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.
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link
i hate how dance songs don't just randomly change tempos in the the middle of the song
― bozack horseman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
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!)
― well-behaved wingmen really hate Mystery (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
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/
― Indexed, Friday, 3 October 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
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
― Indexed, Friday, 3 October 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
downloading
― please delete outrageous tanuki crappyposter (wins), Friday, 3 October 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
for real tho
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 6 October 2014 06:09 (nine years ago) link
PC Worship rules so far!! thanks pitchfork!
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
Get into Dreebs if you haven't already too
― Life is full of shopportunities (fgti), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
ya holy shit this pc monster is rad. even through one earbud at work
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
pc worship is fucking dope.
― billstevejim, Friday, 10 October 2014 04:55 (nine years ago) link
"Message boards have always been my favorite mode of communication" - Owen P.
<3 <3 <3
― Karl Malone, Friday, 10 October 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
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
― marcos, Friday, 10 October 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
I loved that one so much
― rad het chilly poppers (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 10 October 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
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.
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 14:05 (nine years ago) link
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...
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
I feel like I'm watching a kid build a sandcastle at the same time he's kicking it down.
― fgti, Friday, 17 October 2014 04:52 (nine years ago) link
That new Parkay Court song is a Teenage Cool Kids cover.But the reviewer doesn't know it I guess..
― nostormo, Friday, 17 October 2014 10:08 (nine years ago) link
Isn't the singer of Teenage Cool Kids the singer of Parkay Farts?
― Position Position, Friday, 17 October 2014 14:05 (nine years ago) link
The album, which, like 2011’s Tomboy, was co-produced with former Spiritualized member Pete Kember, aka Sonic Boom.
larrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyy
― schlump, Friday, 24 October 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 27 October 2014 13:01 (nine years ago) link
"i found it on the goog"
― Karl Malone, Monday, 27 October 2014 13:02 (nine years ago) link
the lifespan of a fact
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Monday, 27 October 2014 13:18 (nine years ago) link
you'd really think they would get the search function working well after all these years.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
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
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
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/
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Thursday, 30 October 2014 07:10 (nine years ago) link
Apparently, Adam Granofsky is his birth name
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 30 October 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
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?
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
actually, this is about ethics in music journalism
― ILOVEMASONNA (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
just another mistake in a series of at least 10 quintillion by my count
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
pitchfork is the woooorrst *reads pitchfork*
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
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
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 30 October 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
Gandecielo
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 30 October 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
I just realized I've had Sun Kil Moon mixed up with Smog this whole time.
― how's life, Thursday, 30 October 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
to be of (ab)use
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 30 October 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
War On Drugs: Suck My Dong
― Evan, Thursday, 30 October 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
p4k features has been a sea of white dudes recently, they need to get on this shit
http://oi59.tinypic.com/auds0o.jpghttp://oi61.tinypic.com/nnmete.jpghttp://oi59.tinypic.com/2vdl44x.jpg
― marcos, Monday, 10 November 2014 13:57 (nine years ago) link
Hey look, there's Killer Mike somewhere in there. He's not white.
― voodoo chili, Monday, 10 November 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
^^^^^progress!!!!!!!!!
― ichabron crames (slothroprhymes), Monday, 10 November 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
iceage
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 November 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
fwiw Black Constellation also not white, but not pictured
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 November 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
the only thing i would read on there is the out door thing. in fact, i might actually go look for it. the rest is zzzzzzzzzzzzzz....no offense to ilxor pitchfork people old and new. #onelove
― scott seward, Monday, 10 November 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
(aphex twin is so deadly boring to read about. and i love andy beta!) (maybe i should read that now in the interest of fairness...)
― scott seward, Monday, 10 November 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
this is a good review of an album i'm enjoying a lot right now. everyone should get this cd:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19164-yg-my-krazy-life/
― scott seward, Monday, 10 November 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
Well there was at least that small chunk of articles that you skipped between The Outdoor and Caribou.
― MarkoP, Monday, 10 November 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
xpost that YG record would be borderline perfect if not for "do it to ya" and "me & my bitch" - former bc it's hot trash and latter is just super meh and it being sequenced after "do it" almost irreperably fucks the momentum of the album in the gallbladder but fortunately "who do you love" is there to save the day
― ichabron crames (slothroprhymes), Monday, 10 November 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
totally good stuff on here:
http://pitchfork.com/features/the-out-door/9521-overlooked-experimental-records-2014/
was debating buying that naked island LP on discogs just the other day. one of the dudes from starving weirdos who i love a ton.
― scott seward, Monday, 10 November 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
yeah the out door is great! definitely one of my favorite things on the internet.
― tylerw, Monday, 10 November 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
but maybe that belongs on the pitchfork is OK! (#34985859340293849494 in a series.) thread
― tylerw, Monday, 10 November 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
i went to the chain store across the street this morning to get barrel brothers album and step brothers album and they didn't have either one cuz they are SO LAME!! lamest store on earth. total Deviant Type Titans over there in that mess. so, i did end up getting the YG on cd and i'm glad i did cuz it sounds amazing on cd and on my big-ass tandy-brand foghat speakers. and i got schoolboy q at a reduced price. but not the deluxe edition. i ain't going on no fuckin' amazon for some skyzoo. kinda one of the only minuses about living around here. maple syrup up the ass but no skyzoo in sight.
― scott seward, Monday, 10 November 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link