mais curtas.

Mars Volta é um grupo que, quando eu escutei Frances The Mute em 2014 pela primeira vez, eu fiquei legitimamente em choque com a qualidade daquilo. Depois dele eu escutei o primeiro álbum e fiquei mais embasbacado com a sonoridade que alcançaram ele (mesmo com a produção do Rick Rubin).

É meio engraçado que no fim das contas, um dos projetos mais fracos da banda é o que eu mais escuto, e é o próprio autoentitulado (e a versão acústica dele).

Depois de dois anos escutando essa versão do álbum,… More

Without turning a release review into a treatise on the artist, I'll just say that I think Pusha T has an incredible voice, flows extremely well, and knows his lane. He's the undisputed king of modern coke raps and modern Arby's raps. In his (admittedly, pretty specific) lanes, no one is better. Nothing gets me going quite like Pusha T's best material and I will always seek out anything he releases to give it a shot. All that said...

My Name Is My Name contains some of Pusha T's finest work, but it's ultimately a fairly uneven record with a few too many skippable tracks to be fully recommendable. Even with that in mind, Nosetalgia, Numbers on the Boards, and… More

HEALTH mantém a consistência dos DISCO4 com um álbum mais introspectivo, sem participações especiais e com muita energia.

Acho que praticamente todo mundo foi introduzido aos sons dessa banda por conta do Max Payne 3. Eu não sei se o jogo em si mantém a mesma qualidade que eu senti lá atrás, mas o segmento do tiroteio no aeroporto enquanto a faixa "TEARS" toca é perfeição absoluta.

Eu tentei escutar os primeiros trabalhos da banda e eles nunca clicaram comigo, até eu ir atrás dos 3 DISCO4 que foram lançados. A banda achou um balanço perfeito entre o industrial e o synth naqueles projetos, e RAT WARS é a continuação natural dos mesmos.

Seja com a faixa título, DEMIGODS, ou… More

The Bowie estate has had a weird relationship with releasing new material. Unlike Prince's estate there's really been little to no deluxe editions with unreleased tracks or scrapped albums outside of Toy, and very low key demo releases that are really weirdly distributed. In the meantime they've been putting out a lot of live concert albums, and this might be the best out of the few that actually deserved to be released.

Right in the middle of the Earthling era, Bowie just says "yeah no fuck real instruments we're cool kids now like Nine Inch Nails" and it works so well while Bowie is still aware of what he can and can't get away with inside the genre.

Some old… More

There comes a time when using every production trick in the book actually makes a song worse, and wow this is bad! We have a chorus that is really misguided in how catchy it actually is, rather, it's annoying with the heavy auto-tune. The production itself outside of that is lacking and fairly generic. There's really no reason for this out of all the songs from the supposed album this is from (Dun 4Got Bout Mix).

Did he think this would be the song to blow up? Of course going back to Mack Daddy he though One Time's Got No Case should be the lead single instead of Baby Got Back. It's just annoying overall. It's also crazy to consider… More

Randy Newman's Faust over the years has somehow been lost to time. All these amazing vocalists joined Randy on this album and... we kinda forgot? Elton John just randomly pops up for one song as an angel mad about World War 2 being won by America then NEVER COMES BACK. Why? Who knows. Vanity? Likely.

The story of Faust is actually a bit difficult to follow if you're not familiar with the original Faust. The demos included on streaming of Faust with Randy Newman by himself actually give a better plot summary and some stage direction you don't get with the songs themselves.

That said some of the lyrics on this album are absolutely fantastic. My favorite possibly being

"The… More

Divertidos, frescos, innovadores e, á vez, sempre perfectamente recoñecibles. Kokoshca son tan bos coma necesarios. Calquera disco deles podería ser a banda sonora perfecta dunha vida plena e La juventud non é a excepción. Sempre hai unha estrana forza que fai volver onda eles. Desfrutemos agora que podemos

All killer no fucking filler.

They took the groove, texture, and anguish from Korn and used it to make an album better than God's Country. The drums sound like they were recorded in a boxing ring. Great album.