【搬运译】Pitchfork评Car Seat Headrest 2017年单曲"Beach Life-In-Death"

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

Will Toldeo never quite seems to put his songs to rest. Choruses, guitar riffs, and codas from his extensive Bandcamp back catalog reappear in the two albums he's released as Car Seat Headrest since signing to Matador in 2015. His latest, a refurbishment of Twin Fantasy's feral track “Beach Life-in-Death,” isn't so much a smoothing-over of Toledo's original, scratchy 2011 recording as it is a reinvigoration of it.

Will Toldeo似乎从未全心投入在他的歌曲上。自2015年与Matador签约以来，他以Car Seat Headrest的名义发行的两张专辑中，重新出现了他曾在Bandcamp上发布的几首短诗、吉他段落和小调。他最新的一张专辑，是对《Twin Fantasy》中的狂野曲目“Beach Life-In-Death”的翻新，与其说是对Toledo原始、粗糙的2011年版录音带进行了润色，不如说是对这首歌的一次复兴。

Clocking in at 13 minutes, a minute longer than the original take, “Beach Life-in-Death” hits all the same itchy, unnerved points that Toledo usually favors in his sprawling guitar rock. Split into three distinct parts, the track nests songs within songs like a matryoshka doll of rock tropes: call-and-response vocals cave into winding guitar solos and narratives build and then collapse into desperate monologues, like when Toledo yelps, “I don’t want to go insane!” Most of the lyrics oscillate between the mundanities of staying alive—eating, sleeping, working, eating again—and the jitters of negotiating a queer identity and relationship. “It's been a year since we first met/I don't know if we're boyfriends yet,” Toledo sings tentatively. By the time he gets to a full-throated howl, though, his concerns are broader: “We said we hated humans/We wanted to be humans.” It’s a familiar existential dilemma, having to be a person when people make your skin crawl, when you make your own skin crawl all the time. On “Beach Life-in-Death” Toledo embodies it with the kind of unhinged ferocity that only fits inside three songs wrapped into one.

在这13分钟的时间里，“Beach Life-In-Death”对比原先的版本多出一分钟，却恰恰击中了Toledo在他的吉他摇滚中常常触发的那些令人发痒、不安的点。这首曲子分成三个截然不同的部分，歌曲层层嵌套，是套娃式的摇滚风格：呼唤和回应的人声陷入了蜿蜒错综的吉他独奏、叙事结构渐渐搭建而起，然后崩塌溃败成绝望的独白，就像Toledo的呐喊：“I don’t want to go insane!”大部分歌词都讲述的是平凡的一生——吃饭、睡觉、工作、再吃饭——和面对酷儿身份和关系时的焦躁不安、摇摆不定。“It's been a year since we first met/I don't know if we're boyfriends yet”Toledo试探似地唱着。不过在当他再次大声嚎叫时，他所忧虑、关切的事物愈加广泛了：“We said we hated humans/We wanted to be humans.”这是个屡见不鲜的生存困境，当别人令你浑身战栗之时、当你让自己浑身战栗之时，也是你必须作为一个人独自面对之时。在“Beach Life-In-Death”中，Toledo用那种诡异的凶猛演绎着这一点，而这种凶猛也只适合存在于这一三合一曲目的裹挟之中。