Taipei Times 在端午節前夕,送了個小禮物給閃四 meeet mw when you are 25 cd preview The Shine & Shine & Shine & Shine is the latest standout among a growing number of non-mainstream Taiwanese bands putting out smarter and more sophisticated music. Meet Me When Your Are 25, the indie-pop group’s debut full-length album, has all the ingredients of a hipster party: lots of dance rock beats, spacey pop sounds and lyrics suited for 20-somethings waking up from a long spell of introspective navel-gazing. Female lead singer Meuko sounds cutesy but suitably detached on songs like Song 1 and Sweetie, and hysterical and manic on Cut My Hair. She writes and sings in both Chinese and English. With the latter, she takes a few grammatical liberties that will befuddle native speakers, but it doesn’t matter much. The weird and zany I Know What You Say, which has obtuse English and German lyrics sewn together, is one of the album’s most fun and infectious tracks. Meuko’s vocal delivery, if sometimes strained or occasionally off-key, has an urgent, raw energy that keeps your attention. It plays off well against the funky drum rhythms, synthesizer flourishes and clean guitar lines that prop up the melodies. Another strong track, Sudden Light (一瞬之光), written by guitarist and synth player Dixen (小妹), waxes bittersweet and nostalgic about youth; the smooth J-pop style vocals and arrangement leave the song with an optimistic and hopeful sheen. The song’s refrain inspires the album’s title, which touches upon the theme of aging and moving “on to the next stage of life,” according to a press release by the band’s label, Hinote. But in terms of overall feel, the album suggests a youth unrealized. For all of the highly stylized and slick songwriting, the band has room to channel more of its exuberance into musical expression. If they keep at it, Meet Me may eventually be seen as a snapshot of a band just starting to bloom. 原文 http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2009/05/27/2003444661 都是英文大家努力練習一下囉 內文介紹與閃四專輯相當貼切 希望也有更多歪國朋友可以知道閃四呢 --

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