珀耳塞福涅与她的凯洛斯
夜晚与河流咏唱着地府的爱，
但在城市和白昼秩序的破坏者看来，
它们只是对于死亡的无力争辩。
——奥登《凯洛斯*和逻各斯》
*凯洛斯（kairos）意为“正确的时刻”、完成的时间“，着重指明时间的性质，在这个时间点上促使一个行为可能或不可能，因此也可译为“时机”或“契机”。
在经历逻各斯凝视下生死虚实交替的无数个黄昏后，我们随凯洛斯潜入了最浓重的夜晚。珀耳塞福涅正坐在她的椅子上，其脸庞隐匿在黑夜的面纱下难辨形容。我们不知道此刻所处的时间和地点，不知道所处在的季节，我们只能等待黑夜散去。我们可以想象，这不会是一个永夜，当光照射进来时她的神情会告诉我们一切。
上张专辑Evening Sitdown Vision概念文案的结尾处引用了博尔赫斯《永生》中的一段话，对于当时而言，“永生者”大致是指永恒轮回的黄昏下片刻之物所能象征的精神永恒。而在《珀耳塞福涅的四季》中，“永生者”便是永生的女神和永恒轮回的四季，以及两个短暂时刻所导致的永恒：
第一个时刻
就在珀耳塞福涅的手碰上花茎的时候，大地突然迸裂，冥王哈德斯乘着黑马拉的金车自地底飞奔而出。他抓住珀耳塞福涅来不及收回的手，将她掠到了车上，顷刻间又驶回了地下。
——古斯塔夫•斯威布《希腊神话》
第二个时刻
且说朱庇特这时很为难，一面是兄弟，一面是伤心的妹妹，于是他就把轮转着的一年分为两半。普洛塞庇娜（即珀耳塞福涅）就分掌天地两界：半年和母亲过，半年和丈夫在一起。立刻她的心情和面容都改变了。本来在丈夫面前是愁眉苦脸的，现在已是笑逐颜开，像是乌云遮盖的太阳，当云散以后，又露出了阳光。
——奥维德《变形记》
跟随这两个时刻，本专辑由“凯洛斯”所划分的春夏/秋冬展开，正如封面和珀耳塞福涅时间所示，专辑内曲目的反差较前作更为明显，却不简单地由情绪上的“轻”或“重”来划分，如同快乐或悲伤的时刻都可能存在别样的内核。开篇（也是开春）的《凯洛斯Part I》与上张终曲《刻意留白》达成了 “刻意地”延伸与呼应，它和《凯洛斯Part II》 也分别是乐队其中两位成员各自对“凯洛斯”最主观的阐释；随后的《Circular Ward》和《Red Room Omen》是两个相关联的房间，它们也是前文 “随凯洛斯潜入了最浓重的夜晚”其夜晚所指；入秋的《A Full Void》带着秋的怅然，但实质上所探寻的时间真相却是“无时间”的；《Say to Me》和《Detach》则像是漫长的冬夜；最后，凛冬中的绝望被日渐温暖的曙光（《词与雾》）抚平了，珀耳塞福涅的笑容马上就将再度浮现。由此，一个闭环——四季的永恒轮回形成了。

Nowhere seems to hold consensus as the second-best record of the shoegaze era, and with very good reason. All of the common words, phrases, and adjectives commonly used with the short-lived subgenre fit properly here, and they're all positive, every one of them. Whir, whoosh, haze, swirl, ad nauseum -- this record holds all of these elements at their most exciting and mastered. But in the end, great pop records necessitate quality songs, which Nowhere delivers throughout. Undeniably, it's Ride's zenith -- dense, tight, hypnotic. "Seagull" serves as a dynamic opener; after a couple seconds of light feedback, bassist Steve Queralt kicks in with a rubbery, elliptical line (reminiscent of a certain Beatles song), which is soon followed by Andy Bell and Mark Gardener's guitar twists and Loz Colbert's alternately gentle and punishing drumming. After the upbeat "Kaleidoscope," the record falls into a tempo lull that initially seems impenetrable and meandering. However, patience reveals a five-song suite of sorts, full of lovely instrumental passages that are punctuated with violent jabs of manic guitars. The endlessly escalating "Polar Bear" is a high point, featuring expertly placed tom rolls from Colbert. The tempo picks up for the closing "Vapour Trail," a wistful pop song with chiming background guitars galore and mournful strings to close it out. The U.S. version was bolstered significantly with the remainder of the Fall EP ("Dreams Burn Down" having reappeared earlier in the record). "Taste" is one of their finest pure pop numbers; the moody/driving "Here and Now" rates well, and the five-minute "Nowhere" is a nasty distorto-freakout. [Nowhere was remastered and reissued by Ignition U.K. in 2001. Added to the 11 tracks featured on Sire's U.S. edition are the four selections from the equally wondrous Today Forever.]

Between March and September 2000, Monster Movie recorded five songs with Martin Nichols at the White House studio, the same producer and studio used for the first Eternal demo in 1989. The results are a shining accomplishment of impossibly catchy guitarpop, with hints of shoegaze (chugging fuzz bass and swirling, effects-laden guitar work), dronepop (witness "Rovaniemi" with it's layers-upon-layers of effects, keyboard drones, guitar feedback.) and overall just a fantastic sense of pop melody. Monster Movie's songcrafting will make these tunes a permanent fixture in your memory bank. Christian's vocals ride atop with confidence, while the backing vocals of guest Louise Hewson provide the ultimate perfect touch.

...Intimate Things" These tracks bring together the best of all angles that influence Sciflyer - brilliant 80's jangle pop a la House of Love or early REM, 60's pop melody, and of course that incredible dreampop/shoegaze sound of the early 90's. extended blast of pop-psych as filtered thru that sound that only Sciflyer can produce. Recorded with Ron Guensche (Reclinerland, Sharron Kraus, Above the Orange Trees; also recorded Stratford 4). One that starts out truly fantastic from the very first listen, and just keeps getting better with each successive spin, "...Lovely, Intimate Things" is definitely the pinnacle of Sciflyer's career to date. For fans of Swervedriver, early REM, early House of Love

18年后，Medicine最初三成员（Brad Laner, Jim Goodall, Beth Thompson）再度聚首，加入Captured Tracks后的第一张专辑《To the Happy Few》将在8月6日推出。
Eighteen years after they called it quits as a working band, 2013 finds the original members of Medicine reunited and proudly offering a newly recorded LP on Captured Tracks. 'To The Happy Few' LP/CD/MP3 will be out everywhere August 6, 2013.

"Swirling and enchanting dreampop curls around your heart like little fingers, as warm as rose petal hugs." - BIG TAKEOVER Malory crafts beautiful, blissful sonic sound with brilliant sheets of effected guitars, drawing comparisons to the unmistakable gorgeous guitar work of Slowdive. Their monumental orchestral-shoegaze opuses and ethereal vocals have also been compared to Lush, Spiritualized, My Bloody Valentine, Curve, and Chapterhouse. Late in the year 2000, Clairecords got a hold of one of the most incredible debuts they had ever heard by German band Malory. They imported the disc from Germany through Clairecords Mailorder Direct, and it remains one of their best sellers to date. In fact, they helped put the album into the sad-but-impressive out-of-print status it has retained for the past several years. Clairecords' reissue of Not Here, Not Now includes previously-unreleased bonus track "Worry About Something," plus an extra hidden bonus track!

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.

The announced reissues of “Isn’t Anything” (Creation, 1988) and “Loveless” (Creation, 1991), newly mixed by Kevin Shields, will have to wait. However, it's not all bad news for the My Bloody Valentine fans: they can mark 7th May on their calendars as the day when Sony will release “EP’s 1988-1991”. No tracklist is available as of yet, but it looks like the compilation will feature “You Made Me Realise” (1988), “Feed Me With Your Kiss” (1988), “Glider” (1990) and “Tremolo” (1991), the four EPs the Irish band released in their heyday. As soon as we hear more on this, we'll let you know.

Sprawling Melbourne psych-rock five-piece Beaches return with second album She Beats. Their self-titled debut emerged on Mistletone Records in 2008, making the Australian Music Prize shortlist for that year and featuring in 2010 book 100 Best Australian Albums. In the intervening years, the band have toured the U.S. twice, played All Tomorrow's Parties at the invitation of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, released an EP for NYC label Mexican Summer, and shared stages with the likes of Roky Erickson, Deerhunter, and Wooden Shjips. For She Beats, Beaches have once again joined forces with producer Jack Farley (Twerps, Scott & Charlene's Wedding). And like its predecessor, the album reflects a love for '60s pop, '70s psych, shoe-gaze, prog, southern boogie and Krautrock. But She Beats is bigger, bolder and more ambitious than the debut. For one thing, German guitar icon Michael Rother of Neu!/Harmonia features on two tracks. The band formed a bond with Rother at ATP in Melbourne in 2009, and he invited himself along to their recording sessions during his next Oz tour in 2012. One of these tracks, the cascading sonic swirl "Distance," was premiered on Gorilla vs. Bear and racked up 15k Soundcloud plays within a week. Elsewhere, "Veda" sees the band extending hypnotically eastward, while droning cello scrapes introduce "Tanzanite." On the other end of the spectrum, tracks like "Send Them Away," "Out of Mind," and "Runaway" are upfront, glorious pop, though still heady with Beaches' dreamy guitar heroics. All up, She Beats is rich, confident and layered, a multi-dimensional sonic world to get lost in over and over again. Beaches are Antonia Sellbach (guitar/vocals), Alison Bolger (guitar/vocals), Ali McCann (guitar/vocals), Gill Tucker (bass/vocals), and Karla Way (drums/vocals).

2008 two CD set, a superb compilation that collects together all of the recorded works from their critically acclaimed '90s Shoegazers including the Stereo Musicale and Tatooine albums, Eyes Wide and Crazy Jazz EPs and four previously unreleased tracks from the band's home archives. Features a guest appearance from Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) on 'Featherweight'. Cherry Red.

静寂了21年，MBV主唱Kevin Shields履行了他的承诺，乐团继1991年推出了堪称经典的《Loveless》后，终于发行了第三张全长专辑。本作创作周期极长，9首曲子录制时间可回溯至1996年，新砖通过网络平台先行组织发售，还细心地提供了数字下载、CD和限量黑胶三种版本，晚些时候还将有EP上市。苦心颇费的筹备，想必魅力不减当年的MBV将会令乐迷们大饱耳福，接下来4位现役成员即将展开东亚巡演，其中包括本月13号的台北站，有条件的歌迷们不要错过。
MBV (stylised in lowercase letters as m b v) is the third studio album by alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine. It was released on 3 February 2013 in the United Kingdom and on 2 February 2013 in the United States.
P.S. (Gig) 02/13 – Taipei, TW @ Ntu Sports Center

Recorded at Kindesign, Chicago, winter 2004.
The last part of Airiel's "Winks & Kisses" EP series. Limited to 750 copies.