New York City band Dead Heart Bloom released their new EP Fall In and can be download on their website. Dead Heart Bloom is with a kind of shoegazing that's more approachable and yet the occasional melancholic chagrin can also break your heart. I've seen people decribed Dead Heart Bloom as having the "eclectic eccentricity of Beck" and the "dramatics of Bowie," but that's not enough of the describtion, you can also feel the mellow of Radiohead and the soft sparks of Coldplay or even the slight edginess of Nirvana. Dead Heart Bloom is the combination of everything I love, I truely regreatted to not have known them till now.
After listening to the bootleg of The Last Shadow Puppets August 26 gig at Paris Olympia, I fell in love with the album all over again. I found out that over the past few months,I kept listening to their album whenever I was reading or studying. Since it's already the later half of the year, I'm sure that The Age Of The Understatement would be my top 10 album of the year!And I so want to see them live for once in my life!
Jenny Lewis from Rilo Kiley is releasing another solo album on September 23! The album titled Acid Tongue also features extraordinary artists like M Ward,Elvis Costello and Zooey Deschanel. Now you can stream the title track Acid Tongue on Jenny Lewis' website,with a short cameo of Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie. Or go to NPR's All Songs Consider website, click on the August 25 show to stream the song.
In the year 2004,Brian Wilson brought the 60s lovers an adorable album called SMiLE. This year,Brian Wilson once again brought back the glorious days of Southern California with his brand new album That Lucky Old Sun. You can listen to the streaming of the entire album here, enjoy the sun!
想到Of Montreal就一定會想到那些詭異奇特又可愛的pop song，新專輯Skeletal Lamping也承繼了此種風格，由好幾種曲風拼湊堆疊出了奇幻又有趣的組合。延續前一張專輯Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?的主題，主唱Kevin Barnes變身成為Georgie Fruit，一位經過多次變性手術的40歲男人，由他親口敘述在七零年代加入funk樂團所經歷的旅程。Skeletal Lamping這場奇幻之旅帶你從靈魂、放克節奏一路體驗到海灘男孩(The Beach Boys)般的美麗合聲，Skeletal Lamping用最不可思議的優美方式唱出一個個具有濃濃性暗示的故事與令人莞爾的歌詞。除了仍然保有Of Montreal招牌的朗朗上口旋律，在聆聽Skeletal Lamping時也可以聽到更多出其不意的複雜小片段：舞池上微弱的光芒閃耀著、唱盤上轉著復古的迪斯可…。Skeletal Lamping比起上一張專輯較難找到特別突出的曲目，稱之為「概念專輯」又尚為不足，反正就還是喜歡聽著Of Montreal，迎接夏天的尾聲。
It’s arty, it’s playful and a lot of fun (as usual).
Skeletal Lamping will be out on October,7.
MP3:
of Montreal-For Our Elegant Caste
初聽Mercury這首單曲,我有些膽怯,就好像與朋友聊天到一半被他用椅子砸一樣不知所措.不過我也漸漸的喜歡這個新朋友--侵略性稍強的Bloc Party.在新專輯Intimacy中,Bloc Party嘗試了所有他們曾走過的曲風:強大的distortion還有密密麻麻的電音節奏,伴隨的是永不停歇的鼓點與不時冒出頭的吉他狂暴號音.聽完Intimacy猶如跑完百米,心狂跳不停又抑制不住興奮之情.重撥專輯後又會再次被開場曲Ares懸住(despite the simplicity of the lyrics).要說Intimacy唯一的缺點就是專輯才短短九首歌,在專輯結束時,已被驚奇覆蓋的聽覺瞬間被失落感給淹沒..I cannot get enough of Bloc Party!
