hey now
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 April 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
this brings up that thing by bringing up other things.
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2015/04/against_indie_new_albums_from_modest_mouse_sufjan_stevens_and_more_show.html
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 April 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link
in a nutshell: belle & sebastian are going DOWN.
yes, I'm sure a Decemberists show evokes the same level of hysteria as a One Direction show.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 April 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
dud: predictable "i know nothing about sports here's some artsy indie track i like" responsesthe people that said they knew nothing about baseball picked songs by Future, Amerie, and ACDC― bae sremmurd (monotony), Wednesday, April 8, 2015 6:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkhow dare you go against the narrative― call all destroyer, Wednesday, April 8, 2015 6:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkThere's 2 "indie" bands on there, Led Savy Fav and Oh Sees which both rock and are catchy as hell― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, April 9, 2015 8:02 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkLol at ilx no nothings acting like every band they haven't heard is like The Decemberists― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, April 9, 2015 8:02 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkI would like to know what Led Savy Fav sound like. Sort of an indie rock take on Dread Zeppelin maybe?― Position Position, Thursday, April 9, 2015 8:24 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkdoofheaven are indie.― scott seward, Thursday, April 9, 2015 8:26 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink^^^― Mordy, Thursday, April 9, 2015 9:10 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the people that said they knew nothing about baseball picked songs by Future, Amerie, and ACDC
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Wednesday, April 8, 2015 6:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
how dare you go against the narrative
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, April 8, 2015 6:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
There's 2 "indie" bands on there, Led Savy Fav and Oh Sees which both rock and are catchy as hell
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, April 9, 2015 8:02 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Lol at ilx no nothings acting like every band they haven't heard is like The Decemberists
I would like to know what Led Savy Fav sound like. Sort of an indie rock take on Dread Zeppelin maybe?
― Position Position, Thursday, April 9, 2015 8:24 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
doofheaven are indie.
― scott seward, Thursday, April 9, 2015 8:26 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^
― Mordy, Thursday, April 9, 2015 9:10 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ilm i love hate love hate love hate you
― alpine static, Thursday, 9 April 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
this is so sadhttp://pitchfork.com/thepitch/732-coachella-was-our-woodstock/
― flappy bird, Saturday, 11 April 2015 09:53 (nine years ago) link
what the fuck?
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 11 April 2015 12:56 (nine years ago) link
I lol'd
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 11 April 2015 13:49 (nine years ago) link
The only drought that concerned us was the drought between Kasabian albums.
lmao
good article
― Leonard Pine, Saturday, 11 April 2015 15:15 (nine years ago) link
You’ll never know what it was like to live half in a waking dream and half in a never-ending War On Drugs blog post.
good stuff
― creaks, whines and trife (s.clover), Saturday, 11 April 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
"Generation Steampunk By Necessity" is my fave...
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 April 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link
for realz, just lemme know when ilx-centric reviews pop up, cuz i swear they are the best to read. and they usually aren't 4000 dreary words on the new album by some dreary thing i don't want to hear. this is a really good rock review!
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20430-batu-malablab-suite-for-prepared-piano-flute-and-electronics/
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/17437-downtown-boys-monstro/
The band's singer was about as happy about that writeup as you might expect. From Twitter:
"i don't speak spanish so idk what's happening and i don't I like it" - Pitchfork + most major music publications on songs w/ spanish lyrics
"My Spanish is shot, but I figure Victoria Ruiz is meant to be understood better through her energy than her words anyway" seriously guys?
Gonna put in our next press release that our songs are actually in a made up language mix of Elvish + Icelandic I bet they'll translate that
"we could have easily looked up what these Spanish words meant ANYWHERE but we don't care enough to do so because English is better"
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
oh huh a lot of out of context tweets suddenly make sense
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
yeah wow, that's not a well written review.
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
Enter Downtown Boys, self-billed as a "bi bilingual political dance sax punk party from Providence," which, okay.
― NotKnowPotato (stevie), Thursday, 16 April 2015 10:28 (nine years ago) link
A moratorium, please, on comparing synthy indie records to John Hughes soundtracks, especially as most of them don't actually sound like John Hughes soundtracks.
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20345-glitterbug/
― Continue your brooding monologue (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:58 (nine years ago) link
BWIP BOM BOMCHKCHK-CHK AH!
― NotKnowPotato (stevie), Thursday, 16 April 2015 14:20 (nine years ago) link
this had to be written by an ILMer
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/719-in-defense-of-fangirls/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=general&utm_campaign=thepitch
― Daukins (Arctic Noon Auk), Thursday, 16 April 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/peanuts/images/e/ed/Charlie-brown-1-sad.jpg
― NotKnowPotato (stevie), Thursday, 16 April 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
That Downtown Boys review is hilarious. Adds more fuel to the "Is Pitchfork racist?" fire.
― austinato (Austin), Thursday, 16 April 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
Am I the only on who finds it weird - if not shocking - that Pitchfork has thus far ignored the new Built To Spill album, Built To Spill being one of the bands I used to very closely associate with Pitchfork, for better or worse?
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Monday, 20 April 2015 13:26 (nine years ago) link
the album comes out tomorrow. they don't seem to run reviews before the week of release very often (at least that had been the case for a number of years -- i was surprised recently that they ran a review of Mac McCaughan's album 3 weeks before its street date).
― some dude, Monday, 20 April 2015 13:33 (nine years ago) link
I thought this album was released on RSD?
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Monday, 20 April 2015 13:40 (nine years ago) link
maybe on vinyl or something? doesn't go on iTunes and stuff til Tuesday.
― some dude, Monday, 20 April 2015 13:44 (nine years ago) link
maybe Built to Spill are Country now
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 20 April 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link
*Asian
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Monday, 20 April 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link
yeah i think they moved to get the vinyl out for record store day early
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 20 April 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
I prefer the Asian Built To Spill to the Country Built To Spill, but I hear they're gonna put out a split 7" on Black Friday, so that'll probably be a 8.2 easy.
― Blood On The Knobs, Monday, 20 April 2015 18:42 (nine years ago) link
"Earlier this month, word arrived of a new album by the musician Jim O’Rourke. To some people this will mean a great deal; to the other 99.99% percent of the population it will mean nothing at all."
"A quick show of hands among Pitchfork contributors showed a low level of Jim O’Rourke recognition[...]"
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http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/745-jim-orourke-on-drag-city-a-primer/
― flappy bird, Monday, 20 April 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
i can see how younger people might not be super familiar -- he's been pretty low profile for about a decade now.
― tylerw, Monday, 20 April 2015 22:27 (nine years ago) link
haha i think of O'Rourke as kind of the first artist that Pitchfork had a really tortured love/hate relationship with
― some dude, Monday, 20 April 2015 22:37 (nine years ago) link
oh right isn't there a review about how o'rourke ignored the writer at a party?
― tylerw, Monday, 20 April 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link
gastr del sol >>>> o'rourke
― the late great, Monday, 20 April 2015 22:52 (nine years ago) link
I can't wait to measure Mike Powell's career in a show of hands
― got a long list of ilxors (fgti), Monday, 20 April 2015 23:04 (nine years ago) link
lol
jim o'rourke is good, and he should put insignificance on itunes
― markers, Monday, 20 April 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link
imo mike powell is a great writer, that downtown boys blurb is lazy garbage though
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 20 April 2015 23:34 (nine years ago) link
"O’Rourke's first Drag City record—four long instrumentals led by fingerpicked acoustic guitar—took up the project of the Beach Boys circa Smile or what the guitarist John Fahey called “American Primitivism”: Acoustic music that put an alien perspective on old forms."
like imo this is a very precise description
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 20 April 2015 23:39 (nine years ago) link
he kinda gave short shrift to insignificance and halfway to a threeway though. "Not Sport, Marital Art" is the best song ever
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 00:16 (nine years ago) link
true tho
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 00:25 (nine years ago) link
which means Pitchfork belongs to the .01 percent.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 00:26 (nine years ago) link
brad otm, doubt pitchfork has a better writer
def capable of hackwork; but sins, stones
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 00:34 (nine years ago) link
if there's anybody I'd trust for a retrospective it's Mike Powell.
(I only know O'Rourke as a producer and guy on board for three good to excellent SY albums).
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 00:40 (nine years ago) link
dissing "All Downhill from Here" and then comparing it to Collective Soul......... .... .... .... .. .... .. .
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 00:48 (nine years ago) link
i'd rather listen to collective soul. they had some decent riffs.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 01:00 (nine years ago) link
I too have been thrilled by a bar band playing December
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 01:14 (nine years ago) link
Well tbf there are only so many hours in a day in which to pontificate on the minutiae of rap mixtapes
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 03:10 (nine years ago) link
"I can't wait to measure Mike Powell's career in a show of hands"
are you jk w/ this shit
― soyrev, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 03:44 (nine years ago) link
imo this is an extremely valuable service
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 04:57 (nine years ago) link
FSA's Dave Pearce came to Terrastock for his first U.S. performance, but none of his usual collaborators made the trip. Instead, he was backed by Chicagoan Jim O'Rourke, who overpowered Pearce's gentle picking with his white-noise guitar, and ruined the vibe by telling a dumb and seemingly endless joke midway through the set.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 05:18 (nine years ago) link