pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

LOL they just compared Zooey Deschanel to Daniel Johnston

On its self-titled debut, this Vancouver "garage soul" band does a faithful, playful recreation of 1960s girl-group sounds, filtered through proudly grimy production.

this is like the ur-pitchfork band description

I think, perhaps, that this article gives the impression, or maybe confirms the suspicion, that Pitchfork pays, not by the word, but by the, comma

er article sentence

is it just me or is it a a bit weird that pfork runs a long review of the new amadou & mariam album (one that longs for more sounds of their homeland) without the slightest mention of the military coup currently taking place in mali?

This is a good piece addressing the phenomenon of Western media ignoring the political realities of Mali in their reporting on Malian musicians (in this case, Tinariwen):
http://blog.afropop.org/2012/04/tinariwen-mali-and-failure-of-western.html

cool will read

CMG again...err, what?

http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6879/gotye-makingmirrors-2011

omfg

thinking maybe this site deserves its own thread, Pitchfork hasn't been on this path since like 2004

[The lights slowly come back up on 31, still tapping on his laptop. As the conversation between 26 and Dom fades to murmurs, Christopher’s Mom, aka HNIC (HEAD NAGGER IN CHARGE), walks in.]

:o

they've been doing this for years guys

also about a million viciously mean things popped into my head to say about the dude who wrote that that I will keep to myself and replace with:

I did not enjoy that at all.

Rating: Whisper-Quiet-Maytag-Dishwasher%

tbh that was the funniest thing dude wrote

i really hope the dude who wrote that isn't 31.

or 26 for that matter.

I like how he name-drops other CMG staff writers.

cokemachineglow, you are reliably terrible

^ it's true

it at least got me to listen to the goyte song, which isn't bad

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13564-honeycomb/

glad they took the time to post this gem, really hearing the track in a new light now

sarcasm?

can't be

idgi

This headline amuses me for some reason

New Yeasayer: "Henrietta"

CDs of song sent to fans on the band's mailing list

Art design in this is pretty shitty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZWC6gaYIaU

oh come on it's great!

http://futureoftheleftv2now.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/based-on-novel-of-same-name.html

man responding to a review like that is jut not a good look

nah its funny

i skimmed it, but there was also the fleet foxes dude who got offended because of a generally positive pfork review a few weeks ago, because it misused some music terms and dared to be slightly critical. actually that was pretty hilarious.

unreadable

you're unreadable

I don't mind these when they are funny, as this one is.

As for the cover, well, there’s a penguin on it you stupid cunt.

Also, I did kinda like him calling Pitchfork on the "corporate" name-calling thing.

i always enjoy reading Ian Cohen takedowns of bands i've never heard, and that Future Of The Left review was the rare one that actually made me want to hear the band's (other) records because he sold their merits pretty convincingly. and then i tried to read the FOTL guy's pointless nitpicking response and lost the desire to listen to them again.

also he admits it's a dumb idea in the first sentence

bands stay getting butthurt

Many things occurred to me on reading your review of the new future of the left record 'the plot against common sense' and I would like to take this opportunity to debate with you some of the points you raise in the piece, although of course by 'debate' I mean 'shut up and listen to me'.

^^this kind of thing doesn't come off as butthurt so much as fucking hilarious

yeah maybe -- tbf i haven't read it yet

the fleet foxes dude thing was remarkable in its butthurtedness

falkous' whole thing is being perpetually outraged in hilarious fashion so this is more "in character" than "butthurt"

on the other hand, i am a huge FOTL fan and could not make it through that whole thing

the fact that the whole thing kind of winds down with "wahhh, you like my old band more than my current band" makes it all seem pretty butthurt imo

let's parse out the many degrees and shades of butthurtedness

i believe there are 50 shades

hehe

i love mcclusky, haven't heard much FOTL, but i laughed out a lot when i read the piece. i wasn't rolling on the floor laughing but it was laughing nevertheless

hahaha n/a

fotlmao

yeah this was pretty funny and IMO well-deserved

when the subject of the review doesn't even understand the references used in it nor the interpretations of the lyrics, something's wrong

when the subject of the review isn't from the same country as the reviewer it's pretty inevitable, isn't it?