John Grant's third album, the invitingly titled Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, is a veritable tour-de-force that further refines and entwines his two principal strands of musical DNA, the sumptuous tempered ballad and the taut, fizzing electronic pop song. There are newer musical accomplishments across its panoply of towering sound, like the title track's new steely demeanour,...(展开全部) John Grant's third album, the invitingly titled Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, is a veritable tour-de-force that further refines and entwines his two principal strands of musical DNA, the sumptuous tempered ballad and the taut, fizzing electronic pop song. There are newer musical accomplishments across its panoply of towering sound, like the title track's new steely demeanour, while the ominous drama of "Black Blizzard" echoes both John Carpenter and Bernard 'Black Devil Disco Club' Fevre's beautiful and icy synthscapes. The contagious, gleeful "You And Him" marries buzzing rock with a squelchy electronic undertow, while orchestral drama swathes the bad-dreamy "Global Warming" and the album's gorgeously aching widescreen finale "Geraldine". Grey Tickles, Black Pressure was recorded in Dallas with producer John Congleton (St Vincent, Franz Ferdinand, Swans) - coincidentally the same state of Texas where Grant nailed his 2010 solo debut Queen Of Denmark in the company of Denton's wondrous Midlake. After that landmark return, which MOJO made its album of 2010, 2013's Pale Green Ghosts was made in Icelandic capital Reykjavik (where Grant has lived ever since), which entered the UK Top 20 in its first week and ended up as Rough Trade Shop's Album of the Year 2013, The Guardian's No.2 and in MOJO and Uncut's Top Five). Such recognition, iced by years of sell-out shows across Europe and a recent US tour as special invited guest of the Pixies, should allow the notoriously self-critical and insecure Grant the passing thought that Grey Tickles, Black Pressure will deservedly cement his reputation as the most disarmingly honest, caustic, profound and funny diarist of the human condition in the persistently testing, even tragic, era that is the 21st century.
曲目
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– Intro
– Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
– Snug Slacks
– Guess How I Know
– You and Him (feat. Amanda Palmer)
– Down Here
– Voodoo Doll
– Global Warming
– Magma Arrives
– Black Blizzard
– Disappointing (feat. Tracey Thorn)
– No More Tangles
– Geraldine
– Outro
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1 有用 SugarPane 2015-10-01 17:36:27
Grey Tickles, Black Pressure/Down Here/Global Warming/Magma Arrives
0 有用 我爱德尼罗 2015-11-14 13:14:14
封面什么鬼。。。
2 有用 KIKI:Sophie你别磨蹭 2015-10-10 10:13:16
就辣种土土的电子土土的歌声 暖心基佬大胡子是情歌王子好吗!
0 有用 Zwei Schwerter 2015-09-25 20:09:14
应该是我听不惯这电音。。除了同名曲都开始走pale green ghost的风格了,看来他很喜欢绿色
1 有用 MeetMeinaMaze 2015-10-02 22:14:05
雷克雅未克的山峰瀑布和Sinead O'Connor的合声提供了水土丰沛的情感自留地,但是达拉斯的电子夜场和大叔并没有成功兼容
1 有用 Emily 2022-01-19 14:29:50
土摇土起来不分中外。
0 有用 Salvation 2021-02-01 14:43:31
向往
1 有用 MC Shady Diva 2021-03-30 12:35:27
后半张很好
1 有用 路人和灯 2021-02-02 11:46:28
大叔的执着:1.电子2.唱片封面一定要惊悚。等这波lockdown结束要我去唱片店海淘《Queen of Denmark》😪
0 有用 原则xi 2021-05-26 22:30:37
不止是不如封面和内页般诡谲有趣,中间有几首显得凑数。但我是真喜欢这个低饱和配色。