REVERSE<<<POLARITY四月合作对象是Richard Todd（RandomK(e)乐队主唱），磁带定名为“summerdeathmaskcandytrap”。

这张专辑是来自英国的Richard Todd的个人作品，完全不同于他的乐队作品，在这里听到并不是熟悉的Richard高昂的嗓音，在这张的专辑中他的嗓音更为感性并有着极强的个人风格，低沉的环境音效后感性的呓语，安稳的鼓点和偶尔扬起的清冷的旋律，这是一张适合在夜幕中放下所有防御去聆听的音乐，听到的是音乐，眼前却恍如一部电影。很难把这盒磁带归入一个风格，抑或并不想将风格强加于这样感性的音乐之上。

专辑将于2010年4月27日发行，可在Tag Team网站购买，磁带中带有哇哇挖的独家下载码可在哇哇挖网站下载本专辑mp3。

Kodiak Island is Gregg Vossler and Ben Warehem, two U.S. expats from St. Paul and Philadelphia, respectively, making music in Beijing. Their live show consists of live instruments played along with prerecorded sounds, with the two members occasionally swapping instruments. The sound of Kodiak Island can be described as catchy, hook-filled, indie-rock/electro that could easily spill over into psych-rock if the lid is not kept on tightly enough. In March 2010 the band released their first recording, GAME EP, on cassette tape, in limited run, as part of Tag Team Record's Reverse <<< Polarity series.

Kodiak Island 的成员: Gregg Vossler 、 Ben Warehem

Kodiak Island 的成员有 Gregg Vossler和Ben Warehem，他们来自美国的圣保罗和费城。目前在北京做音乐，他们的现场演出在事先录好的声音背景后演奏不同的乐器，两位成员偶尔交换乐器。 Kodiak Island的音乐可以被描述为，容易记住的引人入胜的独立摇滚/电子，很有可能演变成迷幻摇滚。2010年3月他们在Tag Team发行了首张唱片,Game Ep以磁带的形式限量发行，亦是Reverse <<< Polarity系列之一。

这一次，Tag Team Records（泰格唱片）与厂牌旗下的Arrows Made Of Desire (欲望之箭) 合作，带来他们全新的EP《Warriors & Worriers》。
欲望之箭是一个采用多种音乐元素的乐队。在他们的音乐里你能听到独立摇滚，民谣等音乐元素，甚至你还能听到一点点FUNK元素。古人云“术业有专攻”“量多则乱”。但是他们在选用多种音乐元素的同时却没有一丝的不融洽感。他们的音乐温暖而又有一丝的暴戾。
在《Warriors & Worriers》中，你会发现，他们比以往更温情，更柔和。他们将以往温暖的一面扩大了很多倍，就像是情人耳边的情话，或者是需要早起上班的早晨从温暖被窝出来时穿上的第一件衣衫。也或者，是从寒冷空间进入另外一个空间时别人递给你的那一杯温茶。
目前这张专辑正在制作当中，提前一个星期就可以在Tag Team网站上在线订购，当然，你也可以选择在淘宝上购买。这张专辑依然是手绘的封面和乐队成员自己写的限量号。
在官网上已经放出这张最新EP的其中一首歌曲《Bittersweet》，这首歌甜蜜而又模糊，温暖而又治愈。歌曲是记忆的一种方式，和自己的爱人或者家人一起来听这首歌，将那些美好的回忆驻留在自己的内心深处吧。
绿色，二月。万物生长，百花争艳。春天终于要来了。可怕的寒冬即将过去。在还没有正式回温的二月，在过完了热闹的春节和浪漫的情人节之后，为瞬间而来的寂静添杯茶吧。

You have a lifetime to create your first album, then the real work begins. If you are as fortunate as Beijing based musician, Joewi Verhoeven, the mastermind behind lo-fi indie rock mavericks Arrows Made of Desire, and your debut full length does snag a substantial devoted fanbase then the pressure to produce a worthy follow up can be significant to say the least. It's called "the Sophomore Slump". Out are the days of lackadaisically noodling around on guitars with an infinite amount of time to write your well crafted songs, and in is the hectic breakneck touring schedule, press junkets, the thunderous ticking of the studio clock, and most of all: raised expectations. The pressure is enough to break the creative backs of most worthy artists. Deliver the mirror image of your debut and you're pegged as a one trick pony. Stray too far into sounds unknown then you've lost the plot and your fanbase. The trick to the success of a make-or-break sophomore album (and they all are) is progression, not only in the right direction, but in the correct amount. This is something Joewi Verhoeven has proven to understand all too well.

Enter the antithesis of the sophomore slump, Songs That Sell Out, the sequel to Arrows Made of Desire's lo-fi predecessor, Songs That Sell Fish. Upon contrasting the two there is no doubt Joewi's signature sonic stamp remains intact on his latest batch of material: rollercoaster song structures, dangerously addictive hooks, and a cornucopia of lyrical wit litter Songs That Sell Out yet the progression of quality, not only in technique and recording but in songcraft, is undeniable. But before we dig into the present, we must first revisit the past.

As the son of a Dutch food-supplier father and a Chinese writer mother, Joewi (pronounced "Joo-ee" for those English speakers) began writing songs on piano and guitar at the ripe old age of 15 while growing up in the small Dutch town of Zeeland. Upon graduating high school he packed up and caught the first flight to Beijing, China to study Mandarin and film directing at the Beijing Film Academy. In his free time, Joewi was also tooling around in his bedroom with an 8- track recorder, a vintage drum machine, some guitars, and one less than stellar microphone. The results of his extracurricular tinkering eventually became the debut full length, Songs That Sell Fish, an indie-rock to the core lo-fi DIY rock genre fusion album if there ever was one.

Which is brings us back to progress. The world and its intentions is the tone poem of our modern times. As an artist with his finger firmly placed on the pulse of his generation, Joewi has also progressed, some would say dramatically, in the three years since the release of his debut. The bedroom has been replaced by Sweet Factory studios, gone is the drum machine and in its stead is the living human drum machine Xiao Dou (Red Hand Jazz Band), while bassist and former Jimmyhat alum Rutger Brauer rounds out the full fledged band as a three piece ensemble. Throw in wunderkind engineer Yuli Chen, legendary BBC DJ Steve Barker (On the Wire) lending a hand in production, one stellar microphone, the experience that comes with three years of on and off and on touring, and a brand new batch of Joewi originals and you have Songs That Sell Out. As a unified yet diverse set of material, Songs That Sell Out builds upon the foundation of its predecessor. The signature shimmering indie pop expected of Arrows is more refined here, as heard on the tearing "For-Itself", the horn and hook laden "Missing Out", and the stomping pop of "Dependency!". Mixing things up is the lightly country fried lonesome road of "Race", and the reeling red light district panache of "She Seems to Imply That I Need A Mirror", as the damaged experimental indie-folk of "The Revelation" finds Joewi delving deeper into darker subject matter supported by music of beautiful complexity.

Warriors & Worriers is a worthy addition to the Arrows Made of Desire canon as it finds Joewi Verhoeven and company progressing fearlessly into exciting unknown sonic territory with draw dropping results, such as “Bittersweet” - a little slice of discordant indie-pop goodness. Like a fine wine, Arrows Made of Desire is aging nicely and on target.

好乐队一开始就很优秀，来自荷兰的Joewi和他的欲望之箭，一开始就展现出惊人的能量。 中伟的父亲是荷兰人，母亲是中国作家。中伟在15岁的时候开始用钢琴和吉他开始创作，那时他还在荷兰。在他高中毕业以后到了中国在北京电影学院学习中文和电影。他空闲的时候录制一些具有奇特感染力的lofi独立流行作品。

“在我真正进入摇滚前，我是荷兰语说的 “Gabba”也就是硬核，和电子bass/drum的听众。”中伟说“当音乐真正对我而言意味着什么的时候，涅盘是这道门，我开始发现了摇滚的世界。涅盘是让我拿起吉他开始做乐队的动力。我现在的音乐是被以前影响的。我特别喜欢民谣布鲁斯：原声吉他，口琴，用脚打节奏。也喜欢爵士，我觉得听起来真让人兴奋，这也是我现在仍然在探索的。同时我也听现代音乐，喜欢后摇和一些噪声摇滚像音速青年和Polvo。”

“欲望之箭”的第一张专辑“自私的鱼贩”在泰格唱片发行，中伟自己录制了这张专辑在乐队还未集齐前，“在一个简单的8轨机上，在独立摇滚和lofi民谣中完好的中合体，比如“真实性”。中伟的唱从咆哮到低声吟唱唱着的都是关于热情，痛苦，愉悦甚至香烟。中伟的音乐是却是的lo-fi独立摇滚，同时也具有敏感的流行性，也能看到一些布鲁斯和爵士动机在他的音乐中体现。和其他的独立摇滚艺人不同的是，旋律和噪声，柔软和边缘感，中伟和欲望之箭拥有着值得肯定的力量。推翻摇滚谎言写一些真实的让人震惊原创音乐，“自私的鱼贩”仅仅是一个美好的开始。” --- Paul Kendall, 乐杂志

rg_one is Jackson Garland, a bassist and electro-acoustic musician who has been performing and producing music in Beijing since 2003. He currently plays with two bands, the genre-bending space-rock group RandomK(e) and bluegrass pickers The Redbucks. Garland has been featured as a solo performer numerous times at Yan Jun’s weekly Waterland Kwanyin music series, D-22’s Zoomin’ experimental music nights, the Dashanzi International Art Festival, the Mini-Midi stage at the Midi Festival, and has opened for heady laptop-rock group Lonely China Day on several occasions. He was also a member of rock group Handsome Black before they went belly up in the Great Crash of 2005. jrg_one’s music reaches out from the hidden spaces between spaces to assault listeners’ ears with dark dronescapes that unfold like haunted, creaking journeys through the dream world. Fuzzed-out thick synth tones and layered rhythmic beats, punctuated by bursts of shimmering noise and ethereal haze, rise from dark organic and electronic subterranean textures. “Slim Charles vs. Carl Sagan” makes use of extensive programming, prepared samples, field recordings, and live vocal and instrument looping.

jrg_one 是Jackson Garland的个人电子实验计划。Jackson Garland从2003年开始在北京做音乐，他也是难以定义风格的太空摇滚乐队RandomK(e)和蓝草风格乐队The Redbucks的成员。他融合各种不同风格的表演方式已经在中国演出数年。Jackson Garland活跃在“水陆观音”，D22 Zoomin实验系列等演出中。并参加大山子国际艺术节，参加迷笛音乐节Mini-Midi舞台的演出。并多次为北京著名的独立实验摇滚乐队 Lonely China Day做暖场演出。2005年他还曾为乐队Handsome Black和Great Crash乐队成员。 jrg_one的音乐拥有隐秘的空间感和阴郁的氛围。他使用实地录音，程序，现场人声和器乐的循环演奏等多种方式。他的音乐以具有层次感的节奏，厚重的合成器音色和适时跃出的噪音带领你走进一次神秘的旅途。