Solitude (豆瓣)

表演者: King Midas Sound
流派: 电子
专辑类型: 专辑
介质: 黑胶
发行时间: 2019-02-14
出版者: Cosmo Rhythmatic
唱片数: 2

豆瓣评分

8.3

105人评价

5星

29.7%
4星

56.8%
3星

12.2%
2星

1.4%
1星

0.0%

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简介 · · · · · ·

　　King Midas Sound (Kevin Martin / The Bug & Roger Robinson) deliver an exceptionally stark new album; an hour-long study of unravelling love rendered via desolate, beautiful ambient/shoegaze/concrète textures. It’s an unusual album; the vocals sitting high in the mix, the instrumentation recalling Kevin Martin’s work on Experimental Audio Research’s 'The Köner Experiment’, the... (展开全部) 　　King Midas Sound (Kevin Martin / The Bug & Roger Robinson) deliver an exceptionally stark new album; an hour-long study of unravelling love rendered via desolate, beautiful ambient/shoegaze/concrète textures. It’s an unusual album; the vocals sitting high in the mix, the instrumentation recalling Kevin Martin’s work on Experimental Audio Research’s 'The Köner Experiment’, the atmosphere often suffocating. We’ve sunk deep into it and reckon it’s nothing short of a modern day classic, something like Tricky’s dread-filled Pre-Millennium Tension if it had been produced by Thomas Köner.
　　Auspiciously cued for a Valentine’s Day release, ‘Solitude’ is a meditation on loss, an elegy to extinguished romance and love in the endtimes. Combining the confessional vulnerability of Robinson’s lyrics and dreader-than-dread delivery with the most stripped back arrangements in Kevin Martin’s entire catalogue, the duo drill deep into emotional sufferation with simultaneously airless, deeply moving results, glacially limning a coming-to-terms with loss.
　　It pushes King Midas Sound’s pessimism to heart-rinsing degrees, staging Robinson in a series of vantablack scenes veiled by smoky, minimal synth-lighting, the poet processes irrational and incessant feelings of rejection and loneliness. From the aching desolation of ‘You Disappear’ to the unflinching realisations of ‘X’, the ache imparted by Robinson’s lyrics is only amplified by his quiet stoicism, something that reaches an apex on the emotionally brutal Zeros, recalling Tricky's incredible side project with Terry Hall 'Nearly God', while Kevin Martin finds power in a sense of deferred gratification and his embrace of negative space.
　　The effect is nothing less than transfixing in the physicality of Robinson’s descriptions and the detached nature of Martin’s sferic electronics on ‘In The Night’, while pangs of lush optimism lend an exquisite contrast to the desiccated riddim and gloom of ‘Alone’, and the sylvan keys in their sensuous reverie, ’Her Body’.
　　‘Solitude’ is a worthy follow-up to King Midas Sound’s two albums for Hyperdub, in some senses eclipsing both in terms of distinctive, emotional impact. But more than that, it’s an album made for the times we find ourselves in; a meditation on love and loss in the age of info overload.

曲目 · · · · · ·

You Disappear 06:25
Zeros 03:17
In the night 05:51
Too Late 03:49
Alone 04:38
Who 05:40
Lies 05:28
The lonely 05:25
Bluebird 04:55
Missing You 04:00
Her Body 05:08
X 05:25

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The Solitude of Love

评分：A-（84） The power of sound is too overwhelming. Roger Robinson的诗篇与吸附力的声音，Kevin Martin（The Bug）创新性的hypnotic Trip-Hop与Dubstep fusion以及高超的制作技巧，这两样武器使得King Midas Sound于2009年发行的Waiting For You成为了当年Hyperdub厂牌... (展开)