【搬运译】Pitchfork评Mattie 2022年EP专辑 Jupiter’s Purse

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

翻译：豆目豆科

The Dallas-based producer and musician sings an ode to the dissected self on their fully-formed debut EP, a metallic amalgam of trip-hop and electronic soul.

这位来自达拉斯的制作人和艺术家在TA的首张完整EP唱出了属于自我剖析的颂歌，这是一张有着金属光泽的Trip-hop和Electronic Soul杂合造物。

Dallas-based producer and singer MATTIE draws on electronic, soul, and hip-hop to carve out a woozy, nocturnal space to live. Their debut EP, Jupiter’s Purse, is co-produced by fellow Texas native Black Taffy, whose beats reinforce MATTIE’s voice in hazy, trip-hop-inflected architecture. Beguiling and menacing at once, Jupiter’s Purse announces an artist whose music braces with unreleased tension, keeping you balanced on the edge of volcanic emotion.

来自达拉斯的制作人和音乐家MATTIE利用电子乐、灵魂乐和嘻哈乐，开辟了一个迷幻朦胧的夜间生活领域。TA的首张EP《Jupiter's Purse》是与德州本土艺术家Black Taffy共同制作的，他的节拍在朦胧、带有Trip-Hop风格的构架中增强着MATTIE声音的威力。《Jupiter's Purse》在“威逼利诱”之中，向众人宣告着这位艺术家的音乐正以前所未有的张力支撑着一切情感，让你在火山爆发的零界点保持平衡。

The five songs on Jupiter’s Purse are from the point of view of Mhuv, a character MATTIE uses to explore the duality of the self. The process of coming into their own is in constant flux across the EP, full of uncertainties and doubt that spider out into uneasy, eerie songs. The lurching beat and trembling bells on “Cellfish” form a chilling backdrop for MATTIE’s elongated vowels: “Why can’t I admit that I’ve been cell fish?/Why won’t I tell the truth?” On “Human Thing,” which sounds as though it were delivered by a pleading cyborg, they dial into the conflict of using money to maintain a strong sense of self, indicting an omnipresent culture of commodification: “It’s consuming us, I am a witness!” they conclude, voice cracking into a gasp.

《Jupiter's Purse》中的五首歌曲均来自“Mhuv”的视角，MATTIE以这一人格角色来探索自身的两面性。在整张EP中，深入TA自我的过程是不断变化的，充满不确定和猜疑，蛛丝马迹之间变化作不安、阴森的歌谣。在“Cellfish”中，蹒跚的节拍和震颤的钟声为MATTIE拉长的元音营造起一个令人不寒而栗的背景：“Why can't I admit that I've been cell fish?/Why won't I tell the truth?" 在“Human Thing”中，歌声听起来像是由一个卑微祈求的仿生人发出的，TA挑拨起用金钱来维系的强烈自我意识冲突，谴责无处不在的商品化文化。TA最终得出结论：“It's consuming us, I am a witness!”TA声音裂解开来，渐渐哽咽，仅剩下喘息声。

MATTIE and Black Taffy form a unique bond here, as the latter amplifies MATTIE’s hefty alto voice with an unsteady mix of electronic and hip-hop music. Murky synth melodies and washes of string and woodwind samples dot these songs like constellations, with each diffuse element grounded by MATTIE’s commanding, charismatic pull, transmuted and pitch-shifted at will. Their voice filters into a gurgle of feedback on “Out This Bitch,” where MATTIE’s enunciation swiftly changes as they shift further into an anti-establishment mindset: “This world ain’t got nothing for us/Maybe that’s why it bores us/It was before your skin, that black that black that black…” they chant, the word “black” filtered out into a kaleidoscopic echo and a source of vital, ancestral strength.

MATTIE和Black Taffy在这里建立起一种独特的联系，后者采用一种不稳定的电子嘻哈混合体放大了MATTIE厚重的中音。浑浊的合成器旋律，弦乐和木管乐器的采样像星座一样点缀着这些歌曲，每一个弥漫其中的元素都被MATTIE口中命令式、极富魅力的牵引力所支撑起，并被随意地变换音调。TA的声音在“Out This Bitch”中被筛成电子噪音，MATTIE的发音迅速改变，TA进一步转化出反体制的心态：“This world ain't got nothing for us/Maybe that's why it bores us/It was before your skin, that black that black that black…”TA吟唱着，“black”这一个词被过滤为万花筒般缤纷的回声，化作生命力与祖先力量的源泉。

MATTIE embraces self-dissection throughout the EP, using nervous howls and shrugged-off boasts to express their own inherent validity. On “Cloudts,” the EP’s centerpiece, they create an alien lullaby that shuttles by with a shimmering string sample that sounds ripped out of a Disney movie and dragged through the dirt. Though MATTIE generally uses their music to examine feeling uncomfortable in one’s own skin, here they allow a concession to a more hopeful future. “I didn’t know that rocks were valuable,” they sing over static pops and a glowering melody. “But I am a diamond and let me find out.” That image—a jewel glinting through chipped-away stone—is an appropriate one for Jupiter’s Purse, where even the most off-kilter moment is one of beauty.

MATTIE在整张EP中深刻地刨析着自我，用紧张的嚎叫和耸人听闻的吹嘘来彰显TA自身固有的价值。在EP的核心“Cloudts”中，TA创造了一首唱给外星婴儿的摇篮曲，闪闪发光的弦乐采样穿梭其中，听起来像是从迪斯尼电影中剥离出来，藕断丝连。虽然MATTIE通常用TA的音乐来审视自己内心的不适，但在这里TA允许为一个更有希望的未来做出让步。“I didn't know that rocks were valuable,”TA在静态的爆裂声中以一个凝重的旋律唱道，“But I am a diamond and let me find out.”用这一意象——一颗在破碎石块中闪闪发光的宝石——来描述《Jupiter's Purse》无疑是一个合适的选择，在这里，即使是最异常的时刻也依旧是足够美丽的。