前美国西岸另类摇滚大团Grant Lee Buffalo首脑人物,是一位唱作俱佳的全方位音乐人。创作中挟带着浓厚的低沉忧郁风格,可归类为哀凄体系(Sad-core)派别。Grant Lee Phillips,曾是 Grant Lee Buffalo乐队的领军人物。在取得一系列成绩后离开乐队做自己的音乐。2001年第一张专辑"Mobilize"曾获得广泛赞誉,2004年发表了第二张专辑"Virginia Creeper"(弗吉尼亚印记)。Phillips曾被 Rolling Stone选为最佳男歌手。他的歌曲大多叙述故事,揭示人性的悲剧、社会的不公以及过去的时代与目前的现实。这些歌曲就象Phillip说的:缓慢但坚韧的藤蔓,编织在一起,延展攀爬直诉心灵。他的音乐获得广泛认可,Entertainment Weekly(娱乐周刊) 称 Phillips 是"不可战胜的" ;而 The Chicago Tribune(芝加哥讲坛) 称Phillips"依然以流行的曲调保持了大师的触觉。"
在06年推出首张翻唱大碟《Nineteeneighties》,他挑选了自己所钟爱的曲目,包括有Pixies、New Order、Joy Division、R.E.M、The Church、The Cure、The Smith、Echo & the Bunnymen、Nick Cave等乐风遍及另类、后庞克,甚至是新浪潮的经典大团!虽是一张翻唱专辑,但Grant-Lee Phillips仍展现了音乐上的企图心,自己包办了制作及大部分乐器的演出,一方面藉这些歌曲,向世人展露其创作上的啟蒙根源,另一方面又将这些歌曲改编为自己的味道,如果听者详加对照原唱版本,将会发现Grant-Lee Phillips绝不是单纯照本宣科,而是为经典增添了时代的新意!AMG给予三星半好评。
With golden voice and silver-dipped pen Grant-Lee Phillips presents another milestone in a career brimming with the like. Little Moon, his first album since 2007's "Strangelet", is track after track of well-anchored classic American music - rock and folk swirl under clouds of cinematic strings for a primer on the art of the timeless tune. His legendary well of melody is in full display on Little Moon, with even the most lilting piano ballad standing comfortably on a thick, powerful trunk ('Older Now').
Long one of Los Angeles' most sought after songwriters, Grant-Lee meets Little Moon with positive inspirations including the birth of his daughter Violet ('Violet') and a creative calm that saw the songs well up organically from earlier live collaborations with drummer Jay Bellerose, producer bassist Paul Bryan and keyboardist Jamie Edwards. Captured live in the studio with limited overdubs, the album keenly chronicles the sunny day feel of the songs and that ever-elusive in the moment groove of a finely-tuned band working out equally finely-crafted material.