Radiohead - The King of Limbs -Blog翻譯分享心得

很棒的文章，轉錄自
http://popstache.com/features/pop-vicious/radiohead-the-king-of-limbs-album-review/

以下是原文和不負責摘要還有不負責短評

Radiohead Officially Join the Internet Age. Wait. What?
Radiohead已經正式邁入網路新時代

Some might say that Radiohead leads the modern online era with its ‘pay as you please’ option for the band’s previous effort In Rainbows, but their quick retreat back to old practices (at least where payment was concerned) reveal that process to be nothing more than a singular idea, not a devotion.  Now, as The King of Limbs comes to listeners a full day early, having only been announced as existing FIVE days prior, a band that can honestly lay claim to changing the atmosphere of music forever release what they call a “newspaper album.”

Radiohead在2007年的In Rainbows改變了專輯付費的方式，下載想給多少錢買就給多少。不過新專輯沒這麼好康，不過這至少是個突破。

我認為-作者認為：如果一張專輯能很快速的發行推銷，專輯變得像報紙會成為改變潮流風氣的一種工具。

In an attempt to join in with younger statesmen acts such as Deerhunter and Animal Collective, both of whom have the ability to release material quickly and without the pomp and circumstance they are no doubt accustomed to by now, Radiohead just wants to be like everyone else.  This is not a statement about the music, but why can’t Radiohead make and release an album only to drop it surprisingly on the world without treating it like it’s a big event.

Deerhunter 和 Animal Collective利用合成樂器網路還有網路散播，

洗專輯速度跟余天鳳飛飛一樣。而且他們都蠻成功的

 Radiohead是一個完美主義的樂團，但Radiohead的歌迷都應該希望他們多產一點。

For Radiohead’s audience, it seems impossible to treat the band’s work with any kind of casual outlook.  Radiohead isn’t allowed to release albums that are only “really good,” each and everything the members do must be compared not only to what they have done in the past, but what they are still capable of in the future.

The King of Limbs shows listeners that the future for Radiohead is pride, not pessimism or fear. By releasing the album in the most out-of-the-blue fashion in modern times, Thom Yorke and company are telling the world that they are confident in what they do. Calling it a “newspaper” album clues us in that they might be able to deliver this level of quality every Sunday when they get together and plug in their instruments.

Radiohead的音樂和舉動都有劃時代的意義和突破(所以要做得更謹慎)

雖然等了挺久，但這張新專輯超棒! 

Thom Yorke擺脫苦情而且看起來更自信

一張好專輯要用的好聲音應該要更謹慎挑選

(後面那句我搞不太懂...)

Maybe the traditional album has shifted, but it is not gone.  Nick Drake’s Pink Moonwas recorded in hours, Smile came 30 years late, why can’t Radiohead deliver a masterpiece whenever it wants to?  Great albums from any era can defy tradition.  The big change for Radiohead is that the band seems relaxed, as if this album is their way of not banging their heads against a wall somewhere over meticulous notions, or debating their album down to a perfected science.

Nick Drake一張專輯製作了三十年...好專輯仍是需要時間醞釀的

Radiohead沒那麼誇張，不過整體來說，這些碎拍歌曲聽起來很完美

而且十分和諧自然。

(一張做太久的音樂專輯會有很多想法靈感互相衝突)

The truest beauty of The King of Limbs comes from the feeling that this eminence is what listeners will find anytime they walk into Radiohead’s creative space, as if Radiohead has truly become some kind of mythical creature, always sounding its call to the masses from afar.

The King of Limbs最棒的地方是驚人的情境營造，聽眾可以很自然進入頓幻的境界

Growing gentler in their maturity might not have panned out on In Rainbows. The more explosive material previewed during Radiohead’s live performances that ended up relegated to a side disc of In Rainbows showed that the band still had the angry vigor to lead within them, but that they were choosing to withhold that to make a more manipulated artistic statement.

In Rainbow專輯只是提供一種新音樂性的發展，Radiohead的現場演出才能真正解釋出概念
作者在後面補充，Radiohead在現場演出會嘗試各式元素，
等到玩得差不多才會挑好的整合進入專輯
(專輯太客氣...你們啥時才要來台灣阿)

On The King of Limbs, Radiohead’s maturity seems sincere over dour, as if it were a necessity to the music itself and not simply the intention of the artists.  Closing this latest artistic statement with the unbelievably breezy “Separator,” Radiohead again returns to the exciting territory not heard since Hail to the Thief’s closer“Wolf at the Door.”  While In Rainbows arrived with unimaginable to-do, it came off as far too casual affair, as if Radiohead had become what its detractors always thought it was.  Now, with an album in everyone’s hands and headsets less than 200 hours after the world learned of its life, Radiohead has casually delivered what could be the band’s greatest album in over a decade.


The King of Limbs當中，他們的構思詮釋更為成熟，
如此嚴謹的前衛的音樂聽起來順耳得不可思議，雞蛋裡面快沒骨頭挑了...
他們還會紅十年

As seen in the simultaneously released video for the jittery “Lotus Flower,” Thom Yorke showcases his wild stage antics in a way that would have blown younger, unsure Thom’s mind. Trying to figure it out over the band’s entire career, the wily front man and his spectacular cohorts have finally found out what truly being themselves means and the listener is rewarded greatly.

Thom Yorke另人屏息的佛舞...沒人知道他的真面目，
不過聽眾們可開心了(尤其是台灣的鄉民們)，歌很棒倒是真的

Radiohead’s course is unclear for the first time and it seems the band relish the ability to do as they please, not only with the absence of restraint from a record label as they exhibited with In Rainbows, but from themselves as well.

Will the next album take the standard three to four years Radiohead usually set aside to create?  Will the next thing the band releases even be a full album? The answers come from the band itself and the members’ self-coined (and naturally enigmatic) term for the release of The King of Limbs: do newspapers only come out once every couple of years?

看到Radiohead如此為所欲為也不錯，表示他們沒被過去的自己箝制住

希望他們的產量能多一點，不要像這次讓聽眾等三年半

(因為現在做音樂的方式改變，聽眾口味也改變迅速，更快速迎合似乎對他們比較好?)

And in the so-called era of the dying album and print, what are newspapers and records supposed to be?  Do they become extinct?  Do they evolve? Do they define the past or is there a place for them in the future as well?  Radiohead knows exactly where it is, and for the first time in ten years, the band does not have to worry about plotting a course or living up to anyone’s expectations but their own.

實體CD快要滅絕，一張專輯12首歌50分鐘的發行方式也快要落伍，
(把專輯長度縮短像這次只釋出8首歌似乎是個好方法，現在很多樂團都發行長EP，
發行間隔時間短，樂迷不用等太久就可以聽到新歌)

不過至少Radiohead出了一張好專輯。

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翻到後來人有點壞掉了...這文章很難懂，夸號的部分是我自己補充的

如果有錯誤請不吝指正

這篇文章在講說未來的音樂要怎麼生存...尤其是大家最近都不怎麼買CD了

Radiohead一直是走在時代尖端的樂團，從他們身上可以嗅出未來音樂的風貌

這張作品真的很棒，複雜的電子節拍，壯觀的音樂性，快慢相間十分過癮

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