The Shins-Wincing the Night Away (2007)

很久未聽過如此既輕快又心動的 Indie-pop，來自美國新墨西哥州的四人樂隊The Shins可以說是Indie音樂領域中最成功的樂隊之一，不但在全世界擁有大批歌迷，2003年還被"Rolling Stones"評選為年度最佳樂隊。唱片銷量甚至超過許多主流樂隊，也算是個不大不小的奇跡了。雖然他們來自美國，音樂風格卻帶有些英倫氣息，低調另類。

曲目:
01. Sleeping Lessons
02. Australia
03. Pam Berry
04. Phantom Limb
05. Sea Legs
06. Red Rabbits
07. Turn On Me
08. Black Wave
09. Spilt Needles
10. Girl Sailor
11. Comet Appears

試聽:
Sleeping Lessons

Australia

Red Rabbits

Turn On Me

Black Wave

Spilt Needles

Belle & Sebastian - the life pursuit (2006)

還記得他們在1996年的Tigermilk嗎?Tigermilk幾乎成了indie-pop國歌了，這是B&S去年出版的第6張專輯，專輯有很七十年代的音樂質感，如沐春風的情懷，超喜歡another sunny day。

曲目:
1 Act of the Apostle
2 Another Sunny Day
3 White Collar Boy
4 The Blues Are Still Blue
5 Dress Up In You
6 Sukie in the Graveyard
7 We Are the Sleepyheads
8 Song for Sunshine
9 Funny Little Frog
10 To Be Myself Completely
11 Act Of The Apostle II
12 For the Price of a Cup of Tea
13 Mornington Crescent


試聽

Act of the Apostle


Another Sunny Day

Another sunny day, I met you up in the garden
You were digging plants, I dug you, beg your pardon
I took a photograph of you in the herbaceous border
It broke the heart of men and flowers and girls and trees

Another rainy day, we're trapped inside with a train set
Chocolate on the boil, steamy windows when we met
You've got the attic window looking out on the cathedral
And on a Sunday evening bells ring out in the dusk

Another day in June, we'll pick eleven for football
We're playing for our lives the referee gives us fuck all
I saw you in the corner of my eye on the sidelines
Your dark mascara bids me to historical deeds

Everybody's gone you picked me up for a long drive
We take the tourist route the nights are light until midnight
We took the evening ferry over to the peninsula
We found the avenue of trees went up to the hill
That crazy avenue of trees, I'm living there still

There's something in my eye a little midge so beguiling
Sacrificed his life to bring us both eye to eye
I heard the Eskimos remove obstructions with tongues, dear
You missed my eye, I wonder why, I didn't complain
You missed my eye, I wonder why, please do it again

The lovin is a mess what happened to all of the feeling?
I thought it was for real; babies, rings and fools kneeling
And words of pledging trust and lifetimes stretching forever
So what went wrong? It was a lie, it crumbled apart
Ghost figures of past, present, future haunting the heart

White Collar Boy


The Blues Are Still Blue


Funny Little Frog


Mornington Crescent