After two years, Liao Juntao's third new mini album was launched. The album contains a total of six songs, in addition to the pre-song "Our Farewell Letter" that debuted in advance on July 9 and the title song "Love Letter in the Seam" released on the 16th, there are three songs "Like Me", "Bait" and "Happy Holidays" that were launched today, in addition, the album also includes a remake of the old song that was launched in the finale, and the themes of the songs on the album are related to the farewell in life.
The man who wrote the farewell story
This is an album about farewells, six love letters to time. The six songs on the album echo our different emotions and feelings after experiencing different scenes and fragments of life. The first song "Our Farewell Letter" was written before the finals of the "Children of Tomorrow Orchestra Season", which is a farewell to brothers and teammates, and the title song "Love Letter in the Seam" describes the farewell in love, as well as other farewells that cannot be loved, farewells between old friends, and so on.
In this album, Liao Juntao incorporates his own unique thinking. In his view, when the stones stack the walls of life, the existence of "time slits" becomes the inevitability of harmony, and perhaps only music is the best glue to fill these gaps. Liao Juntao carefully stitches the shaky stone wall of life with his way and music, completing the crumbling self made up of different stories. And these "complete" processes are the process of saying goodbye to the past self and reconciling with time. These liao juntao's abstract concepts of encounter, connection, estrangement, and farewell constitute the original intention of the album "Love Letters in the Seams".
After the album was launched, it received the attention of many professional music critics and fans, and while the popularity continued to rise, the word of mouth also continued to ferment, and even more and more signs of breaking the circle, and many passers-by were also full of emotional expression of lyrics and songs that hit the heart. Zhao Nanfang, a well-known music critic, gave a "rather satisfying" evaluation after hearing the title song "Love Letter in the Seam", "The song has a freshness on the basis of maintaining Liao Juntao's consistent standards." The whole song tries to break the rules of the routine, jump out of the cycle of mode, different narrative rhythms before and after and different vocal effects, perhaps to create a sense of dialogue of 'time travel', the real voice is now, the retro Lo-fi voice is the past, the two are combined with each other, it seems to be able to achieve the meaning of 'love letters' connecting time and space. ”
"Delicate empathy" from the recorder's perspective
Since his debut, the labels and impressions presented by Liao Juntao's works have been changing, and even in the same period, it is different in the eyes of fans. In the talent show, under the live scene, on the album, and in the orchestra period... It is an absolute talent to be able to achieve a kind of singer-songwriter self-consistency in different scenes and present a shining point. But what is even more valuable is that while his identity is constantly changing, Liao Juntao has always maintained the core of the most distinctive "Liao love song".
The expression of emotion in "Liao's Love Songs" always makes people feel the original sincerity. In this brand new album, what we can perceive is to "graduate" from different occasions in life again and again, and to run to a new life again and again. The emotions of regret and blessing for each other are all integrated into the lyrics and songs by Liao Juntao, making people feel the "delicate empathy" in Liao's love songs.
In addition to emotional expression, another prominent element of Liao's love songs is the guitar. All along, Liao Juntao has taken guitar composition as the main way of composition, and the professional guitar performance standard makes his creation and performance full of personal characteristics, bringing a different texture to the Chinese music scene. On this new solo album, guitar elements also play a key role in different emotional expressions.
The visual production of the song also continues the romantic style of Liao's love songs. Like a fairy tale, the fragments of love letters in the sky and the rhinoceros drinking water by the lake, Liao Juntao fishing on the floating heart-shaped island... This is again a visual extension, which completes the song's story in the form of images.
In addition, in order to blend the abstract thinking of the album, the style full of farewell emotions, pop and folk songs, and other forms of texture, the visual design emphasizes the implicit expression in abstraction. Liao Juntao transforms into a teenager who travels through different gaps in time in the visual material. In a world where time is suspended, he lights a campfire in a world that is always at sunset, fishes for love letters on a floating heart island, and searches for the true heart of the past in the crevices of old cards. These absurd and romantic acts complement the lonely and pessimistic undertones of the new album, completing the extension of the concept of the album in the visual direction.
It is reported that Liao Juntao's new album has been launched on the four major music platforms of NetEase Cloud Music, QQ Music, Kugou Music and Kuwo Music at the same time, and provides free download mode to the public. At the same time as the album was launched, Liao Juntao also launched a national offline tour at the same time, and contacted fans "zero distance" to explore the emotions and thoughts conveyed by the new album.