It seems like an age since Icelandic producer Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson's last album as Yagya, 2020's "Old Dreams and Memories." The first album to be released on his own label Small Plastic Animals it was followed by the four-track "Always Maybe Tomorrow" EP in 2021. "Faded Photographs" is his ninth studio album, the most involved and time-consuming project to date and co...(展开全部) It seems like an age since Icelandic producer Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson's last album as Yagya, 2020's "Old Dreams and Memories." The first album to be released on his own label Small Plastic Animals it was followed by the four-track "Always Maybe Tomorrow" EP in 2021. "Faded Photographs" is his ninth studio album, the most involved and time-consuming project to date and collaborative on a scale not seen since 2012's "The Inescapable Decay of My Heart." It also marks an exceptionally confident return to the art of song-writing, but where that earlier album was a more upbeat dub techno-pop affair, "Faded Photographs" is nostalgic, wistful, reflective and steeped in poetic romanticism. Guðmundsson's love of the art of the album is also more pronounced here than ever before, almost every single track tied together by the particularly unifying use of triplet rhythms in combination with 4/4 beats, beguiling hushed vocals and enveloping, molten dub bass tones. Combined with a typical dedication to sound design and production, "Faded Photographs" is rendered an utterly seamless experience, demanding to be heard as a whole. Frequent collaborator and breathy tone saxophonist Óskar Guðjónsson returns, crooning just as emotionally on "What Have You Done" as do vocal duet Benoit Pioulard (who also co-writes here) and Bandreas, then later melancholically on the contemplative "The Way You Say My Name" and the closing "My Own Worth." Pablo Hopenhayn also returns to provide yearning strings on the achingly melancholic instrumental opener "The Downpour" and later on the tense duet "The Serpent." Guðmundsson's own whispered vocals also make a welcome return, often in duet with the mysterious, angelic Bandreas or the silky, intimate Saint Sinner. Helped along by subtle but familiar references to his previous work, like the soft summer rains of "Rigning" or lyrical callbacks in "A Wicked Joke" recalling "Bright Moonlit Sky," all these elements and collaborators become so much a part of the warp and weft of the overall sonic palette they feel omnipresent. Written and produced when we had become more distant and disconnected from one another than ever before, "Faded Photographs" brings together and showcases an ensemble of artists in a spirit of collaboration that flies in the face of adversity, a true product of its time.
曲目
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1.The Downpour 2.What Have You Done 3.The Serpent 4.No Matter What 5.Melting In The Morning Sun 6.The Way You Say My Name 7.Left Unsaid 8.My Reflection 9.A Wicked Joke 10.Just For A Moment 11.My Own Worth
0 有用 一番勝負対右弦 2023-12-16 13:02:55 山东
我覺得蠻好聽的
1 有用 宇宙未曷 2023-10-03 23:32:12 浙江
Left Unsaid //A Wicked Joke //
0 有用 Gim 2023-12-27 14:04:52 广东
听困了
0 有用 jiyun 2023-12-24 18:30:07 山东
不对劲。第二首什么鬼。
0 有用 aegnkl 2023-03-27 07:58:25 江西
inescapble decay of heart ii?
0 有用 好奇怪 2023-12-20 15:24:41 云南
7.4
0 有用 parnok 2023-07-26 10:35:53 福建
vocal太多了
0 有用 2023-11-25 19:31:46 湖北
没以前的好就是了，少了点氛围的渲染，多了点明朗的旋律，但是意蕴缓缓打湿且洗涤的氤氲氛围就是这种音乐的真谛之一啊，好听但不够对胃
0 有用 一番勝負対右弦 2023-12-16 13:02:55 山东
我覺得蠻好聽的
1 有用 Konec 2023-03-17 18:48:19 上海
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