After The Snow
- 艺人
- Modern English
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- 4AD
- 发行时间
- 1982年05月03日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Ned Raggett
&I'll Melt With You& will forever be the one specific moment that's Modern English's place in pop history, but the album it came from, After the Snow, isn't anything to sneeze at. Indeed, in transforming from the quite fine but dour young miserabilists on Mesh & Lace to a brighter incarnation who still had a melancholy side, the quintet found exactly the right combination best-suited for their abilities. Like contemporaries B-Movie and the Sound, Modern English used punk and post-punk roots as a chance to introduce a haunting, beautiful take on romance and emotion, while the contributions of Stephen Walker on keyboard helped make the album both of its time and timeless. That said, the secret weapon on the album is the rhythm section of Michael Conroy and Richard Brown, able to shift from the polite but relentless tribal beat clatter on the excellent &Life in the Gladhouse& to the ever more intense punch of the title track, the album's unheralded masterpiece. None of this is to denigrate the contributions of singer Robbie Grey and guitarist Gary McDowell. The former's seemingly mannered singing actually shows a remarkable fluidity at points -- &After the Snow& again is a good reference point, as is the fraught, slow-burn epic &Dawn Chorus& -- while McDowell works around the band's various arrangements instead of trying to dominate them. Some songs, like &Face of Wood,& even find Modern English -- often dogged with Joy Division comparisons early on -- predicting where New Order would go before that band got there itself. Still, &I Melt With You& is the main reason most will want to investigate further. A perfect pop moment that didn't have to strain for it, its balance of giddy sentiment and heartfelt passion matched with a rush of acoustic and electric guitar overdubs just can't be beat.
热门评论
- @黄色潜水艇：Modern English虽然缺乏作为一只伟大的后朋克乐队所具备的持久的创作灵感，但After the Snow却是代表了80年代吉他流行乐的最高水准，它不逊于The Cure,Bauhaus,或是The Smiths的任何一张专辑。
最新简评（共24条）
- @荒人(讓流水過。)：.
- @灯芯绒(杂食动物，更加真实，就来...)：喜欢 I Melt With You，mv也gay酷gay酷的，Jarvis Cocker与Troye Sivan的声音总是串进我的脑子里。
- @NIL(我还没想好要写什么...)：
- @彥 孜(水 歸零地)：收
- @总在灵魂深处藏了一些喜悲(行到水穷我才开始害怕，夕...)：◆
- @涂( )：您现在收听的是第一版摩登英语
- @Zfy(我还没想好要写什么...)：[带墨镜笑]
- @灰(生命已经过期)：
- @ん(我看见我躲在云里哭)：在80年代也是流行乐好嘛
- @ARt1st(迷幻南方摇滚蓝调自赏仙音...)：幸好下架前下载了