【搬运】【译】滚石Rolling Stone评St. Vincent 2014年专辑《St. Vincent》（同名）

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翻译：Jayleen Zhao

审译：Whitney.L

排版：Ryan-Chopin

Annie Clark (a.k.a. St. Vincent) isn’t just a great songwriter. She’s a great song dissector, breaking down pop’s essential rhythmic, melodic and emotional components, retooling every impulse. No wonder her fourth album has a lushly distracted jam where she and a boy smash up and snort a hunk of the Berlin Wall (“Prince Johnny”) – finding new uses for old structures is kind of her thing.

Annie Clark (又名St. Vincent) 不仅是一名伟大的作曲家，更是一名伟大的歌曲分析家，她对流行音乐的基本节奏、旋律和情感成分进行了分解，重塑了每一种意向。这也就解释了这张专辑中的那段令人心烦意乱的插曲“Prince Johnny”，歌里唱到她和一个男孩撞毁了一大块柏林墙，歌曲内容也很开放，带给人极大的联想性，毕竟破旧立新是她的专长之一。St. Vincent is her tightest, tensest, best set of songs to date, with wry, twisty beats pushing her lovably ornery melodies toward grueling revelations. On the spring-grooved “Rattlesnake,” a clothes-free walk turns dangerous; the poetic, personal “Huey Newton,” named after the assassinated Black Panther, starts out shyly and explodes into mordant sludge rock; “Psychopath” is where her Kate Bush side and her David Byrne side (see their 2012 collaboration, Love This Giant) come together for a white-knuckled road anthem. Two live drummers – Homer Steinweiss of Brooklyn funk troupe the Dap-Kings and Midlake’s McKenzie Smith – help give the music a propulsive snap that plays perfectly off Clark’s chunky guitar noise. This album is haunted by isolation, dark hungers, regret and even death. But the playful way these songs contort makes pain feel like a party.

《St. Vincent》是她迄今为止最紧凑、最爽直、最优秀的一张专辑，扭曲的节奏，将她可爱而又暴躁的旋律推向了恼人的真相。充满动感电子鼓点的“Rattlesnake”，描绘了一丝不挂的自己步伐突然变得沉重;富有诗意个性的“Huey Newton”，以被暗杀的黑豹党创始人休伊牛顿命名，歌曲一开始很冷静，然而副歌部分变得热烈辛辣，仿佛正在爆炸的泥块;“Psychopath”结合了Annie崇拜的歌手Kate Bush和歌手David Byrne的风格(参考2012年Annie与David Byrne合作的专辑《Love This Giant》），谱出一首节奏感强烈的公路赞歌。Annie与来自布鲁克林骤停打击乐乐队Dap-Kings的鼓手Homer Steinweiss和Midlake乐队的鼓手McKenzie Smith一同合作，他们赋予音乐一个推进的瞬间，完美地演绎出Clark厚实的吉他音色。这张专辑充斥着孤独、对黑暗的渴望、遗憾甚至死亡。然而，Annie却用扭曲戏谑的方式呈现出这些歌曲，则让疼痛感化作一场派对。