昨天剛釋出新專輯ANTI的蕾哈娜，讓人驚訝的是新輯內收錄了翻唱樂團Tame Impala的“New Person, Same Old Mistakes”，根據NME最新的採訪，樂團的經紀公司對此回應了這次的合作。

        當蕾哈娜的唱片公司透過我們的唱片公司Spinning Top表示她喜歡我們這首單曲並且想要將翻唱版本收錄進她的新專輯，我們非常喜愛最終出來的版本！

        蕾哈娜的新專輯當中不只”Same Ol’ Mistakes”與其他音樂人致敬，如與Drake合作的單曲”Work”當中就包含了修改1985年由Alexander O’Neal演唱的”If You Were HereTonight”。抒情歌曲”Never Ending”也包含了歌手Dido的”Thank You”編曲的修改。今天最新被Pitchfork評為最佳單曲的”Higher”也採用了The Soulful Strings ”Beside You”的樂器伴奏。

點此看更多蕾哈娜”ANTI”的專輯樂評。

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Rihanna’s album “ANTI” was arriving yesterday, and surprisingly, it features a cover of alternative band Tame Impala, “New Person, Same Old Mistakes” from their 2015 album Currents. According to NME, Tame Impala’s management gave a brief statement with her cover.

The Roc Nation team got in touch with us here at Spinning Top letting us know that Rihanna loved the Tame Impala track 'New Person, Same Old Mistakes'. They asked if she could cover the song for her new record. Kevin was more than happy to send it her way. We’re all really happy with how the song turned out, love it!

ANTI pays lots of tributes to other artists, on track 5 “Work” features Drake, contains an interpolation of “If YouWere Here Tonight” (1985) written by Monte Moir. And “New Ending” interpolated the composition “Thank You” from Dido. Best new track named by Pitchfork “Higher”, contains elements from The Soulful Strings “Beside You”.

View more reviews on Rihanna’s new album ANTI, click HERE.

  
         等了這麼長的一段時間，蕾哈娜終於釋出全新專輯ANTI，在昨日發行與Drake合唱的首支單曲”Work”之後，雖然負面評價佔大多數，這首單曲仍然坐上排行榜寶座。

    這張新專輯收錄了13首新歌，並不包含之前發行的單曲”FourFiveSeconds”, “American Oxygen”以及”Bitch Better Have My Money”，蕾哈娜在這方面的決策十分正確，將過了一年以上的單曲收錄在正專輯裡非常不合乎流行歌手的標準。雖然現在數位發行方式當道，而蕾哈娜也將專輯整體類型考慮進去，所以不把這三首單曲收錄是有原因並且明智的。整體專輯氣氛對於一張專輯來說是非常重要的，ANTI的選歌重點並不在會不會紅，而是在於品質，雖然此張專輯缺少像上一張”Unapologetic”的”Diamonds”式的大歌，但這張專輯聽下來是感覺舒服的。以第二首的”James Joint”來說，蕾哈娜將它該被放在第一首當作Intro的拿來第二順位銜接”Kiss It Better”讓整張專輯走得更順。這張專輯除了”Same Ol’ Mistakes”之外，蕾哈娜都有參與製作以及寫詞作曲，這也推翻以往她製作專輯的經驗，也讓ANTI更貼近她本身，雖然退掉許多如Kiesza與Sia為她量身打造的歌曲，在製作上除了男朋友Travis Scott獨挑大樑之外，也有許多製作過Beyonce、Drake等節奏藍調音樂的製作人，比較特別的是”Same Ol’ Mistakes”這首單曲，製作以及作詞曲都是由Tame Impala的主唱Kevin Parker擔任，這首單曲充滿Alternative Rock風味，如果單獨打單，應該鮮少人能一聽就知道是蕾哈娜的歌，但這首歌會被收錄在其中格外驚奇，讓人猜測蕾哈娜是不是想要擺脫流行女歌手的光環，轉而讓自己擅長領域的藍調音樂更受注意。

        之前一直謠傳會與專輯同時發行的視覺計畫，除了ANTIdiary的解鎖之外，目前尚未有其他音樂錄影帶或是電影形式的宣傳露出，這次與手機廠牌Samsung的合作也格外令人期待，在最後正式解鎖的Room8影片中，仍然有之前三支單曲視覺的點字標準字，在官方都沒傳出消息的感覺來看，不知道ANTI是在計畫中發行還是出乎意料之外的沒準備好。

在iTunes上購買單曲 “Work (feat.Drake)”。

在Tidal上串流此張專輯。

After this long long waiting, Rihanna drops her new album ANTI today. Yesterday she released the lead single “Work” features Drake, after all the critics on this track, “Work” still tops No.1 on iTunes chart.

Including 13 brand new tracks, ANTI doesn’t take the previous 3 singles into it. It’s wise that Rihanna make this decision, though it’s trend to sell music is digital format on online service or stream apps, Rihanna still considers full experience of this album in it as a musician.Talking about the whole experience, Ri chose songs for quality but be popular or not. Absence of big vocal song like “Diamonds” form her last album “Unapologetic”, ANTI goes on a comfort way to express her opinion on this album, supposed to be an intro of ANTI, Ri takes it to the second track instead, to intro the next record “Kiss It Better”, this slight change makes this experience straight.Except single on track 9, Rihanna wrote all songs with other artists on ANTI, though she refused songs like “Reaper” from Sia or two-unreveal songs from Kiesza, this album seems like closer to Ri than before. On the production side, besides her boyfriend Travis Scott, Kuk Harrell(Beyonce), Shea Taylor(Prod. Run the World by Bey), and producers works with Drake, Nicki Minaj, Ne-Yo, all teamed up for ANTI. Speaking of special, “Same Ol’ Mistakes” all made by Kevin Parker(Lead Vocalist from Tame Impala), music genre turns more Alternative Rock than R&B music, if take this single independently, it would be unnoticed comes from Rihanna. Curious saying that she wants to get rid of her “POP” glory into focusing on real music.

Rumored for a long time, there is supposed to be a visual plan along with new album, but for now NOTHING comes out or any promotion videos on official pages. In the association with Samsung, it’s worth expecting how the music videos will like, in the latest video of ANTI diary, same code patterns on “FourFiveSeconds”, “Bitch Better Have My Money” and “American Oxygen” still in it, let us wonder this releasing of ANTI is on schedule or UNschedule.

      明天即將發行新專輯的歌手Sia(希雅)在Apple Music上預先釋出試聽版的單曲”Broken Glass”，這首歌曲將被收錄在This Is Acting(臺譯：超有戲)裡。

Sia premiered her new track “Broken Glass” on Apple Music in her upcoming album This Is Acting.

        在之前的單曲釋出後，希雅選擇釋出”Broken Glass”為下一支單曲，也讓人期待是否這些歌曲都會出現在她謠傳與”Chandelier”合作的舞者Maddie Ziegler的拍攝計畫中。

Following her previously released records “Unstoppable”, “Bird Set Free”, “Reaper”, “Cheap Thrills”, “One Million Bullets” and her team up with Adele and Tobias Jr. “Alive”, “Broken Glass” seems like will be the next single for Sia’s rumored film plan with dancing star Maddie Ziegler.

       多倫多出生的Francesco Yates，在16歲便被現在的唱片公司Atlantic簽下，19歲自己寫出Sugar這首單曲、自行錄音，在2015年被收錄在DJ出身的Robin Schulz的同名專輯”Sugar”中，這首單曲目前已得到多次黃金認證。

Toronto born Canadian singer, Francesco Yates, signed to Atlantic Records when he was 16. In his 19, he recorded his single “Sugar” by himself, and it was remix and produced by Robin Schulz. “Sugar” is certificated as Gold by ARIA, BMVI, and RMNZ.

       而在2015年，他也發行了同名EP，請來製作人Robin Hannibal與歌手Pharrell Williams，首支單曲Call在2014年便已釋出。

He released his first same-titled EP in 2015, and produced by Robin Hannibal and Pharrel Williams, and the lead single “Call” released in July, 2014.

        可惜的是Francesco的聲音非常的好，但跟主流行音樂旋律不搭，也許出不插電專輯會讓更多人專注在他的演唱能力上，雖然被Robin Schulz混音得很好，畢竟只是單曲，以後要出專輯，唱片定位必須要分得較清。

It’s a shame that Francesco owns a good vocal but doesn’t fit enough in Pop music, his acoustic live performance is better than produced version. “Sugar” is just a successful single remix by Robin Schulz, but the label should pick right producers for this new Good artist.

        在首單”Doing The Right Thing”釋出後，Daughter的新專輯”Not to Disappear”在今日釋出。

After releasing their lead single “Doing The Right Thing”, Daughter announced their new album “Not to Disappear” that arriving today.

Here’s our review on this album.

    “Death of a Bachelor”為Panic! at the Disco的第五張錄音室專輯，音樂性質為搖滾龐克的他們，比起上一張專輯”Too weird To live, Too Rare To Die!”，新專輯的音樂性更為完整也更加成熟。

        不僅在混音方面進步許多，主唱Brendon Urie的唱功在這張上更加突出爆裂，唱片製作人請來Fall Out Boy長期合作的Jake Sinclair擔任共同製作人，因而讓兩團的氣氛感覺更相似，但由於FOB主唱Patrick Stump的聲線顆粒感較重，在後製混音需要更多層次相襯而使得他們讓人容易辨認。

        在單曲”Death of A Bachelor”中，曲風卻跳脫原本搖滾風味，多加了英式流行樂元素，帶有時代感的編曲使得這首單曲相當突出，主唱的嗓音也在其中少了背景墊高，變得更為純粹。