pretty disappointing that they have no drummer at all now, but understandable i guess
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
this reads like vice. I hate writing that attempts to make me feel uncool.
― owenf, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
what about threads
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
OK, for lack of a better thread and despite liking the article:http://pitchfork.com/features/resonant-frequency/8757-permission-to-avalanche-four-fragments-on-bass/
It's a thick, purple, crunchy record where all of the most interesting stuff is happening in the lowest octave. The structure had nothing to do with dubstep, but On the Bright Side seemed bent on transmitting emotional information by scrunching up the bass like a fist and hitting you where you live.
Maybe I am just listening wrong, but this is... not an album with heavy bass? There's a kick drum on that song, but most of the stuff is going on in the mid-range as far as I can tell? Maybe I'm just used to stuff with really low-octave bass, but it's puzzling.
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
did you listen to them with Beats by Dre?
― o _o⃑ (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
nah, on a decent stereo and with TMA-1 headphones, though!
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
Ah well, if these nights with such different-yet-complementary performers had taught me anything, it was that one person's garbage was another person's horcrux.
this is not okay.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
I am listening to On The Bright Side waiting for the interesting stuff to happen
I'm already halfway through it, so far the only vaguely interesting thing has been some metallic flange reverb on the percussion track in "A Better Shore"
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
(permission to) avalanche was the only song on that album i really dug, if only for the changeup at ~5:35
― o _o⃑ (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah it's not incredibly engaging but it had some nice remixes and such. It is the "by the numbers" project of the guy, to be fair.
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
one person's garbage was another person's horcrux
wat
I guess the way I read sites like Pitchfork is that I'll skim things about music it seems I might like, read articles or reviews by writers I do like, and kind of ignore the rest.
I guess that means I miss out on gems like that.
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
:o :o :o
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
I really want to say something about that but every time I try to I burst into laughter
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16425-action-bronson-blue-chips
holy shit this is difficult to read
god damn
― ilxor, Friday, 23 March 2012 06:26 (twelve years ago) link
nigh on unreadablecan we hear more about what he's "like"? christ on a cracker
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2012 06:33 (twelve years ago) link
rap critics who try to write w/ the lyrical flair of rappers almost always fall off that tightrope into total worthless bullshit imo
― internet somebody (some dude), Friday, 23 March 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
I think he needs to mention that some people compare Action Bronson to Ghostface Killah.
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
definitely prefer the days of "shit, cat" to this
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
That review is hilarious, like Eddie Murphy's Delirious. It's meritorious on the basis that it is merit-less, a new leader in nadir whose meaning grows fainter the more that it feints it, because you can't fake this.
Sorry, just had to spit a little.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 March 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
I think the review starts off a little rough, but explains AB's appeal pretty well as it moves along. I think the ghostface comparison is getting a little played at this point. Yeah we get it, it needs to be mentioned, but as a focus its a little hack at this point.
― Regional Tug (irrational), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
Too many comparisons to GhostdiniHis prose getting tangled like linguini
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
So I actually swung by the Pitchfork offices yesterday. Very spacious!
Also someone pretended to be me last week to get into the Pitchfork day party at SXSW. That was amusing to discover.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
not excusing the review but a lot of the first half is the reviewer interpolating AB's lyrics into the text of the review. you may know this, you may not.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
that kinda makes it worse
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
so AB is backpack rap?
― dayo, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
I'm glad that p4k is going back to mindmeltingly terrible after a few years of just being bland.
I just uncovered their video-game (or just game?) section Kill Screen the other day. I guess that's been going on for a little while, but somehow I hadn't noticed it. I'm really not sure what's going on there.
― beachville, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
something horrible is going on over at Kill Screen
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
also in what way was that review a "difficult read"
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
it's hard to read w/ a hand in front of your face
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, March 23, 2012 12:30 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark
also some ghostface lyrics
― come on a #KONY (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
i guess its a difficult read if you dont realise that?
― just sayin, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
idk i think it's pretty obvious that weiss paraphrasing the music he's referencing... i mean, nobody writes like that
― come on a #KONY (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
except Brent DiCrescenzo
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
I've never listened to AB before so I thought it was more of a schreiber does coltrane kind of thing
― dayo, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I figured most of those lyrics were quotes but its still really hacky and stupid
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
but not actually unreadable
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
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― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
i may have a vested interest here but this review really bothered me:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16309-the-end-of-that/
"[L]ike so much of the record, it initially sounds plainspoken and charming until you realize absolutely nobody talks like that."
criticizing a song for not sounding like people... talk??
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
^Actually unreadable
xpost
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
s1ocki, you ruined my joke, joke-blocker
And people actually do talk like that.
― beachville, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
haha that's a weird criticism
is that dude's platonic ideal of lyric writing "Popular" by Nada Surf
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
people in movies don't actually talk like people do irl
― dayo, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
people don't say irl in person!
― bnw, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
I have no idea about that album but I think this is a valid criticism in some form. It bothered me in Clerks b/c the whole appeal of that movie was that it was supposedly "real talk"!
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
they say "meatspace"
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
― bnw, Friday, March 23, 2012 1:26 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
I am the irl of sandwiches
― dayo, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
duke of irl
― bnw, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link