搬運自：網易云音樂專欄【Music Online Zine Courier】（在原文基礎上添加了英語原文與排版調整）

翻譯：豆目豆科

Released last year on vinyl, the London duo’s cartoonish bootleg finally gets a digital release–it rips.

去年這個來自倫敦的二人組合卡通風試水專輯以黑膠發(fā)行，如今終于得以數(shù)字發(fā)行——它擲地有聲地炸裂！

London duo?Two Shell?emerged in 2019 with a lean, austere take on contemporary UK bass music that sounded right at home on?Livity Sound, the Bristol label that has spent the past decade forging a singular style out of sharp angles, metallic textures, and dusky shadows. Since their debut, though, their music has become more colorful, awash in giddy UK garage rhythms, hiccupping R&B snippets, and unusually chipper major-key synths. They’ve got a particular thing for?big, attention-grabbing samples—the kind that capture the ears of not just rapturous ravers but also copyright lawyers, which is presumably why some of the releases on their label Mainframe Audio have been vinyl-only.

倫敦二人組Two Shell于2019年首秀，對當代英國的貝斯音樂進行了精簡、樸素的再處理演繹，聽者就像置身于Livity Sound的大本營。這個布里斯托爾廠牌在過去十年里用銳利的標尺、金屬質地和昏暗陰影打造了一種獨特的音樂風格。不過，自他們首次亮相以來，他們的音樂變得更加豐富多彩，充斥著令人眼花繚亂的英國車庫節(jié)奏、斷斷續(xù)續(xù)的R&B片段，以及異常爽朗的大調合成器。他們熱衷于大的而抓人眼球的聲音切片——那種不僅能緊緊抓牢狂熱粉絲的耳朵，也同樣吸引著那些版權方，這可能也是他們的廠牌Mainframe Audio的部分作品只發(fā)行黑膠唱片的原因。

At least until now. “home,” originally pressed on wax last November, finally received a full digital release last week. Which is a good thing, because the tune’s a hoot. “home” dives into the party without a care in the world, brandishing a sped-up vocal melody over bubbly chords and a rollicking breakbeat. Like many bootlegs, it boasts a proudly unvarnished sound, and there’s something cartoonish about the whole mood, from the fluorescent tone colors to the Chipmunks-like vocal processing. To borrow a phrase from documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, it sounds fast, cheap, and out of control (in the best way!), like a scratched-up thrift-store LP played back at 45 on a Fisher-Price turntable. The song overflows with the simplest sort of joy; a tremolo-like filter applied to the voice suggests the fluttering nerves of a fresh infatuation. Which seems fitting: For those previously unfamiliar with the duo, this may be the start of something beautiful.

至少直到現(xiàn)在終于得以在數(shù)媒發(fā)行，這是件好事，這首曲子極為有趣，它值得?！癶ome”毫不做作地融入派對，在歡快的和弦和涌動的霹靂聲中蕩漾著開了倍速的旋律。同許多自制唱片一樣，它有著一種自信、不加粉飾的聲音，從熒光色澤到花栗鼠式的人聲處理，整個歌曲都縈繞著一種卡通氛圍。借用紀錄片導演Errol Morris的一句話來描述——“It sounds fast, cheap, and out of control (in the best way!)”，這首歌聽起來就像一張被刮壞的廉價唱片正以45轉速在費雪牌唱機上播放。洋溢著最簡易的歡樂；應用在聲音上類似顫音的濾波器暗示著一種新型情感毒品所帶來的飄忽不定的悸動感。對于那些先前不熟悉這一組合的人而言，作為美好事物的開端，這首歌似乎再合適不過。