译Pitchfork评90年代150张最佳专辑第28名：Bjrk: Post (1995)
翻译：thesweetescape
原文链接：https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-best-albums-of-the-1990s/
It’s a tale as old as time: a girl from the wilderness hits it big, moves to the city during her Saturn Return, starts clubbing, finds herself amid the chaos and solitude, and makes an art-pop masterpiece. Alternating between feral and tender songs, 1995’s Post is a portal into the pulsing sensuality of British trip-hop and electronica as seen through Björk’s eyes. Like 1993’s Debut, the sound is highly eclectic—from the surprisingly faithful cover of Betty Hutton’s “It’s Oh So Quiet” to the twinges of baroque music—but Post marks the first time Björk really stepped into the tastemaker role she occupies to this day, assembling collaborators from across the underground (Tricky, Nellee Hooper, Graham Massey, Howie B) to work in service of her vision. The music follows the emotion: Every exclamation mark of the soul is met with a freaky horn blast or tribal drum break, every dark glance an industrial beat or a mysterious twinge of harpsichord. And with her supernaturally nimble voice and to-the-point poetry, Björk is able to articulate emotional scenarios with the clarity of discovering there is a foreign word for a feeling that remains ineffable in your mother tongue. On Post, this includes sex without touching, music as life force, death dreams that make you wake up grateful, and the way falling in love can feel like the world’s shortest fireworks display. It’s an album of apathy and desire, restlessness and freedom, capriciousness and control—in other words, Björk’s becoming.–Jill Mapes
这是个恒古的神话：（指“Army of Me”MV情节）一个来自荒芜之地的女孩，在蜕变成长过程中向城市高歌猛进，开始寻欢作乐，发现自己置身于混乱和孤独，却创造出一场非同寻常的流行盛宴。在粗犷与柔情间反复横跳，1995年的《Post》是Björk初次涉猎英式迷幻舞曲和电子音乐的感性匠心大作。如同1993年的处女作《Debut》，歌曲非常标新立异——从石破天惊地真挚翻唱演绎Betty Hutton’的歌曲“It’s Oh So Quiet”到大胆探索巴洛克音乐——但《Post》更标志着Björk成为潮流的领军人物，直至今日都是，专辑与多位地下音乐人合作（Tricky, Nellee Hooper, Graham Massey, Howie B），协助她做出理想音乐 。她的音乐受情绪驱动，灵魂的惊叹伴随着怪异的号角声或部落鼓声，暗黑的目光伴随着工业节拍或神秘的拨弦键琴。凭借变化莫测的嗓音和一针见血的诗韵歌词，Björk能够巧妙地营造情感氛围，就像突然发现一个无法用母语概括的外来词一样。在《Post》中，这可以是无肢体接触的鱼水之欢，点燃生活的音乐，让你醒来满怀感激的噩梦，随风而起的爱意。这是一张关于冷漠和欲望、躁动和自由、恣意和操纵的专辑——换句话说，Björk的成长历程。–Jill Mapes
