搬运译Pitchfork评Angel Olsen 2019年单曲“Lark”

搬运自：网易云音乐专栏【All About Music】（在原文基础上添加了英语原文与排版调整）

翻译：Bromantique_Victime

The opening track from All Mirrors brings a biblical gravitas to introspection

《All Mirrors》的开场曲为她深沉的自省赋予了圣经般的肃穆之感。

All the narrative action in “Lark,” the opening track from Angel Olsen’s forthcoming album All Mirrors, takes place before the song begins. “If only we could start again pretending we don’t know each other,” she sings in the first verse, leaving an entire history in the subtext. In a fittingly dramatic video, director Ashley Connor visualizes the story with the silhouettes of Olsen and a man fighting behind a closed door, before she pushes outside, comes into focus, and ventures alone to the mountains, the woods, the beach—destinations where we escape the world for quiet contemplation.

Angel Olsen专辑《All Mirrors》的开篇曲“Lark”中所有的叙述动作都发生在歌曲开始之前。“If only we could start again pretending we don’t know each other,”她在第一段主歌中唱道，台词的背后暗示着整段情感历程。在一个恰到好处的剧情式MV中，导演Ashley Connor用Olsen和一个男人在一扇紧闭的门后争吵的剪影将这个叙事具象化，随后Olsen推开门，进入摄像机焦点，独自走向高山、森林、海滩——那些我们逃离世界、寻求宁静沉思的目的地。

But quiet contemplation is not what awaits Olsen. From its dizzying slow-burn intro, “Lark” builds and shapeshifts and eventually explodes into a refrain—“Dream on”—that would make even a bescarved classic rocker blush. She writes as simply as ever about her desires (“What about my dreams?/What about the heart?”), but she also comes as close to straight-up screaming as she’s ever attempted on record. With co-producer John Congleton and a 14-piece orchestra, the arrangement is as visceral as the fire and rain that accompanies her in the video, adding a biblical gravitas to her introspection. Beneath its grand orchestration, the song itself is a series of repeated melodies and mantras, drawn out like a spell being cast. But if her thoughts sound like a transitory moment magnified and sustained, Olsen asks us to immerse ourselves in it completely.

但等待Olsen并非安宁的沉思。“Lark”从其令人目眩的缓慢燃烧的引线开始，不断增强、变形，最终爆发出一个知名的反问——“Dream on”——这甚至会让一个经典摇滚歌手不禁羞愧。她像以往一样简单直白地道出了她的欲望（“What about my dreams?/What about the heart?”），但她也像她在专辑中尝试的那样，近乎直接的呐喊。与联合制作人John Congleton和一个14人管弦编制合作，这一安排就像MV中伴随着她的烈焰、暴雨一样极具内涵，为她的自省增添了一种圣经般的庄严与肃穆。在其宏伟的管弦乐裹挟之下，这首歌本身是一系列的重复旋律和低语，像被施了咒语一样被接连引诱出来。但是，若她的想法只是听起来像一个被放大和刻意持续的短暂时刻，Olsen依旧能让我们百分百完全沉浸其中。