Daily Drops · Vol.126每日唱片 · Vol.126
A 1912 violin concerto whose orchestral parts vanished at sea, rewritten from memory in time for the premiere. 睽違三十四年，這支威爾斯樂團回來了，主唱還是當年那一個。
矢野顕子 (Akiko Yano) — 生きものたちへ
- Genre類型
- Art Pop / Piano Pop / J-Pop
- Label廠牌
- To the Living Creatures
- Format介質
- CD / Streaming / Hi-Res
- Released發行
- 2026-07-22
出道整整五十年，她把紀念壓進二十九分鐘、八首歌。不回顧，不總結，只是繼續彈——這種剋制是一種姿態。封面請來畫《20世紀少年》《MONSTER》的浦澤直樹描繪，像替一位老朋友畫的側臉。細野晴臣回來合唱〈海男と瑠璃亜〉，松たか子的聲音貼著〈YOU ARE SPECIAL TO ME〉，標題曲原是 NHK-E 的節目主題。鋼琴還是那個矢野顯子，把怪與暖捏進同一個和絃。今天的 Pick。
Gil Shaham / Virginia Symphony Orchestra / Eric Jacobsen — Coleridge-Taylor, Dvořák, Stewart
- Genre類型
- Classical / Violin Concerto / Late-Romantic
- Label廠牌
- Canary Classics
- Format介質
- CD / Hi-Res
- Released發行
- 2026-07-31
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the London-born son of a Sierra Leonean father, wrote his violin concerto in 1912, the last substantial thing he finished before dying at thirty-seven. It comes with a sea story: the orchestral parts went missing somewhere on the Atlantic crossing, weeks before the premiere, and he rewrote them from memory in time for Maud Powell to play. (The romantic version has them sinking with the Titanic; the paper trail is murkier.) Gil Shaham sets the concerto beside the Dvořák it has always stood in the shadow of, then does something quietly pointed: he adds the first recording of a movement by Curtis Stewart, a living composer-violinist, commissioned for the occasion. A century of Black composers writing for the instrument, bracketed on a single disc, with Shaham's tone doing the arguing. 柯勒律治-泰勒（Samuel Coleridge-Taylor）是愛德華時代的英國黑人作曲家，這首小提琴協奏曲是他的絕筆。故事夠傳奇：1912 年，樂隊分譜在渡海赴美途中遺失，他趕在 Maud Powell 首演前把整份重寫了一遍（坊間愛說那批譜隨鐵達尼號沉了，考證下來多半是以訛傳訛）。Shaham 把它與德弗札克並置，再補上在世黑人作曲家 Curtis Stewart 一段委約新作的世界首錄，一個世紀的兩端在同一張唱片上對望。古典必選。
The Darling Buds — Same Sun / Same Sky
- Genre類型
- Jangle Pop / Indie Pop / C86
- Label廠牌
- Cherry Red
- Format介質
- Vinyl / CD / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-07-31
The Darling Buds were a C86 band, or close to it: Welsh, jangling, briefly beloved in America. Their last album came out in 1992. Same Sun / Same Sky arrives thirty-four years later with Andrea Lewis still at the front and the guitars still ringing as if the intervening decades were a rumor. They cut it back home in Newport. "Hey Saint Jude" opens on the same bright, unbothered chime the band traded in when Britpop was still a gleam in someone's eye. No reinvention is on offer, and none is wanted. 上一張錄音室專輯是 1992 年的《Erotica》。三十四年，足夠一個嬰兒長成中年人，這支威爾斯樂團才交出下一張。主唱還是 Andrea Lewis，回到家鄉 Newport 錄音，開場〈Hey Saint Jude〉一響，那股 C86 的清亮吉他像從沒斷過電。他們沒在裝年輕，本來也不會別的活法。八月九日去 Blackpool 的 Rebellion Festival 演出。
HIGHSIGH — Once Bend
- Genre類型
- Experimental / Art Rock / Post-Rock
- Label廠牌
- Joyful Noise
- Format介質
- Vinyl / CD / Hi-Res
- Released發行
- 2026-07-31
HIGHSIGH is John Dieterich of Deerhoof, Rob Lundberg of JOBS, and Matt Mehlan of Skeletons, three friends who set themselves a deliberately silly brief: make a drum record, none of them being a drummer. They cite the Portsmouth Sinfonia, that gloriously incompetent orchestra of amateurs, as a patron saint. The method was collage by mail — each sent the others fragments discarded from other projects, to be misread and answered. What comes back is stranger and warmer than the premise promises, a quilt of bowed bass, acoustic drums, and Ben LaMar Gay's cornet. On the title track, per the Quietus, raw untutored strings climb out of the noise and you find yourself, for a bar or two, in the neighborhood of Talk Talk's Eden. Not bad for people working outside their instruments. 三個人：Deerhoof 的 John Dieterich、JOBS 的 Rob Lundberg、Skeletons 的 Matt Mehlan。他們給自己出了個怪題目：做一張「鼓的專輯」，可三個都不是鼓手。他們搬出 Portsmouth Sinfonia 當精神源頭，那個人人都站在自己不擅長位置上的樂團。做法也任性，各自把別的計畫裡淘汰的樂句丟給對方改寫。結果不像災難，倒像一床會呼吸的拼布被；標題曲裡粗糙的弦樂突然升起，有一瞬像走進 Talk Talk 的《Eden》。
Odor Eater — But For Who?
- Genre類型
- Post-Punk / New Wave / Synth-Punk
- Label廠牌
- Feel It
- Format介質
- Vinyl / Cassette / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-07-24
New Wave began as a critique disguised as a party, its cheerful synthesizers holding a mirror up to Reagan-era optimism, and Odor Eater have decided the joke is worth retelling now that the optimism has curdled. The Olympia-to-Portland duo build from Devo, Kraftwerk, and early Depeche Mode, then let Harley Moore's clarinet wander in where you least expect it. Their liner notes reach for Marcel Marceau with brass knuckles, which is about right: the drum machines bip along amiably while the words take on genocide, the MAGA cult, and ordinary social one-upmanship. A couple of love songs sneak in. It moves like something you can dance to and can't quite sit still through. 血統一目瞭然：Devo、Kraftwerk、Vince Clarke 時期的 Depeche Mode。可 Olympia／Portland 這對雙人組，偏偏在合成器的嗶啵之間塞了一支單簧管，滑稽感一下子歪了味。文案形容他們像「戴上指虎與刀片的馬塞爾·馬叟」，拿滑稽當武器。歌詞可不輕：種族滅絕、MAGA、社交場上的比高下，中間還夾兩首情歌。舞曲的亮殼，裝著一肚子火。
Lucia & The Best Boys — Picking Petals
- Genre類型
- Indie Rock / Indie Pop
- Label廠牌
- Communion
- Format介質
- CD / Streaming / Hi-Res
- Released發行
- 2026-07-31
Lucia Fairfull's second record leans on a guest list that reads like a Glasgow-to-London group chat: Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches sings on "Lonely Girl," Abigail Morris of the Last Dinner Party on "Big Romance." It was cut, improbably, at Mogwai's Castle of Doom, a studio better known for gloom than for gloss, with Yves Rothman producing. The result is bright, hook-forward indie pop that wears its title lightly, a flower stripped petal by petal, he-loves-me-not. 她們鑽進 Mogwai 那間以陰鬱後搖聞名的 Castle of Doom 錄音室，錄出一張亮得晃眼的流行專輯，反差就是戲。製作交給 Yves Rothman。客座名單像英倫獨立的一次串門：Chvrches 的 Lauren Mayberry 來〈Lonely Girl〉，The Last Dinner Party 的 Abigail Morris 來〈Big Romance〉。專輯名摘自「他愛我，他不愛我」那一朵花瓣。
Manuela Ocampo — Ocasos y Albas
- Genre類型
- Folk / Singer-Songwriter / Andean
- Label廠牌
- Polen Records
- Format介質
- Vinyl / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-08-01
Ocasos y Albas means sunsets and sunrises, and Manuela Ocampo's second album keeps faith with the cycle: eight songs that travel from dusk toward first light and treat the voice as an instrument for carrying messages down from somewhere. The Bogotá songwriter recorded it in the hills of Antioquia in one continuous session in February 2025 and then, pointedly, added nothing afterward. Richard Blair, the Sidestepper founder who has known her family for three decades, mixed it. Her brother plays synthesizer; a childhood friend plays lead guitar. The closer, "Huayno del Cielo," drops half of itself into unaccompanied singing, an Andean rhythm left almost bare. It is the sound of a room that trusted itself. 2025 年二月，她在安蒂奧基亞山裡的錄音室一次錄完整張，收工之後一個音也不補。這份決絕，在如今處處修音的時代近乎奢侈。混音是 Richard Blair，Sidestepper 的靈魂人物、和她家相識三十多年的老友。伴奏幾乎都是家人與舊識：弟弟按合成器，兒時玩伴彈主吉他。八首歌從黃昏走到黎明，收尾〈Huayno del Cielo〉半段清唱，像關燈前最後看你一眼。
Rosso Polare — Cacciamali
- Genre類型
- Musique Concrète / Electroacoustic / Experimental
- Label廠牌
- 12th Isle
- Format介質
- Vinyl / Hi-Res
- Released發行
- 2026-07-27
Cacciamali is a musique concrète record with a historian's habits. Each side borrows from an old Italian source. Side A takes the drumming of medieval quintain games, the flag-throwing you still see at Tuscan festivals, and works the patterns until they buckle; Side B dramatizes a legend from 1744, a duel between a father and son that ends with the son dead, in a track baldly titled "1744." The Milan group, now without co-founder Anna Vezzosi, layers field recordings under everything, so birdsong and wind sit at the same table as the instruments and you keep losing track of which is which. Guests including the avant-garde veteran Riccardo Sinigaglia thicken the weave. Six tracks, dense but never merely busy. 這張唱片藏著一樁往事。B 面取自意大利北部一則地方傳說：1744 年一對父子的決鬥，最後以兒子的死收場，同名曲就叫〈1744〉。A 面則把中世紀比武節慶裡旗手甩旗的鼓點拆開、扭曲、重擰。米蘭這幫人用大量田野錄音鋪底，蟲鳴、風聲與樂器攪在一起，聽著聽著你會懷疑剛才那個聲音到底是真是假。六首，密而不亂。
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