《八匹马》是惘闻乐队的第八张唱片，发行于2014年。专辑中收录了惘闻乐队在2012-2014年三年间创作的八首歌曲。这是惘闻首次选择在特殊空间内录制专辑，他们将录音场所放在一处开放的图书馆中，尝试不同空间和状态下的录音体验。八首歌本身的音乐存在着巨大的差异性，乐队选择扩大这种差异：在专辑的制作部分，选择了四位不同的制作人来完成。《八匹马》对于惘闻来言，是一次非常有新意的全新尝试。 同时，《八匹马》在海内外收获了极高的评价。入选beehype：Best Albums of 2014 Top 2；知名评论网站arcticdrones上《八匹马》获得了8分的高分评价；同时专辑中《Welcome to Utopia》获得了Outstanding Songs of 2014 that You Might Have Missed； that’s评定为中国大陆2016年发行的十佳唱片（The 10 Best Albums from Mainland China in 2016）等等； 凭借《八匹马》专辑，惘闻获得了2014第四届阿比鹿音乐奖年度摇滚音乐人；第六届中国摇滚迷笛奖最佳年度摇滚乐器演奏奖；第十五届华语音乐传媒大奖最佳器乐专辑等特别荣誉。 乐队专辑自述： 《八匹马》收录了惘闻最近三年内（2012--2014）创作的八首作品，每首作品诞生之初所讲述的故事或者情景我几乎都没有了印象，不同于惘闻以往的创作方式，这次新唱片中的很多歌曲在录音过程中都经过了大幅的重新编排，甚至在后期过程中我们也加入了很多新的想法。 《八匹马》的录制过程，充满了趣味。我们第一次放弃了进棚录音的概念，而是把所有的录音设备和乐器音箱都搬进了回声图书馆，一个奇妙的地方。我们花了大概10天左右的时间在这里录音，伴随着不明真相的图书馆读者和楼上的咖啡客，我们像极了一群行为艺术工作者，我们的录音过程像极了一个低级的行为艺术作品。整个录音过程我们并没有清场，图书馆以及楼梯上面的咖啡店都是在正常营业，所以如果你仔细听这张唱片，会听到很多环境声甚至人说话的声音。 后期的混音制作，我们找了四位制作人混不同的歌曲，他们是Tomàn的Wouter, PK 14的杨海崧，Which Park乐队的老王以及同我们合作了上张唱片《0.7》的安基国。我们抛弃了所谓专辑歌曲的一致性，因为专辑收录的8首歌对我们自己来说本身也是差异性很大，所以我们决定干脆放大这种差异性。 《八匹马》对于惘闻来言，是一个有意思的尝试， 它也是乐队十五年以来推出的第八张唱片。 -- 惘闻自述 In 2014, Wang Wen released their 8th album <Eight Horses>, including 8 songs written from 2012 to 2014. For the first time, Wang Wen decided to record their album in a non-studio place. <Eight Horses> was recorded in Echo Library, in which Wang Wen’s experimented different sounds for the unique space. For producing, Wang Wen invited 4 different engineers/musicians to mix the 8 songs which made the sound of this album a lot different with their previous works. <Eight Horses> was highly rated by many music media worldwide. Bee hype: Best Albums of 2014 Top 2 Arctic Drones: 8/10 The song “Welcome to Utopia” from <Eight Horses> was awarded as “Outstanding Songs of 2014 that You Might Have Missed” by Arctic Drones. The 10 Best Albums from Mainland China in 2016 awarded by That’s magazine. With <Eight Horses>, Wang Wen won “Rock Musician of the Year” of 4th Abbey Music Award, “Best Rock Music Instruments Play of the Year” of 6th MIDI Music Award, and “The Best Instrumental Music Album of the Year” of 15th Chinese Music Media Award. The album “Eight Horses” consist of eight songs composed by Wang Wen in the last three years (2012-2014). I already lost track of the original inspirations for the songs. The stories or places that stimulated the initial motives are vague now. This time, unlike what we used to do before, a lot of the songs were drastically altered during the recording process. We also added numerous new ideas after the recording. It was good fun to record this time. We abandoned the idea to use a studio like always. Instead, we moved all the recording equipments and our instruments to Echo Library. It was an amazing place. We spent about ten days there recording, with the confused readers moving around. It was almost like doing some performance art, in a bad way of course. We didn’t block out anyone during the recording, so the library and its upstairs cafe were both functional. Now if you listened really carefully, you might pick up the sounds of those people around the place at the time. For the mixing process, we had four producers, Wouter Vlaeminck, from Tomàn, Yang Haisong from PK 14’s, Lao Wang from Which Park, and An Jiguo who was also the producer of our last album “0.7”. We give up the wholesome feeling and went to exaggerate the differences of those already very different songs. The album “Eight Horses” is an very interesting attempt for Wang Wen, it is also our Eighth album on our fifteenth year together. -by Wang Wen