Seventy-six composers walk into a piano Vol.035｜2026-05-07 (Thursday)

Min Kwon — America/Beautiful ⭐ 古典必選

Genre類型

Classical / Piano / Commissioning Project

Label廠牌

Delos

Format介質

5xCD Box Set + Streaming + Hi-Res

Released發行

2026-05-08

Broken Social Scene — Remember the Humans

Genre類型

Indie Rock / Canadian Indie / Chamber Pop

Label廠牌

Arts & Crafts

Format介質

LP / CD / Streaming

Released發行

2026-05-08

Their first new studio album in nearly a decade, and the temptation to greet it with the standard reunion clichés is exactly the wrong one. Drew is back with David Newfeld, who produced You Forgot It in People; the two men, working again for the first time in twenty years, both lost their mothers during the sessions. That fact threads quietly under the twelve tracks without ever being announced. The arrangements still pile horns, electronics, and overlapping voices into the kind of dense canopy that Broken Social Scene basically invented for the indie-rock toolkit, but the bass lines arrive a half-step early to keep the abstraction tethered. 多倫多大樂團十年來第一張全新錄音室專輯（上一張 Hug of Thunder 已是 2017）。Drew 跟 You Forgot It in People 的製作人 David Newfeld 重新坐下——兩人闊別二十年，又在錄製期間各自送走了母親。這件事不在歌詞裡說，但在十二首歌底下持續出現。

Bummer Camp — Fake My Death

Genre類型

Shoegaze / Grunge / Noise Pop

Label廠牌

Trash Casual Records

Format介質

LP / CD / Streaming

Released發行

2026-05-08

The Queens quartet's second album, after a 2025 debut that grew out of Eli Frank's bedroom loop project. There is, of course, a wall of distortion, and somewhere inside it the ghosts of My Bloody Valentine and Dinosaur Jr. stand in their familiar positions. What makes this one worth the time is that Bummer Camp seem to have realized that the wall is uninteresting if there isn't a song in front of it. "One Bullet," the lead single, sets up a tense alternation between the urge to disappear and the harder choice to remain, and does it in something close to a power-pop tempo. Queens 四人組的第二張專輯。前身是 Eli Frank 一個人在臥室搞 loop，2025 年首專 Stuck In A Dream 之後被逼成完整 band。失真牆很厚，My Bloody Valentine 跟 Dinosaur Jr. 的影子都在——但他們不是又一個 1991 年模仿者。

Bill Wells — Dreams '24/'25

Genre類型

Avant-Folk / Indie Pop / Scottish Songwriting

Label廠牌

Karaoke Kalk

Format介質

LP / Digital

Released發行

2026-05-08

Bill Wells, longtime collaborator of Aidan Moffat, has done something whose conceptual joke could mask the discipline behind it: he wrote down, in melody, the songs that arrived during his sleep, and recorded twenty-four of them as miniatures, most under two minutes. Side A — Dreams '24 — is sung by Norman Blake, whose voice on a Wells melody sounds less rehearsed than anything on a recent Teenage Fanclub record; he came over for an afternoon and left having recorded ten of them. Side B — Dreams '25 — is sung by Aby Vulliamy (Trembling Bells, Scatter), to whom Wells sent demos and who recorded her parts at home. 蘇格蘭作曲家 Bill Wells（Aidan Moffat 的長期搭檔）幹了件聽起來像玩笑、做出來很認真的事：把自己夢裡浮現的旋律一首首記下來，做成 24 首微縮小品，多數不到兩分鐘，全張總時長 30 分鐘。

Johnny Bell — Mountain States

Genre類型

Solo Banjo / Ambient Folk / Americana

Label廠牌

Centripetal Force (US) × Ramble Records (AU)

Format介質

LP（限量 200 張）+ Digital

Released發行

2026-05-08

The New Mexico banjoist's first fully composed solo banjo record, co-produced with Andrew Weathers and tracked in three concentrated days; Weathers later layered in synthesizers, Rhodes, distorted electric guitar, and the kind of subtle structural detours that make a banjo recording feel like a landscape. The song titles — Departure Valley, Monsoon Sunset, Caldera Repose, Secret Cities — locate the music in the high deserts and volcanic basins of the Southwest, somewhere closer to William Tyler's country-ambient lineage than to anything Appalachian. 新墨西哥 banjo 手 Johnny Bell 第一張完全為班卓琴而寫的獨奏專輯。和 Andrew Weathers 共同製作——三天集中錄完班卓琴本體，Weathers 再疊合成器、Rhodes、失真電吉他做底色。

Sulk Rooms — Songs of Soil

Genre類型

Ambient / Field Recording / Modern Classical

Label廠牌

quiet details (qd49)

Format介質

Digital + 限量 CD（六頁 digipak + fine art print + 長篇連續版混音）

Released發行

2026-05-06

Thomas Ragsdale, recording as Sulk Rooms, lives on a smallholding in rural Yorkshire, and the field recordings on this record are exactly what you'd expect from someone who cares enough to identify what is making them — earthworms, the small movements of the ecosystem under his allotment, amplified and reshaped against soft synth pads and piano figures. He calls the album, with no irony, a tribute to the dignity of worms. After three or four passes you understand he means it. Thomas Ragsdale（Sulk Rooms 名義）住在約克郡鄉下的菜園邊——他在地裡錄了大量蚯蚓和土壤生態系統的現場錄音，把這些有機的混亂放大、整形，疊在合成器和鋼琴上。他自己寫的：這是"獻給蚯蚓的尊嚴"。