The Bluetones

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风格: #英伦摇滚
地区: United Kingdom 英国

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The Bluetones崛起于Brit-pop潮流趋于高涨的1993年，次年推出的首张专辑《The Bluetones》也曾赢得很好的口碑和不小的关注。后来这支乐队却未能创出更为出色的成就而跻身Brit-pop顶尖乐队之列。也许这张新作能够给乐队带来好的转机。

The Bluetones的音乐明显受The Stone Roses的影响，但节奏更重、更喧闹，而实验色彩却不如The Stone Roses那么重。这一特点在这张新作与乐队首张同名专辑没有多大差别。

这里特别要赞一赞乐队的主音歌手Mark Morriss，不仅音色特别好听，而且唱功也很出色，嗓音的穿透力极强，无疑是The Bluetones音乐的一大亮点。

与众多同类乐队相比，The Bluetones的音乐风格与The Verve最为接近，但流行性却不如The Verve，而变化则要比The Verve丰富。

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

The Bluetones filled the gap that the Stone Roses left behind, providing graceful but muscular guitar pop with slightly psychedelic overtones. The band appeared during the waning days of Brit-pop, which guaranteed them a considerable amount of press coverage that helped their debut album rocket to the top of the charts upon its release in early 1996.

Originally called the Bottlegarden, the Bluetones formed in Hounslow, England in 1994. The group consisted of guitarist Adam Devlin, drummer Ed Chester, vocalist Mark Morris, and his brother Scott, who played bass. All of the members had previously played in local bands before forming the Bluetones. During 1995, the group released two singles, Are You Blue or Are You Blind? and Bluetonic, on their Superior Quality Recordings label, which received positive reviews in the British music weeklies. By the fall of 1995, they were being touted as the next big thing in Brit-pop, since their sound fell halfway between the Stone Roses and Oasis. Early in 1996, the group released Slight Return which shot to number two a month before their debut album, Expecting to Fly, was released. Expecting to Fly was greeted with mixed reviews, but it debuted at number one on the British charts and became a sizable hit. Despite their British success, the group had trouble breaking America. Furthermore, they were the subject of a quick backlash, as many critics believed the group embodied the conservatism of Brit-pop — the non-LP single Marblehead Johnson was welcomed cooly upon its fall release, and it only dented the charts. During early 1997, the Bluetones began working on their second album, Return to the Last Chance Saloon; Science & Nature followed in mid-2000. A collection of singles, aptly titled The Singles, follwed in the spring of 2002 and 2004 brought Luxembourg.

The Bluetones

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