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??Sophie Allison, aka Soccer Mommy, just keeps getting better. Her latest record surpasses any expectations set by 2018’s Clean, which set her apart from the crowd with its effortlessly cool pop energy, razor-sharp riffs and wise takes on adolescent turmoil. With color theory, Allison revives a fiery and rebellious noughties aesthetic, upgraded with enchanting sonic clarity.

Sophie Allison，又名 Soccer Mommy，一直在變得更好。她的最新唱片《color theory》超越了2018年的《Clean》所既定的一切預(yù)期，這張杰作以其不費(fèi)吹灰之力的清爽酷炫流行能量、剃刀般犀利的即興創(chuàng)作和對(duì)青春期騷動(dòng)的理智見解使她從人群中脫穎而出。憑借《color theory》，Allison 復(fù)興了本世紀(jì)頭十年極富熱情和反叛氣質(zhì)的美學(xué)，并以迷人的清澈人聲將之升華。

‘I’m the princess of screwing up!’ she declares on royal screw up, surely with pop-punk heroine Avril Lavigne in mind. “I feel like it really bangs,” admits Allison in an interview with The New York Times, and she's not wrong. color theory is brimful of delicious melodies, finding a place for both her signature brash earworms like Your Dog and the innocent prettiness of Blossom and Switzerland.

“我是廢柴公主！"她在 “royal screw up” 中高呼，這必定是聯(lián)想到流行朋克女英雄 Avril Lavigne?！拔矣X得它真的很炸。”Allison 在接受《紐約時(shí)報(bào)》的采訪時(shí)承認(rèn)道，這顯然是事實(shí)?！禼olor theory》充斥著美妙的旋律，這為她無(wú)論是 “Your Dog” 中的標(biāo)志性粗暴耳語(yǔ)，還是 “Blossom” 和 “Switzerland” 中的純真可愛找到了舞臺(tái)。

color theory finds Allison digging a little deeper, addressing topics that she may have previously been avoiding. The record consists of three distinct parts – a spectrum of emotions – each embodying a corresponding colour: blue for depression; yellow for paranoia, mental and physical illness; grey for death. Although the majority of the record is upbeat, a closer look shows Allison staring misery in the face, tackling, in particular, emotions surrounding her mother’s terminal cancer diagnosis when she was a pre-teen. But far from providing resolution, the record is a candid portrait of a woman still very much in turmoil; untangling the knots of trauma, of depressive numbness, of the realisation of her own mortality.

從《color theory》中我們得以發(fā)現(xiàn) Allison 更深入地發(fā)掘內(nèi)心的困頓，解決了她先前一度回避的話題。這張唱片由三個(gè)不同的部分組成——情緒的光譜——每個(gè)部分都有相應(yīng)的顏色與之呼應(yīng)：藍(lán)色代表抑郁；黃色代表偏執(zhí)、精神囚籠和身體疾病；而灰色代表死亡。雖然這張唱片講述的的大部分內(nèi)容是樂觀的，但仔細(xì)品味，Allison 所面對(duì)的仍是苦難，特別是當(dāng)她正值年少，卻深陷她母親不幸確診癌癥晚期的情緒之中。但這張唱片并未提供解決方案，而仍在很大程度上逼真地描繪了一個(gè)身處動(dòng)蕩之中的女性肖像；解開創(chuàng)傷、抑郁、發(fā)覺自己死亡的結(jié)。

‘I’ve barely left my room in the past week’, she sings serenely on bloodstream, cheerfully chugging guitars carrying her along while her world falls apart. With circle the drain, Allison longs to feel ‘calm’, ‘strong’ for her loved ones, but is unable to escape her turmoil. The song’s power lies in the mismatch of the music and the lyrics, in the relief that never comes. As the chorus reaches a kind of sonic resolution, you wait for the resolving line but are left only with the strange conclusion: ‘I’m going down’.?

“在過去的一周里，我?guī)缀鯖]有離開過我的房間”，她在 “bloodstream” 中平靜地唱道，伴著歡快的吉他音，而她的世界卻漸漸分崩離析。在 “circle the drain” 中，Allison 渴望能為她所愛的人感到 “平靜”、“堅(jiān)強(qiáng)”，但卻仍無(wú)法擺脫她內(nèi)心的混亂。這首歌的力量恰恰在于音樂和歌詞的違和，在于時(shí)時(shí)等候卻從未得到的一刻解脫。當(dāng)副歌達(dá)到某一音色識(shí)別度時(shí)，你等待著清晰的那一刻，但最終只留下了一個(gè)怪異的尾聲：“I’m going down”。

On one hand, color theory could easily be enjoyed as intelligent and catchy indie-rock; on the other, it could be heard as something much more disquieting. By juxtaposing shatteringly sad lyrics with the cheeriness of the music, Allison presents her pain as unconquerable; too big to look at directly. When there can be no possible relief, she has to find a way to live on anyway. Maybe this is it: ‘Can’t erase the hue / It’s just coloured over’.

一方面，《color theory》可以很容易地作為聰明的、朗朗上口的獨(dú)立搖滾樂來(lái)欣賞；但另一方面，它也可以被認(rèn)為是更令人深感不安的東西。通過將令人心碎的悲傷歌詞與歡快的編曲交錯(cuò)，Allison 將她的痛苦附上了不可戰(zhàn)勝的戰(zhàn)衣；強(qiáng)大到難以直視。當(dāng)無(wú)從得到緩解喘息，她也不得不尋得一種方法來(lái)繼續(xù)生活，也許這就是它——“Can’t erase the hue / It’s just coloured over”。