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翻譯：豆目豆科

The Dallas-based producer and musician sings an ode to the dissected self on their fully-formed debut EP, a metallic amalgam of trip-hop and electronic soul.

這位來自達(dá)拉斯的制作人和藝術(shù)家在TA的首張完整EP唱出了屬于自我剖析的頌歌，這是一張有著金屬光澤的Trip-hop和Electronic Soul雜合造物。

Dallas-based producer and singer MATTIE draws on electronic, soul, and hip-hop to carve out a woozy, nocturnal space to live. Their debut EP, Jupiter’s Purse, is co-produced by fellow Texas native Black Taffy, whose beats reinforce MATTIE’s voice in hazy, trip-hop-inflected architecture. Beguiling and menacing at once, Jupiter’s Purse announces an artist whose music braces with unreleased tension, keeping you balanced on the edge of volcanic emotion.

來自達(dá)拉斯的制作人和音樂家MATTIE利用電子樂、靈魂樂和嘻哈樂，開辟了一個迷幻朦朧的夜間生活領(lǐng)域。TA的首張EP《Jupiter's Purse》是與德州本土藝術(shù)家Black Taffy共同制作的，他的節(jié)拍在朦朧、帶有Trip-Hop風(fēng)格的構(gòu)架中增強(qiáng)著MATTIE聲音的威力。《Jupiter's Purse》在“威逼利誘”之中，向眾人宣告著這位藝術(shù)家的音樂正以前所未有的張力支撐著一切情感，讓你在火山爆發(fā)的零界點(diǎn)保持平衡。

The five songs on Jupiter’s Purse are from the point of view of Mhuv, a character MATTIE uses to explore the duality of the self. The process of coming into their own is in constant flux across the EP, full of uncertainties and doubt that spider out into uneasy, eerie songs. The lurching beat and trembling bells on “Cellfish” form a chilling backdrop for MATTIE’s elongated vowels: “Why can’t I admit that I’ve been cell fish?/Why won’t I tell the truth?” On “Human Thing,” which sounds as though it were delivered by a pleading cyborg, they dial into the conflict of using money to maintain a strong sense of self, indicting an omnipresent culture of commodification: “It’s consuming us, I am a witness!” they conclude, voice cracking into a gasp.

《Jupiter's Purse》中的五首歌曲均來自“Mhuv”的視角，MATTIE以這一人格角色來探索自身的兩面性。在整張EP中，深入TA自我的過程是不斷變化的，充滿不確定和猜疑，蛛絲馬跡之間變化作不安、陰森的歌謠。在“Cellfish”中，蹣跚的節(jié)拍和震顫的鐘聲為MATTIE拉長的元音營造起一個令人不寒而栗的背景：“Why can't I admit that I've been cell fish?/Why won't I tell the truth?" 在“Human Thing”中，歌聲聽起來像是由一個卑微祈求的仿生人發(fā)出的，TA挑撥起用金錢來維系的強(qiáng)烈自我意識沖突，譴責(zé)無處不在的商品化文化。TA最終得出結(jié)論：“It's consuming us, I am a witness!”TA聲音裂解開來，漸漸哽咽，僅剩下喘息聲。

MATTIE and Black Taffy form a unique bond here, as the latter amplifies MATTIE’s hefty alto voice with an unsteady mix of electronic and hip-hop music. Murky synth melodies and washes of string and woodwind samples dot these songs like constellations, with each diffuse element grounded by MATTIE’s commanding, charismatic pull, transmuted and pitch-shifted at will. Their voice filters into a gurgle of feedback on “Out This Bitch,” where MATTIE’s enunciation swiftly changes as they shift further into an anti-establishment mindset: “This world ain’t got nothing for us/Maybe that’s why it bores us/It was before your skin, that black that black that black…” they chant, the word “black” filtered out into a kaleidoscopic echo and a source of vital, ancestral strength.

MATTIE和Black Taffy在這里建立起一種獨(dú)特的聯(lián)系，后者采用一種不穩(wěn)定的電子嘻哈混合體放大了MATTIE厚重的中音。渾濁的合成器旋律，弦樂和木管樂器的采樣像星座一樣點(diǎn)綴著這些歌曲，每一個彌漫其中的元素都被MATTIE口中命令式、極富魅力的牽引力所支撐起，并被隨意地變換音調(diào)。TA的聲音在“Out This Bitch”中被篩成電子噪音，MATTIE的發(fā)音迅速改變，TA進(jìn)一步轉(zhuǎn)化出反體制的心態(tài)：“This world ain't got nothing for us/Maybe that's why it bores us/It was before your skin, that black that black that black…”TA吟唱著，“black”這一個詞被過濾為萬花筒般繽紛的回聲，化作生命力與祖先力量的源泉。

MATTIE embraces self-dissection throughout the EP, using nervous howls and shrugged-off boasts to express their own inherent validity. On “Cloudts,” the EP’s centerpiece, they create an alien lullaby that shuttles by with a shimmering string sample that sounds ripped out of a Disney movie and dragged through the dirt. Though MATTIE generally uses their music to examine feeling uncomfortable in one’s own skin, here they allow a concession to a more hopeful future. “I didn’t know that rocks were valuable,” they sing over static pops and a glowering melody. “But I am a diamond and let me find out.” That image—a jewel glinting through chipped-away stone—is an appropriate one for Jupiter’s Purse, where even the most off-kilter moment is one of beauty.

MATTIE在整張EP中深刻地刨析著自我，用緊張的嚎叫和聳人聽聞的吹噓來彰顯TA自身固有的價值。在EP的核心“Cloudts”中，TA創(chuàng)造了一首唱給外星嬰兒的搖籃曲，閃閃發(fā)光的弦樂采樣穿梭其中，聽起來像是從迪斯尼電影中剝離出來，藕斷絲連。雖然MATTIE通常用TA的音樂來審視自己內(nèi)心的不適，但在這里TA允許為一個更有希望的未來做出讓步?！癐 didn't know that rocks were valuable,”TA在靜態(tài)的爆裂聲中以一個凝重的旋律唱道，“But I am a diamond and let me find out.”用這一意象——一顆在破碎石塊中閃閃發(fā)光的寶石——來描述《Jupiter's Purse》無疑是一個合適的選擇，在這里，即使是最異常的時刻也依舊是足夠美麗的。