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表演者: Owen Pallett
流派: 流行
专辑类型: Import
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2010-01-12
出版者: Domino
唱片数: 1
条形码: 0801390025228

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　　There are a number of facts about the Toronto-based songwriter and
　　composer Owen Pallett that seem relevant but that nonetheless are not,
　　at least not where Heartland is concerned. For example, there抯 the
　　fact that he helps make string arrangements for the Arcade
　　Fire桯eartland is all cool detachment, far from the Arcade Fire抯
　　heated emotion. Ther... (展开全部) 　　There are a number of facts about the Toronto-based songwriter and
　　composer Owen Pallett that seem relevant but that nonetheless are not,
　　at least not where Heartland is concerned. For example, there抯 the
　　fact that he helps make string arrangements for the Arcade
　　Fire桯eartland is all cool detachment, far from the Arcade Fire抯
　　heated emotion. There抯 also the fact that until he changed it a few
　　days ago to avoid a lawsuit from a certain video game franchise,
　　Heartland was to be released under the name Final Fantasy, which might
　　make you think you抮e beginning some escapist jaunt into a land of
　　elves and dragons. And finally, there抯 the fact that Heartland is an
　　ambitious orch-pop record that never met a percussion flourish or
　　violin tremolo it didn抰 like. Well, actually, that last one is
　　relevant, but maybe not in the way you抎 think.
　　Explaining what Heartland actually is is more difficult. Scott Walker抯
　　The Drift is close, in that both albums have an air of mystery (the
　　listener gets the sense that something very important is going on, but
　　it抯 hard to tell exactly what it is). But Heartland isn抰 nearly as
　　dark or forbidding, and there are occasional
　　Leonard-Bernstein-on-Broadway rhythms that wouldn抰 make sense in
　　Walker抯 music.
　　The comparison is still tempting, though, in part because of
　　Heartland抯 arrangements. The key players are Pallett (who sings and
　　plays various string and keyboard instruments) along with
　　percussionists Jeremy Gara (of the Arcade Fire) and Ed Reifel, but the
　　St. Kitts Winds and the Czech Symphony Strings also figure very
　　prominently. The multi-continent recording process (the album was made
　　in Iceland, the Czech Republic, Canada and the U.S.) was well worth the
　　trouble, because Heartland is that rare art-pop record where the
　　zillions of instruments all seem to have good reasons for being there.
　　In 2007, Bright Eyes performed with members of the Los Angeles
　　Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. (My girlfriend liked the opening
　　band, and the packed-in parking scheme kept us from leaving until after
　　the concert had ended. That抯 my excuse.) The addition of orchestral
　　instruments was bizarre, even for a band as cluelessly narcissistic as
　　Bright Eyes?having some of the world抯 best classical musicians play
　　the simple, silly lines that were written for them was like hunting
　　squirrel with a howitzer. One of the stranger subplots in the last 10
　　years of indie rock has been the addition of classical instruments?the
　　percentage of artists who both gain something from them and know how to
　　use them is relatively small, and yet an enormous number of artists do
　　use them, and critics are usually convinced by them when they do.
　　Heartland gets its classical instruments right. It helps that they
　　aren抰 mere accoutrements?it抯 hard to imagine what most of the songs
　　would sound like without them. Pallett (who also composes classical
　　music) writes for strings and winds with boldness and creativity that
　　are rare in pop music, and the 揷lassical?instruments have obviously
　　received plenty of attention in the recording process as well.
　　These may seem like prosaic things to focus on, but they抮e important
　　for two reasons. First, for what seems like enormous number of indie
　　rock bands interested in dressing their music up with every imaginable
　　marker of sophistication and ambition, Heartland is a pretty serious
　　kick in the pants.
　　Second, and more importantly, the balance between Heartland抯
　　arrangements and Pallett抯 voice is a major reason it captures the
　　listener抯 imagination so thoroughly. It抯 unusual to hear arrangements
　　this rich with a voice as understated as Pallett抯. Most contemporary
　　classical music still bizarrely adheres to an antiquated, operatic
　　style of singing that developed before the microphone was created.
　　Since classical music still hasn抰 figured out that the microphone
　　makes it possible for singers to sound like human beings and not like
　　shrieking vultures or gargling elephants, it抯 welcome to hear a record
　　that features very colorful arrangements and a voice that actually
　　sounds good.
　　Pallett抯 voice is a bit like that of Belle and Sebastian抯 Stuart
　　Murdoch-梣uiet, small, fitting easily into the swirl of instrumental
　　texture that surrounds him. For that reason, yet another fact about
　　Heartland that isn抰 as germane as it initially appears is that it抯 a
　　sci-fi concept album about a farmer. The lyrics mostly go by
　　undetected, and individual lines (which are often surprisingly defiant)
　　go unnoticed for the first several listens, as the melodies (which are
　　deft and often very beautiful) and the arrangements attract most of the
　　listener抯 attention.
　　Another way of putting it, though, is that the lyrics take time to
　　reveal themselves, and that抯 a very good thing, because the music
　　welcomes the sort of close listening required to get much out of the
　　lyrics anyway. This is a great album, and you抮e probably going to want
　　to hear it again and again.

曲目 · · · · · ·

01. Midnight Directives
02. Keep The Dog Quiet
03. Mount Alpentine
04. Red Sun No. 5
05. Lewis Takes Action
06. The Great Elsewhere
07. Oh Heartland, Up Yours!
08. Lewis Takes His Shirt Off
09. Flare Gun
10. E Is For Estranged
11. Tryst With Mephistopheles
12. What Do You Think Will Happen Now?

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Jamie 2010-10-18 11:11:03

A Guy, a Violin, and a Loop Pedal

如果你幸运的话，你或许已经知道这个叫Final Fantasy（最终幻想？）的家伙了。他之所以撤下这个名字的原因很可能是无趣并且与著作权有关的，但不过呢，这个名称的改变似乎在整个超越法律外的层面上却是成功的。我从来没见过有任何人可以不为Final Fantasy的现场表演而叫绝；而... (展开)

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joshlim29 2010-07-05 14:20:11

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01.Midnight Directives Cross her off your short list My blood is a red winged bird The way will be lit by the bridges we burn, oh And come, tornado, carry my away from the croft Ruffle my hair, bear my body aloft, oh As the cutlass came down on a Saturda... (展开)

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