Daily Drops Vol.057 — May 29 八張專輯，八條回家的路——Townsend 用了十年才走完那條路。

Devin Townsend — The Moth (Deluxe Edition)

Townsend has been saying for ten years that The Moth would be the work of his life. It is now twenty-four songs across three discs, recorded with the North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and Choir; the second disc reframes the material as a purely orchestral-choral piece, and the third captures the March 2025 live debut. The metal is here — Townsend is constitutionally incapable of not putting it there — but it functions less as the surface than as the seismic activity underneath. The whole thing is a long, restless meditation on what to do with a life once you've noticed it's finite. It is overblown in exactly the way a project called The Moth has the right to be. The Prog Report noted, with some understatement, that few artists would even attempt this; fewer still would land it. Townsend 把這張專輯掛在嘴邊十年，稱之為「人生作品」。終於交卷：三張碟、24 首歌，與北荷蘭交響樂團及合唱團合作。第二張碟「The Afterlife」是純管絃+合唱重置版，第三張「The War」是 2025 年 3 月荷蘭首演現場。

Paul McCartney — The Boys of Dungeon Lane

Five years after his last record, McCartney plays nearly every instrument on this one himself — his second one-man-band album in a row — and writes, for the first time in a long time, almost exclusively about the place he came from: post-war Liverpool, a particular pavement, the friend he hitchhiked with to Southampton in 1961, the parents who are now decades dead. The arrangements are simple. The first duet he and Ringo have ever recorded — a song called "Home To Us" — sounds like two old men remembering a kitchen. Rolling Stone, not a publication given to easy hyperbole about late McCartney, called it nostalgic but not soft, and possibly his best record of the century. The remarkable thing is that, after sixty years of writing forward, he is writing back at last, and the songs do not buckle under the weight. 五年沒出新專輯。84 歲。幾乎每件樂器自己上（連續第二張這樣做，前一張是 McCartney III, 2020）。Andrew Watt 共製。14 首歌，全部關於戰後利物浦、Dungeon Lane 那條街、母親、父親、那年和 George Harrison 一起搭便車南下。

Snorri Hallgrímsson — Nowhere Sessions

The Icelandic composer drove out to a cabin that has been in his family for more than half a century — a low building on the edge of a lava field, between two lakes — and recorded a 32-minute album in which there is sometimes more breath than note. Nowhere Sessions is the kind of DG release that the label has been very good at finding lately: small, unaggressive, prepared to be missed. Hallgrímsson trained as a classical guitarist before drifting into film music, and there is something compositional underneath all of it, even as the surface is content to do almost nothing. It is the rare neoclassical record that does not seem to want a Spotify playlist slot. 冰島作曲家 Snorri 把錄音設備搬進家族那間傳了五十多年的鄉下小屋。門外是熔岩地、兩面湖。9 首曲 32 分鐘，呼吸比音符多。

Rudolf Buchbinder — Schubert: Treasures

For his eightieth birthday Buchbinder has avoided every obvious option — the sonatas, the late impromptus, the moments musicaux — and chosen instead the entire body of dances Schubert published in his lifetime. The result, on two discs and a hundred and sixty short tracks, is the strange dignified ghost of an 1820s Viennese ballroom: waltzes, Ländler, ecossaises, the kind of light social music that critics have spent two centuries learning not to underestimate. Buchbinder doesn't sentimentalize. He just lets the slight melancholic shadow that always lives a few millimetres beneath these pieces rise to the surface. It is the gentlest possible argument for the importance of small forms. (On every major classical streaming service; catalog page.) Buchbinder 今年 80 歲。他沒有挑奏鳴曲、沒有挑即興曲，挑了 Schubert 生前出版的全部舞曲——160 首 Waltzes、Ländler、Ecossaises，兩小時零五分。

Guided By Voices — Crawlspace of the Pantheon

This is the forty-fourth Guided By Voices record. The unusual thing about it, according to Robert Pollard, is that he spent more time on the lyrics this time and tried to give the album "an overall emotional feel" — a sentence that, applied to the band that invented the genre of writing-three-LPs-a-year, qualifies as a manifesto. Twelve songs, recorded across distances; the players are tight in a way Guided By Voices have always been tight, which is to say in the way that pretends not to be. "We Outlast Them All" is the single, and it functions as both ars poetica and threat. Robert Pollard 名下第 44 張正式 LP。Pollard 自己說，這次「花了更多時間在歌詞上」——對一年寫兩張專輯的 GBV 來說，這等於宣言。

Mahan Mirarab (feat. Kian Soltani, Lars Danielsson, Golnar Shahyar) — Unspoken

The Visitors — Motherland

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DJ Shadow — The Mo' Wax Singles 1993-1997

After completing the twenty-fifth-anniversary reissue of Endtroducing..... in 2021, Shadow asked himself what the obvious next move was, and the answer was: everything else. The Mo' Wax Singles 1993-1997 gathers all seven of his Mo'Wax-era singles — In/Flux, Lost and Found (S.F.L.), the four-part What Does Your Soul Look Like, Midnight In a Perfect World, Stem, High Noon, and Camel Bobsled Race — across an 8 × 12" box, half-speed remastered at Abbey Road by Miles Showell. About half the audio here is unreleased: alternate mixes, the original master of "High Noon" that Shadow always preferred to the version that came out, and an eighth disc of his first-ever MPC-to-DAT bounces, the literal proofs of concept. He is open in the liner notes that this is a box made for the fan who already cares. It is, in 2026, a strange and tender thing to do — to publish your own juvenilia at full audiophile resolution. 2021 年 Endtroducing..... 25 週年版做完，Shadow 反問：「為甚麼不把 Mo'Wax 時代全部重做一遍？」於是他把那些九十年代脆到要換三臺機器才讀得到的 DAT 帶翻出來——送 Miles Showell 在 Abbey Road 半速重製。