The album is usually sold for ten dollars, and a song is one dollar, which is not expensive.

Click to download, and she listens to each song one by one.

Compared to the previous album, she felt that she liked this one better.

But why, she couldn't say.

Looking at the reviews, the album has only been released for less than an hour, and the reviews of each song have reached 999+, and the reviews of her favorite song "Blue Lotus" have reached 1w+.

Suddenly, the official link in the comment area pushed a music review, and the author was a slippery section of a famous online music critic who fell.

His title is: "Zen" is the most romantic confession of a rock man.

I believe that many people, like me, have a sense of surprise when they see the name of this album.

What do you say about the names of Black Hole's first two albums? IMHO, it's more earthy.

But the name of this album is different, a bit inscrutable.

The album is still created by Cao Wu of the Black Hole Band, and four of the ten songs contain Buddhist elements, and two of them use the guzheng as an important instrument.

Everyone knows that Cao Wu's girlfriend Guzheng plays very well, and the pipa is also very powerful, and the guzheng and pipa in the background of "Beacon Yangzhou Road" were recorded by her.

With all these factors in mind, looking back at the album cover, I think of a story.

One day Ananda said to the Buddha, "I fell in love with a woman."

The Buddha asked Ananda, "How much do you like this woman?"

Ananda said, "I would like to be incarnated as a stone bridge, and I will be blown by the wind for five hundred years, the sun for five hundred years, and the rain for five hundred years, and I just want her to pass over the bridge."

I think this may be what Cao Wu wants to say to his girlfriend......

Okay, I'll admit that I did all the same, but this album is a little different from Black Hole's previous works.

The first song "False Monk" gave me a sense of amazement that cannot be expressed in words.

I've been looking forward to Black Hole's new album for a long time, and during those thirty seconds of anticipation, I felt as anxious as if I couldn't sleep on a hot day, but when I heard this song, I shivered like I drank a bottle of ice water on a dog day.

This song is not the first time that the Black Hole Band has incorporated guzheng elements into their music, but compared with "Beacon Yangzhou Road", this song is more complete and remixed more naturally.

But, most importantly, the thoughtfulness of the creator embodied in this song!

In previous music reviews, I have said many times that Cao Wu is by no means the creator who can only write some howling noises in the mouth of black fans, and his understanding of life, his attitude towards life, and his thinking about social issues have long been reflected in his works.

From "Once You Was" in the first album, to "Advanced Animals", "Junkyard", "Ants and Ants", "Nothing", and then to this song "False Monk", we can see that Cao Wu's thinking in the creation of works is also constantly changing and improving.

"Once You Was" is well written, but there is still a feeling of being worried about the new words, but a few songs such as "Advanced Animals" can show that he has become a revolutionary, a fighter who challenges injustice and distortion.

However, after hearing this song, I realized that I still underestimated him.

If he was still a strong man in the world when he wrote the songs on his second album, he was already a wise man when he wrote this song.

In terms of arrangement, this song skillfully integrates musical instruments such as guzheng, ban'er in Peking Opera, single skin drums, and small copper cymbals, and it is handled very well.

The lyrics of this song have no concrete meaning, nor do they clearly express any point of view, although the whole text uses me to explain the purpose, but the behavior of the protagonist in the lyrics is confused and disorderly.

Through the song "walking without stopping", he establishes the image of a prodigal son who "walks from the south to the north", and I think he wants to express the desire of a persistent young man to abandon the old order and find an independent personality and a free life.

But he used not so clear words to create a kind of tearing confusion like he couldn't find his self-worth.

The kind of "going from south to north" that wants to punch something flat but is restrained and can only be angry is particularly appealing to me.

The second song "Back to Lhasa" amazed me no less than "False Monk", I don't understand, how can such a completely different style appear in one person at the same time?

I don't know if Cao Wu has ever been to Lhasa, but this song definitely satisfies all the fantasies that everyone who has never been to Lhasa does.

Snow mountains, green grass, beautiful lama temples, smiling girls, I believe that this is Cao Wu, and it is also the place that each of us yearns for.

It may not be Lhasa at all, nor any specific place, but the most holy and innocent place in our hearts.

Each of us inevitably bows our heads for life, and when we are fed up with forced laughter and even look down on ourselves, we still hope that there is a place where we can wash our souls in the Brahmaputra River and return to the place called Lhasa, where we don't have to worry about tomorrow or today, singing endlessly, dancing endlessly.

The third track, "This Summer," I think has something in common with "Junkyard" on the second album.

In fact, in my opinion, "Junkyard" and "This Summer" are not good, maybe I don't like pain very much.

Although the differences between the two songs are obvious in terms of musical style, the ideological core is still very similar.

"Junkyard" is an expression of anger to the extreme, and "This Summer" is like its name, the whole song is covered with a damp, hot, and suffocating sense of helplessness.

They are both indictments of the whole world, but "This Summer" is more ruthless than "Junkyard".

If there is still some useful trash to be picked up in "Junkyard", then "This Summer" is the last trace of despair with a rotten and moldy smell before death.

When I heard this song, a documentary I saw a few days ago suddenly came to mind, "Sanhe Talent Market".

That deep sense of despair is very similar to how this song feels to me.

When I first watched that documentary, I didn't understand why there were people like Sanhe Okami, but when I learned more and more information about Sanwa Okami, I understood more and more that kind of despair.

It is not the powerlessness that cannot be broken free from being in the quagmire, but the frustration and helplessness that have the heart to break free but are difficult to see the light of day.

I've only listened to this song once, and I'm afraid I won't hear it a second time for a long time.

The polar opposite of this song is "Blue Lotus", which is also my favorite song on this album.

It seemed to neutralize and alleviate the depression I felt when I listened to "This Summer", and gave me the answer to my doubts - if life is meaningful, then it must be the pursuit of freedom.