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構成数 |
1 |
国内/輸入 |
輸入 (イギリス盤) |
パッケージ仕様 |
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発売日 |
2018年02月13日 |
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規格品番 |
7204676 |
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SKU |
888072046764 |
天性のソングライティング・センスと息を飲む程美しいヴォーカル、卓越した楽曲アレンジが見事に調和し、R&Bに影響を受けたソウルフルで官能的なアルバム!前作『ウーマン』とは別のもの、もう少しサイケデリックな雰囲気、ソウルフルで素朴な色を出したかったというバンドが「生のパーカション、生のピアノを使って人間が持つ親密さを表現した」という期待作!
構成数 | 1枚
合計収録時間 | 00:42:01
Recording information: Decibelle Recording Studio; King Henry Studio; Revival at the Complex; Studio Milosh; The Dwelling; West Point Studios. Photographer: Michael Milosh. Rhye's Woman was a modest commercial success in 2013. Its diaphanous sophisti-pop ballads struck a nerve with enough hip young romantics to land at number 55 in the U.S. and almost scraped the Top Ten in Denmark, homeland of co-writer/co-producer Robin Hannibal. Near the end of that year, driving force Michael Milosh released his fourth album as Milosh, but otherwise focused on performing and developing new material -- minus Hannibal -- for his newer outlet. Five years later, after several hundred gigs and a featured appearance on Bonobo's "Break Apart" that tellingly credited him not under his surname but as Rhye, Milosh followed up with Blood. Recorded with some of his backing group and with live drums among the vast assortment of Milosh's instrumental input, the album sounds marginally more organic, less like a production, than the debut. The intimate, slinking mode is the same. Slow-pulsing rhythms are decked out with finely arranged layers of sensitively played keyboards, strings, and woodwinds. Milosh's voice, breathy as ever, rarely much above a dazed sigh, often blurs the line between arch and vulnerable. His gentle pleadings and luring lines evoke lightheadedness, and at times lack enunciation, like he was just wheeled out of oral surgery and had his water laced with an aphrodisiac. Maybe compromised faculties explain a higher number of peculiar requests, promises, and carnal bulletins like "Bring your songs to me, I'm not afraid to heal them," "I'll eat your memories," and "I'm coming fast, oh my god." A theme that gradually emerges is one of pushing misgivings aside to embrace a new relationship. Like Woman, however, Blood is essentially mood music, and its nuances -- from string arrangements that create a sense of expectancy, to deftly rich basslines -- invite repeat play. ~ Andy Kellman
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1.Waste
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2.Taste
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3.Feel Your Weight
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4.Please
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5.Count to Five
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6.Song for You
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7.Blood Knows
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8.Stay Safe
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9.Phoenix
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10.Softly
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11.Sinful
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シャーデーとも比較されたデビュー作から5年ぶりの新作。ロビン・ハンニバルと袂を分かちマイケル・ミロシュの単独プロジェクト的な様相を強めた今回は、前作での密室感から脱却し、近年のライヴ経験を反映して人力感のあるバンド・サウンドをめざしたという。実際にキング・ヘンリーと制作した"Taste"やディスコ調の"Phoenix"はベースラインが躍動するダンサブルな曲だし、前作にも関与したイタイ・シャピラとペンを交えたアップ"Count To Five"にもその気配が色濃い。とはいえミステリアスな雰囲気は相変わらずで、"Waste"や"Please"などではミロシュの憂いを含む繊細で官能的なヴォーカルと共にインティメイトな音空間を紡いでいく。マックスウェルとも距離を縮めたセンシュアルなアルバムだ。
bounce (C)林剛タワーレコード (vol.412(2018年2月25日発行号)掲載)
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