Fresh grief, like fresh love, has a way of sharpening our vision and bringing on painful clarifications. No matter how temporary we know these states to be, the vulnerability and transformation they demand can overpower the strongest among us. Then there are the rare, fertile moments when both occur, when mourning and limerence heighten, complicate and explain each other; the...(展开全部) Fresh grief, like fresh love, has a way of sharpening our vision and bringing on painful clarifications. No matter how temporary we know these states to be, the vulnerability and transformation they demand can overpower the strongest among us. Then there are the rare, fertile moments when both occur, when mourning and limerence heighten, complicate and explain each other; the songs that comprise Angel Olsen’s Big Time were forged in such a whiplash. Big Time is an album about the expansive power of new love, but this brightness and optimism is tempered by a profound and layered sense of loss. During Olsen’s process of coming to terms with her queerness and confronting the traumas that had been keeping her from fully accepting herself, she felt it was time to come out to her parents, a hurdle she’d been avoiding for some time. “Finally, at the ripe age of 34, I was free to be me,” she said. Three days later, her father died and shortly after her mother passed away. The shards of this grief—the shortening of her chance to finally be seen more fully by her parents— are scattered throughout the album. Three weeks after her mother’s funeral she was in the studio, recording this incredibly wise and tender new album. Loss has long been a subject of Olsen’s elegiac songs, but few can write elegies with quite the reckless energy as she. If that bursting-at-the-seams, running downhill energy has come to seem intractable to her work, this album proves Olsen is now writing from a more rooted place of clarity. She’s working with an elastic, expansive mastery of her voice—both sonically and artistically. These are songs not just about transformational mourning, but of finding freedom and joy in the privations as they come.
词作上最偏爱“Thanks for the free ride and all of the good times”的释然;曲作上最偏爱《Right Now》的朗朗和《Go Home》里“AM”的遗风。心上人的出现使我们注定我们不会再听到Angel Olsen在《Lark》里那样惊天动地的嘶鸣;不过无妨,《Big Time》还是拥有这个时代最好的一种茫茫莽莽。
原文地址: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/06/angel-olsen-sees-your-pain 刊登于《纽约客》2022年6月刊 原文 by Amanda Petrusich, May 30, 2022 翻译 by me 译者按:偶然间读到后很受触动,看到了一个更加脆弱却依旧勇敢的Angel Olsen,她从伤痛中走出来,并将...
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译者按:Jenn Pelly用极其精妙繁复的雅言完成了对Olsen新专辑《Big Time》的review;我想原文与这张专辑里的诗意是相合的。 在过去的十余年中,Angel Olsen所创作歌集中钢索般流利的文笔向来以存在于思绪中的情绪重量为根据——“Hiding out inside my head”;“I like the th...
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她在《All the flowers》里唱到“I'd spend the hours counting all the flowers/I'll gone so fast, I'll fly/Across the midnight sky”;在《Through the fires》里唱到“To love without boundary and put it to use, /To remember the ghost who exists in the past, /But...
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14 有用 W.L.N 2022-06-03 10:13:39
100/100 只听先行曲还低估了…乡村和钢琴芭乐各半 旋律依旧太脆弱太优美 她的创作轨迹虽然是可预测的(热恋-失恋-恢复平静心态下追求更加具有普适性的“片刻永恒”(即“big time”)集合早期独立摇滚和后All Mirrors时代堆积的内省氛围和弦乐加成的大融合虽然也是早已料到的 但她并没因此损失个人特质 那就是一张好专辑 可对打同样颇具漂亮国风味的《Saint Cloud》 喜爱1/2/4... 100/100 只听先行曲还低估了…乡村和钢琴芭乐各半 旋律依旧太脆弱太优美 她的创作轨迹虽然是可预测的(热恋-失恋-恢复平静心态下追求更加具有普适性的“片刻永恒”(即“big time”)集合早期独立摇滚和后All Mirrors时代堆积的内省氛围和弦乐加成的大融合虽然也是早已料到的 但她并没因此损失个人特质 那就是一张好专辑 可对打同样颇具漂亮国风味的《Saint Cloud》 喜爱1/2/4/5/6/9/10 另:她的收尾曲无人能敌 (展开)
3 有用 Kurtmark 2022-07-19 22:35:41
妈的 美哭了 有几轨太动人。 我相信在写这些旋律与歌词时,她的过往流年,她的迷茫与伤痛,都被隐隐包含进了一份伟大的时刻中,一些生命中无比虚无渺小却真正伟大的时刻。
3 有用 Faceless Man 2022-06-24 07:35:19
这就是夏天该听的高级音乐,在热浪中耳朵享受到的一缕冷风,瞬间在地铁的酸臭人海中感受到冰冷的孤独感,以及淡淡的忧伤。
3 有用 锐利修蕊 2023-07-04 20:07:41 北京
go home和最后一首听哭了😭
6 有用 才睡醒 2022-06-03 13:42:00
词作上最偏爱“Thanks for the free ride and all of the good times”的释然;曲作上最偏爱《Right Now》的朗朗和《Go Home》里“AM”的遗风。心上人的出现使我们注定我们不会再听到Angel Olsen在《Lark》里那样惊天动地的嘶鸣;不过无妨,《Big Time》还是拥有这个时代最好的一种茫茫莽莽。
0 有用 Travesti 2024-09-29 20:49:19 江苏
轻盈忧伤的酷儿音乐
1 有用 篝火 2024-04-12 09:22:19 山东
當代,好聽,嗓子真是天生的美。
1 有用 呼吸钟摆 2024-01-08 21:04:55 美国
2024年初的冬天又聽起來了。走在路上不停回想到白説的,頭腦理不出擠滿痛苦的每一個場景的順序,才明白想象中的痛苦比眼前的痛苦要清晰數倍。眼前的痛苦朦朧,不斷生長、盤旋,貼著骨骼,卻不可見。痛苦是個活物。
0 有用 Shakir o︿o 2024-09-16 12:43:23 北京
美丽空灵是她一贯的标签,但这次她的重心似乎放在了精神上,缺少了些活力 7/10
1 有用 江南 2024-04-15 21:37:44 四川
没有想到她会选择用乡村乐作为表达载体并以更为“传统”的形式去进行情感的描摹,那些清澈的温柔的器乐的弹拨轻按恰到好处地让情绪漫散而开,而也正是这样的正统与朴素让她关于悲苦与心碎的书写更加真实与动人,笔触更为轻盈和柔和,而相比之下她又承受着更沉重更绝望的痛苦。