On July 28, Taihe Music Group’s “On Mercury” label serving artists, Island Mood Band officially released the new 2021 album “? 2”. Since the release of the “? Since 1”, the Island Mood has been on the road of searching and trying. As a twin album, “? 2” retains the “? “1” has the characteristics of thought-provoking, and builds a unique palace of thoughts through more abstract expressions.
“? 2” was born in the “Qinling Mountains” at the foot of Baishiyu. The two-month creative process is called “family cultivation style” by the island mood. The instrumental music and singing of the song were all performed by lead singer Liu Bokuan, guitarist Shi Weixu, bassist Zhang Long, and drummer Gesang Xianjun. The later work was assisted by Heisa lead singer Wang Dazhi, and the band’s performance team also played a backing role. ,validated”? 2 “From a blank sheet of paper to a palace. The island mood is truly self-sufficient.
In terms of music, “? 2” Let the Island Mood Band regain the original feeling of making music. The immersive life surrounded by nature allows them to let go of many complicated pursuits. They did not deliberately design the music for the diversity of the arrangement and the expression of meaning, but instead made the nine songs in one go with the most natural emotional expression.
As the title song, “Hunter” has the richest emotional expression. Three wild screams hit the eardrum without warning at the beginning of the song, directly opening the listener’s emotional gate. Lead singer Liu Bokuan, incarnate as a “hunter”, portrays this type of typical character image through self-direction and self-acting. He held a trumpet, wantonly showing off the indifference in his soul. “Hunters” bear heavy responsibilities because of their tenacity and bravery, but in the end they are ruthless and do whatever they want. In the angry and powerful singing, we see indulgences standing at the top of the chain and reveling. However, the shouts of the public are always separated by barriers. They don’t deserve to have speakers at all.
“Maybe” is a completely different style. It tells the process of emotional distortion and fragmentation after parting. It is slow, quiet, but heart-piercing. The faint vocals overlap with the sad guitar-perhaps this is the sound of heartbreak. The whispers and shouts at the end made the blank after failing look extremely desperate. The ending is timed, and speculation and hope are extremely precious. The thirteen sincere “maybe” are the sounds of people trying to piece together the lost pieces.
The inspiration for the island mood always comes from people. In this world full of question marks, they are constantly trying to understand souls with different looks. Among them, “Dumb” is a child. He painted the most beautiful pictures, spoke the most straightforward words, and walked a long road with short legs. The first melody from the old-fashioned radio, the pure voice, soft words, like my own voice many years ago. With the goodness and simplicity of the beginning, Ah Du lived quietly in everyone’s heart.
“Think of the first minute in Wuhan, pray silently.” Dao Xin said, “Wuhan” is a song that can make people cry without lyrics. The beginning of the song cleverly uses the blank space to convey countless emotions in one minute, followed by the sound of radio, noise, busy sound, fighting sound, and life beating sound. The atmosphere full of arrangement makes people of different identities hear different “Wuhan”. But everyone pretends to have the same Wuhan in their hearts.
“? Almost the entire album “2” uses the first perspective to record the freshest emotions from the brain output from the island mood. Therefore, it is abstract, impenetrable and full of charm. “Ghost” depicts those moments occupied by desire, a roar is the awakening of the spirit of resistance under pressure. When the human nature under the colorful appearance was exposed, they wanted to escape and shouted angrily “Give me a panacea.” There are also emotionally afflicted and miserable “Courtesy”, like the devil who lives in their heads in a drunk night, yelling endlessly, “Ten grams of grass in exchange for repentance.” There are also some time that I want to grasp but continue to flow away to form “Those Days” that have never passed away. Thus, “The Last Night” became a cure for everything. They toasted, hugged, and comforted each other with their most precious people. The question mark and the turbulent undercurrent of the heart were finally comforted.
The unconstrained imagination and the continual sprawling perceptual cells constitute the rich spiritual universe of mankind. new album”? 2″ is the natural product of the four souls of the island mood. Emotions are poured out through music, unmodified, primitive and pure. The inner world of sorrow and joy can only be filled with question marks. Island Mood said: “This is the end of a “question mark series”, a vibrant album, a sexy rock music album.”
Human emotions are not connected to each other, and the island mood passes “? 2″Send an invitation to let us open our own palace of thoughts.Return to Sohu to see more
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