情报来源： http://www.indievox.com/evonndog/post/94029 [NME 杂志专访] NME - 19 January 2013 英国乐团 The Horrors 众所期待第4张全新创作专辑，最快今年5月发行？！ The Horrors （2013 BIGGEST ALBUMS / SYUDIO SPACIAL） As they work on their fourth album, Faris and co are obsessing over weird synths and Thundercats. Kevin EG Perry talks to Tom Cowan. 当 The Horrors 正忙於他们第4张专辑录制的时候，主唱 Faris 与 键盘手 Tom 迷恋起各式各样稀奇古怪的合成器，还有卡通《霹雳猫ThunderCats》，以下是 NME 特派记者 Kevin EG Perry 与键盘手 Tom Cowan 在 The Horrors 专属录音室所做的访谈 The Horrors are in experimental mood. After ripping up 'Skying'and handing it over to their mates for their ‘Higher’ remix box-set, they've been locked away intheir east London studio with their noses pressed to the fourth album grindstone. The Horrors 在他们的东伦敦的录音室完成了第4张录音室专辑 ‘Skying’ 与今年3月 即将发行的混音专辑 ‘Higher’ 等大作之後，勤劳的他们没有因此懈怠，最近正极力发 挥他们的实验精神，闭关在他们的录音室，埋头苦干创作着他们的第四张专辑。 Last year, guitarist Josh Hayard dropped hints that the album would be influenced by space-rockers Hawkwind, while Faris Badwan compared recording to ”when you’re a kid and you get really into playing with your Thundercats toys” Who know whattangents they’ve gone off on since then? Well, synth magician Tom Cowan does,and, as he explains, the band are on an obsessive quest to push things forward. 去年年底，吉他手 Josh Hayard 在专访时暗示第4张新专辑受到70乐团 《Hawkwind》 的 《太空摇滚 space-rockers》风格所影响。 正当主唱 Faris Badwan 巧妙譬喻形容做音乐的心情，就像小时候玩《霹雳猫 ThunderCats》玩具一样的投入时，话题不小心就离题到十万八千里去。 好在合成器魔术师 Tom Cowan 秉持原本的话题，他解释说，他觉得这是当乐团热中於音 乐时，会不断想超越与颠覆的心情。 ============================================================================ NME: What’s going to set the next Horrors album apart from any thing you've done before? 已经有开始着手准备下一张专辑了吗？还是你们已经完成了一部分了呢？ Tom Cowan: Well, we’ve been in the studio for a few months now and it’s recently expanded. We were presented with this pyramid-shaped synthesizer which was designed by Pete Fowler for the vedio for ‘Changing The Rain’. Richard Russell from XL Records decided that it should be a real thing and not just live in a cartoon world. We got Pete to design a couple with his friends and they built two of them andwe were given them. It’s a fantastic machine. It's got colourful lights, big speakers and a lot of knobs. 是的～我们已经在工作室工作了好几个月，最近有了新发展。我们有一个金字塔造型的 合成器想法，这个想法源自於 Pete Fowler 帮我们拍摄与制作的动画 mv "Changing The Rain"。 XL Records 老板 Richard Russell 觉得那个金字塔造型的合成器实在很有趣， 於是决定将它从虚拟世界里时现在现实生活中。我们请了 Pete Fowler 帮我们做设计， 并将设计交付给他的两个朋友来负责制造，因此我们有了两个实体的"金字塔合成器"，它 们是一对梦幻的机器，光彩眩目，上面有许多小灯泡与大按钮。 ============================================================================ NME:Will it be part of the live show? "金字塔合成器"，它将会是现场表演的一部分吗？ Tom Cowan: It look so good, it'd be a shame not to. I'll just have to find a way to use the damn thing. It hasn’t got a keyboard, but it’s a great noise machine. We’re going to have a play around with it. What a wonderful thing to come our way! We’ve also been contacted to put a new kind of experimental keyboard though its paces. I don’t know how much I'm allowed to say, but it's unlike anything that has been before, It's amazing. Lots of new music seems to spring out of new technology so I'm excites to get to be at the forefront of that. "金字塔合成器" 真的很棒，不使用它就太可惜了。我一直在找寻使用它的机会，迟迟 没做的原因是"金塔合成器"没有钢琴键盘在上面。 它发出的声效真的很杀，我们会是用它在表演现场，这将是一件美好的事情。 我们因此做了许多音乐实验，尝试把各式各样的键盘与 "金字塔合成器" 连结上，我不 知道我可以在这里透露多少讯息有关我们实验後的结果，但我要说的是，我们得到的结 果让我们很满意，出乎我的们意料之外，这实在太惊人了，因为这个新技术让我们在作 音乐时灵感涌现，我很高兴我们又再次往前迈进。 ============================================================================ NME: Will this new technology radically change the band's sound? 这项新技术是否完全改变了乐队的音乐呢？ Tom Cowan: it’s one of the untold stories of music evolution and the beginning of new genres. People talk about certain bands and certain artists being at the forefront, being the ’first’ or being the inventors of a certain sort of sound. While it take someone with an imagination to use a new piece of technology in away that is new and exciting, someone still needs to have invented that piece of technology. We haven’t had a lot of new technology recently. It’s been a lot’s of re-hashed bits of old ideas and not a lot of truly new stuff. Right now that seems to be changing. It should open up a lot of new doors for people. 喔～有关我们的音乐进化，或者是否展开新的音乐流派，这又是个不能透露的秘密。 人们总是议论着某些的乐团或是艺术家所带领的风潮，他们是所谓得 "先锋者"or "第一人"，或是发现了某种新声音。虽然他们发挥巧思利用某种新技术有了新创作， 让人振奋与耳目一新，但还是需要有人持续发展新的技术，才能不断创新。 我们最近有很多新的技术，但大部分还是会沿用一些旧的技术，加以改造、重整， 老实说 真正使用全新的东西并没有很多。现在很多事情都是无时无刻的在不断改变，多了许多的 可能性。 ============================================================================ NME: When can we expect to hear the new material? 什麽时候有机会可以期待听到新的作品呢？ Tom Cowan: We want to get the album out for May,or something like that. We’re just going to try and see how it goes. We’re not in rush or anything. We’ve learnd a lot of lessons in the last few years.We’regoing to take our time doing it and make sure it’s just right. So this year at some point ..... 我们想要在今年5月发行新专辑，但没有一定的时间表。目前我们还是想看看这些音乐实验 的後续还有所样的发展，我们不急迫响马上完成它，从以往的经验已经让我们学到教训， 这次我们要从容不迫的把音乐做到最好，所以，可能会是今年的某一个时间点大家就会听到 我们的新作品了。 ============================================================================ The Horrors - Changing The Rain (官方mv) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_asON44jWg *金字塔合成器的官方网页: http://www.nervoussquirrel.com/pyramidsynth.html *The Horrors 官方网站: http://thehorrors.co.uk/ --

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