【搬运】【译】叉婊Pitchfork评Waxahatchee 2017年单曲“Never Been Wrong”

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 

In indie rock, you can be precious, you canbe pompous, and you can be extremely art school, but there is no great way tospin “whiny.” The irony is, complaining is inherent in the genre’s DNA. It goesbeyond lyrics, manifesting in guitar tones that simmer with angst rather thanexploding with it, like punk often does. So while it may sound like an insultto call “Never Been Wrong,” the opening track off Waxahatchee’s upcoming fourthalbum, a whiny indie rock classic, it is meant as a compliment to projectmastermind Katie Crutchfield. This is how you complain bitterly in song: Youturn it into a self-aware, vividly voiced ode to stubbornness in action.

在独立摇滚乐领域中，你可以变得珍贵，你可以显得浮夸，你可以更为艺术化，但看似没有什么好办法来编织出“whiny”地情绪。讽刺的是，“whiny”是这个流派固有的DNA。它超越了歌词所能表达地范畴，可能在吉他的音调中现身，与愤怒隐隐相随，而不是像朋克那样爆发出来。因此，虽然用这一词形容Waxahatchee即将发行的第四张专辑的开篇曲“Never Been Wrong”可能是一种侮辱，但这是对项目策划人Katie Crutchfield自己而言更像是一种赞美。它教会你如何在歌曲中痛苦地抱怨、宣泄，将它变成一首自知、能生动地再现事物执念的颂歌。

Crutchfield admits in ugly detail toblowing things out of proportion, to savoring being right, to twisting thestory in her favor, and to pitying herself when the game’s outcome doesn’t goher way. Most importantly, she mirrors all that interpersonal tension in musicthat doesn’t resolve cleanly. The drums pummel forward and the riffs flair upwith bright flashes of feedback, but they cool down at the end of each verse,like a rage blackout that lasts just a minute before it’s back to business asusual. Instead of totally flying off the handle, Crutchfield pauses for lovelyvocal harmony breaks that bring pop levity to one of her most straightforwardlyrock songs to date. For a songwriter known for her deep well of vulnerableintrospection, Crutchfield really ought to get pissed more often.

Crutchfield在种种丑陋的蛛丝马迹中坦白，她把一切都吹得不合常理、沉浸在“正确”的感觉难以自拔、把故事扭曲成对她有利的模样，当游戏没有按照她的方式进行时，她便会怜悯自己的“不幸遭遇”。最重要的是，她通过音乐真实反映了种种人际关系间紧张不安的情绪，同时这些紧张也真实地没有被彻底解决。鼓声向前行进，节奏反射着明亮地闪光，但它们在每一节结束时一齐冷却下来，就像愤怒地拔下插头断电，沉寂只持续了一分钟，随后又恢复正常。Crutchfield并非完全失控，而是暂缓了可爱的人声，为她迄今为止最直白了当的摇滚歌曲之一增添了些许爆破趣味。对于一个以脆弱的深度内省而闻名的作曲家来说，Crutchfield真的应该更经常地发发火、撒撒气。