pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

but most of those are, in one way or another, #onbrand targets for pitchfork - like you won't see anyone breaking ranks to trash the latest pile of body fluids and sounds known as ariel pink's pom pom

i miss these days http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9464-shine-on/

In some UK magazines grade inflation for big acts is so established that a three-star translates as a hatchet job. Likewise any Pitchfork grade below 7 I guess.

and video games reviews, where anything under 80% is a vicious pan

there's also a lot more than 25 albums that get released every week. reviewers frequently want to write about bands that they like. if they had 10 reviews a day instead of 5, they would probably get stuck reviewing more records that they actively dislike, and the average score would likely drop.

El-P Shares Run The Jewels 2 Clean Version

How is this a top news story?

In other news, new Sufjan album has front and back cover art

Because they are concerned with keeping the artists they helped break in the front of your mind and tied in with PF in the process. So anytime you think of the most successful artists in the indie world you think of pitchfork.

Perhaps the conversation has shifted, but I wanted to step up and defend ratings. Not Pitchfork's per se, but ratings in general. (It seems the problem with ratings, for me anyway, is a lack of dissent, but that's another argument).
As a consumer I find them a very useful starting point for discovering new music, especially when I'm doing some type of genre and/or catalog deep dive of music/band with which I'm unfamiliar.

Pitchfork was more fun when it gave 0.0s to Zaireeka and Boy with the Arab Strap.

It's amazing how fast backlash used to be. Arab Strap came out only two years after Sinister, and yet the pfork review talked about how belle and sebastian like they were this venerable institution that was letting down their fans with a "mediocre" record that "parodied" themselves. What was the expectation? I don't think disappointing sophomore albums are discussed this way anymore, especially if they follow fast on the heels of a classic. It's like time has sped up or something

arab strap was actually 0.8; i remember because it is the funniest pitchfork rating ever, to me. so close to a 1! but not quite 1-caliber.

I don't think disappointing sophomore albums are discussed this way anymore, especially if they follow fast on the heels of a classic.

i thought it was still the classic pfork move to laud the debut and shrug at the follow-up.

It's like time has sped up or something

unless it's a rapper who gets constant coverage on the basis of mixtapes and then gets their album panned, but that's more of a general issue.

Have to respect the algorithms of the software they use. The results are scientific and objective.

xp

So were those tweets from the author of that "unbearable whiteness" article ranting about white people real?

Twitter isnt real its just words

Are you a YT? xp

read that as "Are you a YouTube"

wait, did 龜 really mean "are you a YouTube"?

So did I

Seriously though, https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBDsRdxWsAAnEb9.jpg

tell me more

More what, context? That Twitter is the author of the article mention previously on the thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xctuMC9jCBk

please elaborate on why those tweets are notable, SurfaceKrystal

poor wites they never had a chance against this yung south asian writer, rip wites

all of those tweets otm

pitchfork is like the only place on earth that ever cared about deerhoof

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Deerhoof has been a consistant live draw for over a decade

"white people sure are excited about unbreakable kimmy schmidt"

lol

xpost well, she wasn't really done with white people in 2012

Notable? Oh I just thought it was quite funny

why

lol wolves circling

@ campreverb, I love ratings, but when they're fun and at the service of a good reading and listening experience, not "look at us scale the entire world of music and music writing on this metric of objectivity". My ideal rating system has always been Vice's music section tbh

my ideal rating system has always been dos and don'ts

xxp agreed, there just seemed to be a case being made earlier that ratings/listicles/best of's serve no purpose, and I while I think that point could be made for the latter 2, throwing ratings out with them is throwing the baby with the bathwater to me.

ideal system: CMJ's old RIYL.

finger paintings tweet otm

Kimmy Schmidt was great! I'm white btw

i don't see how she ever expects to get cast in a belle and sebastian movie with tweets like those

Yeah so Jenny Death gets 8.1 but not BNM... perfect example of PF walking their top-down branding tightrope. Gotta appease the kids who align their indie identity with DG image marketing, but not unnerve the Pomplamoose set.

http://www.big-t-shirts.com/ProdImages/big/792.jpg

unnerve the pomplamoose and pomplamoose the unnerved

is what they should be doing

I just want to post a comment below the review, goddammit!

open commenting on pitchfork is not a great idea.

well ok, but i just have one really important comment

for one review in particular

it's about how i make a living while working from the comfort of my home

post it here

wtf i can't c+p my home

just post everything here