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艺人：Howler 语种：英语唱片公司：Rough Trade发行时间：2014年03月25日专辑类别：录音室专辑专辑风格：车库摇滚 Garage Rock, 独立摇滚 Indie Rock用国外媒体的话说就是继承早期的The Ramones与现在的The Strokes，来自美国的Minneapolis的5个小伙扛起Fuzzed-out式的吉他摇滚大旗。Howler与其他新乐队一样，朋友连带关系的完成于2010年，而这时领军人物主唱Jordan Gatesmith才只有19岁。2011年的年初发行了乐队的首张EP《This One’s Different》，随后在夏天乐队正式签约Rough Trade厂牌。首张专辑《America Give Up》一问世许多媒体就找到了相似点，那就是The Strokes。从Howler不难听到The Strokes身上的东西，我想这也是Rough Trade在听到Howler的DEMO后可以将这笔音乐生意做成的原因，要知道给予Howler这样名不经传的新乐队一纸合约不是件容易事，Howler给你的不是天花乱坠的宣布和美语，而是再纯粹不过的Rock ‘n’ Roll。开篇的“Beach Sluts”摩登式的节奏，宣告Howler是新时代产物，懂得“花言巧语”。“Back To The Grave”是吉他节奏的有力表现，“This One’s Different”是Howler最早完成的歌曲，带着浓厚的复古气息。“Back Of Your Neck” 推进有劲的节奏，还有那穿插哼唱的“woo-woo-woo-woooo”精彩无比。我想“Wailing (Making Out)”是最能体现Howler当时接受采访时说要做一张’Dirty Rock ‘n’ Roll’专辑的想法，Fuzz无极限。《America Give Up》是Howler咆哮出来的，丝毫没有蜜语糖衣，全是最简单直白的Rock ‘n’ Roll。
Howler - World of Joy (2014) [FLAC]
Genre: Pop/Rock
Styles: Indie, Alternative
Source: CD (log + cue)
Codec: FLAC
Bitrate: ~ 1,000 kbps
Bit Depth: 16
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
01 Al's Corral
02 Drip
03 Don't Wanna
04 Yacht Boys
05 In the Red
06 World of Joy
07 Louise
08 Here's the Itch That Creeps Through My Skull
09 Indictment
10 Aphorismic Wasteland Blues
On World of Joy, the rowdy fun Howler strove for on America Give Up is more easily in their reach. That they wrote their second album as a band -- including new drummer Rory MacMurdo -- instead of merely fleshing out Jordan Gatesmith's ideas like they did last time, gives these songs more personality, as well as more of rock & roll's trashy glamour and grand gestures: witness "Indictment"'s showy, slowed-down bridge and plummeting breakdown, or the chugging and charging "In the Red." Envisioning the album as a jukebox full of songs inspired by their favorite artists, Gatesmith and company touch on '80s punk and college rock. Considering that many of their peers skipped straight from new wave and synth-pop to grunge when it came to borrowing from the past, Howler sounds relatively fresh, if not original.
Their hometown's heroes, the Replacements, provide the template for the brash opener "Al's Corral" as well as "Don't Wanna"'s open-hearted strumming, over which Gatesmith snarls "you don't have to listen to the Smiths if you don't wanna" (though "Here's the Itch That Creeps Through My Skull"'s wordy title certainly owes something to Moz and Marr). Deerhunter explored a similar kind of so-simple-it's-iconic, leather jacket rock on Monomania; while Howler's approach may not be as ambitious, World of Joy boasts some touches that take it beyond basic. The swarming guitars on "Yacht Boys"' choruses flirt with chaos and oblivion, and the band adds some ominous oddness to "Drip"'s revved-up riffs and Saturday nights. World of Joy's second half isn't quite as cohesive as its first: the title track's whispery danger and the crooned punk-pop of "Louise" sound like they were recorded by a different band than the rest of the album (and from each other). Still, the best moments find Howler sounding more mature and also more brattily rock than ever before -- which is no mean feat.
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