【搬运译】叉婊Pitchfork评Charli XCX 2011年单曲"Nuclear Seasons"

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

On "Stay Away", Charli XCX's excellent single from earlier this year, the UK electro-pop singer built a slow-burning kiss-off of a pop song with low-lying synths, industrial textures, and a whole lot of shadowy atmosphere. We've seen what she can do with darkness and melancholia; new single "Nuclear Seasons", then, comes across as lighter at first, as her impressively versatile voice squiggles and squeaks around the song's neon architecture. There's still plenty of heaviness to this one, though-- check that menacing low end, reminiscent of Ladytron's most grandiose and lush moments. Like "Stay Away", "Nuclear Seasons" is unavoidably reminiscent of the synth-laden electronic pop dreams of the 1980s; but also like its predecessor, that debt to the past is immediately paid off by how deliciously rewarding this song is in the here and now.

在今年早些时候Charli XCX发布的优秀单曲“Stay Away”中，这位英国电子流行歌手用低沉的合成器、工业噪音和浓厚阴暗的氛围效果器构建出一首缓慢燃烧的流行热吻。我们已然看到了她对黑暗和忧郁掌控的能力；那么，新的单曲“Nuclear Seasons”一开始相较而言就显得比较轻松，她那令人印象深刻的富于变化的人声在歌曲的霓虹环境中暗涌。不过，这首曲子仍有着很多沉重的感觉——那汹涌的低频，不禁让人想起Ladytron麾下最宏伟和繁盛的时刻。像“Stay Away”一样，“Nuclear Seasons”不可避免地让人想起1980年代那个充满合成器的电子流行音乐梦幻时代；但也同它的前辈一样，这首歌在此时此地所带来的美妙回报，立刻偿还了它对过往的亏欠。