Dilate
- 艺人
- Bardo Pond
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Matador
- 发行时间
- 2001年04月24日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Heather Phares
On its sixth album, Dilate, Bardo Pond cuts through the dense, smoky haze of Set and Setting and Lapsed to deliver its most refined collection to date. Even the title's drug reference (the band's first three releases were named after various mind-altering toads and mushrooms) is subtler, yet more evocative. Bardo Pond's roaring guitars, trippy flutes, and pummeling drums are all still in place, but now the group uses them sparingly instead of in heroic doses. Indeed, the album's best moments mix equally vast amounts of noise and space, giving Dilate an appropriately expansive feel. Isobel Sollenberger's double-tracked vocals take the lead on &Sunrise& and &Inside,& a pair of spacy epics that hover around the edges of pop before veering into guitar maelstroms. The album also celebrates the prettier, emotional side of Bardo Pond's music, which the group has often obscured with clouds of distortion. A melancholy beauty permeates the string-driven instrumental &Two Planes& as well as rolling, folk-meets-fuzz ballads like &Aphasia& and &Favorite Uncle.& These songs and Dilate's centerpiece, &Despite the Roar& (which shimmers like heat distortion before exploding into a trippy climax after five and half minutes), suggest vulnerability in a gauzy, abstract way that's more affecting than directly stating it. But the album also indulges Bardo Pond's interest in textures, as the Eastern-inspired motifs of &Swig& and subtle guitar washes and backward snares of &Hum& prove. However, it wouldn't be a Bardo Pond album without some glorious guitar excesses, and Dilate delivers with the heavy, wittily named &Lb.,& a kinetic piece of stoner rock more in keeping with the group's two previous efforts. And though it's over 11 minutes long, the album closer &Ganges& manages to keep its mix of crunchy riffs and droning strings inventive throughout. Likewise, Dilate proves that the members of Bardo Pond keep finding ways to reinvent their sound, surpassing themselves each time they do.
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- @大黑豹(∮)：...A...
- @ltt321：而\"Sunrise\"、\"Inside\"中女主唱Isobel那如嗑药后般迷幻恍惚唱腔，回荡萦绕似的直捣灵魂深 处。\"Swig\"中空心吉他和颤音长笛民族味强烈的迷幻民谣曲式，有着如Charalambides 与 Ghost 般灵性，“LB”则再度展现如My Bloody Valentine般层叠堆砌的噪音墙，极度支离破碎的暴烈震撼感。 Dilate再度证明了Bardo Pond的深不可测，有心想一探这表面看似平静无波的〝池塘〞，得请小心那隐藏的漩涡与暗流….!
- @ltt321：继96年〝Amanita〞与97年〝Lapsed〞两张高评价专辑之后，来自费城的迷幻劲旅Bardo Pond 2001年新作Dilate，除了延续基本的高密度多层次吉他音墙能量外，空心吉他Psy Folk的演绎展 现了更丰富多元的可能性。 首曲\"Two Planes\"中那由沉重凝滞的吉他演奏，夹带着伤怀般的提琴，逐渐推演至激烈的吉他音 墙飙奏，气势直逼Mogwai却更有着如Godspeed的虚无张力。