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On "Stay Away", Charli XCX's excellent single from earlier this year, the UK electro-pop singer built a slow-burning kiss-off of a pop song with low-lying synths, industrial textures, and a whole lot of shadowy atmosphere. We've seen what she can do with darkness and melancholia; new single "Nuclear Seasons", then, comes across as lighter at first, as her impressively versatile voice squiggles and squeaks around the song's neon architecture. There's still plenty of heaviness to this one, though-- check that menacing low end, reminiscent of Ladytron's most grandiose and lush moments. Like "Stay Away", "Nuclear Seasons" is unavoidably reminiscent of the synth-laden electronic pop dreams of the 1980s; but also like its predecessor, that debt to the past is immediately paid off by how deliciously rewarding this song is in the here and now.

在今年早些時候Charli XCX發(fā)布的優(yōu)秀單曲“Stay Away”中，這位英國電子流行歌手用低沉的合成器、工業(yè)噪音和濃厚陰暗的氛圍效果器構建出一首緩慢燃燒的流行熱吻。我們已然看到了她對黑暗和憂郁掌控的能力；那么，新的單曲“Nuclear Seasons”一開始相較而言就顯得比較輕松，她那令人印象深刻的富于變化的人聲在歌曲的霓虹環(huán)境中暗涌。不過，這首曲子仍有著很多沉重的感覺——那洶涌的低頻，不禁讓人想起Ladytron麾下最宏偉和繁盛的時刻。像“Stay Away”一樣，“Nuclear Seasons”不可避免地讓人想起1980年代那個充滿合成器的電子流行音樂夢幻時代；但也同它的前輩一樣，這首歌在此時此地所帶來的美妙回報，立刻償還了它對過往的虧欠。