搬運自：微信公眾號【評論搬一堆】（在原文基礎(chǔ)上添加了英語原文與排版調(diào)整）

翻譯：Jayleen Zhao

審譯：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) 不僅是一名偉大的作曲家，更是一名偉大的歌曲分析家，她對流行音樂的基本節(jié)奏、旋律和情感成分進行了分解，重塑了每一種意向。這也就解釋了這張專輯中的那段令人心煩意亂的插曲“Prince Johnny”，歌里唱到她和一個男孩撞毀了一大塊柏林墻，歌曲內(nèi)容也很開放，帶給人極大的聯(lián)想性，畢竟破舊立新是她的專長之一。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》是她迄今為止最緊湊、最爽直、最優(yōu)秀的一張專輯，扭曲的節(jié)奏，將她可愛而又暴躁的旋律推向了惱人的真相。充滿動感電子鼓點的“Rattlesnake”，描繪了一絲不掛的自己步伐突然變得沉重;富有詩意個性的“Huey Newton”，以被暗殺的黑豹黨創(chuàng)始人休伊牛頓命名，歌曲一開始很冷靜，然而副歌部分變得熱烈辛辣，仿佛正在爆炸的泥塊;“Psychopath”結(jié)合了Annie崇拜的歌手Kate Bush和歌手David Byrne的風(fēng)格(參考2012年Annie與David Byrne合作的專輯《Love This Giant》），譜出一首節(jié)奏感強烈的公路贊歌。Annie與來自布魯克林驟停打擊樂樂隊Dap-Kings的鼓手Homer Steinweiss和Midlake樂隊的鼓手McKenzie Smith一同合作，他們賦予音樂一個推進的瞬間，完美地演繹出Clark厚實的吉他音色。這張專輯充斥著孤獨、對黑暗的渴望、遺憾甚至死亡。然而，Annie卻用扭曲戲謔的方式呈現(xiàn)出這些歌曲，則讓疼痛感化作一場派對。