搬运译Pitchfork评10年代200张最佳专辑第33名：Big Thief: U.F.O.F. (2019)

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原文链接：https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-2010s/

翻译：Emma.Z

审译：Ryan-Chopin

推送：Lynn Liu

There are few modern descriptors more benign than “folk-rock.” But with U.F.O.F., Big Thief capped four extraordinarily productive years and a five-album run (including Adrianne Lenker and Buck Meek’s solo debuts) by giving folk-rock teeth again. They didn’t need to be loud or aggressive, though the screaming through tears on the opening song could unnerve even a hardened listener. Instead, U.F.O.F. strips away the bucolic qualities usually associated with acoustic guitars and hushed vocals to reassert a fundamental strangeness, a powerful awe at the world’s mysteries. Moving away from the often harrowing autobiographical material of 2017’s Capacity, Lenker sings of metaphysical states and UFO friends, motley menageries of dogs, fruit bats, silkworms, and moths. There are fewer certainties in her lyrics than ever before—is “Open Desert” about swimming or dying?—except for the truest certainties of all: the knowledge that all things are connected, death is life’s lone constant, and a glimpse of the infinite can be found in a trick of light on water or a whispered vocal harmonized just so. –Philip Sherburne

现代很少有比“民谣摇滚”更温情的词汇了。随着专辑《U.F.O.F.（外星朋友）》Big Thief结束了4年格外多产的音乐生涯，并以5张专辑(包括Adrianne Lenker和Buck Meek的首张个人专辑)，宣告民谣摇滚乐的回归。他们不需要大吼大叫或咄咄逼人，尽管开场曲中含着泪的尖叫可能会劝退一个老粉。但取而代之的是，这张专辑抛掉了通常与原声吉他和安静人声联系在一起的田园风格，重申一种基本的陌生感，一种对世界上神秘事物的强大敬畏。抛开2017年那《Capacity》令人痛心的自传，Lenker唱到了超自然状态、外星朋友，各种各样的狗、果蝠、蚕和飞蛾。除了最确定的事实之外，她的歌词比以往任何时候都更加富有不确定性。《Open Desert（旷野）》是关于游泳还是死亡? 除了最真的一点:万物皆有联系，死亡是生命最孤独的状态，在水面变幻的光影中，或在和谐的低语中，都能窥见无限。