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Label 4AD
Release Date Sep 14, 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde_Redhead
http://blog.roodo.com/elv51/archives/13567541.html
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Members
Kazu Makino
Amedeo Pace
Simone Pace
由日本女生Kazu Makino以及一對意大利孿生兄弟Amedeo Pace和Simone Pace所組成的美國紐約市樂隊


1. Here Sometimes


2. Not Getting There


3. Will There Be Stars
4. My Plants Are Dead
5. Love or Poison
6. Oslo
7. Penny Sparkle
8. Everything is Wrong
9. Black Guitar
10. Spain



Over seven albums and fifteen years, psych-pop trio Blonde Redhead have refined their darkly surreal music and, particularly with 2007's self-produced 23, found focus in the more spontaneously created songs that still remained awash in a sea of chiming guitar brush strokes and dense synthesizer layers. For Penny Sparkle (September 14, 4AD), recorded in Stockholm and their home base in New York, the trio opted for more guidance in the studio and handed the production reins to the team of Van Rivers and The Subliminal Kid (Fever Ray).

The result? After 23's internally directed and "intense" recording process, these new songs don't have quite the taut, efficient energy of their predecessors but they do stretch a bit in finding their own comfort zone, albeit a rather dark one (despite the album's title). For singer/bassist Kazu Mazino the creative process was something of a dreamscape experience. "I fell in love with the music like falling for someone you've known for a long time," she writes. "It was dreamy and sometimes was very stormy." To wit: the minor-chord majesty of "Not Getting There", a noir-ish bit of cantering percussion and Depeche Mode-ish synth foundation bubbling under Mazino's swirling, windswept vocals.




On their third album for 4AD, Blonde Redhead venture in even more eclectic directions. The trio teamed up with longtime producer Alan Moulder -- who also helped My Bloody Valentine achieve an epic shoegaze sound -- and Van Rivers and the Subliminal Kid, traveling between New York and Stockholm to work with these producers. Songs such as "Here Sometimes" prove the band's music is just as capable of journeying between crystalline electronics and cathedrals of dreamy guitars.