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Sophie Allison’s impeccably catchy new single channels ’90s alt rock through contemporary sound sculpture.

Sophie Allison無懈可擊的全新單曲以當(dāng)代視野雕琢牽引著九十年代的另類搖滾聲音。

Soccer Mommy’s Sophie Allison wears dissonance like camouflage, disguising the darkest dreams with bubblegum hooks and lacing sugar-coated vocals with salt. The contradiction disguises a cry for help; sweet melodies give cover to sour sentiment. Soccer Mommy has often used this technique to poke fun at Allison’s vulnerabilities, but on her latest song “Shotgun,” she welcomes the overwhelming—and often terrifying—surrender of letting yourself fall in love, knowing it’s probably going to hurt.

Soccer Mommy的Sophie Allison像是在偽裝，穿上了違和感十足衣服，用泡泡糖Hook來掩飾最黑暗的渴望，在甜蜜的人聲中撒鹽加料、點(diǎn)綴其中。以用矛盾掩飾求助的呼聲；以甜膩的旋律掩飾酸楚的情緒。Soccer Mommy經(jīng)常用這一技巧來嘲諷Allison的脆弱，但在她最新的歌曲“Shortgun”中，她與那讓自己義無反顧地墜入愛河的、往往也可怕至極的投降相迎，她也知道這有時會很疼。

Allison’s ear for vocal and guitar tones remains impeccable. “Shotgun” opens with a low-tuned sandpaper riff that’s gentle without being soft, before tumbling off a cliff into a dizzying hook that’s more melodic than logical. Her?new album?Sometimes, Forever?is her first to be produced by?Oneohtrix Point Never’s Daniel Lopatin, whose mastery of multitrack sound sculpture appears to have influenced the first single’s arrangement; Allison’s tones are still distinct, but where once there was air in the mix, there’s now density, clean guitars made rougher and more tightly wound with each new layer stacked atop one another.

Allison的耳朵對人聲和吉他音調(diào)的調(diào)控依舊無可挑剔。“Shotgun”以一個低調(diào)的沙紙結(jié)構(gòu)開場，溫和而不軟弱，隨后便從懸崖翻滾墜落，掉進(jìn)一個令人暈眩的Hook，這里旋律的存在遠(yuǎn)大于邏輯。她的新專輯《Sometimes, Forever》是她第一張由Oneohtrix Point Never的Daniel Lopatin制作的專輯，他對多軌聲道的精準(zhǔn)雕琢似乎也影響了這第一首單曲的整體布局；Allison的音調(diào)仍然鮮明，但在以往的混合中曾夾雜有空隙，如今已足夠緊密，干凈的吉他變得更為粗糙，每一次新的疊加都與先前的更為緊密地交錯纏繞。

There’s no telling what will happen when you hand a twentysomething musician known for bedroom recordings the keys to a fancy studio. But where some artists might find themselves a bit lost in the sauce, Allison is thriving, equipped with the tools to make a record as bombastic as the ones that first fueled her nostalgic ’90s alt rock dreams.

當(dāng)你把高級工作室的鑰匙交給一個曾以臥室錄音而聞名的20多歲的年輕音樂家時，你可能并不知道會發(fā)生什么。但是，在一些藝術(shù)家還在自己一團(tuán)糟的爛攤子中迷失方向時，Allison正茁壯成長，配備有各種工具來制作一張像那些最初助長她懷舊搖滾夢的90年代唱片一樣轟動世人的杰作。