no-man的被人们热切期待已久的第六届正式专辑,已经发行.专集里惬意地自吟催眠.还有巧妙的在演变中应用管弦乐.和作祟的旋律.体现着乐队的一贯的曲风.这些足以又会使得专集在次大获成功.在专集里一首长达13分钟的Truenorth曲子让人觉的这会是一张本年度最好的实验.期待着No-Man引起的轰动效应.也期待着他们这类,都是从小到大都受到Ambient熏陶的band. 　　 　　听了开场曲All Sweet Tings.忧伤的开头.忧伤的结束.no-man在氛围的拿捏程度上远远的超过了其他的Ambient band.专集里的每首歌都长达6分多.无疑是让我在视听上享受了个够.no-man的音乐一直都是这样.一半明媚,一半阴暗.像个非常极端的疯子......好久没有听到这样好的Ambient了.no-man的出现会让今年的Ambient热闹非凡........ 　　 　　Review by Ned Raggett 　　The partnership of Tim Bowness and Steven Wilson has continued in its own steady, quietly involving way for at least two decades, but No Man just seem to reach a new peak every time they release an album, and 2008's Schoolyard Ghosts, appearing after a five-year gap, continues that streak. Following the epic textures of Together We're Strangers with a slight return to the more directly melodic sound of Returning Jesus may initially seem retrograde, but in point of fact, Schoolyard Ghosts finds Wilson's ever evolving obsession with sonic possibilities in full effect, as he gently traces everything from string swells and haunting vocal sighs to soft electronic chimes behind the sweet combination of his guitar and Bowness' richly passionate voice. Beginning with what is by now almost a band trademark — a portrait of nostalgic reflection, titled "All Sweet Things" — No Man create one breathtaking song after another, with the steel guitar twang and sweeping orchestrations of "Wherever This Is Light" rivaling Scott Walker for sheer impact. Not everything is restrained beauty by any means — "Pigeon Drummer" intersperses skeletal guitar and filtered singing with bombastic orchestrations and feedback — but a song like "Truenorth" practically defines it, at nearly a quarter of an hour the most Together We're Stranger-like, but very much sounding of this album, lushly elegant with cascading strings and woodwinds. Meanwhile, the concluding "Mixtaped," in title alone another evocation of a time no longer present, gives the duo a chance to create some of their most shadowy work together, the texture of the drumming and looming guitar almost a tip of the hat to Bark Psychosis. Strange to say, perhaps, but at its considerable best, Schoolyard Ghosts reaches the same level of melodramatic yet personal passion as everything from the ending of Dickens' Great Expectations to Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away. No Man are far from completing their striking journey.