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

翻譯：Beans_Beans

This year's proven to be a good time forlong-awaited comebacks. Sleater-Kinney hath returned, Joanna Newsom’s thrownher harp back into the ring, and Adele’s now knocking on your door with"Hello". Meanwhile, fans are ready to bust down Rihanna and FrankOcean’s doors for new albums. And Claire Boucher too has been taking her sweettime to release her fourth record. Last fall, she revealed that she scrappedher already highly-awaited follow-up to Visions because "it sucked."Then earlier this year she fed her fans one salvaged piece of the thrown-awayproject, the addictive "REALiTi", which was labeled a demo but soundsnear-perfect. Somehow, it just made all the waiting worse. This is the sort ofmusic Grimes was throwing away?

今年（2015年）看來是歌迷們期待已久的回歸好時機。Sleater-Kinney回歸，Joanna Newsom重新帶著她的豎琴跳進音樂群，甚至Adele敲著你家門說“Hello”。同時，歌迷們已經(jīng)準(zhǔn)備好為Rihanna和Frank Ocean的新專輯闖進他們家大門。而Claire Boucher也一直在花時間籌備她的第四張專輯。去年秋天，她透露說她放棄了曾寄以厚望的《Visions》的后續(xù)作品，因為“它很糟糕”。但卻在今年早些時候，她為她的歌迷準(zhǔn)備了一個被廢棄的項目的殘余部分——那個令人上癮的“REALiTi”，雖然被標(biāo)記作一個Demo，但聽起來近乎完美。不知何故，它只是讓所有的焦急等待變得愈加難以忍受。這就是Grimes扔掉的那種音樂？

But "Flesh without Blood", thefirst taste of her forthcoming album Art Angels, is here to stay. "Youclaw, you fight, you loo-oo-se," she begins the four-minute track, ablow-out pop song. Running underneath the track’s punchy, metallic drumsreminiscent of those on Visions is something new for Boucher: a pop-punkevoking guitar riff. Perhaps this is her take on "bro art," the looseterm she’s used to describe the music that inspired Art Angels. But if there isanything bro-y about "Flesh without Blood", released with a video setin California’s kitsch hotel Madonna Inn, it’s that it has serious swagger asthe album’s introduction.

但是“Flesh without Blood”——她即將發(fā)行的專輯《Art Angels》的試吃品，已然站穩(wěn)了腳跟。從“You claw, you fight, you loo-oo-se,”引入她開始了這首四分鐘的歌曲。這是一首爆炸性的流行歌曲，在這首曲子強勁的金屬節(jié)奏下，讓人聯(lián)想到《Visions》中的那些鼓聲，但一個喚起流行朋克的吉他riff對Boucher來說是一個新的嘗試。也許這正是她對“bro art”的看法，她用這一寬泛的術(shù)語來描述那些激發(fā)《Art Angels》靈感的音樂。但如果說“Flesh without Blood”有什么“bro”之處，那就是它作為專輯的引子充斥著實實在在的豪放不羈。

Sure, the energetic instrumentals andloop-de-loop vocals might make you itch for a definable chorus. But Grimes’signature, dark, electronic minimalism is fleshed out here as complicated butsugary pop. "I saw a light in you, going out as I closed our window,"she sings. "You never liked me anyway." 2012 Grimes would havemournfully whisper-sung that proclamation; here she’s boldly, loudly over it,choosing to set off Art Angels like a firecracker.

當(dāng)然，精力充沛的樂器和循環(huán)播放的人聲可能會讓你渴望一個明確的副歌。但是，Grimes標(biāo)志性的、黑暗的、電子的極簡主義已然在這里被充實為復(fù)雜、含糖過度的流行音樂。她唱道“I saw a light in you, going out as I closed our window.”但時間回到2012年，那時的Grimes更可能會哀怨地低聲唱出“You never liked me anyway”；如今在這里，她大膽地、大聲地唱出來、超越過往，選擇像鞭炮一樣引爆《Art Angels》。