【搬运译】Pitchfork评Mount Eerie /Julie Doiron 单曲《Love Without Possess

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翻译：June Hess

审译：Emma.Z

排版：Ryan-Chopin

In comparison to Mount Eerie’s stark, autobiographical recent work, the new song “Love Without Possession” feels downright communal. It is a calm, clear-eyed meditation on love as a word, a mythology, and a natural event with the power to devastate and heal. This exploration takes place in both the music and lyrics. Phil Elverum, who has spent the last few years performing and recording entirely alone, is now accompanied by Julie Doiron, a singer who served as a formative influence on his earliest work (via her ’90s group Eric’s Trip) and a fruitful collaborator (on 2008’s Lost Wisdom). Together, they tell a story that’s less narrative-based than the last two Mount Eerie albums but just as personal and profound.

与Mount Eerie近期那个鲜明的自传体式作品相比，新歌《Love Without Possession(不占有的爱)》给人一种沉着深思的感觉。将爱情视为一个神话，一个具有毁灭和治愈力量的自然而然发生的事情，这种探索同时表现在音乐和歌词中。Phil Elverum在过去几年里一直在独自表演和录制唱片，现在陪伴他的是Julie Doiron。Julie Doiron是一名歌手，对他早期的作品产生了影响(通过她90年代的乐队Eric’s Trip)，同时也是一个很棒的的合作伙伴(2008年的《Lost Wisdom（跨界音乐）》)。他们一起讲述了一个故事，虽然没有前两张专辑那么有叙事性，但是都具有深刻意义。

Atop Elverum’s strumming acoustic guitar, an earthy arrangement builds from the sheer force of their imagery: Elverum’s reference to the void summons a low, echoing buzz while Doiron’s vision of an unrealized future gains momentum with a rising drumbeat. Both singers are able to form melodies from the natural cadence of their words (“Magma embroidering,” “Exhale to dissipate,” “Smouldering”) so that just reading the lyric sheet can create a kind of musicality in your mind. After two albums whose lyrics detailed Elverum’s personal life with essayistic precision, his songwriting here finds equal purpose from a zoomed-out perspective. “Love,” he and Doiron sing together, “A small word unable to hold/While we stretch at its meaning.” Together they find resonance in its dissolving, singing to one another through the fog.

伴随着Elverum漫不经心的吉他声，一种朴实的安排完全建立在他们想象力之上:Elverum对虚空的引用发出低沉的回声，而Doiron对未实现的未来愿景随着鼓点的升高而放大。两位歌手都能根据歌词的自然韵律形成旋律(“岩浆刺绣”、“呼气消散”、“闷”)，所以只是阅读歌词就能在你的脑海中创造出一种音乐感觉。之前的两张专辑的歌词以散文形式精确的描绘了Elverum的个人生活，从更细微的角度来看，他此时的歌曲创作也是同样的目的。“爱”，他和Doiron一起唱道，“单个字眼无法形容，我们仍在延伸它的含义。”他们一起在消溶中找到共鸣，在雾霭中彼此歌唱。