【搬运译】Pitchfork评The War on Drugs 2021年单曲“I Don’t Live Here Anymor

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：Beans_Beans

Here is a song that will make you long tobe back in a concrete arena filled with 20,000 new friends, singing together ina way that makes you think, if only for a moment, that humanity might not beswirling toward total catastrophe. You can feel the stick on the soles of yourfeet just by listening to this thing. You can smell the frankfurters. It’s thetype of anthem that makes one of those $18 Budweisers in a commemorativeplastic cup seem like a damn bargain—a small price to pay to briefly heightensome sense of communion after a year and a half of pandemic seclusion.

这是一首会让你渴望重返坐满两万名新同好的混凝土体育馆中，一起歌唱，让你觉得，哪怕只有一瞬，人类的路途可能不会通向世界末日。单是听到这首歌，你就能感到你已然不自觉地停下脚步。空气中弥散着法兰克福肉肠的醇香；这听起来更像是颂歌，让那些装在纪念款塑料杯里的18美元的百威啤酒愈显廉价——在经历了长达一年半的新冠大流行居家隔离时期之后，为了获取短暂地某种共融交互感而付出的小代价。

Everything about the title track to the Waron Drugs’ upcoming fifth album is gloriously unsubtle, including its openinglines. “I was lying in my bed/A creature void of form,” sings bandleader AdamGranduciel, nodding to Dylan. “Been so afraid of everything/I need a chance tobe reborn.” And honestly, who doesn’t feel like that right now? Cue the synthsreminiscent of Don Henley’s “Boys of Summer,” the drums sparkling enough tomake ’80s stadium-rock guru Mutt Lange bow down in appreciation, and thegospel-tinged backing vocals that urge you to believe in something beyondyourself. Granduciel has been meticulously mining classic rock sounds for morethan a decade, but never quite like this; his Springsteen fandom iswell-documented (his young son is named Bruce) but he’s never made a song aswelcoming as “Hungry Heart” until now. “I Don’t Live Here Anymore” celebratesgetting to the point in life when you’re no longer drowning in waves of oldmemories but surfing atop them. The title is not a lament but a point of pride.Amid a daydreaming verse, Granduciel wonders, “Is life just dying in slowmotion/Or getting stronger everyday?” Then a cascade of toms and guitars giveway to the majestic hook, and the answer could not be clearer.

在乐队The War on Drugs即将发行的第五张专辑的主打歌中，一切地一切包括它的Intro在内都沐浴在荣耀之下、毫不含糊。“I was lying in mybed/A creature void of form,”乐队主唱Adam Granduciel如此唱着，向Dylan允诺道。“Been so afraid of everything/Ineed a chance to be reborn.”说实话，如今谁没有这种感觉呢？合成器音效让人想起DonHenley的“Boys of Summer”，鼓声闪亮，足以让80年代称霸体育场的摇滚大师Mutt Lange俯首称臣，还有带有福音色彩的伴唱，勉励你愈发相信自己能够触碰那些可望而不可即的存在。Granduciel十多年来一直在精心研掘经典摇滚乐的声音，但从未成就如今的模样；他对Springsteen的痴迷是有据可查的（他的小儿子就叫Bruce），但在此之前他从未做出像“Hungry Heart”一样受欢迎的歌曲。“I Don’t Live Here Anymore”赞美着生活中的你不再甘心淹没在旧时记忆的浪潮中，而是迎浪直上的那些时刻。这一标题并非哀叹，而是自豪。在如白日梦一般的诗句中，Granduciel惊异着“Is life just dying in slowmotion/Or getting stronger everyday?”紧接着就是一连串的鼓声和吉他声，它们渐渐让位于恢宏的Hook，这一问题的答案就再清楚不过了。