2003 reissue of the Japanese progressive rock act's 1979 album. Epic.

Lily Allen Releasing First New Album in Seven Years, West End Girl, This Week
Lily Allen has announced her first album in seven years: West End Girl is out this Friday, October 24, via BMG. Its 14 songs were mostly written by Allen and her musical director, Blue May, and the pair executive-produced the LP alongside Seb Chew and Kito. Below, check out Spanish artist Nieves González’s cover art.
In a press release, Allen said, “I’m nervous. The record is vulnerable in a way that my music perhaps hasn’t been before—certainly not over the course of a whole album. I’ve tried to document my life in a new city and the events that led me to where I am in my life now. At the same time, I’ve used shared experiences as the basis for songs which try to delve into why we humans behave as we do, so the record is a mixture of fact and fiction which I hope serves as a reminder of how stoic yet also how frail we humans can be. In that respect I think it’s very much an album about the complexities of relationships and how we all navigate them. It’s a story…”
Since her last album, 2018’s No Shame, Allen has appeared in various West End London theater productions and co-founded the podcast Miss Me.

“There was basically an urgency to this record. It came out of me in this furious burst,” Florence Welch tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe of Florence + the Machine’s sixth full-length. “And it’s one of those records where if I hadn’t have put it out now, it never would’ve come out because I think how I felt about things is so specific to this moment in time, and this roared out of me. It was made almost like a coping mechanism.”

That moment in time began for Welch during the <i>Dance Fever</i> tour. “I actually ended up having a ectopic miscarriage onstage that was dangerous, and that I had to be hospitalized for, and I had to have immediate surgery because I had a Coke can of blood in my abdomen,” she explains. Her health crisis and ensuing feelings fueled <i>Everybody Scream</i>, which offers a haunting yet cathartic experience for both the singer and those listening. “I felt so out of control of my body, it was interesting,” she says. “I looked into themes of witchcraft, and mysticism, and everywhere that you looked in terms of birth or stories of birth, you came across stories of witchcraft, and folk horror, and myths.”

Infusing those elements throughout the album, Welch wails, warbles, belts—and, yes, screams—with emotional clarity and appropriately witchy charisma while getting quality assistance in the form of Mitski, Aaron Dessner, and IDLES guitarist Mark Bowen. The title track muses on fame and pushing through the pain to perform: “But look at me run myself ragged/Blood on the stage/But how can I leave you when you’re screaming my name?” Conjuring up a bacchanalian forest rave, “Witch Dance” casts a spell with its heated pace and Welch’s breathy chants. And for the singer, “Perfume and Milk” helps alleviate her own agony. “It was about healing and having watched seasons change and having watched other things growing and then returning to the earth and a sense that I was also part of that nature and part of that cycle,” she says.

<i>Everybody Scream</i> ends with the stirring “And Love,” striking a hopeful note: “Peace is coming” she repeats on the ballad. “Let this one be the one that comes true,” she says. “Let this one be the one that is realized in the world. I think the songs are always three steps ahead of me. It’s been that way my whole life.”

Fabiano de Nascimento, a popular Brazilian guitarist in Japan, and Shin Sasakubo, a guitarist from Chichibu, Japan, who has been linked with South American music and other parts of the world, are releasing on LP a guitar duo recording that started when they performed together live in Japan.The three-day recording began four days after Fabiano do Nascimento and Shin Sasakubo's first concert together.
Sharing the same space and time, the two guitarists, with their different styles and origins, explored sounds, let them resonate and repel, and engaged in a dialogue and exchange of ideas that shaped this music.

丢弃摇篮，走入必经的成人礼
「我」成为「坠落街」的新房客
人群如巨物般游走
在被虚妄填充的，不断膨胀的景观里
「悬浊」的陆地分裂解体
世界下沉
尘埃凝结成新的日月
将身体存放进规则的容器
生长与侵蚀同位运行
欲望如猛虎出窍，蔓生出新的「幻肢」
这是一场关乎冒险与逃亡的怪谈之旅
推开另一个房间的门
「天鹅」依旧困在浴缸
捡起败絮中漂浮的羽毛
将银河酿成「一口夜」装满酒杯，一饮而尽
从「鼹鼠」的筵席中趁乱逃离
在极昼来临前扼杀「莲雾」的果实
驶向世界尽头前的最后一段「隧道」
当巨大的畸变的花朵阴影投向车窗
才发觉再次回到「巨人川」的入口
回到「坠落街」的海市蜃楼
此刻
「我」在宿运般的莫比乌斯环中化作燃烧的「笑柄」
为下一个奔赴世界尽头的人照亮前路。
-专辑信息-
作词：王帆
作曲：王帆/闫明琛
编曲：闫明琛
制作人：闫明琛
录音：闫明琛
混音/母带：廖智辉
监制/经纪人：段拾肆
专辑企划：段拾肆/王帆
封面石塑粘土作者：寒枝
发行统筹：段拾肆
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