【搬运】【译】叉婊Pitchfork评Blake Mills 2020年单曲“Vanishing Twin”

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 

Blake Mills accomplished a sleight of hand on Look, his 2018 album, by processing layers of guitars through vintage Roland synthesizers. “[Look] has more guitar on it than any other record I’ve made, but for people who care about that, it’s going to be so disappointing when they hear how un-guitar-y it is,” he told Pitchfork that year. As a producer and session musician, Mills specializes in this sort of nimble technical magic, sculpting the instrumental curves of albums like Perfume Genius’ No Shape, Alabama Shakes’ Sound & Color, and John Legend’s Darkness and Light.

Blake Mills在他2018年的专辑《Look》中完善了一项技巧——通过复古的Roland合成器来处理吉他的层次。他在那年接受Pitchfork采访时说道：“《Look》中用到的吉他比我做的任何其他唱片都多，但对于那些关心这一点的人来说，当他们听到我的作品几乎没有吉他时，可能会非常失望”他在那年告诉Pitchfork。作为一名制作人和录音师，Mills擅长灵活运用这种技术魔法，并将之融汇进 Perfume Genius的《No Shape》、Alabama Shakes的《Sound & Color》和John Legend的《Darkness and Light》等专辑的雕琢过程中。

“Vanishing Twin,” the first cut from Mills’ forthcoming LP Mutable Set, lands between the aquatic layers of Look and his earlier two solo albums of singer-songwriter material. Though Mills co-wrote the song with Cass McCombs, its individual pieces—hushed murmurs, a fluid little melody, airy swipes of strings and sax—bear Mills’ subtle touch and even keel. The compounded whole offers the all-encompassing warmth of sinking into an oversize couch for a nap, while displaying his ache for a distant connection in its slow-moving strokes. “Concealed between the flashing screens/there is a beam of love supreme,” he sings, offering a tempting invitation to step into the glowing void. Mills once again re-shapes the idea of what a singer-songwriter record “should” sound like. It feels good to disappear into something so gentle for a while.

“Vanishing Twin”是Mills即将发行的唱片《Mutable Set》中的第一支曲子，是介于《Look》和他早先的两张唱作人Solo专辑之间的作品。尽管Mills与Cass McCombs共同创作了这首歌，但它的各个部分——平静的低噪、流畅的旋律、悬在空中的弦乐和萨克斯——都有着独属Mills的微妙触感和匀称韵律。这个复合的整体给听众一种犹如陷入超大沙发中小憩的全方位的温暖，在旋律缓缓行进的同时，若即若离的触碰显示了他对远方血亲的思念。他唱道：“Concealed between the flashing screens/there is a beam of love supreme.”他为我们提供了一封诱人的邀请函，通向那发光的时空间隙。Mills再一次重塑了一个歌手兼词曲作家的唱片“应该”听起来是什么样的标准。即便是暂时消失、但在如此温柔的事物中消失感觉也不错。