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翻譯：Lynn Liu

校正：WhitneyL

排版：Ryan-Chopin

Playing a baby grand piano, Mike Milosh’s eight-song album reflects a sense of ritualistic quiet; it’s intimate without being heavy-handed.

在Mike Milosh八首歌的專輯中，他彈奏著一架小型三角鋼琴，反映出儀式般的寧靜;他輕柔的演奏，讓人感到非常的親近。

Rhye, the soft-pop group led by Mike Milosh, refurbished their sound last year on second album?Blood?to mixed results. Without producer Robin Hannibal, who fleshed out the group’s 2013?debut?with minimalist, sumptuous production, Milosh leaned on beefier instrumentation and overstated lyrics that sapped most of the enigmatic, economical appeal from their music. Rhye’s new EP?Spirit, recorded after an extensive tour last summer, feels like a loose, low-stakes companion to?Blood. Rhye’s usual electronic and guitar stylings are stripped back to meditative piano arrangements and ambient mood-setting, making for an effective if lightweight backdrop for his sighing variety of romance.

由Mike Milosh領導的軟流行樂隊Rhye去年在第二張專輯《Blood》中注入了新的元素，為我們帶來了不一樣的聲音，結(jié)果喜憂參半。沒有制作人Robin Hannibal的參與，Milosh就得依靠更強大的樂器和夸張的歌詞，從而削弱了他們音樂中神秘簡潔的吸引力。Hannibal用極簡主義、華麗的作品充實了該樂隊2013年的首專。Rhye的新專輯《Spirit》是在去年夏天大量巡演后錄制的，這張專輯感覺像是他們18年專輯《Blood》的一個散漫的，低級別的陪襯一般。Rhye經(jīng)常使用的電子和吉他風格已不復存在，轉(zhuǎn)而回到了沉思的鋼琴曲架構(gòu)及其所營造出的氛圍。如果再加上一些彰顯浪漫的音符的話，這張專輯將更加精彩。

Milosh put?Spirit?together after being gifted a baby grand piano by his girlfriend, using daily exercises as a form of meditation following a draining tour schedule. The brief eight-song album reflects that sense of introspection and ritualistic quiet, with most songs resting in minor key and Milosh’s hazy timbre offering up long, wordless hums. Rhye has used chamber music as an indirect influence in the past, whether stacking harmonies over a horn section on “Woman” or adding plucked strings to their?cover?of Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale.” But here Milosh mostly dresses things down to an intentionally spare, percussive base; his piano is close-mic’d alongside the slightest brushes of synths and strings, signaling intimacy without the heavy-handedness that dragged down?Blood.

在女友送給Milosh一架小型三角鋼琴后，他打起精神，在疲憊不堪的巡演日程安排之后，他把日常練習當作冥想的一種形式。這張只有八首歌的專輯反映了內(nèi)省感和儀式般的寧靜，大多數(shù)歌曲都是小調(diào)，而Milosh朦朧的音色發(fā)出了長長的、無言的哼哼聲。在過去，Rhye都曾將室內(nèi)樂作為一種間接影響——無論是在“Woman”中的小號部分疊加和聲，還是在翻唱Procol Harum的"a Whiter Shade of Pale"的基礎上，改變編曲，增加了弦樂元素。但在這里，Milosh主要是想把東西簡化成有意備用的打擊樂底座;他的鋼琴（音色）的主打風格是近麥克風風格的，伴之以靈動的和音以及弦樂，這顯示出了其緊密性，并且并沒有拖《Blood》后腿的拙劣。

Lyrically, Milosh remains exclusively concerned with a tortured type of desire: He wants to be needed, feel your pain, wage your wars, et cetera. Delivered in a smooth, unified whisper, the words of affection sometimes sound vaguely sinister rather than sexy, as on “Needed,” written and produced with former Semisonic singer Dan Wilson: “Why you look so fragile? Do I seem so bad?/Oh, you look so pretty, there’s no devils here.” The song hinges on even clumsier phrasing during its chorus (“I wanna be needed, that’s what I need”) that undercuts all the feverish desire lurking at its core. Elsewhere, Icelandic composer?ólafur Arnalds?adds his minimalist touch to the simmering, hymn-like standout “Patience,” while Milosh lets his piano do the legwork on muted instrumental trifles “Malibu Nights” and “Green Eyes.” It all feels a little perfunctory for Rhye at this point, but in a characteristically refined way that at least makes for easy casual listening.

在歌詞上，Milosh只關心一種受虐的欲望:他想被需要，感受你的痛苦，與你唇槍舌戰(zhàn)，等等。在與Semisonic主唱Dan Wilson合作的“Needed”中，表達愛意的話語有時聽起來并不性感，反而有些陰險：“Why you look so fragile? Do I seem so bad?/Oh, you look so pretty, there’s no devils here. （為何你看起來如此脆弱？我看起來有這么糟嗎？哦，你看著真不錯，這里并沒有魔鬼。）”這首歌的唱腔聽起來更加笨拙(“I wanna be needed, that’s what I need（我想被需要，這就是我所需要的）”)，這削弱了潛藏在歌曲核心的狂熱欲望。在其他地方，冰島作曲家Olafur Arnalds將他極簡主義的風格融入到醞釀已久的，贊美詩般的杰作"Patience"中去，而Milosh則讓他的鋼琴伴奏在"Malibu Nights"和"Green Eyes"等器樂作品中打醬油。針對這一點，這一切似乎看起來對Rhye來說都有點敷衍了事，但他至少以一種獨特的優(yōu)雅方式，讓我們輕松隨意地傾聽他們的音樂。

Spirit?boils down the seductive essence of Rhye’s music to core elements. It would do well as an introduction to the group for an unfamiliar listener, but doesn’t feel necessary by any means. If anything,?Spirit?comes across as more mood music by design, bespoke and undemanding, and it probably already has real estate on every bedroom-themed playlist on Spotify. Rhye is now a reliably polished provider of this style of music, but it’s a position that clearly doesn’t allow for very many risks.

《Spirit?》濃縮了Rhye音樂中誘人本質(zhì)的核心要素。對于一個不熟悉他們的聽眾來說，這會是一個關于這個樂隊的完美介紹，但無論如何都沒有必要這樣。如果要說有什么區(qū)別的話，那就是《Spirit?》更多的是通過設計、定制以及無要求的方式來表現(xiàn)情緒化的音樂，而且它可能已經(jīng)在Spotify的每個臥室主題播放列表中都占據(jù)一席之地了。Rhye現(xiàn)在是這種風格音樂的可靠而完美的提供者，但這個位置顯然不會有太多競爭者。