【搬运】【译】Rolling Stone评Snail Mail 2018年专辑《Lush》

搬运自：微信公众号【评论搬一堆】（在原文基础上添加了英语原文与排版调整） 

翻译：Lynn Liu

校正：Ryan-Chopin

独立摇滚天才 Snail Mail的佳作《Lush》

18岁的Lindsey Jordan证明了自己是一个独立摇滚天才，在她的首张唱片中，展现了她的声音。

With Snail Mail’s Lush, indie rock has officially entered its “Black Crowes era,” where young artists refigure music from the decade they were born. But that’s not a bad thing here. As the brainchild of 18-year-old Lindsey Jordan, who counts Helium’s Mary Timony and Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield as mentors, Snail Mail worship at the altars of Pavement, Liz Phair and Dinosaur Jr. She’s packed Lush, her debut full-length, with the same sort of smart lyrics about unrequited love (“Heat Wave”), personal dissatisfaction (“Pristine”) and the places where those feelings coalesce (“Golden Dream”) as her forebears and set them to a soundtrack of chugging, glassy-toned guitar. She also sings in the same endearingly off-key way as many of her apparent influences once did.

随着Snail Mail新专辑《Lush》的发行，独立摇滚正式进入了“黑乌鸦（乐队名）纪元”，年轻的艺术家们从他们出生的十年里，重新塑造了音乐，这并不是件坏事。这张专辑是18岁音乐人Lindsey Jordan的心血,她将Helium里的Mary Timony和Waxahatchee里的Katie Cruhfield视为导师，她也崇拜Pavement，Liz Phair，和Dinosaur Jr。《Lush》是她的首张录音室专辑，内容充实，歌词巧妙地谈及了暗恋（“Heat Wave”）、个人的不满情绪（“Pristine”）、还有那些情感交汇之乐（“Golden Dream”），正如她的前辈们那样，她将这些歌赋予了轻快、充满清脆的吉他声。她也受了这些人的影响，用一种讨人喜欢的不正经方式歌唱。

Lush is best, though, when Jordan stretches out beyond coffeehouse indie-rock busking and embraces deeper Sonic Youth-style textures, on tunes like “Anytime” and “Deep Sea.” The latter song opens with just a guitar but it builds outward (including a French horn solo) until the music seems to enfold her voice as she sings, “You can be anyone/It took so long to know someone like you.” And on the album closer “Anytime,” she plays at a slow tempo before a church organ and acoustic guitar add some clarity and emotional weight, leading to her moving, closing stanza, “I’m not in love with your absence/’Cause I’ve fallen so hard for the space.” It’s here where Lush lives up to its title, and it’s here where Jordan shows promise for coming up with a new sound all her own. 

尽管Jordan想要将独立摇滚发扬，不只是咖啡馆卖艺的曲子，想要多多深入Sonic Youth风格的音乐，就像“Anytime”和“Deep Sea”这样的调子，可《Lush》仍不可挑剔。“Deep Sea”一曲，以吉他声开始，配器逐渐丰富（包括了一段原号独奏），直到音乐慢慢将她的声音环绕住，她唱到：“You can be anyone/It took so long to know someone like you.【哪怕形同陌路，我愿依旧伴你。除了你我便一无所有】（歌词翻译源于网易云）”，这张专辑以“Anytime”收尾，她慢慢地弹着吉他，直到教堂风琴和原声吉他增加了一些清晰和情感，这让这首歌变得更加生动，结束了第一段歌词，“I’m not in love with your absence/’Cause I’ve fallen so hard for the space.（我不喜欢你不在我的身边/因为我已为你的离开付出了太多）”这便是《Lush》切题之处。正是在这，Jordan用自己的全新专辑为音乐界许下承诺。