Daily Drops · Vol.191每日唱片 · Vol.191
AD 93's hundredth release, and his first solo record in fourteen years — OR is just his initials. 不用低音線、不用混響，只留一臺延遲器
OR (John Talabot) — Music for Empty Stadiums
- Genre類型
- Ambient · Electronic
- Label廠牌
- AD 93
- Format介質
- Vinyl · Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-30
Oriol Riverola had been touring and DJing as John Talabot for more than a decade when the pandemic shut down the rooms he made music for. Rather than join what became a cottage industry of domestic ambient — producers settling into soft minimalism while locked indoors — he went the other way, asking himself what the most agitated form of ambient might sound like. Anti-ambient, he calls it. OR is just his initials, and this is his first solo record in fourteen years, since ƒin in 2012. The tracks are sequenced in the order they were written, so the album reads less as a statement than as a diary: someone working through what dance music means when there is nobody left to dance. There are almost no beats. The textures are restless rather than soothing, made by a person who keeps reaching for a kick drum and pulling his hand back. It is also the hundredth release on AD 93, the London label run by Nic Tasker. Stereogum and The Line of Best Fit both covered the announcement. 巡演停了，跳舞沒了意義。Riverola 窩在錄音室裡問自己：ambient 中最亢奮的變體會是什麼樣的？他管它叫 anti-ambient。曲目按創作時間先後排列，一首接一首，整張碟因此成了一本日記——記的是一個做舞曲的人，在沒人跳舞的時候跟自己較勁。幾乎沒有節拍。The Line of Best Fit 的報導裡他說，就是「把自己關在錄音室裡」完成的。OR 是本名 Oriol Riverola 的首字母，距上一張個人名義作品《ƒin》（2012）過了整整十四年。這是 AD 93 的第一百張唱片。Stereogum 與 LOBF 都在上線前做了報導。
Andy Stott — Late Loop
- Genre類型
- Electronic · Trip-Hop · Downtempo
- Label廠牌
- Modern Love
- Format介質
- Vinyl · CD · Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-30
Every song features one of two vocalists — Alison Skidmore, who has sung for Stott since Faith in Strangers a decade ago, and Elaine Howley, appearing here for the first time — and each track picks only one, never both. The handoff gives the record an unstable centre of gravity: a voice you have come to know yields to a stranger's, then reclaims the room. Stott imposed further constraints: no basslines, no reverb, the only permitted effect a single delay unit, a way, he told Stereogum, of forcing himself to write songs rather than manufacture textures. Turn the volume down and the delay unit reveals itself — with reverb removed, that machine is almost the entire space. Five years since Never The Right Time. Rashad Becker mastered the result and cut the lacquers; Modern Love pressed a thousand copies of the vinyl. 自設約束：不用低音線、不用混響，唯一允許的效果是一臺延遲器——目的是逼自己寫歌，不靠質感遮掩。八首歌分別由 Alison Skidmore 或 Elaine Howley 演唱，每首隻選一人，不疊合唱。Skidmore 的合作追溯到 2014 年《Faith in Strangers》，Howley 是首次。母帶由 Rashad Becker 完成並刻片，黑膠限量一千張。距前作《Never The Right Time》隔了五年。我需要把音量轉小一點才聽得見延遲器在做什麼——混響被拿掉之後，那臺機器幾乎就是整個房間。
Christian McBride & Ursa Major — Points of Light
- Genre類型
- Jazz · Fusion · Contemporary Jazz
- Label廠牌
- Mack Avenue Records
- Format介質
- Vinyl · CD · Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-30
Terrace Martin — multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, rapper, producer — took on the production and wrapped the quintet's jazz frame in synthesizer soundscapes. Quintin Gulledge brought vocoder and keyboards. McBride formed Ursa Major in 2022 with Nicole Glover on saxophone, Ely Perlman on guitar, Mike King on piano and Savannah Harris on drums; he calls them a "hybrid band" and says, with undisguised pride, "I have four young stars here — they don't say no to anything." The one cover is George Duke's 1992 single "No Rhyme, No Reason," opened by King on piano before the rest pile in. McBride described the approach to JamBase as jazz with the guardrails taken down — funk, hip-hop, pop, whatever the song asks for. Terrace Martin 接下製作，把合成器音景和 Quintin Gulledge 的聲碼器灌進了五重奏的骨架裡。這支隊 2022 年組建：Nicole Glover 薩克斯、Ely Perlman 吉他、Mike King 鋼琴、Savannah Harris 鼓。McBride 管他們叫「hybrid band」，自己說過一句：「I have four young stars here — they don't say no to anything.」唯一的翻唱是 George Duke 1992 年的〈No Rhyme, No Reason〉，Mike King 鋼琴先進，後面跟。
Yr Knives — Begin Yr Singing
- Genre類型
- Post-Rock · Improvised Rock · Instrumental
- Label廠牌
- Western Vinyl
- Format介質
- Vinyl · CD · Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-30
Douglas McCombs, who plays bass in Tortoise and Eleventh Dream Day, brought three more Chicago musicians into Palisade studio: guitarists Andrew Trim and Brian Sulpizio, and drummer Quin Kirchner. They recorded six instrumentals in one pass. The list of influences Norman Records posted runs from Sonny Sharrock and Albert Ayler to Erik Satie and Television, a span almost too wide to mean anything — except that the two guitars really do move that broadly, locking together one moment and flying apart the next. 貝斯手是 Tortoise 與 Eleventh Dream Day 的 Douglas McCombs，吉他手 Andrew Trim 和 Brian Sulpizio，鼓手 Quin Kirchner。六首純器樂，在芝加哥 Palisade 錄音室一次錄成。Norman Records 的商品頁把影響列了一遍：Sonny Sharrock、Albert Ayler、Neil Young & Crazy Horse、Erik Satie、Television。兩把吉他的互動是核心——可以纏在一起咬，也可以突然鬆開各走各的，節奏組跟著切換。
Eerie Enterprise (upsammy & Piezo) — Places Remember Events
- Genre類型
- Experimental Bass · Ambient · Techno
- Label廠牌
- Dekmantel
- Format介質
- Vinyl · Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-30
upsammy — Thessa Torsing, who trades in ambient and high-speed electronics — and Piezo, the Italian-born bass-music producer Luca Mucci, had admired each other's work for years before they entered a studio together in July 2024. They recorded for two days and spent the next year and a half finishing the album. The titles nod toward physics: "Decay + Collapse," "Superradiance," "Things Fall Upwards." It is on Dekmantel. upsammy（Thessa Torsing）做 ambient 與高速電子，Piezo（Luca Mucci）做 bass music 與 techno。兩人互相欣賞多年，2024 年七月才第一次一起進棚，錄了兩天，之後花一年半完成九首歌。曲名全在暗示物理過程：〈Decay + Collapse〉、〈Superradiance〉、〈Things Fall Upwards〉。Dekmantel 出品。
Laurence Kilsby / Sinfonia of London / John Wilson — Britten, Goossens, Ireland & Walton: Music for Strings
- Genre類型
- Classical · Orchestral · English Music
- Label廠牌
- Chandos
- Format介質
- CD · Streaming
- Released發行
- 2026-10-30
Britten 的《小夜曲》1943 年為男高音 Peter Pears 和法國號手 Dennis Brain 而寫。1944 年 Britten 親自指揮錄了第一版；1953 年 Goossens 指揮了第二版——Goossens 正是 Britten 在皇家音樂學院的老師之一。現在換 Kilsby 唱 Pears 當年的聲部。The Arts Desk 的樂評人回憶早年在 Tewkesbury Abbey 聽過他當童聲歌手，當時稱他「a voice in a thousand」；成年後的嗓音，同一位樂評人寫的是「pure honeyed-gold」。這是 John Wilson 與 Sinfonia of London 的英國弦樂系列第三張，Britten、Goossens、Ireland、Walton 四位作曲家的生平與作品互相交織。Walton 與 Britten 1967 年因 Aldeburgh 音樂節上《The Bear》的首演結為密友。
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