El Perro del Mar

El Perro del Mar行事作風(fēng)十分低調(diào)，僅管日前她才於瑞典當(dāng)?shù)剡M(jìn)行多場音樂演出，并與Jens Lekman一塊發(fā)表作品，不過在她的簡介中給予我們的，是一個(gè)躲在門后、深居簡出的神秘女子。在她的音樂當(dāng)中，那一絲浮世間的奢靡與凄美，都很難與她那輕柔而飄渺的歌聲相作聯(lián)想。想像只能悠游於音符之間的El Perro del Mar，幾分少女心思的頑固筆觸。El Perro del Mar隨性地將真實(shí)生活帶進(jìn)了她的音樂創(chuàng)作之中，不需任何矯情的歌詠?！篖ook! It's El Perro Del Mar』當(dāng)中的11首歌曲，無不是她對於心愛寵物(狗)、愛情與落寞與私生活的體悟。即便在Sad一曲中，她的音樂仍沒有一絲愁云慘霧。Party的清新吉他伴奏，微婉地道出幾許年少輕狂。在Dog一曲中派上全女班和聲唱詠，猶如置身仙境。也許在她心中，身為一隻捧在手心的寵兒更加幸福。People令人聯(lián)想起la-la-las，非但湊上甜美的和聲，就連那輕率的吉他刷彈都佈滿如斯詩意。與Jens Lekman合作的Shake It Off和聲空心吉他與手舞節(jié)拍，El Perro del Mar的歌聲真摰而俏皮。This Loneliness絕對是El Perro del Mar的優(yōu)秀民謠調(diào)子，其情緒轉(zhuǎn)折與和聲段落巧置的天衣無縫。在她My Space/Blog上的一曲It's All Good搖身一變又轉(zhuǎn)為甜美動人的少女心思。浮華奢靡的I Can't Talk About It與薩克斯風(fēng)、鋼琴伴奏的Here Comes That Feeling，仍舊是El Perro del Mar的清新可愛之處。若不是因?yàn)椤篖ook! It's El Perro Del Mar』乃作為一張舊作合輯，否則自己還真想將其選為年度最佳唱片。
El Perro del Mar ("The Sea Dog") is the nom de musique of Sarah Assbring, a Swedish pop thrush whose recordings are glorious aural confections that combine Brill Building pop and the influences of Brian Wilson, Burt Bacharach, and Smokey Robinson with lyrics that speak with a sweet, ineffable sadness of the pitfalls of love and life. According to Assbring, the name El Perro del Mar came to her during an ill-fated vacation in Spain; she was alone, depressed, and out of sorts when a stray dog came up to her while she sat on the beach, and the dog's efforts to bond with her inspired her to express her feelings through songwriting. Assbring began recording her new songs on her own, playing most of the instruments herself as well as singing, and in late 2006 Sweden's Hybris label issued her debut release, a three-song EP. The EP earned enthusiastic reviews and respectable sales, and Assbring's next project was a split single with Jens Lekman, released in North America by the prestigious indie label Secretly Canadian. A second EP, 2005's You Gotta Give to Get, was a hit in Sweden, thanks in part to a charming animated video for the title tune, and the disc helped spread the word about her music in England and the United States. Later that year, Hybris compiled El Perro del Mar's single sides and EPs into an album, Look! It's el Perro del Mar!; then, El Perro del Mar, a mostly reworked version of that first release, was issued in the U.K. by Memphis Industries in the fall of 2006, with an American version from The Control Group following shortly afterward. All of this was enough to get the singer signed to her fellow Swedes the Concretes' label, Licking Fingers, and she soon began working on new material. From the Valley to the Stars, her second full-length album of new material, arrived in early 2008.