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翻譯：Lynn Liu

校正：Ryan-Chopin

獨立搖滾天才 Snail?Mail的佳作《Lush》

18歲的Lindsey Jordan證明了自己是一個獨立搖滾天才，在她的首張唱片中，展現(xiàn)了她的聲音。

With Snail Mail’s?Lush, indie rock has officially entered its “Black Crowes era,” where young artists refigure music from the decade they were born. But that’s not a bad thing here. As the brainchild of 18-year-old Lindsey Jordan, who counts Helium’s Mary Timony and Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield as mentors, Snail Mail worship at the altars of Pavement, Liz Phair and Dinosaur Jr. She’s packed?Lush, her debut full-length, with the same sort of smart lyrics about unrequited love (“Heat Wave”), personal dissatisfaction (“Pristine”) and the places where those feelings coalesce (“Golden Dream”) as her forebears and set them to a soundtrack of chugging, glassy-toned guitar. She also sings in the same endearingly off-key way as many of her apparent influences once did.

隨著Snail?Mail新專輯《Lush》的發(fā)行，獨立搖滾正式進(jìn)入了“黑烏鴉（樂隊名）紀(jì)元”，年輕的藝術(shù)家們從他們出生的十年里，重新塑造了音樂，這并不是件壞事。這張專輯是18歲音樂人Lindsey Jordan的心血,她將Helium里的Mary?Timony和Waxahatchee里的Katie?Cruhfield視為導(dǎo)師，她也崇拜Pavement，Liz Phair，和Dinosaur Jr?！禠ush》是她的首張錄音室專輯，內(nèi)容充實，歌詞巧妙地談及了暗戀（“Heat Wave”）、個人的不滿情緒（“Pristine”）、還有那些情感交匯之樂（“Golden Dream”），正如她的前輩們那樣，她將這些歌賦予了輕快、充滿清脆的吉他聲。她也受了這些人的影響，用一種討人喜歡的不正經(jīng)方式歌唱。

Lush?is best, though, when Jordan stretches out beyond coffeehouse indie-rock busking and embraces deeper Sonic Youth-style textures, on tunes like “Anytime” and “Deep Sea.” The latter song opens with just a guitar but it builds outward (including a French horn solo) until the music seems to enfold her voice as she sings, “You can be anyone/It took so long to know someone like you.” And on the album closer “Anytime,” she plays at a slow tempo before a church organ and acoustic guitar add some clarity and emotional weight, leading to her moving, closing stanza, “I’m not in love with your absence/’Cause I’ve fallen so hard for the space.” It’s here where?Lush?lives up to its title, and it’s here where Jordan shows promise for coming up with a new sound all her own.?

盡管Jordan想要將獨立搖滾發(fā)揚(yáng)，不只是咖啡館賣藝的曲子，想要多多深入Sonic Youth風(fēng)格的音樂，就像“Anytime”和“Deep?Sea”這樣的調(diào)子，可《Lush》仍不可挑剔。“Deep?Sea”一曲，以吉他聲開始，配器逐漸豐富（包括了一段原號獨奏），直到音樂慢慢將她的聲音環(huán)繞住，她唱到：“You can be anyone/It took so long to know someone like you.【哪怕形同陌路，我愿依舊伴你。除了你我便一無所有】（歌詞翻譯源于網(wǎng)易云）”，這張專輯以“Anytime”收尾，她慢慢地彈著吉他，直到教堂風(fēng)琴和原聲吉他增加了一些清晰和情感，這讓這首歌變得更加生動，結(jié)束了第一段歌詞，“I’m not in love with your absence/’Cause I’ve fallen so hard for the space.（我不喜歡你不在我的身邊/因為我已為你的離開付出了太多）”這便是《Lush》切題之處。正是在這，Jordan用自己的全新專輯為音樂界許下承諾。