Alpine Decline 用近15年的时间去潜心磨砺他们独特的敌托邦式迷幻摇滚风格。昔日洛杉矶乐队 Mezzanine Owls 中的两位灵魂人物 - 主唱 Jonathan Zeitlin 和鼓手Pauline Mu，彼时于一年内连发三张专辑而在场景中崭露头角，之后便收拾行囊去往北京。在那里他们融入了无浪潮地下音乐场景，并很快签约兵马司唱片。乐队在2016年回到洛杉矶，发行了数张介于佩斯利地下风格和抽象模块合成器风格的专辑。
乐队的最新专辑 Underground Hits from the Far Out Future, Vol. I-IV 带领听众进入独特的四部曲旅程，并穿梭于乐队音乐的每个层面。每一部都包括三首歌，并在不同的录音室、由不同的制作人和不同的乐手阵容录制。每一部都有其主题 - 科幻、幻想、浪漫和恐怖，利用声音去设计塑造他们的小故事。“我们一直很感兴趣的是，当我们改变自己的审美时，什么元素是在我们身上贯穿始终的，并且希望把创作历程融入到一张专辑之中。我们欣然接受自己身为小众地下乐队的定位，并乐于这张专辑的概念 —— 由也许会被遥远未来的人类或外星人探索废墟时发现的单曲所组成。”
Alpine Decline has been honing their unique brand of dystopian psych rock for nearly 15 years. From the ashes of aughts LA indie darlings Mezzanine Owls, the two piece featuring Jonathan Zeitlin on vocals and Pauline Mu on drums exploded onto the scene with three albums in one year and then promptly packed their bags and moved to China. There they fell into the no wave tinged underground scene and were promptly signed to the iconic Maybe Mars Records. After re-transplanting back in LA in 2016, the band released several more albums bouncing between Paisley Underground jangle and modular synth abstraction.
Their new album Underground Hits from the Far Out Distant Future, Vol. I-IV pulls the listener through all shades of the band's sound in a unique four part journey, with each volume featuring three songs and recorded in a different studio with a different producer and a shifting lineup of musicians. Each volume takes up a theme – Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, and Horror – employing sound design to shape their miniature stories. “We’ve always been interested in what element of ourselves is the through-line when we shift the aesthetic, and wanted to put that journey together in a single album. We’ve embraced our identity as a niche, underground band, and we were having fun with the concept that this album was made up of singles that would be discovered under the rubble by distant future people or aliens.”
Vol. I: Science Fiction
Vol. II: Fantasy
Vol. III: Romance
“Volume III : 浪漫”，乐队与前成员 Dan Horne (Circles Around the Sun, Cass McCombs)在属于他的 Lone Palm Studios 再聚一堂 - 他们曾于2010年在那里收录制了乐队的首张专辑。歌曲以简朴的乐句措辞 (”Sunlight filtered by the trees / Rippled by the breeze / Freckling the wall”) 描绘出一幅温暖的画作，将他们对迷幻的感知与Horne为人所知晓的 Cosmic-Americana风格相融会。带有温暖的踏板钢弦滑棒吉他曲风的《If It could Be That Way》和与之相接的和Stooges-esque 式的《What Do You Want to Say》，把我们从Volume II 的太空电子的幻想氛围中唤醒并拉回到现实之中。
For Volume III: Romance, the band reunited with former bandmate Dan Horne (Circles Around the Sun, Cass McCombs) in his Lone Palm Studios, where they recorded their debut album back in 2010. The songs paint warm pictures with spare, simple phrasing (“Sunlight filtered by the trees / Rippled by the breeze / Freckling the wall”), blending their psych sensibilities with the cosmic-Americana Horne has become known for. The warm pedal-steel inflected “If It Could Be That Way” rubs shoulders with the Stooges-esque “What Do You Want to Say”, bringing us back to earth from the electronics-in-space atmospheres of Volume II.
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Underground Hits from the Far Out Future, Vol. I-IV
Vol. III: Romance
Produced, engineered, and mixed by:
Dan Horne with Sarah McNamara (Engineer)
Alpine Decline is: JZ/PZ (柴德林/牟建华)
Additional Musicians:
Spooky Tavi - bass, guitar, synths, programming
巡演信息
嗨，许久未见。
上次与 Alpine Decline (阿尔平坠落) 面对面，还是在2018年的时候。在那之后，我们之间的距离因为大洋与一些无法预测的事情逐渐变得遥远，不可触及。但是 Alpine Decline 并没有因此停下对音乐与自身的探寻。借着《来自遥远未来的地下金曲：I-IV》的逐步发行，他们即将带着迷幻、温暖、闪耀着幻想之光的新作从洛杉矶出发，再度回到曾经生活过的这片土地与新老朋友们一同再度踏上本该更早发生的巡演之路。
本次Alpine Decline 巡演阵容为：
吉他：柴德林 (Jonathan Zeitlin)
鼓：牟建华 (Pauline Zeitlin)
贝斯：杨海崧
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