這是一個遲來的音樂專題介紹，主因是筆者太晚聽到也太晚受到如此的感動。成軍於2005年的英國樂團Maybeshewill在2008年出品了Not for Want of Trying。以融合了電音以及各種搖滾樂的方式在現在的音樂市場中注入了一股熱流。

(He Filmed the Clouds Pt. 2)

歌詞:

(Not for Want of Trying)

Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job.The dollar buys a nickel's worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere that seems to know what to do and there's no end to it! We know the air is unfit to breathe, our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent crimes as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad. Worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy so we don't go out anymore. We sit in a house as slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster, and my TV, and my steel belted radials and I won't say anything." Well I'm not going to leave you alone. I want you to get mad! 

I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crimes in the streets. All I know is first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, "I'm a human being, God Dammit! My life has value!" So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

風格上這的確是後搖滾的曲風。從最基礎的節奏緩慢加入各種樂器和旋律。逐漸的衝向音樂和情感的高潮。但專輯帶來的卻不止是後搖滾這樣的風格。後搖滾本來就充滿融合力，但是Maybeshewill用不同的方式讓音樂更加充滿張力。樂曲可能在一段高潮之後或需會用橋段或間奏連結出一個截然不同的段落，而這段落又會將音樂帶向另一個高潮（例：He Films the Clouds Pt. 2），也可能用帶著音節拍記充滿變化的橋段去鋪陳（例：Seraph已經得到了感動（Seraphim & Cherubim的最終結尾真的是讓我相當的讚賞，在整體被推向高潮之處時在這一個小段落中又有一部分被衝向更高的意境）。這張專輯也許還不夠前衛，不夠有前瞻性，但鮮少有致敬，而且變化多端、感情豐富而不膩。銜接性也沒有突兀的感覺。加上編曲、融和、感情、以及技巧上都運用自如，筆者以為這張專輯絕對應該給一次聆聽的機會。

(Seraphim & Cherubim)

無論到最後是否會喜歡後搖滾或是後金屬的曲風，希望有機會聆聽鑑賞的聽眾也有機會感受到他們的激情。

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