Mazy Fly, the second full-length by the Bay Area artist SPELLLING, explores the tension between the thrill of exploring the unknown and the terror of imminent destruction. Chrystia Cabral spent the summer of 2018 in her Berkeley studio reflecting on the thresholds of human progress and longing for a new and better tomorrow. She was struck by the way the same technologies that...(展开全部) Mazy Fly, the second full-length by the Bay Area artist SPELLLING, explores the tension between the thrill of exploring the unknown and the terror of imminent destruction. Chrystia Cabral spent the summer of 2018 in her Berkeley studio reflecting on the thresholds of human progress and longing for a new and better tomorrow. She was struck by the way the same technologies that have given humans the ability to achieve utopian dreams of discovery have also brought the world to the precipice of dystopic global devastation. Despite the darkness of this reality, Mazy Fly is defiantly optimistic. It is a celestial voyage into the unknown, piloted by Cabral. Each song on Mazy Fly enshrines distinct sentiments within this imagined voyage, from the deeply personal (“Hard to Please Reprise”) to the cosmic (aliens travel to Earth to hear music on “Real Fun”). “Haunted Water” is an intensely heavy song about the memories of colonial violence that haunt the historical slave ship routes of the Middle Passage. “Under the Sun” is a cosmic prayer for good fortune that sees the potential for radical newness in our own lives in the births of stars. Mazy Fly musically traverses the spaces between languid, honey-soaked vocals and distant angelic whispers, from thumping 808 club beats to crunching tape loops, and from silky, smooth R&B to whirling organ sonatas. Cabral became enamored by the idea of flight as a harbinger of both progress and apocalypse, and that was expressed in the textures and compositional techniques she utilized. Swarms, flocks, flies, angels, spaceships, flying saucers – all are represented sonically by Cabral and her Juno-106 synthesizer. “Secret Thread” is the key to this motif, and the heart of Mazy Fly. When Cabral saw her puppy Cooper running gracefully around an open field, she imagined a winged spirit moving through her new music. She named the spirit, and the album, Mazy Fly. SPELLLING’s 2017 debut Pantheon of Me was Bandcamp’s #4 album of the year, and they raved: “Cabral has it, from her careful sense of composition to her charismatic presence to her ability to communicate with her music straight through to the listener’s heart.” Her first release on Sacred Bones, the “Hard to Please” single, was named a Best Track by The Guardian, who said the song was “like Solange looking in a haunted mirror.”
在《Mazy Fly》这张略显温吞的专辑中,“Under The Sun”这支主打单曲貌似耗尽了Spelling的大部分气数,长达近6分钟的时长除了有打造恢宏史诗感的本意外,也将Spelling的创作野心展露无疑。在大部分独立音乐人选择向更清冷的电子质感靠拢时,Spelling的制作方向显得格外有温度...
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0 有用 PierreWongOff 2019-03-04 22:29:48
喜爱。
0 有用 五摆五折 2019-06-04 16:21:26
在神经质和仙之间游走;8.0分
0 有用 陆仁丙手持KY 2019-03-01 21:19:22
听不懂。
1 有用 tlmgt 2019-02-25 22:43:10
专辑没先行单曲好,略可惜
0 有用 送你一杯乙硫醇 2019-03-21 08:40:40
(A-)天马行空的想象力,复古的音色和奇特的演唱都营造出鬼魅的特质(看过MV后才发觉比想象的更另类),但并不会很难接受。
0 有用 Stone Feather 2022-11-06 15:33:53 江苏
Under the Sun
0 有用 ParallelFight 2024-03-11 16:56:56 浙江
神婆美的
0 有用 水门竹 2022-11-09 20:41:10 河北
likeee
0 有用 白矮星爱吃东西 2023-08-30 03:42:21 德国
个别单曲非常出彩,但整张专辑听下来几乎无感,cut:Haunted Water、Under the Sun
0 有用 crascopy 2023-09-11 11:41:38 加拿大
83/100 不管从布吸还是传统合成器流行的角度来说都是相当直截了当 甚至过于简单的,但好也就还在各种古怪的典神婆旋律被已经有点cliche的合成器音色弹奏出来 配上她并不花哨却十分伶俐的嗓子,总体来说就一个词“单刀直入” 最能体现这点的莫过于Haunted Water,意象也美方向也对