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83
Pitchfork

浮躁 Fuzao isn’t simply a pastiche of the Cocteau Twins; the album’s producers steep the music in the sounds of Beijing’s nascent rock scene.

morningsbell
94

Faye Wong is honestly a legend. Her status in Chinese and Cantonese speaking areas is equivalent to Celine Dion in the west, but musically she's more of a Bjork or Kate Bush. It still fascinates me to no end that this album is basically a dream pop album, with many Cocteau Twins influences and even a song written with them. What a gorgeous and colorful Mandopop classic...

ThrowBackG
90

*Written in one go. One of those things I just had to type out and leave alone , y'know?*

Music is probably the toughest form of media to objectify and decipher. We can't physically touch or see it like we can with a movie or a book. All we have to work with is the context shared with us, but sometimes that information is relayed incorrectly or it's just simply lost in translation. In moments like these, you have to work with the snippets given and, occasionally, rely on a gut ... read more

fakeplasticrose
85

This grew on me so much

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75

why hasn't anyone sampled this?

YOPU4K
83

This is making me feel very nostalgic, somehow.

I am too young to be familiar with this sound (and trust me, I ain't), but I guess that the strong vibes that are oozing in abundance from this album have managed to fully submerge me in an era (not so) long past.

English is not my first language, so I'm not entirely confident that the sentence above makes sense. <(.'^'.)>

Kirbyfan123
93

reminds me of strawberry milk for some odd reason

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Track List

1無常
2:37
91
2浮躁
3:03
89
3想像
3:40
86
4分裂
4:03
90
5不安
2:13
80
6哪兒
4:01
88
7墮落
3:42
89
8掃興
4:10
90
9末日
3:58
86
10野三坡
3:50
83
Total Length: 35 minutes
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