Only With Laughter Can You Win

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共11首歌曲

艺人: Rosie Thomas
语种: 英语
厂牌: Sub Pop Records
发行时间: 2003年09月23日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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比起 2002 年的《 When We Were Small 》，Rosie Thomas 在 2003 年作品《Only With Laughter Can You Win 》中，展现了更多对生命的思考、对人生的体验，乡村色彩更淡、音乐上的个人风格也更强；在如冷冽圣歌轻柔吟咏，宛似开场白的 "Let Myself Fall" 之后，Rosie Thomas 拾回之前明亮温暖的调性，艺术感性十足地以 "I Play Music" 述说音乐创作的自我心路历程，"Red Rover" 以沧桑悠缓的调性诉说一幕幕童年回忆；"Sell All My Things" 的旅人情怀在洒脱中略带惆悵；"Crazy" 则以清淡口吻深刻阐述了艺术创作者看似疯狂实则寂寞的心境，皆下来的 "One More Day"、"All My Life" 抒发著对生命无尽的理想，接连到 "You And Me" 以钢琴伴奏、略带庄严、令人动容的真爱诚挚告白，以及 "Tell Me How" 对爱情真諦的无尽质问。"Gradually" 则展现出对成长的希望、略带忧心但又不断期勉自己的心态，逐渐加强的音乐强度，也充分展示这种决心。最后的 "Dialogue"，则有如一篇晶莹剔透的诗歌，在最简洁的音乐结构下，以近乎清唱的方式，深刻地对生命提出将何从何往的疑问，宛如一场平静的呐喊。

Rosie Thomas' sophomore album further explores the singer/songwriter's relationships with family, love, self, and her spirituality. Her sweetly childlike voice understates her weighty topics, giving a warm balance to the recordings, and her sunny melodies guide the songs to both logical conclusions and lingering questions. Gentle acoustic guitars and atmospheric instrumentation (including xylophones, pianos, and breathy electric guitar lines) support her multi-tracked vocals unobtrusively, allowing her gentle melismata to roll around the words, keeping her message free from misinterpretation. The positively victorious "You and Me" stands in sharp contrast to the rest of the songs, and while the music stays subdued and somber, her voice raises above its gentle whisper to a nearly testifyin' shout, illustrating her conviction to either her love or her faith (or both). On the album's highlight, "I Play Music," Thomas explains quite frankly to her audience, "I play music, that's what I do/And when I sing I lose myself/There's nothing more I'd rather do/Lord knows I've tried everything else." While this lyric is not groundbreaking or necessarily poetic, the pure naked force of her honesty shines through like a child's first question or a lover's drifting sleep talk.

Only With Laughter Can You Win

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