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構成数 |
1 |
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輸入 (イギリス盤) |
パッケージ仕様 |
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発売日 |
2017年10月03日 |
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規格品番 |
5771939 |
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SKU |
602557719390 |
前作『ルミナス』から約3年振りの新曲は、古巣XL Recordingsを離れ、ポール・マッカートニーやアデルの曲を手掛けるポール・エプワースが主催するWolf Toneに移籍しリリースする初のアルバム。今作はポール・エプワースによるプロデュースの元、160年以上の歴史を誇り、これまでにボブ・ディランやエルヴィス・コステロ、レディオヘッド等数多くの名作が誕生したロンドン郊外のチャーチ・スタジオにてレコーディング。ナイン・インチ・ネイルズを思わせるインダストリアルサウンドで新境地を開いた先行シングル「Machine」からダンサブルな打ち込みの「Something To Remember Me By」までザ・ホラーズ史上最もヴァリエーションに富んだ傑作!
構成数 | 1枚
合計収録時間 | 00:54:30
Personnel: Faris Badwan (vocals); Rhys Webb (guitar, synthesizer); Joshua Third (guitar); Tom Furse (keyboards, synthesizer, drum programming); Joe Spurgeon (synthesizer, drums, drum programming). Audio Mixer: Matt Wiggins. Recording information: The Church Studios, London. After self-producing 2014's Luminous, the Horrors worked with Paul Epworth, a producer renowned for his big sound, on their follow-up V. While the band's fifth album sounds expectedly stadium-sized, bringing another pair of ears into the fold seems to have pushed the Horrors to make the biggest changes to their music since Primary Colours. This time, along with synth pop and shoegaze, they make other sounds from the '80s and early '90s -- baggy, rave, industrial -- their playthings, most strikingly on the opener "Hologram," which sounds like a trippier take on Tubeway Army and sets the tone for V's edgier sounds and outlook. The band reflects on altered states of reality, as well as things that aren't quite real, on songs such as "Press Enter to Exit," where swirling beats and guitars match the band's musings on the looping nature of time, and the industrial-tinged "Machine," one of their noisiest and nastiest songs since Strange House. While duality and imitation are unsurprising lyrical territory for a band whose sound has changed so much over the years, each incarnation of the Horrors has felt genuine. V is no exception: As the album spans "World Below"'s fusion of shoegaze and industrial, "Something to Remember Me By"'s bittersweet widescreen synth pop, the trip-hop-tinged "Ghost," and the Suede-like balladry of "It's a Good Life," the variety of sounds the band explores feels particularly engaging, especially when compared to the way Skying and Luminous presented their music as an ethereal blur. Not everything on V works -- "Weighed Down" and "Gathering" lack the focus of the album's highlights -- but the songs that do are some of the Horrors' most exciting yet. ~ Heather Phares
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1.Hologram
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2.Press Enter to Exit
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3.Machine
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4.Ghost
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5.Point of No Reply
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6.Weighed Down
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7.Gathering
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8.World Below
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9.It's a Good Life
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10.Something to Remember Me By
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8月の来日公演も最高だったホラーズが古巣XLを離れ、3年ぶりのアルバムを完成。ポール・エプワースの指揮のもと、ナイン・インチ・ネイルズを思わせるバリバリと歪んだ電子音やマシーナリーなビートを敷き詰めていて、その手触りはどこまでも刺激的かつキャッチーだ。特に、ダンサブルな打ち込みと人力サウンドが融合したラスト・チューンは、まぎれもなくバンドの新境地。USでのブレイクも時間の問題か?
bounce (C)上野功平タワーレコード (vol.407(2017年9月25日発行号)掲載)
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