Daily Drops · Vol.135每日唱片 · Vol.135
The title track appears twice; the second take lasts forty-five seconds. 三個今年三月才畢業的人，把節拍器扔了
Grace Cummings — Bloodhorse!
- Genre類型
- Folk Rock · Psychedelic Rock
- Label廠牌
- ATO Records
- Format介質
- Vinyl / CD / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-08-14
Cummings cut her fourth album in two weeks at Jonathan Wilson's studio in Topanga Canyon, the same room and the same producer as 2024's Ramona, and the haste is audible in the best sense. The opener, whose title swaps the second half of the Sound of Music line for morphine, comes in on woodwinds, gathers strings and brass and tympani until the arrangement has nowhere left to go, and then hands the whole thing to a burred guitar and a piano being played percussively. Track five is the title song, three and a half minutes. Track six is the title song again, forty-five seconds, labelled "take two." The vinyl runs them together as a single cut on the A-side, which suggests she considers the second one part of the first rather than an outtake. Elsewhere: a piano number written while she had pneumonia, and a song called "The Magnum Opus of The North is a Cowboy Boot." Her own gloss on the title is a horse everyone expects to win, temperamental, easily broken. 墨爾本人第四張，在 Jonathan Wilson 的 Topanga Canyon 工作室兩週錄完，跟《Ramona》同一位製作人。開場曲把《真善美》那句「山丘因音樂之聲而甦醒」的後半換成了嗎啡，五分零八秒，先進木管，再疊弦樂、銅管、定音鼓漲到最滿，然後一支帶毛刺的吉他和敲擊式的鋼琴把場子整個接管過去。有意思的是同名曲收了兩遍並排放著：第五軌三分二十八秒，第六軌四十五秒，黑膠那面乾脆把兩條併成一軌。她講 bloodhorse 這個詞的意思是被指望贏的那匹馬，脾氣壞、容易折；醒來就像站在起跑閘裡發抖。〈My God〉是她得肺炎那陣子錄的鋼琴曲，她說裡面那個「神」指的是每天往下滑刷過去的那些東西。二〇一九年 Flightless 簽她的條件是手上得有一張做好的專輯，她說有，其實沒有，最後交出去的是臥室裡錄的民謠。今日 Pick。
Nina Winder-Lind — Wild Love
- Genre類型
- Art Rock · Post-Punk · Singer-Songwriter
- Label廠牌
- Transgressive
- Format介質
- Vinyl / CD / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-08-14
Winder-Lind is the cellist and one quarter of Brighton's The New Eves, a Swedish poet by training, and this is the first record with only her name on it. It was tracked in two Bristol rooms, one in the basement beneath a venue and one inside a converted church, which is a fair sketch of the album's range. The song I keep returning to is "Grandma & Robert De Niro," a piano ballad that spends its length interrogating the singer's continued affection for Bob Dylan and arrives nowhere comfortable. She sings with a wide tremolo and a delivery closer to speech than to melody, and the record was only meant to be an EP until the label said otherwise, which is why the earliest songs sit beside the newest without much sanding in between. 在布萊頓生活的瑞典詞曲作者、詩人、大提琴手，本業是四人樂團 The New Eves 的成員，這是她第一次單飛。錄音分在布里斯托兩處，一處在 Louisiana 那家 Livehouse 的地下室，一處在一間改建的教堂，製作人 Jack Ogborne。原本只打算做一張 EP，廠牌撐腰後才擴成整張，於是最早寫的歌和近作混在了一起。十一首裡最耐嚼的是〈Grandma & Robert De Niro〉，一首鋼琴敘事曲，主題是質問自己為什麼還愛 Bob Dylan；〈Headfirst〉則是叮叮噹噹的原型龐克，副歌在為「我所感受到的一切」謝神。她唱歌帶顫音，說白多過唱。
Laura Veirs — Temple Songs
- Genre類型
- Folk · Singer-Songwriter
- Label廠牌
- Raven Marching Band Records
- Format介質
- Vinyl / CD / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-08-14
Fourteen albums in, Veirs has made the first one she played by herself: guitars, bass, drums, tambourine, all of it. She built a ten-by-fourteen-foot shed in her Portland back garden, named it the Temple of Bloom, and worked there for three months in the autumn of 2025 with two microphones and a laptop, no click track and nothing electronic. The room is on the record. Rain on the skylight stayed, so did the neighbourhood crows and, at one point, a stump grinder running somewhere down the street. Nothing was tuned after the fact. The only other musician is her partner Morgan Luker, who plays a loose free-jazz saxophone line through track three and then shadows the tune on "Out From Undercover." The album was going to be called No Masters until it wasn't; the phrase survives as the ninth song. 第十四張個人專輯，距上一張四年，也是她第一張從頭到尾一個人寫、錄、編、製作、演奏完的唱片——吉他、貝斯、鼓、鈴鼓、打擊樂全自己上。二〇二五年秋天花三個月，在波特蘭後院一間自己搭的十英尺乘十四英尺工具房裡做完，設備只有兩支麥克風和一臺筆電，不用點擊軌，不用電子樂器。天窗上的雨、街區裡的藍鴉和烏鴉、遠處一臺磨樹樁機的聲音，能留的都留在成品裡；她說的侘寂，意思之一是不修音準。全碟唯一的另一位樂手是她的伴侶 Morgan Luker，在第三軌〈Pulse〉吹了一條自由爵士式的薩克斯。專輯一度要叫《No Masters》，臨了改名，那個詞退回去做了第九軌的曲名。
Kiwi Jr. — Blowin' Up
- Genre類型
- Indie Rock · Jangle Pop
- Label廠牌
- K Records / Perennial Records
- Format介質
- Vinyl / CD / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-08-14
Four years and one label later, the Toronto band decamped to High Bias in Detroit with Graham Walsh of Holy Fuck, and K Records declined to write a press release for the result, printing a poem instead. The poem is more useful than most bios: it names the mother-and-daughter detective pair, the witness relocated to "Hard Drive, Ontario," and the teenagers crossing the river to take advantage of the Canadian drinking age. Joe Casey and Greg Ahee of Protomartyr smear something electronic across the five-minute closer; Mike Walker's bass takes a genuine rock-and-roll walk through "Stage Names." Jeremy Gaudet, mid-record, offers that it isn't a circus so much as a couple of clowns, and then declines to develop the thought. 多倫多四人組第四張，距上一張四年，離開 Sub Pop 之後的第一張，在底特律 High Bias Studios 錄，Holy Fuck 的 Graham Walsh 製作。K Records 這回沒發新聞稿，登了一首詩代替，詩裡把歌的內容一一點名：一對母女偵探檔、一個被送去「Hard Drive, Ontario」的證人、還有一群過底特律河去佔加拿大法定飲酒年齡便宜的青少年。收尾曲〈Landscape With Limousine〉五分零一秒，Protomartyr 的 Joe Casey 與 Greg Ahee 在上面罩了一層電子質感；〈Stage Names〉裡 Mike Walker 的貝斯走了一趟搖滾樂式的散步。主唱在〈Caught In The Wild〉裡說，這算不上馬戲團，頂多幾個小丑。
Djrum — I Wander
- Genre類型
- Jungle · Drum & Bass · IDM
- Label廠牌
- Houndstooth
- Format介質
- Vinyl / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-08-14
Two formats, two different records. The twelve-inch carries a single unbroken sixteen-minute piece on the A-side and leaves the B-side unpressed, etched instead. The digital version cuts the same music into six, with the fourth and fifth movements joined. Felix Manuel says you can take it in mouthfuls or swallow it whole, and Houndstooth's notes push him from instrumentalist toward composer, a promotion he seems ready for. 同一份音樂在兩種載體上是兩個東西。十二吋的 A 面是一整條約十六分鐘不斷的曲子，B 面不壓音軌，做蝕刻；數位版把同一條拆成六段，其中第四與第五段還併在一起。Felix Manuel 自己說，可以一小口一小口吃，也可以整個吞下去，單獨聽每段各講一個故事，連起來又是另一個。廠牌的發行說明把他從器樂神童的身分往作曲者那邊推了一把，並引了他一句：會哭，常哭，不打算藏。
トベタ・バジュン (Bajune Tobeta) — Anechoic
- Genre類型
- Ambient · Modern Classical · Electronic
- Label廠牌
- electric sheep
- Format介質
- Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-08-14
Five short pieces, of which the centre is "After the Silence," Tobeta's first recorded meeting with Christian Fennesz. The silence in question belongs to Ryuichi Sakamoto, who taught him. Two of the remaining four orbit Satie, one a remix of a Gymnopédie by AOKI takamasa. Whether silence can be scored as an instrument rather than a rest is an old argument; this is a modest and rather lovely entry in it. 專輯名取自無響室，一間工程上把所有反射都吃掉的房間。五首，核心是三分三十六秒的〈After the Silence〉，他與奧地利電子音樂人 Christian Fennesz 的第一次正式合作錄音；標題裡那份沉默指的是坂本龍一留下的那一份，而トベタ本人正是坂本的學生。剩下五首裡有兩首繞著薩蒂轉，一首把 Gymnopédie 交給 AOKI takamasa 重混，一首直接叫〈Satie's Dream〉。他把沉默當成一件配器來寫，與管絃樂器、低傳真電子和鋼琴並置。
Johanna Müller-Hermann — String Quintet Op. 7 & Cello Sonata Op. 17（Ensemble Louise Farrenc）
- Genre類型
- Classical · Chamber Music
- Label廠牌
- CPO
- Format介質
- CD / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-08-14
一八六八年生於維也納，一九四一年過世。長兄三十一歲病故那年之後，她三十歲才開始正式學作曲，先跟 Karl Nawratil，再跟盲眼的管風琴家 Josef Labor，一九〇七年由朋友阿爾瑪·馬勒引薦，拜到亞歷山大·馮·澤姆林斯基門下；她後來寫過，作曲技術與問題上的知識全來自這位老師。一九一八年她接替 Josef Bohuslav Foerster 出任新維也納音樂院的音樂理論教授，一路教到一九三二年。這張碟的 A 小調五重奏寫於一九〇八至〇九年，題獻給澤姆林斯基，生前沒有出版；現代版本是後人根據奧地利國家圖書館藏的兩套手稿分譜整理出來的。四十分出頭的曲子裡，第三樂章 Adagio con espressione 就佔掉十五分二十三秒，寫內頁的中提琴手 Klaus Christa 說它大概被整個音樂界忽略了一百一十年，並且把它擺到馬勒的慢樂章旁邊比。Ensemble Louise Farrenc 二〇二三年六月在多恩比恩的 ORF 錄音室錄下五重奏，隔年十月在費爾德基希補錄一九二三年的大提琴奏鳴曲——那是她最後一部室內樂。廠牌與經銷三處都沒有標「世界首錄」，所以只能說，就目前查得到的資料看，這是頭一回被錄下來。
雪國 (Yukiguni) — claras
- Genre類型
- Indie Rock · Shoegaze
- Label廠牌
- Pothos Records
- Format介質
- CD / Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-08-05
Three Tokyo musicians, all born in 2003, all graduated from university in March: this six-track EP is the first thing they made as employed adults. The word came to the singer, Eiichi Kyo, in Barcelona, where a clara is beer cut with lemon soda; the Latin root, meaning bright or clear, he looked up afterward. Only the bass and drums travelled to Masafumi Gotoh's residential studio in Fujieda, a converted hundred-and-thirty-year-old warehouse, while the guitars stayed behind in Tokyo. They threw out the click track and let the rhythm section follow the singer's rough demo, wobble and all, and Kyo says he still doesn't understand how the drums locked to his bad timing. The guitars were tracked without compression so their edges would soften into the room. Alex DeTurk, who mastered Clairo's Charm, took the job after the drummer sent him a very long cold email. The video for "クララ," on the band's own channel, is the official one. 二〇二三年結成的東京三人組，三個人都生於二〇〇三年，今年三月剛從大學畢業，這張六曲 EP 是成為社會人之後做的第一張。只有貝斯和鼓去了後藤正文在靜岡藤枝經營的住宿型錄音室 MUSIC inn Fujieda，那是一棟一百三十年的倉庫改建的；吉他留在 Studio Crusoe 錄，主唱說自己那幾天基本坐在旁邊看書。他們把點擊軌扔了，節奏組直接跟著主唱那條粗糙的 demo 走，成品因此保留了 demo 的搖擺與偏差。吉他不掛壓縮錄，邊緣軟下來，坐進藤枝那間房的空間聲裡。母帶找的是做過 Clairo《Charm》的 Alex DeTurk，據說是鼓手寫了一封極長的陌生信談成的。專輯名沒有文學典故：主唱先在巴塞隆納遇到 clara 這個字，那是檸檬啤酒，之後才查到拉丁詞根是明亮、透明。
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