Wish To Scream

发行时间:2013-01-01
发行公司:环球唱片
简介:  (By 虾米) 在独立摇滚乐队层出不穷的岛国,想要不被人忘记也绝非易事。Tribes的勤奋也看在眼里,去年才发行《Baby》不久他们已经开始陆续在写新歌了,之后因为某契机可以去洛杉矶著名的Sound City Studio(Nirvana的《Nevermind》和Fleetwood Mac的《Rumours》都在那里制作完成)录制新歌。《Wish To Scream》相比首专少了些许年少气盛,回归传统吉他,美式的复古调调流淌整张作品,当然还有主唱Johnny Lloyd含糊的发音和略带哭声的唱腔。      Johnny Lloyd, mainman of Camden's Tribes, can't be accused of aiming too high. His ambition for his guitar-playing foursome is to be seen "as a band that's not going anywhere, that can deliver albums quickly". Maybe it's just British modesty – he also justified recording this album in Los Angeles on the basis it was cheaper than doing it in Liverpool – but his lack of swagger duly lowers expectations. Rightly so: Tribes' second album has the nuts and bolts of melodic rock nailed, but its diligent verse-verse-chorus constructions are the work of artisans, not artists. A few tracks favourably compare with bigger and better bands: How the Other Half Live could be U2 in bulldozingly epic mode, and Looking for Shangri-La's country twang and vaguely spiritual lyric conjure up their north London neighbours, Primal Scream. The bulk of the record, though, is epitomised by Englishman on Sunset Boulevard, which offers Lloyd's thoughts on the evergreen subject of Brits abroad. He condenses his California experience into a gospel-rock plod that hinges on the grandly meaningless line: "All you need is imagination".
  (By 虾米) 在独立摇滚乐队层出不穷的岛国,想要不被人忘记也绝非易事。Tribes的勤奋也看在眼里,去年才发行《Baby》不久他们已经开始陆续在写新歌了,之后因为某契机可以去洛杉矶著名的Sound City Studio(Nirvana的《Nevermind》和Fleetwood Mac的《Rumours》都在那里制作完成)录制新歌。《Wish To Scream》相比首专少了些许年少气盛,回归传统吉他,美式的复古调调流淌整张作品,当然还有主唱Johnny Lloyd含糊的发音和略带哭声的唱腔。      Johnny Lloyd, mainman of Camden's Tribes, can't be accused of aiming too high. His ambition for his guitar-playing foursome is to be seen "as a band that's not going anywhere, that can deliver albums quickly". Maybe it's just British modesty – he also justified recording this album in Los Angeles on the basis it was cheaper than doing it in Liverpool – but his lack of swagger duly lowers expectations. Rightly so: Tribes' second album has the nuts and bolts of melodic rock nailed, but its diligent verse-verse-chorus constructions are the work of artisans, not artists. A few tracks favourably compare with bigger and better bands: How the Other Half Live could be U2 in bulldozingly epic mode, and Looking for Shangri-La's country twang and vaguely spiritual lyric conjure up their north London neighbours, Primal Scream. The bulk of the record, though, is epitomised by Englishman on Sunset Boulevard, which offers Lloyd's thoughts on the evergreen subject of Brits abroad. He condenses his California experience into a gospel-rock plod that hinges on the grandly meaningless line: "All you need is imagination".