pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

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

War On Drugs: Suck My Dong

p4k features has been a sea of white dudes recently, they need to get on this shit

http://oi59.tinypic.com/auds0o.jpg
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Hey look, there's Killer Mike somewhere in there. He's not white.

^^^^^progress!!!!!!!!!

iceage

fwiw Black Constellation also not white, but not pictured

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

(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...)

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/

Well there was at least that small chunk of articles that you skipped between The Outdoor and Caribou.

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

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.

yeah the out door is great! definitely one of my favorite things on the internet.

but maybe that belongs on the pitchfork is OK! (#34985859340293849494 in a series.) thread

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.

the bonus tracks on that schoolboy record aren't any good (the album itself is v enjoyable and great in places), so no loss there

yeah figured as much. and the schoolboy album is great, but i wanted to hear this on my big speakerz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aWWdMBrtA0

i need that

Yeah I loved that Overlooked Experimental column <3 <3

p4k is druuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunk giving this azealia banks album an 8 i gotta say

this is otm:

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)

still the rap record of the year, tho, unless RTJ overtakes it in these last two months. hard to imagine that happening; i played "Krazy" almost nonstop all summer

a-wax is up there for me, but it's kind of depressing to play all the time

^^ need to hear that

admittedly, YG is a standout in a rough year for rap albums

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)

this is an extremely wrong opinion -- one of the reasons why the album is so strong is because the R&B tracks are incredible

wut, i mean "me & my bitch" isn't bad, per se, just kinda a step down whereas idk how much syrup was consumed to make "do it to ya" sound like a good idea imo

i havent listened to krazy life all the way through - w/o skipping those tracks - in a while tho, so a reevaluation in full is in order

i agree with slothrop, what is incredible about the r&b tracks? they're so boring. rest of the album is what's excellent

i should've said that they're incredible for being obvious for-the-ladies tracks, but they're also just very good songs in their own right. you guys really can't vibe to "me & my bitch" what the hell? both of those songs are classic smooth summer songs.

in a sense YG lucked out that mustardwave has encompassed thugged out male R&B singing, it really keeps 'my krazy life' afloat and fits right in the tone of the album. i mean the legacy of rap albums that sag because ill-fitting R&B songs are shoehorned into the tracklist is obvious? "do it to ya" & "me & my bitch" remind me of how t.i. snuck "why you wanna" into 'king' (except times 2)

i highly recommend hearing the album on CD thru good speakers. if that's possible. sounds so friggin' cool. loud too. listen loud. they did a great job with the disc. kinda tempted to go buy the Future album just to hear it thru my big speakers at work. bet that would sound awesome.

i love the flow of the YG album.

YG/Future are amazing, but lets all just agree that RTJ2 is better