[2014] [欧美] [流行] [无损音乐] ceo《Wonderland》[FLAC/分轨][225.9MB]2014年02月04日发行

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艺人：	ceo
语种：	英语
唱片公司：	Modular Recordings
发行时间：	2014年02月04日
资源格式：	FLAC

专辑介绍：

Art says what words can't, and trying to explain it can get in the way. Of all the ideas in Eric Berglund's work since his duo the Tough Alliance emerged from Sweden several years ago, those two have been constants. On the title track from TTA's cult-beloved A New Chance, he deployed a fitting line of movie dialogue: "It's not a question of understanding. If you feel it, you feel it, stupid." The label he runs, Sincerely Yours, is deeply anti-"social."

And yet what web presence Berglund does have is meticulously curated, and straight-faced grandiosity is a hallmark of public statements from Gothenburg's "ultra messiah aka mr yeah aka life aka you." His debut album under solo alias ceo, 2010's White Magic, suggested he'd made peace with the contradictions between creativity and publicity, self-expression and selling yourself; its sumptuous, post-Internet miniatures often touched on themes of illumination and transcendence. Lead single "Come With Me"—lush and brash enough for an alternate Top 40, as weird and hermetic as the cult indie-dance record it really was—beckoned listeners "to a place I call reality."

Three-and-a-half years later, that place has gotten a little more real. The sophomore album from CEO (yes, all caps now) comes after label signees Air France called it quits and another hometown kindred spirit, Jens Lekman, pared his once-maximalist style down to the nub. Berglund, too, has shed some innocence—he recently told The Fader, "I admit—I was an enlightenment noob"—but if Wonderland stops short of promising epiphanies, it's still as luxuriantly widescreen and eccentrically detail-rich as ever. At home with the inevitability of loss, it's an album where you can lose yourself.

That immersion starts with Berglund's always-impeccable pop songcraft. His feel for melodic turns and lyrical conceits is characteristically keen; when you find yourself humming along to the galloping art-versus-commerce ambivalence of "Whorehouse", he's got you on his level. Darker thoughts lurk beneath the gleaming surfaces, though—see the dismissal of love as a fantasy on the devastating "Mirage", for example. So when the day-glo title track returns to an already-plagiarized lyric from the first album, "Love and do what you will," the effect is something like, if you'll forgive the terrible pun, going through the looking glass.

Another way CEO lures you into his world is with his distinct sonic sensibility, here at its more atmospheric. The 1980s Mediterranean chillouts of Balearic house still come up a lot as a reference point, and it's a style eclectic enough to make room for almost anything. But beyond that, Wonderland updates Berglund's TTA-predating love of hip-hop to conjure the vibrant haze of cloud-rap pioneers Main Attrakionz. In the album's wide-eyed viewpoint and bustling intricacy you can also hear an affinity with Japanese pop star Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's psychedelic kawaii-ness. If there's a weakness, though, it's in the handful of wordless or almost-wordless tracks. Like the debut, this album is only eight songs, but floaty interludes like "In a Bubble on a Stream" or "Juju" allow attention to drift more freely, closer to TTA's super-limited 2006 ambient excursion Escaping Your Ambitions.

Still, with an artist as slyly considered as Berglund, it's tempting to take these space-outs as part of the point. "OMG", the album's celestial finale, is also its encapsulation and its peak, juxtaposing reverence with irreverence, a wonderfully goofy boy-meets-girl story with serious-sounding introspection, harp and a choir and a preacher with a pitched-down "ho" backing vocal. The full version of the text-speak title phrase is delivered by a female voice resembling an orgasmic version of the main sample in Skrillex's "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites". When Berglund implores, "Let go forever," it's with the tone of the uptight perfectionist—who has said he didn't even like recording vocals in front of TTA partner Henning Fürst—reminding himself his best stuff happens when he goes with the flow.

What can't be put into words is the alchemical trick that some great artists use to turn their personal idiosyncrasies into popular myths, or vice versa. Recognizing this ability in Beyoncé's "Halo" and Kanye West's "Hold My Liquor" could well be what drew Berglund to cover them, in CEO's typical, colorfully off-kilter way. All three artists use the tools at their disposal, whether stolen or borrowed or hired, to communicate a powerful vision that's ultimately inseparable from its creator. An old Felt lyric once quoted on Sincerely Yours act the Honeydrips' MySpace page goes, "It's better to be lost than to be found." Not necessarily, but in the case of Wonderland it comes close. Or as a voice sampled twice on "OMG" puts it, "Who knows, dude."

专辑曲目：

01 Whorehouse
02 Harikiri
03 Mirage
04 In a Bubble on a Stream
05 Wonderland
06 Juju
07 Ultrakaos
08 OMG

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