OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

That reads better tbh

I have a BS in copy

'Permeate', tbh, has needed a couple decades in the penalty box for... at least a couple decades

It was a revolution of the solar cycle ago when Dylan Carlson and this writer exchanged passionate thrusts of verbosity. No rheumy eruptions could be detected from where I resided, like all hominid creation, in a prison of flesh.

I'm getting this needlepointed.

Dylan Carlson and this writer exchanged passionate thrusts of verbosity.

can believe this

Is everyone taking Tom Watson inspired user names now?

Just changed mine again so we don't get too many people being flagrantly ceremonious.

how do we go about inviting tom watson to ilm btw

"Swarm of Antipathy" sounds like a Suffocation song (or album title).

speaking of antipathy

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/25/8840233/art-metal

"what value is there in saying that I like Rihanna and Tegan and Sara? Everybody likes Rihanna and Tegan and Sara."

that's the kind of thing that makes me want to stop talking about music in any medium in case there's even a sliver of a chance I come off like that

from what I understand of this dude though that isn't the kind of emotion he wrestles with right

I thought that piece was overall quite good. Are you saying that one part ruined the whole thing for you?

are any of those bands particularly arty? they're all pretty accessible through the medium of weed.

deboer way too self-impressed shocker

Think about the audience, though. This piece is on Vox - therefore it's aimed at, and being read by, half-aspie Poli Sci nerds who think listening to Sleater-Kinney means they're still hardcore, even though they spend all day fellating members of Congress in print. Introducing those people to metal is tough work, and even though to the half-aspie music nerds of ILM all these bands are gonna be the usual suspects and last decade's news, there are still plenty of people who've never heard them. Also, I like this part; it's a sentiment that needs emphasizing more often:

"If you don’t like it, you don’t like it. This is music, not church. 'It’s not for me' is one of the most freeing, most useful statements you can make."

Honestly, it's not perfect or anything, the High On Fire blurb in particular is kinda lazy (though I like the fact that he rides for Snakes for the Divine, 'cause I like that album a lot too - a clean production job really benefited them). But overall, the writing is much better - in terms of quality of prose, clarity of thinking, and absence of glaring spelling errors and grammatical fuck-ups - than 90 percent of Pitchfork, never mind the shit that usually lands in this thread. And frankly, that Tom Watson guy has set way too fucking high a bar for someone who can come up with something as funny as "The last time I tried to play a Sunn 0))) album I caught my dog writing a suicide note" to clear.

Based on this evidence, I would much rather read DeBoer on music than on politics.

the thought is sophomoric

half-aspie Poli Sci nerds who think listening to Sleater-Kinney means they're still hardcore

yawn at ever thinking of an audience in this way

yeah I mean doing a piece like this with a plan to appeal to your hypothetical audience's worst hypothetical nature just seems sad and self-defeating

point ...................................................... you

^ permeating slow-broiling illegitimacy imo

If Tom Watson never makes it here I could try to post more like him, if you like

should I have any idea what that means

lmao freddie deboer's debut dive into the DC media spawning tank and it's THIS

i can't type lololololololol enough

Man "half-aspie" is gross & mean

are you surprised

a 9/10 review of a deserving album but horrifying on pretty much every other level:
http://www.spin.com/2015/06/review-vince-staples-summertime-06/

writer seems like a real charmer too
http://defamer.gawker.com/read-the-insanely-weird-emails-this-music-journalist-se-1413243759

that kind of nonsense is what ILX sometimes sounds like at its worst

i agree, he does kind of write like ljagger

to borrow a phrase of WC’s

that writing is so early 2000s, it's kind of adorable in its just-outta-undergrad righteousness.

that whole "i just blew your mind, can you even stand it???1!!!" tone.

i mean i think people do still write "i'm blowing your mind" pieces (hot takes ahoy), but now they're couched in concern-troll language instead of openly oozing spite.

So ILM is still doing "aspie" in 2015, huh? Maybe we can bring back "cripple" and "spastic" if we work real hard.

Is there, like, a non-ableist word we can use for "aspie"/"autist" that describes when someone attention to detail and weird obsessions move from being cute/passionate to being a little... unhealthy?

Because I would don't want to surrender my right to make fun of posts like this

lol they put pierce after poehler alphabetically

― da croupier, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 7:32 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was kinda hoping P-Z would be totally out of order after that, which would be a wainish bit of random humor, but no

― da croupier, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 7:34 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Editor’s note: It has been brought to SPIN’s attention that this review, published last week, includes factual inaccuracies about Staples (such as an implication about drug use) and language that has been interpreted as stereotypical or racially insensitive. We regret these oversights during the editing process, take full responsibility for the error in judgment, and apologize to anyone who was offended.

^ forgot to also apologise for the burdensome writing, protracted metaphors and doleful point-making, but at least it's a start eh?

"It has been brought to SPIN’s attention" jfc

given that the issue likely had much to do with it being rushed into publication without an editor or subeditor looking it at properly, that seems like a fair and candid choice of words

https://twitter.com/kissoutthejams/status/606094147448143872

so the editorial oversight is no one on earth looked at it before hitting publish

editorial is "over" putting their "sight" on what they publish

as sympathetic as I am to editors/copy editors not getting work, I think the more likely scenario is that an editor looked at it and didn't see a thing wrong

oh definitely

(for the record, when I wrote for spin the line edits I got back were quite good; different editor though)

lmao freddie deboer's debut dive into the DC media spawning tank and it's THIS

i can't type lololololololol enough

― goole, Friday, June 26, 2015 1:53 PM (1 week ago

rly starting to hate this dude

are you on twitter j? his last honest working class metalhead scold act was in fine form today

yes that is why the hate can't be left in peace to die naturally

This is a breakup record on a number of levels—the most obvious one being the dissolution of a romantic relationship, but also a split with the guitar as a primary instrument of expression and even the end of the notion that Tame Impala is anything besides Kevin Parker and a touring band of hired guns.