Artist:Stars of the Lid
Album:And Their Refinement of the Decline
Label::Kranky(krank100)
Formats:2xCD / 3xLP
Release:April 2, 2007
Style:Ambient

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Songs(2xCD):

Dungtitled (in A Major)
Articulate Silences Part 1
Articulate Silences Part 2
The Evil That Never Arrived
Apreludes (in C Sharp Major)  （试听曲目）
Don\'t Bother They\'re Here
Dopamine Clouds Over Craven Cottage
Even If You\'re Never Awake (Deuxième)
Even (Out) +
A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning(less) Process
Another Ballad for Heavy Lids
The Daughters of Quiet Minds
Hiberner Toujours
That Finger on Your Temple Is the Barrel of My Raygun
Humectez La Mouture
Tippy\'s Demise
The Mouthchew
December Hunting for Vegetarian Fuckface

The long awaited new album from Stars of the Lid is finally ready for your sonic immersion. Painstakingly recorded, processed and assembled over the last five years, SOTL once again deliver a massive work filling two compact discs and three vinyl albums, clocking in at over two hours. While most albums of this length would be considered tedious at best, SOTL are arguably the only contemporary composers who can seemingly alter the time-space continuum simply through the playback of their organized sound. They take time itself and stretch, compress and turn it inside out, altering what would otherwise be an arduous test of nerves into an interlude of half awake dreams that ends too soon.

In this album, SOTL picks up where The Tired Sounds Of... left off with an emphasis on melodic development, moving their epic soundscapes beyond mere drone and subsequently frustrating all the typical ambient cliches associated with their music. Perhaps the best references for this current work would be found in the score to the film Le Mepris by Georges Delerue, the orchestral works of Zbigniew Preisner, or the 1958 CSO/ Fritz Reiner recording of Hovhaness\' Mysterious Mountain, specifically the third movement. But in the final analysis, such comparisons are superfluous at best, as Stars of the Lid have created a musical universe in which they are the sole inhabitant.

Simply put, this album is a masterpiece.

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赞一个，非常喜欢这样大气的氛围，介于post与配乐之间。

Stars of the Lid 的这张令人期待已久的新专辑满足了乐迷们对于声音的浸淫。经过了五年的积淀，准备与艰辛录制，SOTL 再一次把他们的丰富音乐变成了唱片，全场超过2小时。不同于那些超长唱片的冗长乏味，SOTL 被认为是目前不多的能仅仅通过有组织的声响与回声来改变时间空间的谱曲人。他们的音乐随时间延伸，对神经的敏感是一个挑战，同时不时有着如那些突如其来又突然逝去的梦境一般的小段插曲。

在整张唱片中，SOTL 延续了先前的The Tired Sounds Of最后所强调的旋律化的进展，使他们的音乐远不止嗡音以及他们先前音乐所相关的一切旧的氛围传统，或许在Georges Delerue的电影Le Mepris 你能找到更多关于他隐约的答案。