pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

it's firing

it's a shitty mixed metaphor - cylinders do not click

unless they're referring to a different kind of cylinder than the kind used in combustion engines, in which case its even more wtf just sloppy, bad writing

A clicking sound from the engine generally means something bad in my experience

In which case the review is correct

Um, I think the writer pretty much fingered the sound of a bad motor

google "timing belt" to solve this one

i was just listening to Lone Star's *Firing On All Six* earlier today. great album. better band than soundgarden.

Um, I think the writer pretty much fingered the sound of a bad motor

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, December 8, 2016 3:00 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's a stretch, and maybe you're just joking, but I guess that could be it? Like, terrible punning-drunken-Uncle play on the album title? Surely not. err...right?

also was this album actually good? I have almost zero recollection of it beyond the singles

yes, but tbh I way prefer Superunknown

Clicking usually means you have a bad starter. Or maybe it's an electric car, and it's just clicking "on?" But wait, then it would have no cylinders. Hmm.

everything post-Hiro Yamamoto sucks imo

if you google "click on all cylinders" it seems to be used pretty widely, esp. in newspaper headlines. i'd usually seen "fire on all cylinders" but also who cares

they're doing "funny" now too

http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9984-the-year-in-disappointment-2016/

to be fair, most people don't know what the fuck they are writing half the time.

Always wanna read it A Moon Shaped Poop

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Badmotorfinger owns the zone

yeah it's got Outshined

i think they're saying matt cameron's drums are not recorded loud enough

The "The 20 Best Experimental Albums of 2016" list makes it clear why they felt the need to end the Out Door.

Jenny Hval is such a crock of shit.

otm

as is that list! (yeah I can still play here lol)

The "The 20 Best Experimental Albums of 2016" list makes it clear why they felt the need to end the Out Door.

Still you have to give them props for the concept

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/898/062/080.jpg

Website Devoted to Rapper Beefs and Bon Iver In Not Making Totally Awesome List of Experimental Music Albums Shockah

was wondering why there wasn't really any ambient in the electronic music list and i guess that's bc it's experimental

Website Devoted to Rapper Beefs and Bon Iver In Not Making Totally Awesome List of Experimental Music Albums Shockah

They actually did do a decent job of it until the Out Door got the boot though.

cool that Kaitlyn Aurelia Pablum got that second placement

all of these women, being ranked improperly

ikr where's katie gately

nah I'll listen to their playlist I guess

They actually did do a decent job of it until the Out Door got the boot though.

― Position Position, Friday, December 9, 2016 12:04 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I agree, that was one of the few things that I ever went to Pitchfork to read. Now I check in if I'm curious about Bill Murray or Solange or Stranger Things for some reason

agree that this site has declined since the conde nast deal but have you even listened to the solange album? why would it be out of scope for the site?

For one thing, I'm not really interested in pop music, generally speaking, but it isn't the pop music criticism that puts me off so much as the lifestyle reporting and obsession with celebrities doing celebrity things

the Solange album is not pop music. Glance at the Hot 100.

Didn't Seat At The Table reach #1 in the States? I'm sorry to use Solange as an example because I know very little about her music other than it seems to appeal to a wider demo than the music I like usually appeals to. I have never once glanced at the Hot 100, for instance, and unless Esperanza or Miranda Lambert or Erykah Badu is on there (probably the most 'popular' albums I liked in 2016) I'm pretty sure I haven't listened to anything on it.

Badu had an album in 2016?

that's his point

thought his point was that Spalding, Lambert and Badu were "probably the most 'popular' albums I liked in 2016"?

http://the-out-door.tumblr.com/

it wasn't on their experimental top 20 list, but that blessed initiative album that pfork reviewed today is a really great headphones listen - very tactile scrunchy foley artist music

the main thing i took from this thread is lex is pro-groping

that isn't remotely close to what I meant, come the fuck on

the main thing i took from this thread is lex is pro-groping

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, December 9, 2016 10:05 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jesus Christ dude...

lmao

this experimental music playlist is extremely woke and incredibly boring

not even sure most of this is really all that experimental? it's certainly not making me think 'whoa, i've not heard much like this before!'

would endorse anna meredith as the compositions are dynamic and arresting, maybe elysia crampton is doing some cool stuff too and tt is telling me to persist with amnesia scanner (and there MIGHT be something to that jefre chap) but really 'pablum' is the word for most of this stuff, it's a bland morass.

i guess you take what you can from this stuff but it really is a disappointing show

Oh haha wait here's Matmos :D

Oh there's something to Moor Mother too now. SALVAGING SOMETHING AT THE DEATH

i'll be honest with you, with something named "the out door" i expect a column dedicated to exploring the underwhelming final records by massively popular bands.

would read that column actually