搬运译Pitchfork评10年代200张最佳专辑第184名：Soccer Mommy: Clean (2018)

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

翻译：Will Lin

校对：Whitney. L

推送：Lynn Liu

Clean is a breath of fresh air that will also knock the wind out of you. Nashville singer-songwriter Sophie Allison was far from the only former home-recorder making bittersweet indie pop in 2018, but she did it her own way, and with impressive craft. Released when Allison was 20, these endlessly replayable songs have the prickly slouch of ’90s indie rock, but with wide-eyed vulnerability and bright melodies in place of ironic distance; the sharp eyes and conversational delivery of vintage Taylor Swift, but with more of real life’s mess. It’s tempting to dwell on just the first three tracks: the relationship dysfunction of dreamy ballad “Still Clean,” the vicarious imperturbability of swirling anthem “Cool,” and, especially, the damn-she-just-did-that Stooges reversal “Your Dog.” But the rest is also revelatory; the subdued finale “Wildflowers,” where Allison intones that she “found God on Sunday morning, layin’ next to you,” is a sigh of relief that leaves you gasping for more. –Marc Hogan

专辑《Clean》给人一种清新感，同样也给人窒息感。纳什维尔歌手兼词曲作者Sophie Allison远非2018年唯一一位在非专业录音室里制作苦乐参半的独立流行乐的专辑制作人，但她创作的方式异于他人，并且，她的制作技巧令人印象深刻。Allison 20岁时发行这张专辑，专辑中这些让人循环播放的歌曲带给人上世纪九十年代独立摇滚尖刺懒散的感觉，用不堪一击的脆弱和明亮的旋律代替用讽刺划清界限的幽默形式；Allison 善于捕捉细节，用对话的方式讲述歌曲，具有“Taylor Swift”般的典型风格，但是，她更侧重于描写现实生活的混乱。人们很容易沉湎于专辑前三首歌：梦幻般的民谣“Still Clean（依然干净)”，讲述的是恋人发生摩擦；旋转的颂歌“Cool（酷）”，讲述通过别人的一些行为，而表明自己想和对方一样变得沉着；最与众不同的是“Your Dog（你的狗）”这支单曲，让人惊讶于歌手竟然创作出这种歌曲，跟丑角合唱团的歌曲“I Wanna Be Your Dog（我想成为你的狗）”表达的含义完全相反。专辑剩余歌曲也很有启发性；Allison 用低音演唱终曲“Wildflowers（野花）”，她吟唱道自己“周日早上醒来，发现上帝躺在你身边”。这是一种解脱的叹息，让你喘不过气来。