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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5 有用 时青 2022-06-03 11:05:12
8.5 不认同评论区里说的先行曲是最好的 这张没有那么差 这张专辑的好 在于天使姐不在去构建于上张的宏大 在她经历的这一系列遭遇之后 她把音乐放置于山水之间 可能初听会觉得平淡 但里面的优雅的钢琴和相比上张克制了许多的弦乐还有合成器的使用都很适当
6 有用 tlmgt 2022-07-24 03:11:29
一切都不一样了。
8 有用 木一 2022-06-24 03:39:34
Americana气息让她的叙事更加本真而动人,又一张上半年最爱之一。
11 有用 特立独行的鞋 2022-06-03 09:06:31
从80sAmericana取经的天使奥尔森,充满温情的释然之作,姐姐你做起乡村来也有模有样的嘛
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 最幻想 2025-01-03 18:53:54 上海
还行
0 有用 三层阁楼 2024-07-16 16:17:37 加拿大
有时候觉得太慢了
0 有用 PonyYAM 2025-03-04 23:19:07 广东
为这张专辑落泪两次,分别是在ghost on最后接近曲目一半的纯伴奏以及chasing the sun最后钢琴与和声响起时 / ✂️:1-4、6、8-10
0 有用 月亮会保护你: 2024-05-14 09:21:22 北京
喜欢制作多于词作。
0 有用 kidd 2024-07-13 08:34:59 浙江
Good morning