来自Aquarius Records 的乐评 /翻译：杨易辰
Carsick Cars是我们在这帮中国独立摇滚和噪音流行乐队中第一个听到的。最初我们是被乐队的名字所吸引，随后便深深沉浸在乐队的前两张专辑中。在对carsick cars和flavor crystal的split 7寸黑胶进行一番赏玩之后，我们对于听到carsick cars的新作品已经迫不及待。在那张7寸中，乐队的歌听上去棒极了，演绎的十分完美且极其吸引人。我们认为在这张7寸中，那些新的声音的出现也许由于它是Pete Kember（也就是Spacemen 3的Sonic Boom）和Hamish Kilgour（新西兰传奇乐队the Clean的鼓手）参与录制的。也许正是因为我们知道这一点，但我们在听这张7寸的时候仍然能够确实的感受到，它听起来正如spacemen 3那嗑药般的昏醉摇滚与the Clean新西兰式刺耳失真的混合。撇开这些，新专辑《3》令人震惊。第一首歌中，带有强烈的90年代独立摇滚感觉的器乐演奏不禁令人联想到Pell Mell，精气神十足，且带给人一种眩晕感，更是能从中听出了些许krautrock的味道。但是到了第二首歌“15 minutes older”，乐队变得十分致幻。整首歌曲都散发着新西兰flying nun厂牌的感觉。事实上，如果你告诉我们这是flying nun厂牌下失传已久的珍贵作品，我们绝对会信以为真。拧巴的人声，梦幻的旋律，嘈杂失真的吉他，大量的刺耳声，伴随着sonic youth式的噪音交织在歌曲里，这首歌具有一种强大的“传染性”，听起来十分带劲。至于整张专辑，每一首歌都像一个噪音流行宝石，有些歌用英文演唱，有些不是；有些歌带点前卫和数学摇滚的色彩，有些是直接的pop，所有的歌都十分优秀。这绝对是carsick cars至今最好的一张专辑。
我们手上有这张专辑的CD和LP，显然，lp和cd有些许的不同，不同的混音，有些歌在一个版本是英文演唱而在另一个版本中不是。我们还没有对两个版本进行彻底细致的对比，但是我们猜想除非你是超级狂热的收集者，无论是lp还是cd都会让你满意。
Carsick Cars was the first band we'd heard from this new crop of Chinese indie rock and noise pop bands, and we were initially intrigued cuz of the band name, but then ended up digging both their other records quite a bit. We'd been dying to hear this new one after getting a little tease/taste via their recent split 7" with Flavor Crystals. Their song on that 7" found the band sounding better than ever, super polished, and crazy catchy. We posited in our review of that 7", that part of the new sound might be due to the fact that it was recorded with Pete Kember, aka Sonic Boom, from Spacemen 3, and Hamish Kilgour of NZ pop legends the Clean. And it might just because we know that, but we're hearing a sound that definitely sounds like it's right between the druggy hypno-rock of Spacemen 3 and the fuzzy, NZ jangle of the Clean. Regardless, 3 is a stunner, from the very first track, a very nineties indie rock influenced instrumental groover that actually also reminds us a bit of Pell Mell, sort of driving and hypnotic and a little bit krautrocky. But it's on the second track, "15 Minutes Older", that the band get super poppy, and that Flying Nun / New Zealand influence really shines through. In fact, if you told us this was actually some long lost Flying Nun rarity, we would have totally bought it. Keening vocals, dreamy melodies, fuzzy, buzzy guitars, plenty of jangle, hooks galore, but with a bit of Sonic Youth style noisiness woven into the sound, it's infectious and pretty goddamn great. As is the whole record really, every song here a jangle pop gem, some sung in English, some not, some sort of proggy and mathy, others straight ahead pop, but all of them hooky and heavenly, and easily the best CsC record yet!
We have both the lp and the cd, apparently, they're both slightly different, different mixes, some songs are in English on one format, not on the others, we haven't really done a side by side A/B comparison, but we're guessing unless you're crazy anal or a super collector, you'll likely be happy whichever one you pick, if it matters, this review is of the vinyl version, which includes a download code as well!
我们手上有这张专辑的CD和LP，显然，lp和cd有些许的不同，不同的混音，有些歌在一个版本是英文演唱而在另一个版本中不是。我们还没有对两个版本进行彻底细致的对比，但是我们猜想除非你是超级狂热的收集者，无论是lp还是cd都会让你满意。
Carsick Cars was the first band we'd heard from this new crop of Chinese indie rock and noise pop bands, and we were initially intrigued cuz of the band name, but then ended up digging both their other records quite a bit. We'd been dying to hear this new one after getting a little tease/taste via their recent split 7" with Flavor Crystals. Their song on that 7" found the band sounding better than ever, super polished, and crazy catchy. We posited in our review of that 7", that part of the new sound might be due to the fact that it was recorded with Pete Kember, aka Sonic Boom, from Spacemen 3, and Hamish Kilgour of NZ pop legends the Clean. And it might just because we know that, but we're hearing a sound that definitely sounds like it's right between the druggy hypno-rock of Spacemen 3 and the fuzzy, NZ jangle of the Clean. Regardless, 3 is a stunner, from the very first track, a very nineties indie rock influenced instrumental groover that actually also reminds us a bit of Pell Mell, sort of driving and hypnotic and a little bit krautrocky. But it's on the second track, "15 Minutes Older", that the band get super poppy, and that Flying Nun / New Zealand influence really shines through. In fact, if you told us this was actually some long lost Flying Nun rarity, we would have totally bought it. Keening vocals, dreamy melodies, fuzzy, buzzy guitars, plenty of jangle, hooks galore, but with a bit of Sonic Youth style noisiness woven into the sound, it's infectious and pretty goddamn great. As is the whole record really, every song here a jangle pop gem, some sung in English, some not, some sort of proggy and mathy, others straight ahead pop, but all of them hooky and heavenly, and easily the best CsC record yet!
We have both the lp and the cd, apparently, they're both slightly different, different mixes, some songs are in English on one format, not on the others, we haven't really done a side by side A/B comparison, but we're guessing unless you're crazy anal or a super collector, you'll likely be happy whichever one you pick, if it matters, this review is of the vinyl version, which includes a download code as well!
