“录制一张唱片就像是谈恋爱一样，爱时候像火烧，恨时候像火燎”低苦艾乐队主唱刘堃如是说。自2010年参加完10月国内的几个大型音乐节演出之后，低苦艾乐队就开始了新唱片的录制工作，从选歌到前期录音、唱片设计、缩混、母带处理等等所有的环节乐队都亲力亲为，努力把唱片按照最初美妙的设想做好，乐队甚至放弃了期间许多的音乐节及其他类型的演出，就为了专心打造这张新唱片。

　　低苦艾乐队新唱片名为《蘭州 蘭州》（Lanzhou Lanzhou），是从新专辑中收录的歌曲《兰州 兰州》而来，据悉，整张唱片将贯穿一个“兰州”的线索，每首歌曲都有一些和兰州有关的小元素。唱片总共收录9首新歌，有《随风而逝》、《不叫鸟》这样低苦艾式的黑色暗喻、独立关怀式的歌曲，又有像《兰州 兰州》、《那只船》这样在律动和节奏上下足功夫让人眼前一亮的作品，这些歌曲的尝试让我们看到低苦艾乐队成熟老道的编曲功力，其中还有值得一提的与上张唱片中《小花花》这首经典之作相应的一首歌《小草草》，这首同样动人的单吉他弹唱作品相信会和《小花花》一样成为国内民谣歌曲的经典作品。

　　唱片的封面包装将采用手绘制图，全手工精心打造。让我们静心期待，唱片于10月面市，同时低苦艾乐队将开始围绕新专辑宣传的全国巡演，我们会看到一如既往的低苦艾乐队与他们带来的全新唱片《蘭州 蘭州》 。

　　

　　相信这是一张让我们在2011年感动、热血、温暖的《蘭州 蘭州》 。

Low Worwood’s album Lanzhou Lanzhou was first released under Maybe Mars’ folk branch lable Maybe Horse. The cliché goes that some geographical areas are synonymous with certain sounds: Merseybeat from Liverpool, for example, or grunge from Seattle. But it’s also the case that certain bands define their locales. Here, one tends to think of such acts as Arcade Fire, who did just that for Montreal with Funeral and The Suburbs. Such is the case with Low Wormwood, whose latest album, Lanzhou Lanzhou is perhaps a defining moment for both the band and the city of the title. Unlike many bands from Lanzhou, this quartet don’t practise harmony- driven guitar folk. The metrics of this album depart from their early grunge and shoot for a less fiery but more coherent structure, coupling string-soaked flourishes of folk-rock with mundane lyrics about day-to-day living in Lanzhou. It borders on being a concept album, but the catchy rhythms manage to dilute the anthropological solemnity and make this something special. Liu Kun, the fromtman of Low Wormwood said, recording this album was just like being in love. And as a Lanzhou band, this Lanzhou clue runs through the whole album, releated to every song. Unlike other folk bands from northwest of China, Low Wormwood’s songs are more gentle and soft, as warm as Lanzhou noodles. ‘Recording this album is almost like being in a relationship,’ explains lead singer Liu Kun. ‘When you love each other, it really burns. When you hate each other… well, it also burns.’ The titled song Lanzhou Lanzhou hit No.2 on Douban music chart and got “The best folk song of 2011“ in Douban Music Awards. released July 8, 2012