搬運(yùn)自：網(wǎng)易云音樂(lè)專欄【Music Online Zine Courier】（在原文基礎(chǔ)上添加了英語(yǔ)原文與排版調(diào)整）

翻譯：Beans_Beans?

On 2018’s?Double Negative,?Low?sounded broken, distorted, distant. Their music—always centered on the vocals of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker, always beautiful, always in the process of reinvention—seemed to glitch and warp just as you started sinking in, a signal growing weaker the closer you approached. The group’s latest single, “Days Like These,” again produced by BJ Burton, continues this trend. When the full arrangement enters about 80 seconds into the song, the sound that emerges is a static, alien pulse, the instruments so blurred that it’s hard to tell what they started life as.

在2018年發(fā)行的專輯《Double Negative》中，那時(shí)Low的聲音聽(tīng)起來(lái)支離破碎、扭曲、若即若離。他們的音樂(lè)——總以Alan Sparhawk和Mimi Parker為軸心、總以動(dòng)聽(tīng)、總以不斷創(chuàng)新——當(dāng)你每每沉浸其中時(shí)、故障和扭曲隨之顯現(xiàn)，你越是渴求觸及、既有的訊息也離你遠(yuǎn)去。樂(lè)隊(duì)的最新單曲“Days Like These”，依舊由BJ Burton操刀制作，依舊延續(xù)了這一傳統(tǒng)。但完整的編曲完全融入歌曲大概80秒后，開(kāi)始顯現(xiàn)一種靜態(tài)、陌生的脈動(dòng)，器樂(lè)音異常模糊，以至于難以分辨它們?cè)灸印?/p>

Through it all, Sparhawk and Parker’s voices are front-and-center, maybe even Auto-Tuned, and so clear in the mix that it’s a little jarring. “Always looking for that one sure thing,” they sing together, “Oh, you want it so desperately.” The melody is among their most immediate: bittersweet and simple, like when they hushed their voices and instruments to?cover John Denver. Only now, they sing loud and forcefully—the way it sounds when you try to convince someone you’re fine, but your nerves tell a different story. Eventually, the pop impulses of their songwriting submit to the decay of the atmosphere, and the second half is devoted to pure ambience. The melody dissolves into synth fuzz and soloing, the lyrics evaporate to a single word (“again”), and the white noise softens into a heavenly glow, ascending and sweeping us along for another transformation.

在這一切混亂之中，Sparhawk和Parker的聲音是仍占據(jù)最前端的軸心位置，甚至也有可能加入了Auto-Tune。在混亂中卻如此清晰，反而顯得略微刺耳?！癆lways lookingfor that one sure thing,”他們一起唱道，“Oh, you want it sodesperately.”旋律仍是表達(dá)他們最直白的途徑：苦樂(lè)參半而又簡(jiǎn)潔明了，就像曾他們壓低人聲和器樂(lè)音來(lái)唱JohnDenver一樣。只是如今，他們更愿大聲而有力地唱歌——就像你試圖說(shuō)服別人你人很好，但你的內(nèi)心卻告訴你壓根不是這樣。最終，他們創(chuàng)作的流行沖動(dòng)屈服于氛圍的漩渦，歌曲的后半段已然完全致力于純粹的氛圍。旋律被漸漸溶解成合成器的飛絮變?yōu)橹簧硪蝗?，所有歌詞蒸騰消散演化成一個(gè)單詞“again”，白噪柔化作天堂的圣光，節(jié)節(jié)飛升、席卷著我們的凡身，進(jìn)行著再一次蛻變。