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翻譯：豆目豆科

Will Toldeo never quite seems to put his songs to rest. Choruses, guitar riffs, and codas from his extensive?Bandcamp?back catalog reappear in the two albums he's released as?Car Seat Headrest?since signing to Matador in 2015. His latest, a refurbishment of?Twin Fantasy's feral track “Beach Life-in-Death,” isn't so much a smoothing-over of Toledo's original, scratchy 2011 recording as it is a reinvigoration of it.

Will Toldeo似乎從未全心投入在他的歌曲上。自2015年與Matador簽約以來，他以Car Seat Headrest的名義發(fā)行的兩張專輯中，重新出現(xiàn)了他曾在Bandcamp上發(fā)布的幾首短詩(shī)、吉他段落和小調(diào)。他最新的一張專輯，是對(duì)《Twin Fantasy》中的狂野曲目“Beach Life-In-Death”的翻新，與其說是對(duì)Toledo原始、粗糙的2011年版錄音帶進(jìn)行了潤(rùn)色，不如說是對(duì)這首歌的一次復(fù)興。

Clocking in at 13 minutes, a minute longer than the original take, “Beach Life-in-Death” hits all the same itchy, unnerved points that Toledo usually favors in his sprawling guitar rock. Split into three distinct parts, the track nests songs within songs like a matryoshka doll of rock tropes: call-and-response vocals cave into winding guitar solos and narratives build and then collapse into desperate monologues, like when Toledo yelps, “I don’t want to go insane!” Most of the lyrics oscillate between the mundanities of staying alive—eating, sleeping, working, eating again—and the jitters of negotiating a queer identity and relationship. “It's been a year since we first met/I don't know if we're boyfriends yet,” Toledo sings tentatively. By the time he gets to a full-throated howl, though, his concerns are broader: “We said we hated humans/We wanted to be humans.” It’s a familiar existential dilemma, having to be a person when people make your skin crawl, when you make your own skin crawl all the time. On “Beach Life-in-Death” Toledo embodies it with the kind of unhinged ferocity that only fits inside three songs wrapped into one.

在這13分鐘的時(shí)間里，“Beach Life-In-Death”對(duì)比原先的版本多出一分鐘，卻恰恰擊中了Toledo在他的吉他搖滾中常常觸發(fā)的那些令人發(fā)癢、不安的點(diǎn)。這首曲子分成三個(gè)截然不同的部分，歌曲層層嵌套，是套娃式的搖滾風(fēng)格：呼喚和回應(yīng)的人聲陷入了蜿蜒錯(cuò)綜的吉他獨(dú)奏、敘事結(jié)構(gòu)漸漸搭建而起，然后崩塌潰敗成絕望的獨(dú)白，就像Toledo的吶喊：“I don’t want to go insane!”大部分歌詞都講述的是平凡的一生——吃飯、睡覺、工作、再吃飯——和面對(duì)酷兒身份和關(guān)系時(shí)的焦躁不安、搖擺不定?！癐t's been a year since we first met/I don't know if we're boyfriends yet”Toledo試探似地唱著。不過在當(dāng)他再次大聲嚎叫時(shí)，他所憂慮、關(guān)切的事物愈加廣泛了：“We said we hated humans/We wanted to be humans.”這是個(gè)屢見不鮮的生存困境，當(dāng)別人令你渾身戰(zhàn)栗之時(shí)、當(dāng)你讓自己渾身戰(zhàn)栗之時(shí)，也是你必須作為一個(gè)人獨(dú)自面對(duì)之時(shí)。在“Beach Life-In-Death”中，Toledo用那種詭異的兇猛演繹著這一點(diǎn)，而這種兇猛也只適合存在于這一三合一曲目的裹挾之中。