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構成数 |
1 |
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輸入 |
パッケージ仕様 |
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発売日 |
2018年02月16日 |
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規格品番 |
4AD0046CD |
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SKU |
191400004627 |
ローファイ・ポップ~ダブ~80年代のディスコ、はたまた60年代のR&B風サウンドなどなど、幅広い要素を含んだユニークなポップミュージックで展開された前作では収録曲がピッチフォークのベスト・ニュー・ミュージックを獲得し話題となった。そこから約2年ぶりに放たれる新作は、前作のサウンドをベースにしながらもよりポップな路線を追求し、どこか懐かしささえ感じるディスコポップ~シンセポップサウンドに完成。
ミステリアスなメロディーにGrimesのようなウィスパーヴォイスが妖艶な雰囲気を醸し出す「Velvet 4 Sale」(M1)、リスナーを80年代にタイムスリップさせてくれるアルバムの中でも最もキャッチーでディスコポップサウンド全開の「Mad As Hell」(M3)、リズミカルでミドルテンポなシンセサウンドとエモーショナルな歌声が中毒性抜群の「Poes」(M9)など、確実にU.S.Girls史上最高の楽曲が詰まった2018年インディーポップ作品の傑作となった。これは癖になる!
構成数 | 1枚
合計収録時間 | 00:37:39
Personnel: Maximilian Turnbull (vocals, guitar); Basia Bulat (vocals, keyboards); James Bailey, Jennifer Castle, Sean Maclean, Amanda Crist, Kassie Richardson (vocals); Chris Sandes (guitar, vocoder, percussion); Doc Dunn (guitar, vibraphone, drum machine); Michael Rault (guitar); Brodie West, Dennis Passley (saxophone); Emily Denison (trumpet); Jonathan Adjemian (piano, organ, synthesizer); Mike Smith (Clavinet, synthesizer); Rich Morel (keyboards, programming); Kieran Adams (drums); Steve Chahley, Brandon Valdivia (percussion); Louis Percival, Tony Price (programming). Audio Mixer: Steve Chahley. On 2015's Half Free, U.S. Girls' Meg Remy combined some of the project's earlier tape loop experimentation and use of samples with the more polished avant pop of its previous album, GEM. Three years later, she returns with yet a different approach, collaborating with improvisational music collective the Cosmic Range for a dedicated live sound that lives and breathes like a festival stage. (U.S. Girls) In a Poem Unlimited features a six-piece core version of the Toronto funk-fusion band -- one of whom is Remy's husband and frequent collaborator Maximilian Turnbull, aka Slim Twig -- along with over a dozen additional guests. Those guests include keyboardist/programmer Rich Morel, who accompanies Remy alone on two of the songs, "Rosebud" and "Poem," which he also co-wrote. They provide a synth-poppy breather about a third and two-thirds of the way through the track list, at the same time further expanding the album's sound. So, too, do a pair of brief spoken word recordings, also balanced in the sequencing. At the other extreme, the jammiest song in the set is certainly the closer, a cover of Micah Blue Smaldone's "Time." At seven and a half minutes, it's by far the record's longest track, seeming to celebrate the collaboration in encore style, with prominent bongos and saxophones among instruments that add to the Cosmic Range's more regularly featured rhythm section, synths, and guitars. Far from an afterthought, the album's lyrics speak candidly on topics like sexism and violence -- domestic, terrorist, and state-sanctioned -- such as on "M.A.H." ("Mad as Hell"), which addresses the latter via an arty disco. Sprawling and complex as In a Poem Unlimited's structures and styles are, it's U.S. Girls' most immediate collection to date, in terms of both sound and message. ~ Marcy Donelson
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1.Velvet 4 Sale
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2.Rage Of Plastics
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3.Mad As Hell
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4.Why Do I Lose My Voice When I Have Something To Say
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5.Rosebud
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6.Incidental Boogie
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7.L-Over
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8.Pearly Gates
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9.Poem
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10.Traviata
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11.Time
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