【搬运】【译】叉婊Pitchfork评Grimes 2015年单曲《Flesh Without Blood》

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

This year's proven to be a good time forlong-awaited comebacks. Sleater-Kinney hath returned, Joanna Newsom’s thrownher harp back into the ring, and Adele’s now knocking on your door with"Hello". Meanwhile, fans are ready to bust down Rihanna and FrankOcean’s doors for new albums. And Claire Boucher too has been taking her sweettime to release her fourth record. Last fall, she revealed that she scrappedher already highly-awaited follow-up to Visions because "it sucked."Then earlier this year she fed her fans one salvaged piece of the thrown-awayproject, the addictive "REALiTi", which was labeled a demo but soundsnear-perfect. Somehow, it just made all the waiting worse. This is the sort ofmusic Grimes was throwing away?

今年（2015年）看来是歌迷们期待已久的回归好时机。Sleater-Kinney回归，Joanna Newsom重新带着她的竖琴跳进音乐群，甚至Adele敲着你家门说“Hello”。同时，歌迷们已经准备好为Rihanna和Frank Ocean的新专辑闯进他们家大门。而Claire Boucher也一直在花时间筹备她的第四张专辑。去年秋天，她透露说她放弃了曾寄以厚望的《Visions》的后续作品，因为“它很糟糕”。但却在今年早些时候，她为她的歌迷准备了一个被废弃的项目的残余部分——那个令人上瘾的“REALiTi”，虽然被标记作一个Demo，但听起来近乎完美。不知何故，它只是让所有的焦急等待变得愈加难以忍受。这就是Grimes扔掉的那种音乐？

But "Flesh without Blood", thefirst taste of her forthcoming album Art Angels, is here to stay. "Youclaw, you fight, you loo-oo-se," she begins the four-minute track, ablow-out pop song. Running underneath the track’s punchy, metallic drumsreminiscent of those on Visions is something new for Boucher: a pop-punkevoking guitar riff. Perhaps this is her take on "bro art," the looseterm she’s used to describe the music that inspired Art Angels. But if there isanything bro-y about "Flesh without Blood", released with a video setin California’s kitsch hotel Madonna Inn, it’s that it has serious swagger asthe album’s introduction.

但是“Flesh without Blood”——她即将发行的专辑《Art Angels》的试吃品，已然站稳了脚跟。从“You claw, you fight, you loo-oo-se,”引入她开始了这首四分钟的歌曲。这是一首爆炸性的流行歌曲，在这首曲子强劲的金属节奏下，让人联想到《Visions》中的那些鼓声，但一个唤起流行朋克的吉他riff对Boucher来说是一个新的尝试。也许这正是她对“bro art”的看法，她用这一宽泛的术语来描述那些激发《Art Angels》灵感的音乐。但如果说“Flesh without Blood”有什么“bro”之处，那就是它作为专辑的引子充斥着实实在在的豪放不羁。

Sure, the energetic instrumentals andloop-de-loop vocals might make you itch for a definable chorus. But Grimes’signature, dark, electronic minimalism is fleshed out here as complicated butsugary pop. "I saw a light in you, going out as I closed our window,"she sings. "You never liked me anyway." 2012 Grimes would havemournfully whisper-sung that proclamation; here she’s boldly, loudly over it,choosing to set off Art Angels like a firecracker.

当然，精力充沛的乐器和循环播放的人声可能会让你渴望一个明确的副歌。但是，Grimes标志性的、黑暗的、电子的极简主义已然在这里被充实为复杂、含糖过度的流行音乐。她唱道“I saw a light in you, going out as I closed our window.”但时间回到2012年，那时的Grimes更可能会哀怨地低声唱出“You never liked me anyway”；如今在这里，她大胆地、大声地唱出来、超越过往，选择像鞭炮一样引爆《Art Angels》。