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艺术家：罗伯特·福斯特（Robert Forster）
专辑名称：《草莓》（Strawberries）
发行年份：2025年
厂牌：Tapete唱片公司
音乐类型：创作歌手
音质：Mp3格式320千比特每秒 / FLAC格式（音轨）
总时长：36分35秒
总大小：85.9兆字节 / 203兆字节
网站：专辑预览
曲目列表：
1. 《向我复述》（3分34秒）
2. 《哭泣也美好》（2分27秒）
3. 《火车上的早餐》（7分56秒）
4. 《草莓》（3分23秒）
5. 《始终如一》（4分20秒）
6. 《如此遗憾》（5分34秒）
7. 《我深知愚昧》（3分55秒）
8. 《钻石》（5分29秒）
罗伯特·福斯特是一位罕见的艺术家，他既有辉煌的过往，当下的作品仍持续占据我们的喜爱。“上一张专辑非常私人化，”罗伯特说，“完成上一张专辑中的《她是斗士》后，我大约有一年时间没有写任何东西。后来我开始创作一些不同的歌曲，它们自然而然地涌现出来。我并没有明确的主题，只是风格更轻松，视角稍微跳出了自我。我觉得这样很好，这是一个我可以探索的新方向。” 指向这个新方向的第一首歌是《始终如一》，以充满暗示的对句开场：“有宣传，有真相/还有和你在一起时的一种感觉”。我们始终不知道背后隐藏着什么险恶情节，但这些歌词与华丽布吉节奏的微妙结合，暗示出一种通常不属于福斯特作品的隐秘性感。“这是我平时很少使用的语言，”他本人表示，“这意味着我没有陷入当下的处境，而是将自己推向外部，减少了自我倾诉，更多了趣味和故事性。”
事实证明，这位以电影导演视角观察世界的叙事者，擅长用经济而不带丝毫多愁善感的笔触书写浪漫故事，专辑的核心曲目《火车上的早餐》便是例证。这首近八分钟的歌曲讲述了一个酒吧里的微妙罗曼史：在满是橄榄球迷的酒吧中，两个格格不入的人最终在酒店共度一晚，故事以冷幽默的方式复述，其中“fuck”一词的使用堪称流行歌曲中最精准的时机把控。这首歌的灵感来源于罗伯特与音乐人儿子路易斯（Louis）为上一张专辑《蜡烛与火焰》巡演时穿越苏格兰的真实火车旅程，堪称罗伯特·福斯特最佳作品之列。而《我深知愚昧》则讲述了一段无回应的同性暗恋，是他最勇敢且动人的创作之一。值得一提的是，路易斯·福斯特在《如此遗憾》中以抒情主音吉他亮相，这首歌讲述了一个疲惫年轻摇滚明星的故事，以美丽的歌词“我遇见的人都未见过我最好的模样/没有”收尾。
正如专辑中的大部分歌曲，叙事者显然不是罗伯特本人，就像专辑轻快的开场曲《向我复述》中那位遇见法国女子的英语老师也不是他。“你的世界与我如此不同，”福斯特唱道，“我身处都市，你向往田园。”显然，这段关系注定无法长久，但正如他在下一首歌中所唱，“哭泣也美好”。当他的回声 vocals 融入乡村摇滚的节奏中，可以感受到福斯特与瑞典伴奏乐队的默契：制作人彼得·莫伦（Peter Moren，来自“彼得、比约恩和约翰”乐队）担任吉他手，约纳斯·托雷尔（Jonas Thorell）负责贝斯，马格努斯·奥尔松（Magnus Olsson）打鼓，莉娜·兰根多夫（Lina Langendorf）演奏多种木管乐器，安娜·阿曼（Anna Ahman）担任键盘手。福斯特在专辑内页中写道，创作理念是“带着一批歌曲来到一个城市，与当地音乐人用数周时间排练、录制、混音，然后带着完成的专辑离开”。本着这一精神，《草莓》几乎全部在斯德哥尔摩的INGRID录音室现场排练和录制，极少进行后期补录。
彼得·莫伦作为“去-between”乐队时期的长期粉丝，与罗伯特在2016年共同参演的澳大利亚音乐节上结识并建立默契。次年，他们与《草莓》乐队的核心成员（奥尔松和托雷尔）一起巡演，因此在录音开始前，他们的音乐共识已历经多年磨合。“与真正的创作者合作很棒，”彼得·莫伦回顾2024年9月至10月紧张专注的四周专辑制作期时说，“他有一种明确的方向感：‘这是我要做的事，这是我对自我的认知。’他以自己唯一的方式创作，在这个领域内变化和成长，但从未失去自我个性和优势。”
“在某种程度上，我想让我的唱片音效更具爆发力，”罗伯特·福斯特对这次合作的评价有所不同，“我想引入新的色彩。”
Artist: Robert Forster
Title: Strawberries
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: Tapete Records
Genre: Singer-Songwriter
Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 36:35
Total Size: 85.9 / 203 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
1. Tell It Back To Me (3:34)
2. Good To Cry (2:27)
3. Breakfast On The Train (7:56)
4. Strawberries (3:23)
5. All Of The Time (4:20)
6. Such A Shame (5:34)
7. Foolish I Know (3:55)
8. Diamonds (5:29)
Robert Forster is the rare case of an artist with a celebrated past whose current work continues to dominate our affections. "The last album was very personaI," says Robert, "I didn't write anything for about a year after I'd finished 'She's a Fighter' for the last album. And then I just started to write songs that were something a little bit else. They just came naturally. I didn't really have a theme, it was just sort of lighter, a situation a little bit outside of myself. And I thought that was good. That was a place I could go to." The first song to point in this new direction was "All of the Time", starting with the ominous couplet "There's propaganda and there's truth / And there's a feeling that I get when I'm with you". We never quite learn what sinister plot lurks in the background, but these words combined with the subtle suggestion of a glam boogie groove imply a certain clandestine sexiness not usually associated with the Forster canon. "It was just this sort of language that I normally didn't use," says the man himself, "It meant I wasn't going into my present situation. It just pushed me out there and made it less confessional. A lot more playful and and a lot more story-orientated as well." As it turns out, this storyteller who sees the world through the eyes of a film director, has a way with romantic fiction that is as emotionally involving as it is economical and free of all sentimentality, as show- cased on "Breakfast on the Train", the obvious centrepiece of the album. At almost eight minutes length, it tells the story of a not-so casual romance between the two odd ones out in a bar full of rugby fans who end up spending the night in a hotel, laconically retold with possibly the most perfectly timed use of the word "fuck" ever encountered in a pop song. Inspired by an actual train journey through Scotland touring the previous album, 'The Candle and the Flame', with his musician son, Louis, this epic is an indisputable addition to the pantheon of Robert Forster's best ever songs while "Foolish I Know", a tender tale of unrequited same-sex attraction, has to rank amongst his bravest and most beautiful. Louis Forster, by the way, also makes an impressive appearance on lyrical lead guitar in "Such a Shame", the moving story of an exhausted young rock star ending on the beautiful line "No one I've met has seen me yet at my best / No". As on most of the album, the narrator clearly isn't Forster himself, just as he's not the English teacher meeting a French woman in the album's bouncy opener "Tell it Back to Me". "Your world so different to mine", Forster sings, "I was corporate, you were folk." Clearly, this relationship was never going to last, but then again, as Robert observes in the next song, it's "good to cry". As his slapback echo vocals tuck into the rockabilly vibe of the song, you can hear Forster enjoying the company of his Swedish backing band: Producer Peter Moren (of Peter, Bjorn and John fame) on guitar, Jonas Thorell on bass and Magnus Olsson on drums, crucially augmented by Lina Langendorf on various woodwind instruments and Anna Ahman on keys. The idea, writes Forster in his liner notes, was "to arrive in a town with a clutch of songs, to rehearse, record and mix an album with local musicians over a number of weeks, and then leave with the record done." In this spirit, almost all of 'Strawberries' was rehearsed and arranged to be tracked live, with very few overdubs, at Stockholm's INGRID studios. Forster and Moren, a long-time fan from the times of the Go-Betweens, had met and bonded at an Australian festival they both played in 2016. They had toured together with the core of the Strawberries band (Olsson and Thorell) the year after that, so their musical common ground was well explored years before recordings began. "It's great working with someone who is truly an auteur," says Peter Moren, looking back on the intense, focussed four week period working on the album in September/October 2024, "That sense of direction that 'This is what I do, and this is who I am as I perceive it.' He does what he does in the only way he can and changes and evolves in that sphere, but never loses sight of his own personality and strengths." "I wanted to explode the sound of my records to an extent", is Robert Forster's somewhat different assessment of the collaboration, "I wanted to just bring in new colours."
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发表于 2025-5-28 07:31:15