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Daily Drops Vol.056 — May 28 十三年沉默被 Warp 切開，紐約爵士桌上擱著 Max Roach 的舊課本
Boards of Canada — Inferno
Thirteen years is a long time to wait for anything, and longer than the working life of most artists' relevance, but the Sandison brothers have always preferred the geological clock. Inferno — their first studio album since 2013's Tomorrow's Harvest — does not pretend the gap didn't happen. The dread that used to sit under cassette hiss and synth haze now walks straight up to the microphone. Across nineteen tracks and roughly seventy minutes, drums and bass swing closer to dancefloor weight than anything BoC have committed to record, and human voice samples — long the duo's eeriest currency — show up more frequently and more legibly. The marketing campaign, which began with mysterious VHS cassettes mailed to fans in early April, framed the album as a kind of analog ritual. The record itself is more pointed than that suggests: less séance, more siren. 13 年。從 Tomorrow's Harvest（2013）到 Inferno 中間的空白，幾乎是一代電子樂迷從大學到帶小孩的距離。Sandison 兄弟 4 月初開始往樂迷家寄 VHS 卡帶，4/16 才放出"Tape 05"——13 年來第一段官方新音樂。他們沒裝時間沒過：以前被沉霾蓋住的 dread 這次推到前景，drum 和 bass 朝耳膜直接咣咣咣。70 分鐘、19 首，是 Warp 印記下最暗最直接的一張。
Tyshawn Sorey — Members... Don't!
Sorey, who has spent the last several years collecting prizes and confounding expectations across composition, conducting, and the drum kit, turns to Max Roach's 1968 Members, Don't Git Weary and rebuilds it song for song, recorded live at New York's Jazz Gallery with Adam O'Farrill, Mark Shim, Lex Korten, Tyrone Allen, and the vocalist Fay Victor. The temptation in this kind of project is either fetish or thesis statement; Sorey avoids both. Victor's vocals don't impersonate Abbey Lincoln so much as treat her as a starting point that needs argument. The result, across seven tracks and over ninety minutes, lands in the present without flattening Roach's anger into nostalgia. Sorey 把 Max Roach 1968 年的 Members, Don't Git Weary 整張專輯重做，再接到 2026 年的政治情緒——難度是要讓一張反越戰時代的非裔抗議唱片，在 Trump 第二任期裡既不變成博物館品也不變成口號。
David Torn — now i imagine a place not the same
Torn's first solo statement since Only Sky arrives as the opening release on Kou Records, the new label from Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O))). It's the kind of imprimatur that tells you something about the album's mood before you hear a note. Built almost entirely from processed guitar and electronics — alternate tunings, looping architectures, touch-sensitive interfaces — the double LP returns Torn to the raw electrical language of Cloud About Mercury, but with the calm of a player who no longer feels the need to argue for the form. Arik Roper handles the cover art, O'Malley contributes a concrete poem, and Randall Dunn writes the liner notes; the packaging makes its allegiances plain. David Torn 繼 Only Sky 之後第一張完整獨奏。Kou Records 是 Stephen O'Malley（Sunn O)))）在 Ideologic Organ 之外的新廠牌，Torn 是開張作。
Iceage — For Love of Grace & the Hereafter
Five years after Seek Shelter, the Copenhagen band returns to Silence Studio in rural Sweden — the same room where they recorded Plowing Into the Field of Love in 2014. The reunion produces a strange sort of doubling. Elias Rønnenfelt's lyrics have loosened into something closer to private liturgy than public address; the band, now in its second decade, has finally learned to put a clean guitar and a wall of noise on the same fretboard without one canceling the other. Twelve tracks, produced with Nis Bysted. The Iceage of You're Nothing would have been embarrassed by this much tenderness. The Iceage of 2026 is fine with it. 第六張，距 Seek Shelter (2021) 五年。這次他們做了一件之前從沒做過的事：第二次回到瑞典鄉間的 Silence Studio——上一次是 2014 的 Plowing Into the Field of Love。十年後回到同一個房間，樂隊沒有裝年輕。
Greg Mendez — Beauty Land
Mendez's Dead Oceans debut was recorded almost entirely alone, on tape, in a small windowless room in his Philadelphia apartment. Fourteen songs in just over half an hour — almost none of them crossing the three-minute mark, which in the current Spotify economy reads less as concision than as quiet rebellion. The Elliott Smith comparison, made unavoidably by every UK reviewer with access to the press kit, is correct but unfair: Mendez is more willing to leave a song unfinished, more comfortable with the awkward edge, less interested in baroque arrangement as compensation. The closing harmonies on "So Mean," sung with his partner Veronica, are the album's quietest argument for staying in the room with someone difficult. 費城自宅那間沒窗的小房間。Greg Mendez 一個人對著磁帶機錄的 14 首歌，幾乎沒有一首超過 3 分鐘，全程約 30 分鐘。Dead Oceans 首作。
Kurt Vile — Philadelphia's been good to me
Vile's tenth studio record, his first since the death of longtime collaborator Rob Laakso, takes its title as gratitude rather than eulogy. Most of it was tracked at OKV Central, his Mount Airy home studio, with side trips to Memphis, Los Angeles, and Athens. Lead singles "Zoom 97" and "Chance to Bleed" set the palette early — jangly, slightly tape-warbled, with the trademark Vile habit of swallowing the back half of a joke before delivering it. Across twelve tracks, the album never reaches for elegy; the absence of Laakso is felt in the texture rather than the lyric. A forty-six-year-old guitarist sitting in his basement, still writing letters to his city. 第 10 張錄音室專輯，距 (watch my moves) 四年。也是 Vile 在長期搭檔 Rob Laakso 去世後錄的第一張專輯。
Doublespeak (Vince Clarke × Neil Arthur × Benge) — Doublespeak
The premise reads like a hypothetical: Vince Clarke (Erasure, Yazoo), Neil Arthur (Blancmange), and Benge (Wrangler) form a band and make a debut LP. The execution, on London Records, is sharper than the premise. The reference list — Fad Gadget, The Sound, Young Marble Giants, with detours into ABBA, David Essex, and The Carpenters, plus tangents to Magnetic Fields and Ed Dowie — reads like a synth-pop genealogy compiled by people who lived it. Clarke, who famously doesn't write lyrics, hands material to Arthur, who deconstructs it line by line. The collaboration sounds neither nostalgic nor curatorial; it sounds like three people in a room who finally have the time. Erasure / Yazoo 的 Vince Clarke、Blancmange 的 Neil Arthur、Wrangler 的 Benge——三個老 synth 玩家組的新樂隊首作。這不是合體演出懷舊。是真做了一張新專輯。