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The Followill Family Finds a New Frontier on O My Beloved
Followill一家回歸初心：《O My Beloved》的沉靜力量
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that settles into a band after two decades in the trenches. Not the bone-tiredness of touring—that wears off with a few weeks off the road and a decent mattress. This is the weari…
在樂壇打滾超過二十年，樂隊總會積累一種特殊的疲憊。那不是巡演帶來的骨頭痠痛——休息幾週、睡張好床就能恢復。那是期望帶來的磨損，是每寫一個riff、每錄一軌人聲之前就已壓在肩上的包袱，是你明知接下來做什麼都會被拿來跟年輕時那個更飢渴、更不確定自己的你比較。來自田納西州Mount Juliet的家族樂隊Kings of Leon，過去二十五年幾乎都在這片地形上摸爬滾打。他們當過草根南方搖滾復興者，當過征服體育館的全球現象，偶爾也當過不情不願…
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Lil Baby's FRESH Is a Victory Lap That Refuses to Slow Down
Lil Baby 的《FRESH》：拒絕減速的勝利巡遊
There is a particular kind of pressure that settles on a rapper who has already won. Dominique Armani Jones did not arrive through the traditional machinery of co-signs and mixtape circuits so much as he erupted — two ta…
有些壓力，只有贏過的人才會明白。Dominique Armani Jones 並非靠傳統的 co-sign 或 mixtape 圈子一步步爬上來的——他更像是一場突然爆發。2017 年連出兩張帶《Harder than Hard》和《Too Hard》，前者憑「My Dawg」殺入 Billboard Hot 100，一把彷彿跳過了幾個成長階段的聲音就此橫空出世。2018 年簽約 Quality Control，推出《Harder Th…
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Dream Fatigue Is the Sound of Growing Up Tired
夢疲勞，是成長的聲響
Alexander O'Connor has always sounded like a man thinking out loud in a room he assumes is empty. From the bedroom-pop diorama of "Apricot Princess" to the orchestral swoon of "Pony", his gift has been a kind of unguarde…
Alexander O'Connor向來像一個自以為房間裡沒人、於是放聲自言自語的人。由《Apricot Princess》的睡房流行小景，到《Pony》的管弦輕嘆，他最厲害的本事，始終是一種不設防的坦率——日記一頁配上和弦進行，半聲半氣的告白披上弦樂。來到《Dream Fatigue》，事情變得複雜得多，也有趣得多：他標誌性的誠懇，這回被丟進一部由疲憊、矛盾與全新手藝組成的過濾機。專輯名本身就是論點。這是關於「渴望」有多累的音樂，關於…
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SWALLOW! Turns Shygirl's Club Mutations Into a Rock Record—and It Bites
SWALLOW! 將 Shygirl 的俱樂部變異煉成一張搖滾唱片——而且咬得狠
Shygirl has always been a shapeshifter, a presence that refuses to sit still. Blane Muise came up through London's experimental club underground, co-founding the collective and label Nuxxe and building a body of work tha…
Shygirl 從來都是變形體，拒絕安坐於任何一格。Blane Muise 從倫敦實驗俱樂部的地下場景冒起，與人共同創辦集體兼廠牌 Nuxxe，建立了一套把舞曲、Hip-Hop、Grime 與解構俱樂部音樂統統視作原材料、而非固定類型嘅創作體系。外界曾把她草率歸入 hyperpop，但那向來只是貪方便的標籤——她的音樂更接近地下室 rave 那種汗流浹背、不分類型的邏輯，多過任何演算法友好的場景名目。來到 SWALLOW!，她把這份躁動…
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We Came As Romans and the Art of Building Cathedrals Out of Ruins
We Came As Romans：在廢墟上蓋大教堂的藝術
There is a particular kind of courage in naming your album ALL IS BEAUTIFUL... BECAUSE WE'RE DOOMED: CIRCULARITY. It reads like a thesis scribbled on the back of a hospital wristband—a paradox that refuses to resolve, da…
有些專輯名，單是讀出來就已經是一種宣言。ALL IS BEAUTIFUL... BECAUSE WE'RE DOOMED: CIRCULARITY——這個名字像寫在醫院手帶背面的論文草稿，一個拒絕被解開的悖論，硬是要你坐下來跟它對視。對 We Came As Romans 這隊在希望與哀慟的斷層線上打滾了二十年的樂隊來說，這不像是挑釁，更像是一種傷痕纍纍之後才拿得出來的智慧。這隊來自密歇根州 Troy 的 metalcore 班霸從來不…
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The Fork and Knife: Skepta Sharpens the Instrument
刀叉之間：Skepta 磨利他的工具
There is a moment, early in any great Skepta record, when the room goes quiet and you realise you are not listening to a rapper so much as a man deciding, deliberately, how to cut. The Fork and Knife arrives with that sa…
聽任何一張 Skepta 的好唱片，開首總有那麼一刻，房間忽然靜下來，你意識到自己不是在聽一個饒舌歌手，而是在聽一個人審慎地決定：這一刀，怎麼落。The Fork and Knife 帶着同樣的儀式感登場——專輯名既家常又帶張力，像一組餐具在開飯前整齊排開。Joseph Olaitan Adenuga Jr. 花了二十年，教英國饒舌樂壇如何拿穩自己的刀叉。這張唱片裏，他回到餐桌前，帶着一個擺過無數次桌的人的從容——而且很清楚自己該伸手拿…
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The Strange, Beautiful Grammar of Saya Gray's QWERTY III
鍵盤上最不浪漫的六個字母，如何煉成一張專輯的宇宙
Restlessness is the defining texture of the most interesting music being made right now — an unwillingness to sit still inside a genre, a refusal to let a song resolve the way you expect it to. Saya Gray has been operati…
當下最有趣的音樂，都帶着一種躁動不安的質感——不願安坐於單一類型之中，拒絕讓歌曲以你預期的方式收尾。Saya Gray自2022年首張作品以來，一直在這片躁動的領土上活動，而《QWERTY III》正是她那奇特多變視野迄今最完整的體現。這張專輯不把另類搖滾視為一個固定地址，而是一組寬鬆的許可：允許碎片化，允許戲劇性，允許一段吉他線條消融於合成器的音牆之中，然後在另一邊重組為更陌生、更美麗的形態。 Gray的故事是關於累積，而非關於抵達。…
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The Afrofuturist Architect: Shabazz Palaces and the Cosmic Kinetics of It's a Style Sport
Afrofuturist 建築師：Shabazz Palaces 與《It's a Style Sport》的宇宙動能
Ishmael Butler does not make records. He engineers atmospheres—sealed ecosystems of rhythm and shadow where the boom-bap collides with the avant-garde and neither emerges unchanged. For over a decade, as the leader of Sh…
Ishmael Butler 唔係做唱片，佢係起氣氛——密閉嘅節奏與陰影生態系統，boom-bap 撞上先鋒實驗，兩者都冇全身而退。十幾年嚟，以 Shabazz Palaces 名義——呢個西雅圖計劃佢由 2000 年代末開始掌舵——Butler 以 Palaceer Lazaro 呢個別名行走江湖，一直係 hip-hop 最緊要嘅反叛者之一，一個喺虛空之中起神殿嘅聲音建築師。佢一次又一次拒絕傳統 rap 結構嘅地心引力，而《It's …
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