专辑名称：Waves & The Both of Us
歌手姓名：Charlotte Sometimes
唱片公司：Geffen
发行日期：2008年05月06日
专辑流派：Alternative/Pop
专辑介绍：
Once, years ago, Charlotte Sometimes traveled out to a field in
Pennsylvania to perform at a balloon festival. She had no idea where
she'd ended up, and instead of the multitudes she imagined attended
such events, found only a handful of onlookers--festival workers, at
that. "High school," she explains, and it becomes a bit clearer how
this guitar-wielding, soul-bearing spark of a songstress spent her
formative years.From a children's book, she borrowed the name of a
precocious boarding school student who finds herself transported 40
years into the past, into the body of another girl. This curiously dark
story of time-travel and interchangeable identities, written in 1969 by
Penelope Farmer, captivated Charlotte and
embedded inside her restless mind the inspiration for detailing her own
exploits, into that tentative space between confrontation and escape.
The idea that you could actually be someone else--that people often did
adopt alter egos,depending on the circumstance--fascinated her.Maybe
the fact that she was adopted had something to do with it. For a long
time, Charlotte didn't have a clue about her actual birth date, or
ethnic background for that matter (her mother has blonde hair and blue
eyes; she does not). "The simple things that everyone else knows, you
don't know," she explains. "It doesn't seem like a big deal to anyone
else, but it's such a big deal when you're young and you don't know
anything about where you came from."Dead set on coming from somewhere,
she threw herself into the rigors of dance and musical theater until
age 14, when she traded in her leotard for a guitar.It was a relief,
she says, to no longer be forced to stare into a mirror all day and
told to suck in this and suck in that. Instead, she began writing songs
and playing them for people in her small town of Wall, New Jersey (just
north of Brick--no joke), eventually making treks to New York and, on
at least one occasion, to a poorly attended Pennsylvania balloon
festival.Charlotte Sometimes' enchanting debut full-length, Waves and
the Both of Us, is a product of insomnia, airplanes, and bodies of
water, not to mention countless hours of daydreaming to the mesmerizing
sounds of Billie Holiday, the Everly Brothers, Jeff Buckley, and Fiona
Apple, among others. An allusion to the year to which Farmer's
protagonist travels, the title isn't so much an overt reference to the
book as it is a recognition of the fact every one of us is stuck
somewhere, trying to be someone else, or at least play the role of one
of our personalities. Also named for one of its songs ("Waves and the
Both of Us"),the record tells a story of the currents that pass through
our lives, some more uplifting or traumatic than others, Charlotte
says. "It's about all the
different waves that live inside my head and heart, and how they affect
others,myself, and the person I want or pretend to be."It's difficult
to say whether Charlotte's onstage persona is an outlet from these
personalities or just one of them. Probably both. As a performer, she's
flippant and seductive, and as a songwriter, she gravitates toward the
shadier elements in life, like spiders and Valium ("Sweet Valium
High"), using the eclectic imagery to dissect the dynamics between
women and men. "The whole idea of the power struggle between a man and
a woman entertains me--the idea of what a woman's role is, if it's to
be submissive to a man, or if it's to be in charge of a man, if it's to
be equal to a man."Leave it to a Cypress Hill lyric to score one for
the girls. On "How I Could Just Kill a Man," Charlotte reinterprets the
refrain of a rap classic,graciously turning male bravado on its head.
It's a disarmingly upbeat and happy song colored with darkness and
condescension. Her warm, amber voice isn't murderous, per se, but you
believe it when she says she's "killed" men,metaphorically speaking.
And still, you smile and move your feet--proof once again that dancing
and misery are not
曲目列表：
1. Losing Sleep
2. How I Could Just Kill A Man
3. Waves and the Both of Us
4. Sweet Valium High
5. Ex Girlfriend Syndrome
6. AEIOU
7. Toy Soldier
8. This Is Only For Now
9. In Your Apartment
10. Army Men
11. Build the Moon
12. Pilot
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