Ghost

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共13首歌曲

艺人: Radical Face
语种: 英语
厂牌: Morr
发行时间: 2007年03月20日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

专辑介绍

Radical Face来自美国佛罗里达的Jacksonville。本名Ben Cooper，开创新民谣风格的艺人，与Alax Kane组成Electric President并且在04年发行同名专辑《Electric President》。这张11首歌曲的《Ghost》可以说代表了他个人的民谣思想。宁静，不嘈杂，生活的真实。专辑中稍带一些Lo-fi和实验的味道，将人声，童声，风声，生活中的脚步声，开门声，风铃声，自然中的鸟声等等一些生活中的声音以音乐的方式加入歌曲中。一张再真实，淳朴不过的民谣专辑。用钢琴，吉他，伴奏乐器，手风琴及声乐来谱写了11首情感之作。像是一个故事，有开头，有结尾。大量的情感的输出，以悲为主题的一个音乐故事。

by Ned Raggett

Ben Cooper has a few names he works under; as Radical Face, he creates an album that's possibly one of the best debut takes on whatever the word Americana is supposed to represent in the 21st century. But instead of dour re-creations of music that even Uncle Tupelo would have rejected, Ghost is something that lives up to its name -- a strange, murky presence that sometimes is not entirely there, but in the best, most suggestive way. Cooper's singing is understated but sweetly calming, a gentle glaze that recalls the not-quite-shoegaze of many early-'90s U.S. acts that rejected grunge and lo-fi for another approach. Meanwhile, the music is equally cool but hardly cold, a carefully detailed combination of instrumentation that lightly references everything from late-'60s Beach Boys to late-'90s Mogwai in its cinematic scope -- banjos sit well against building drums, strings suddenly appear to add piercing emphasis, and there's a definite hint here and there of Dave Fridmann's full-on widescreen production style on songs like "Glory." Yet even more strikingly, there's a real joy that suffuses much of the record, as can be heard on the chorus of "Welcome Home." After so much post-Polyphonic Spree "uplifting" chorale hash infesting NPR-ized rock & roll, the gentle but still exultant beauty here is something special, a blend of vocals, banjo, handclaps and piano that sounds all the better for being a carefully arranged collage. The album's downside is a certain sameness in sound that gets the better of it toward the end -- some songs like "Along the Road" would almost work better separately than in context as a result -- but Ghost is a promising start for Cooper's latest incarnation.

Ghost

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