翻譯：thesweetescape

原文鏈接：https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-best-albums-of-the-1990s/

It’s a tale as old as time: a girl from the wilderness hits it big, moves to the city during her Saturn Return, starts clubbing, finds herself amid the chaos and solitude, and makes an art-pop masterpiece. Alternating between feral and tender songs, 1995’s?Post?is a portal into the pulsing sensuality of British trip-hop and electronica as seen through Bj?rk’s eyes. Like 1993’s?Debut, the sound is highly eclectic—from the?surprisingly faithful?cover of Betty Hutton’s “It’s Oh So Quiet” to the twinges of baroque music—but?Post?marks the first time Bj?rk really stepped into the tastemaker role she occupies to this day, assembling collaborators from across the underground (Tricky, Nellee Hooper, Graham Massey, Howie B) to work in service of her vision. The music follows the emotion: Every exclamation mark of the soul is met with a freaky horn blast or tribal drum break, every dark glance an industrial beat or a mysterious twinge of harpsichord. And with her supernaturally nimble voice and to-the-point poetry, Bj?rk is able to articulate emotional scenarios with the clarity of discovering there is a foreign word for a feeling that remains ineffable in your mother tongue. On?Post, this includes sex without touching, music as life force, death dreams that make you wake up grateful, and the way falling in love can feel like the world’s shortest fireworks display. It’s an album of apathy and desire, restlessness and freedom, capriciousness and control—in other words, Bj?rk’s becoming.–Jill Mapes

這是個(gè)恒古的神話：（指“Army of Me”MV情節(jié)）一個(gè)來(lái)自荒蕪之地的女孩，在蛻變成長(zhǎng)過(guò)程中向城市高歌猛進(jìn)，開始尋歡作樂(lè)，發(fā)現(xiàn)自己置身于混亂和孤獨(dú)，卻創(chuàng)造出一場(chǎng)非同尋常的流行盛宴。在粗獷與柔情間反復(fù)橫跳，1995年的《Post》是Bj?rk初次涉獵英式迷幻舞曲和電子音樂(lè)的感性匠心大作。如同1993年的處女作《Debut》，歌曲非常標(biāo)新立異——從石破天驚地真摯翻唱演繹Betty Hutton’的歌曲“It’s Oh So Quiet”到大膽探索巴洛克音樂(lè)——但《Post》更標(biāo)志著Bj?rk成為潮流的領(lǐng)軍人物，直至今日都是，專輯與多位地下音樂(lè)人合作（Tricky, Nellee Hooper, Graham Massey, Howie B），協(xié)助她做出理想音樂(lè)?。她的音樂(lè)受情緒驅(qū)動(dòng)，靈魂的驚嘆伴隨著怪異的號(hào)角聲或部落鼓聲，暗黑的目光伴隨著工業(yè)節(jié)拍或神秘的撥弦鍵琴。憑借變化莫測(cè)的嗓音和一針見血的詩(shī)韻歌詞，Bj?rk能夠巧妙地營(yíng)造情感氛圍，就像突然發(fā)現(xiàn)一個(gè)無(wú)法用母語(yǔ)概括的外來(lái)詞一樣。在《Post》中，這可以是無(wú)肢體接觸的魚水之歡，點(diǎn)燃生活的音樂(lè)，讓你醒來(lái)滿懷感激的噩夢(mèng)，隨風(fēng)而起的愛意。這是一張關(guān)于冷漠和欲望、躁動(dòng)和自由、恣意和操縱的專輯——換句話說(shuō)，Bj?rk的成長(zhǎng)歷程。–Jill Mapes