Yesterday a small episode, recommended the single of Huawei Second Princess, really not so bad as sour people, the song has merit, of course, there is more room for improvement - there are interested but have not listened to the song and did not read the music review of the students, you can directly pull to the bottom, click yao Anna link to enter.
P.S. I agree with a friend that Miss Yao is not short of money, so she must really like to come in the entertainment industry; as for people burning money, which parent who loves his children will be reluctant to spend money for his children? It's just that as soon as she debuted, she filmed fashion magazines and endorsed cars, whether she took the back door or took the initiative to open the back door for her, both said twice...
Today, let's continue to take stock, and release the last part of the "50 Best Albums of 2020" with three stones and fifteen Chinese albums.
Babies who missed the first two inventory can make up lessons first:
The top 50 albums of 2020 are so easy to choose?! ( 2/3 )
The top 50 albums of 2020 are so easy to choose?! ( 1/3 )
Today's rankings are still in no particular order, but there is also a set of rules: according to the order of release.
I was miserable to find that the recommendation in the first half of the year was only su Huilun and Wei Lian, and in December at the end of the year, it accounted for seven, almost half, and it seems that the KPI carried by Chinese singers is also very heavy!
Su Huilun - Face
2020.03
Last year, there was a music review of Su Huilun's record, and the original link was presented: Listening to Su Huilun's "Face", she not only has the appearance to play, but also the musical taste
韦礼安 - Sounds of My Life
2020.04
When you expect this creative talent to hold the guitar and prepare to write the next heartbreak love song that melts you and me, he has quietly jumped out of our familiar idol warm male setting and used his musical talent to make this "life documentary" that took nearly four years.
Therefore, in the album, you can hear the familiar vocals and warmth, but you can clearly hear the novelty of Wei Li'an's music.
Sounds of My Life is a wonderful deconstruction of the tone of pop. To appreciate the charm of the whole album, you may wish to put aside the main and vice pop love song routines and listen to the plot carefully edited and broadcast for us by Wei Lian and his production team.
As the name suggests, the album is full of "voices from his life": the meowing of pets around him, the cries of lovelorn friends, the dings of alma mater teachers after school... Life sampling dilutes the setting of "title song" and "love song", and he wants to dedicate to us not only a gentle and charming voice, but the most ordinary and moving moments around him. He chose to keep handing out the microphone and invited the children of his elementary school alma mater and concert fans to contribute to the album, because these are the contents that contributed to the complete itinerary of the album, and it is also the energy that Wei Lian can concentrate on creating.
After the death of loved ones, contract disputes, and all the ups and downs of life, "saying goodbye, saying thank you" - is the simplest but also deepest feeling on Velian's album. And the most important object of gratitude is grandma. Believing that he was not good at saying goodbye, he placed the conversation with his grandmother and the chanting of his grandfather when he passed away.
Musically, Velian returns to the simplicity of a singer-songwriter, with pop, rock and R&B arrangements at his fingertips, not over and not tasteless, just right thick and touching. Until the final song "Credits", he still made people goosebumps without singing a word! Gathered here by Wei Lian, the team behind the scenes, family and friends, the nearly eight minutes of oral speech not only brought the "sound documentary" to the extreme, but also fulfilled the true meaning of the album's title "Sounds of My Life", as Wei Lian himself said: "It's not for me. It’s for everybody else.”
Wanfang - To you Dear All
2020.09
What surprises me but can also be understood is that Wanfang, who has little traffic and influence in the mainland, even if she offers an album with such a life weight as "Give You Dear All", it still has not received the exposure it deserves before and after the release of Qyin & NetEase Cloud Music, the two largest music platforms in the mainland.
Fortunately, the Wanfang outside the wall can still give people warmth and healing power. Although Wan Fang also asked herself on FB, "At this stage, what else do you want to sing?" But she actually had the answer.
After half a hundred years, Wan Fang, who is already a hall-level figure, wants to share the experience of life most: relationship, love, loss, frustration, friendship, miss, let go, restore, and rebirth.
So in "Dear All to You", she wipes and sorts out the gathering and dispersion of her own or other people's experiences along the way, like a casual but unexpectedly in-depth conversation, and recreates each unique life scene with a weight-lifting voice.
As a producer for the first time, she joined hands with Huang Yunling and Chen Jianqi to bring together different generations of creators to perform a "life drama": from the clear folk song of "Ah Feng Didn't Come Today" to the storm of "Who Am I", she constantly put forward deep inquiries into life in these partings; in addition, there are also "To You" to offer blessings for long-term sisterhood, or "In that winter afternoon, I love you", gently with a "Thank you for having loved me", Calmly turn the lost love into an eternal memorial.
In addition to pure music creation, works and poems are combined, and the lyrics of "What Will Take You Away" are taken from Wang Xiaomiao's "Evil Innocence" poetry collection, composed by Jensen Huai, leading us to listen to the views of flames, whales and glaciers on "leaving".
Those stories of life are taken care of poetically and warmly in the gentle voice of wanfang breeze.
After thirty years of acting, she has found a deeper way of emotional catharsis here - like the two sides of a long and winding ladder of time, full of flowers of life.
Li Quan - Ten Day Bomb
Listening to Li Quan's music more than twenty years ago, it was a kind of juvenile rebellious psychology for me, in order to label myself different from the music taste of my peers, but the older I grew, the more I could really understand the content of Li Quan's music, and the "Ten Days Bomb" album is ten songs that sound slightly obscure on the surface, but are actually middle-aged people's hearts.
In the past, I did not believe in the "mid-life crisis" at all, I felt that doing my best, working and living self-discipline, I would not face the mid-life crisis, but in the aesthetic collision with young people over the years, the collision of values, and the physical examination form again and again, I felt the mid-life crisis machine more and more, just like the content expressed by Li Quan in "Ten Day Bomb", whether it is the surface of the music or the text, the mid-life crisis is expressed in all aspects in terms of musical form and text content.
Li Quan described the creation of the new album after his personal "epidemic" cycle, stemming from his thoughts on using music to heal the mind after three surgeries in four years.
And I really cherish Li Quan's creation this time, not only because of the pain of lovesickness that he has not released an album for six years, but also because as I get older, I can hear less and less heart-warming music resonance.
The largest proportion of people listening to songs is distributed between 15 and 25 years old, so many content producers please this age group, and will not pay more attention to fans over 25 years old, "Ten Day Bomb" is an album that may even be aimed at people over 35 years old, may be to the 35-year-old fluttering like "straw" life, workplace crisis, health crisis double attack; or to the 40-year-old "middle-aged" couple "why the old husband and wife can only be like air, accustomed to each other's sparks but no longer" Cruel reality summary It is the bravery and unwillingness to "apologize for the rest of my life, I am not young, I will still dream"; it is also for the idealists who are still fighting the fire of the sword "in the city" of "ObstinateLy".
Li Quan once played electronic music in the college band in the 90s, so in addition to the components of classical, jazz and pop music, the new album has increased a large proportion of electronic elements, not Li Quan deliberately leaned towards the current musical context, but a kind of music that has been experimental content and expanded into a solid finished product, at least in the current musical environment, this is a way to dialogue with the most cutting-edge content.
Finally, once again, I seriously recommend Li Quan's new album "Ten Days Bomb", two words: very worth listening!
Tian Fuzhen - No one knows
Tian Fuzhen's increasingly "fairy" pop music structure, it seems to cross from the mainstream to independence, in fact, this is also her most self-contained and most comfortable state of expression, so that the "Daily" four years ago is really Tian Fuzhen's music daily, and this time's "Nobody Knows" is really within the degree of knowledge that we can predict, from quality to singing, there is a high comprehensive index in the Chinese song album in 2020.
Tian Fuzhen with a strong personal aura, some sounds impossible to create out of a unique musical form, such as mars radio three beats of the creation of "one one", and deca joins "or a song", the finished product is very Tian Fuzhen's taste; if it is not a strong personal Sense, there will be no such excellent effect. The same single song "No one knows" is also a lyrical song by Tian Fuzhen, with the essence of love songs, but without losing the core of sadism, Ge Dawei's filling words from "Hanging Sun" to "No one knows" are more and more poking, poking to unexpected points, and have to feel the kind of poke that resonates!
Experimental singles are of course not absent from this album, "Tian" and "Teresia" from Alternative to alternative rock, to electronic "touch", have developed a very niche fans can have a favorite temperament, of course, this is also very Tian Fuzhen.
It is difficult for the current music scene to find a female singer like Tian Fuzhen, who is highly concentrated in professional reputation and commercial market, and she has consolidated the status of today's first icon female singer in the album "Nobody Knows", and she is one of the few post-80s female singers who can compete with the traffic artists after 90 and 00.
This year, if it were not for the appearance of Tian Fuzhen and the "Nobody Knows" album, we might have forgotten what is "acclaimed and popular" pop music.
Shen Yicheng - Player
2020.11
The charm of Shen Yicheng lies in the sense of youth on his body and the elegance of his Vocal, especially his Vocal, which will make me think that this child must not be deeply involved in the world but has a very good tutor, and will never be "beaten" by society because he does not know the height of the sky, on the contrary, he can seriously imagine this colorful world, and then express it with his own unique creation.
It just so happens that Shen Yicheng's first album "Player" also sings his one-sided view of the world and himself, cleverly using anime musical characters as packaging, and using exotic elements that are very fresh in the sense of hearing to enhance the simplicity of the essence of folk songs.
Therefore, I will gradually rely on Shen Yicheng's music, relying on the Gentle taste of his singing "Manchester", reverting to the old and shabby and old sprinkling is also comfortable, more than the American folk songs, more than the British sense of regularity; I also rely on Shen Yicheng's classmates to sing "Young Master" to break through the literal conventional creative methods, the sense of atmosphere of the song is greater than the sense of realism, and the mood of the whisper is even a bit of Shen Yicheng's beloved Jiao An Pu's taste of words.
"Salt" is very pleasant, even catchy; "Jack's Dimples" is locally sourced in a street tavern in Shanghai, which really gives people a sense of Shen Yicheng's delicate feelings about life.
The album completion of "Player" is quite high, and the ten songs plus the packaging visual form a good album scene, which is completely different from the character state of his previous singles, which is the last perfect step for Shen Yicheng in his role as a singer-songwriter.
Compilation - A Guide to the Imperfect Life
Last year, there was a music review that wrote this compilation in detail, and the original link was presented: the perfection and imperfection of "Imperfect Life Guide", and some industry revelations
Qianxi Yi - Backstage Theatre
Last year, there was a music review that wrote in detail about Qianxi's brother's record, and the original link was presented: Our group of pre-00s musical hearts were interpreted so uniquely by Yi Qianxi after 00
Tan Wei Wei - 3811
2020.12
When talking about this album, Teacher Lu Shiwei, who completed the "3811" project with me, used the term "lifting the virtuous and not avoiding relatives" to describe the premise of recommending this album, and I did not shy away from listing this album as my personal favorite Chinese album in 2020.
Some friends in the industry have feedback with me, I think "3811" sounds difficult to have traffic, but Weiwei from the starting point of conceiving this album, and indeed did not consider the traffic, but the sense of responsibility has been carried, hoping that their posture has been lowered again and again, leaving room for eleven songs for the eleven women who are now heard, and even, if it is like "Fish Mystery" singing, can cross the gender barrier, "3811" may not be able to give encouragement to the male group.
"Ago" in the innocent years of nostalgia and wandering, boys will have a lingering identity entanglement between Boy & Man; "Lady Qian" explores the rational boundaries between the material and spiritual worlds, men are equally difficult to choose between life and power and wealth; "Wu Chunfang" turns the hardships of life into the beauty between notes and lyrics, as if the male group of social workers can also spell and be happy under the pressure of life; "Zhao Guiling" starts from the mother of lyricist Dong Yufang. Radiating to different levels of the "social death" crowd, it is expected to illuminate more hidden corners of the world that may be ignored by care... "3811" can really extend too many associations.
In the music itself, many nordic folk styles of songs and electronic elements of the middle plate beat support a comfortable listening space, which is not ear-catching, but still solid and exudes a comfortable sense of companionship.
When Daryl K Wang Kaiyu, a student who often cooperates with Huang Zitao, handed over the demo of "Ago", we were all shocked, how can it be so feminine! When the demo of "Xiao Juan (pseudonym)" was obtained, I listened to Beat and hoped to be like Halsey's Dance-Pop, because of the shocking beat, the reason for the circle was not only the shock of the beat, but also the nature of the social issues revealed by Yin Yue's words and Wei Wei's singing.
In short, this is an album that lives up to expectations, even an album that does not bear the burden of production, P.S. I still miss the original album title "Not Outstanding Female Representative" or "38 Personnel Bureau", because the unspecified ordinariness is the norm in the world, and "3811" sings the joys and sorrows of ordinary women.
Sun Shengxi - Haunt zone
Sun Shengxi's music takes "Xi youji" as a watershed, before she tested herself in a variety of genres other than pop and pop; then from "Xiyou", she found a musical path modeled after blues and R&B; the fifth album "Haunting Zone Where is SHI?", continued 10 different tributaries under this large framework style.
It can be heard that the overall creative idea of "Haunting Zone Where is SHI?", tends to be retro to the R&B direction around the millennium, with a strong atmosphere creation as the main axis, which leads the listener to rely more on emotions to wander emotions in the melodic line intertwined with vocals and orchestrations.
Strictly speaking, this album does not have a particularly catchy K song, but each song can be set between the rich sound track layers, making people deeply immersed in the context of music.
"How to define success / Melody or achievement / Is it not getting enough / I will not just be satisfied with the results".
In "Not Enough", Sun Shengxi bluntly said his true voice for a year and a half. In 2019, she won the Golden Melody Award for the first time with "Journey to The West", and won the Best Chinese Album Award; the following year, she contributed two songs in the popular TV series "Want to See You", and the popularity that did not match her strength finally expanded a little.
R&B has always been Sun Shengxi's best play. Although her past works can't escape the mission of Chinese pop albums to pursue "diversity", she finally did not hesitate this time, and served as a producer with Razor Jiang and Mitchlin to make "Haunting Zone" an album with R&B as the core. From the lineup of guest musicians, we can see the consistency of this style, including Lu Shixuan, Zhang Wu, Zhong Weiyu, Xu Yuying, and rookie singer-songwriters who have been immersed in black music for many years, as well as rookie singer-songwriter Sunkis; as for Liv, a pop/rock HUSH and a cutting-edge arranger who is good at film scores, they bring distinct and non-disconnected colors to the albums.
Most of the album was improvised and recorded simultaneously with real instruments. You can hear replicas of pop R&B from the early 2000s, Neo-Soul that stirs up the atmosphere, and many jazz-style arrangements, and even the ambitions of the production team are evident in the fact that mastering post-processing has been run by Engineer Dave Kutch, who has worked for Western R&B superstars such as The Weeknd and H.E.R.
With the overall direction, this time you can also hear More skills and malleability in Sun Shengxi's singing, and the sexy and seductive bass to the tension of the falsetto is also a breakthrough for her.
True to its name, Haunting Zone is about bringing you closer to your life than ever before.
Most of them are emotionally intimate emotions such as "Late Night Movie" and "That I First", but there are also introspective and reflective "So It", "Not Enough", and the rare nonsense and funny "La li sloppy", etc. Groove's sense of Swing buried in the rhythm can hear that the entire Work Team has exquisite and excellent operation; and all the daily lyrics in the album are smart and full of personal characteristics in the strong rhythm.
The "Where is SHI?" is written on the cover, as if she were pondering in each memory cross-section where she came from and where she was going. This "Haunting Zone" can be said to be a beautiful and powerful inquiry to herself who is uneasy about the current situation in the critical transition stage of her life and career.
I especially recommend the songs "Late Night Movie" and "Incubation Period", the former of which is quite sun Shengxi's ability to shape the sense of atmosphere with Vocal, and the latter is built with a sense of difference between vocal ranges to give the listener a sense of alarm.
Project Ace - Ace Wave
Project Ace This Cantonese singing-based "Ace Wave" appeared in the list of annual albums that I have basically formed in my heart, in the repressive world, in the not calm social environment, it is difficult to make music "fun", either the expression is not in place or the creation of materials is limited, "Ace Wave" album all break these difficulties, from many unexpected perspectives singing the things around us.
Even if this very playful album will not spread throughout the country like the Cantonese songs of the past, the album will broaden the possibility of Cantonese pop music in another form of expression in another retro and fashionable posture, and the power of the core of the album will not be limited by language.
Universal Youth Hostel - Ji Southwest Lin Road Line
Contemporary rock hits jazz and experimental voices, knocking out nearly 500,000 digital music album sales in the mainland (data so far), and also portrays the scars left by the years in this decade. Some people joke that ten years later, they are now a "universal middle-aged homestay" - the healing power is still the same, and the impact is still the same.
I personally like the last song on the album, "Suburban Sleep Temple", it is a bit difficult to piece together what they sang (I only know that "Suburb Sleep Temple" is the recording studio of this album), but I think that there is something between the lines, isn't this like our lives?
What is confused is passed day after day; inexplicably, it is over year after year; but in our confused growth, we have clearly hurt, laughed, loved, and even numbed, and finally, we will continue to live with pain and sensitivity. Nearly 500,000 people who have bought albums will be able to hear nearly 500,000 different Wanqing, their musical essence is passed, the creation is distinctive, and the rest, if you want to understand them, or do not understand, is the matter of each listener.
Xiao Yaxuan - Naked Truth
Last year, there was a music review of Elva's record, and the original link was provided: Xiao Yaxuan's new album tells the story of "us", not WOMEN
Chen Jingfei - self-titled album
Similar to Project Ace, Chen Jingfei's self-titled album is also a surprise at the end of the year. On today's annual album list, Shen Yicheng is the boy who surprised me the most in 2020, and the girl is Chen Jingfei, a musicologist who graduated from Tsinghua University.
I am addicted to a kind of music, nothing more than two situations, one, easy and stress-free to shake her head; second, can be lost and psychedelic to shake my head; Chen Jingfei's self-titled album "Chen Jingfei" belongs to the latter for me, mourning, psychedelic, and at the same time full of emotional tension, I can believe that Tsinghua's study experience gave her a unique perspective of text to outline her own small world, I also believe that later Berkeley's study experience gave Chen Jingfei the starting point to express her own emotions and perspectives in the right melody, and I am even more impressed In 2020, Lu Xiwen, the producer of Wen Zhaojie's "After" and this "Chen Jingfei" album, Chen Jingfei's music seems to be able to experimentally promote the possibility of new popularity in his hands.
"History of Extinction" and "Seasickness" are like two huge magnetic fields, absorbing people's hearing and unable to break free; the hints in "Deep Blue" are just right, and the flow of desire gives people the truth and freshness of Chen Jingfei; the humor conveyed by "It's 5:57 a.m. on December 24th" is a stroke of God... The excitement and strong vitality of all the songs ultimately constitute the novelty and poetry of the album of the same name of "Chen Jingfei".
Tell the Five - Luck comes as it pleases
A while ago, there was a detailed music review of the five people and two specialties, and the original link was offered: Tell the five people "Luck comes if there is nothing", and some romantic big truths?
Finally, I hope you can hear more good albums in 2021, I will first recommend Zhang Jingxuan's Chinese + Cantonese double disc album "The Brightest Darkness" as a tribute!
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