【搬运译】叉婊Pitchfork评Two Shell 2022年单曲“home”

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

Released last year on vinyl, the London duo’s cartoonish bootleg finally gets a digital release–it rips.

去年这个来自伦敦的二人组合卡通风试水专辑以黑胶发行，如今终于得以数字发行——它掷地有声地炸裂！

London duo Two Shell emerged in 2019 with a lean, austere take on contemporary UK bass music that sounded right at home on Livity Sound, the Bristol label that has spent the past decade forging a singular style out of sharp angles, metallic textures, and dusky shadows. Since their debut, though, their music has become more colorful, awash in giddy UK garage rhythms, hiccupping R&B snippets, and unusually chipper major-key synths. They’ve got a particular thing for big, attention-grabbing samples—the kind that capture the ears of not just rapturous ravers but also copyright lawyers, which is presumably why some of the releases on their label Mainframe Audio have been vinyl-only.

伦敦二人组Two Shell于2019年首秀，对当代英国的贝斯音乐进行了精简、朴素的再处理演绎，听者就像置身于Livity Sound的大本营。这个布里斯托尔厂牌在过去十年里用锐利的标尺、金属质地和昏暗阴影打造了一种独特的音乐风格。不过，自他们首次亮相以来，他们的音乐变得更加丰富多彩，充斥着令人眼花缭乱的英国车库节奏、断断续续的R&B片段，以及异常爽朗的大调合成器。他们热衷于大的而抓人眼球的声音切片——那种不仅能紧紧抓牢狂热粉丝的耳朵，也同样吸引着那些版权方，这可能也是他们的厂牌Mainframe Audio的部分作品只发行黑胶唱片的原因。

At least until now. “home,” originally pressed on wax last November, finally received a full digital release last week. Which is a good thing, because the tune’s a hoot. “home” dives into the party without a care in the world, brandishing a sped-up vocal melody over bubbly chords and a rollicking breakbeat. Like many bootlegs, it boasts a proudly unvarnished sound, and there’s something cartoonish about the whole mood, from the fluorescent tone colors to the Chipmunks-like vocal processing. To borrow a phrase from documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, it sounds fast, cheap, and out of control (in the best way!), like a scratched-up thrift-store LP played back at 45 on a Fisher-Price turntable. The song overflows with the simplest sort of joy; a tremolo-like filter applied to the voice suggests the fluttering nerves of a fresh infatuation. Which seems fitting: For those previously unfamiliar with the duo, this may be the start of something beautiful.

至少直到现在终于得以在数媒发行，这是件好事，这首曲子极为有趣，它值得。“home”毫不做作地融入派对，在欢快的和弦和涌动的霹雳声中荡漾着开了倍速的旋律。同许多自制唱片一样，它有着一种自信、不加粉饰的声音，从荧光色泽到花栗鼠式的人声处理，整个歌曲都萦绕着一种卡通氛围。借用纪录片导演Errol Morris的一句话来描述——“It sounds fast, cheap, and out of control (in the best way!)”，这首歌听起来就像一张被刮坏的廉价唱片正以45转速在费雪牌唱机上播放。洋溢着最简易的欢乐；应用在声音上类似颤音的滤波器暗示着一种新型情感毒品所带来的飘忽不定的悸动感。对于那些先前不熟悉这一组合的人而言，作为美好事物的开端，这首歌似乎再合适不过。