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Closer Beats #May 2017

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Can’t take your finger off the Play button? You’ve come to the right place. We sort the wheat from the chaff in all things music for you, bringing you our definitive guide to what’s worth listening to out there, near and far.  Trust us, we’ve got this covered.
 
 
The Far Field
Future Islands
 
On their fifth album, the Baltimore trio find themselves in an unfamiliar position. For the first time in their 11-year career, they are making new music knowing that a lot of people will hear it. It wasn’t until their TV performance on the Late Show With David Letterman just over three years ago that Future Islands hit the big time.  But deserving they have always been. One of the best bands of the last decade, they’ve always managed to negotiate the fine lines between cliché and classicism, familiarity and experimentation, with astounding elegance and honesty. 
 
Give it a spin if you like:  TV on the Radio, Phantogram, Chromatics
 
 
 
Double Roses
Karen Elson
 
Singer, songwriter and model Karen Elson may be known as the former wife of US blues/rock devotee Jack White, but she has managed to sidestep vanity-project accusations.  Seven years have passed since her acclaimed debut album, The Ghost Who Walks, and her new album Double Roses furthers the theory that Elson is the Loretta Lynn version of PJ Harvey. With gentle vocals and a passion for the pastoral and forlorn, it is the work of a woman not afraid to put her thoughts to sound. 
 
Give it a spin if you like: Anna Calvi, Alison Mosshart, Babes in Toyland
 
 
 
Mental Illness
Aimee Mann
 
Aimee Mann’s ninth solo effort, Mental Illness, is also the “saddest, slowest” record of her 35-plus-year career according to an interview with Rolling Stone in January.  But to label it as a melancholic work would be to miss the wit and intelligence that has kept this artist present in our conciousness for decades. Not always centre stage, but never so far that her voice won’t take you to where she last left you.
 
Give it a spin if you like: Tori Amos, Beth Orton, Liz Phair
 
 
 
拉闊狂熱   Like it Live ?  
Britney Spears in 香港 Hong Kong
 
AsiaWorld-Expo
Cheong Wing Rd (Hong Kong Intl Airport)  Hong Kong
 
Many people may have been waiting a long time to read the title above, but its true, Britney Spears, the US pop star who ruled the airwaves around the turn of the millennium with hits such as Oops! … I Did It Again, will perform in Hong Kong for the first time on June 27.  The multi-platinum-selling, Grammy Award-winning singer has sold nearly 150 million records worldwide, and has notched up four US No 1 singles, including her smash debut single, … Baby One More Time.
 
27 /06 /2017
星期二  Tuesday   
8:00 PM
 

 

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