Silent Alarm Remixed

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艺人: Bloc Party
语种: 英语
厂牌: Vice
发行时间: 2005年09月13日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

专辑介绍

打从2004年下半年起跨进2005年，我们已经见到Bloc Party这个来自英国Brighton的四人乐团顶著「新Franz Ferdinand」光环火速窜起；而该团最受瞩目的部分不仅仅是The Chemical Brothers在新专辑「Push The Button」邀约合作，甚至英国指标刊物NME更对他们宠爱有加──三首单曲"Little Thoughts"、"She[QT]s Hearing Voices"、"Banquet"同时入选2004年度50大单曲榜单中，今年初又成为「The Face Of 2005」专题特集的封面人物。结果Bloc Party也没有让人失望，首张专辑「Silent Alarm」成功地揉合Sonic Youth、Joy Divison、Gang Of Four、The Cure等经典乐团的影响，呈现出完美调和奇突声响结构与Pop-Oriented曲调的优异Art-Punk格局；除了"Like Eating Glass"、"Positive Tension"、"Banquet"、"She[QT]s Hearing Voices"这些动能十足的爽劲作品外，"Blue Light"、"This Modern Love"、"So Here We Are"这些蕴含细腻情感的动人乐章还可以流露出Bloc Party的感性情怀。

但让人惊喜的是，Bloc Party在极短的时间内为大获好评、得到Mercury Music Prize提名的「Silent Alarm」，出版了这张混音版专辑「Silent Alarm Remixed」，当中邀集包括Electroclash指标乐团Ladytron、西雅图Indie-Punk乐团Pretty Girls Make Graves成员Jason Clark、纽约Garage-Punk酷团Yeah Yeah Yeahs吉他手Nick Zinner、加拿大爆裂Punk-Funk二人组Death From Above 1979、「Silent Alarm」专辑製作人Paul Epworth化身的Phones、法国一人Avant-Electronica-Rock组合M83、曾与DFA合作之Hip Hop Breakbeat单位Automato、Post-Rock名团Mogwai…等在内的十三组摇滚╱电子音乐单位，实行为首张大碟中的每首作品依照原曲目顺序陆续炮製出Remix新风味，其中NJ Whitey为"Helicopter"操刀的「Whitey Version」亦收录在Evil Nine主理的Y4K中。而最难得的是，13个混音版本一方面呈现出各具异禀的多元Crossover风貌，一方面又能完全契合著Bloc Party本身的Art-Punk特质而来，无怪乎Pitchfork独立音乐网站会给予8分的高评价肯定。

Partyroom/Room 18驻场DJ、SMART MAX达人杂志乐评 DJ Mykal a.k.a. 林哲仪

As the sticker on the album's cover states, Silent Alarm Remixed is "a track-by-track reinvention of Bloc Party's stunning debut album by some of their favorite artists." While it might seem a little soon for this kind of reinvention, some of these remixes date back to the band's earliest EPs, such as the reworking of "Banquet" by Phones (aka Bloc Party and Maximo Park producer Paul Epworth). Not surprisingly, the quality of the remixes varies: Ladytron's uninspired take on "Like Eating Glass" turns the original's fist-pumping fervor into a puddle of synth strings and looped vocals that drown in reverb, but Whitey's version of "Helicopter" — which moves from xylophones and wolf howls to bare, brazen guitars and back — is rawer, weirder, and arguably a lot more interesting than its source. Silent Alarm Remixed ends up feeling like a polarized version of Silent Alarm, with both its soft and strident sides emphasized. As on the original album, the prettier moments are often the most powerful ones. It would be difficult to make "Blue Light" anything less than gorgeous, but the Engineers' aptly named "Anti-Gravity Mix" truly is stunning. M83's version of "The Pioneers," Four Tet's "So Here We Are," and Mogwai's "Plans" also share a frosty, remote quality that is achingly lovely. The remixes of Bloc Party's harder-edged songs don't all fare quite as well: despite its frenetic IDM makeover, "Positive Tension" is still kind of dull. On the other hand, "Price of Gasoline" sounds better as spiky electronica than it did as angular nu-post-punk, and "Luno" kicks harder in Death from Above 1979's hands. Though not every "reinvention" on Silent Alarm Remixed is great, it's more consistent than most remix collections, and actually functions surprisingly well as an album in its own right for that very reason. [Like certain versions of Silent Alarm itself, Silent Alarm Remixed was also available with a bonus EP that featured three previously unreleased tracks, "Storm and Stress," the excellent "Always New Depths," and "Skeleton," along with acoustic versions of "Storm and Stress" and "Plans."]

Silent Alarm Remixed

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