【搬运译】叉婊Pitchfork评2010年 AP's HG单曲"Round and Round"

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：豆目豆科

Ariel Pink has been ahead of the game too long. Over the last decade, he's been crafting the kind of dreamy, AM-radio-nostalgic pop that's recently become pervasive in indie music, sparking a reappraisal of his music. It's hard to know how much Ariel's output is responsible for a new crop of musicians running their own tracks through crusty VHS tapes to capture that hazy analog ambiance, but it's hard to deny that Pink's public access-style demo jams sounded like a lot of what now gets called chillwave as far back as 2002.

Ariel Pink已经在这一领域中领先太久。过去的十年里，他一直在倾心制作那梦幻般、午夜怀旧电台式的流行乐，如今这种声音在独立音乐中层出不穷，引重燃起对Ariel音乐的审视。我们很难知道Ariel的作品在多大程度上对这一批新人音乐家选择用破旧的VHS录像带播放自己的曲目以捕捉那种朦胧的拟真氛围产生影响，但很难否认，Pink早在2002年便开创的声音，开放式、具有Demo感的音乐听起来像很多如今被称作chillwave的东西。

It makes sense, then, that he'd be among the first to take that sound to its logical conclusion. "Round and Round", Ariel's first single since switching from the Animal Collective-operated Paw Tracks label to veteran indie stable 4AD, is by far his most polished and accessible song yet. By ditching his previous layers of tape-decay for a karaoke-studio sheen, Pink evokes the sort of dusty 80s radio pop singles you find on defunct regional labels in thrift store bins. As much of a leap forward as his killer "Can't Hear My Eyes" single was in late '08, "Round and Round"'s rollerskate verses and crazy-melodic John Hughes prom chorus officially puts him on another level.

如此一来，将他视作第一个将这种声音领入世界的奠基人也就很河狸了。“Round and Round”是Ariel从Animal Collective经营的Paw Tracks厂牌跳槽到老牌独立唱片公司4AD后的第一首单曲，也是他迄今为止最精炼和最容易接受的歌曲。抛弃他以往腐旧破烂的磁带感，转而附上卡拉OK工作室的精致光泽，Pink带你重温了只能在旧货店垃圾箱里找到的那中尘封已久的80s电台流行曲。同他在08年底发行的炸裂单曲“Can't Hear My Eyes”单曲一样，“Round and Round”顺滑的词作同John Hughes式疯狂舞会副歌正式将他的声音推向另一个位面。