pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

"The failings of Alt-J's sophomore effort has" . . . i have never seen so many typos on a website but IT'S MY FAULT FOR NOTICING

aw, i actually really enjoyed the bluntness of that summary:

The failings of Alt-J's sophomore effort have little to do with hype or unfair standards and everything to do with the album in question being really dull and tuneless

the last record was such a miserable experience that it felt like a joke on the audience

and it also got bnm

New Miserable Experience

new perfume genius much better than old perfume genius imho

Loved that last PG record! No opinion on the new one yet...

At one that I saw in late 2012, he reminded me of a cat, drawing the audience in by pulling away, rolling over and showing his softer, playful side only to snap back into cool focus.

Oh yes I loved that tour

The show I saw, when his guitar player tried to rub his belly he scratched him hard enough to draw blood. Lots of gasps then applause.

let's focus on the bizarre mixed metaphor there

one thing i love about cats is how they just snap back into cool focus like *that*

I like the phrasing of the headline "Kendrick Lamar freestyles for six minutes on Power 106, gets interviewed." As if the interview happened because he freestyled for six minutes. "WHO ARE YOU? WHAT JUST HAPPENED?"

"tell. us. more."

gotta say that's the first time I've seen U2 accused of the music crime equivalent of using a time machine for the purposes of incest

Laughed hard

Oasis
(What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Big Brother; 1995/2014
By
Stuart Berman
; September 29, 2014
8.9
Best New Reissue

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Although "Chimes" may mark a step forward in one regard, it's also static in terms of tempo. The remix provided by prolific UK producer Gammer that bookends the EP suffers from the same problem: it's sped up and flecked with added percussion, but it also lacks a push-pull velocity change.

this is a very weird criticism.

i hate how dance songs don't just randomly change tempos in the the middle of the song

whoever wrote that clearly has no idea who Gammer is otherwise they would have noted how incongruous it is to have a happy hardcore doyen remixing Hudson Mohawke

(the preview of it on Beatport sounded neat just now fwiw!)

For five years, PC Worship have been the sort of amorphous New York ensemble that can only be defined by a series of question marks. Is this an improv noise collective? A "mutant soul band"? A casual experiment in home-recording? If so, why is their loft called Le Wallet? Did they really all meet as New School jazz majors? Is it true they build their own instruments? And why is one called "the shitar"?

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19845-pc-worship-social-rust/

PC Worship is, in essence, a twisted, low-pitched vision of subterranean psychedelia—variously made of bad-moon-lit trash-punk, droning minimalism, prepared pianos, and Albert Ayler-worshipping sax freak-outs

downloading

for real tho

PC Worship rules so far!! thanks pitchfork!

Get into Dreebs if you haven't already too

ya holy shit this pc monster is rad. even through one earbud at work

pc worship is fucking dope.

"Message boards have always been my favorite mode of communication" - Owen P.

<3 <3 <3

Bob Mould

Do you remember your first time using the internet?

Yes

Where were you?

My office in Austin, Texas

How did you access it?

AOL 14.4K

What did you search for?

Porn

What was your first impression?

Slow

I loved that one so much

this reads like it should be in forbes or something

Hell Can Wait is a debut for rapper Vince Staples, but it’s really a refinement, the end result of a years long search for the right producer. His jump to Def Jam is a case study in the enduring merit of good old-fashioned artist development.

It's their first hiphop bnm of the year, and the first half of the review is about how Vince Staples dislikes the rest of hiphop...

I feel like I'm watching a kid build a sandcastle at the same time he's kicking it down.

That new Parkay Court song is a Teenage Cool Kids cover.
But the reviewer doesn't know it I guess..

Isn't the singer of Teenage Cool Kids the singer of Parkay Farts?

The album, which, like 2011’s Tomboy, was co-produced with former Spiritualized member Pete Kember, aka Sonic Boom.

larrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyy

On September 30, Daniel Crespo, the mayor of the Los Angeles suburb of Bell Gardens, was shot and killed. It wasn’t a political assassination. His wife pulled the trigger. This event is utterly unrelated to Slow Dawns for Lost Conclusions, the second album by the dreamy, chamber-pop ensemble Bell Gardens.

"i found it on the goog"

the lifespan of a fact

you'd really think they would get the search function working well after all these years.

I like the idea that New York is all abuzz with trying to figure out just what is PC Worship's deal, so much mystery

Seems like pfork really oughta know Adam Granduciel's last name. Guess Kozelek has the last laugh here if his intention was to purposely mangle dude's name so just this sorta thing would happen. I'm anti-Koz in this thing but that's pretty good strategy. Also, unforgivable typos in this piece. And while we're at it - we're really still talking about this?

http://pitchfork.com/news/57253-mark-kozelek-adam-granofsky-blues/

Apparently, Adam Granofsky is his birth name

how could pitchfork not know that adam granduciel's real name is actually adam granduciel? they even ran an entire longform feature this year in which they talk about how his name is actually adam granofsky. how could they screw this up?

actually, this is about ethics in music journalism

just another mistake in a series of at least 10 quintillion by my count

pitchfork is the woooorrst *reads pitchfork*

From the earlier Pitchfork piece on War on Drugs:

In completing his first cassette, he labeled it “Granduciel,” a portmanteau and nickname given to him by a high school French teacher as a joke, a word-for-word translation of the English words in his real last name, Granofsky

Gandecielo

I just realized I've had Sun Kil Moon mixed up with Smog this whole time.

to be of (ab)use