pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

http://del.h-cdn.co/assets/15/30/320x180/gallery-1437512018-wayne-s-world-product-placement.gif

I think they could jazz up these press release stories by speculating that the corporate spokesperson was smoking a blunt while responding to the writer's emails.

If you’re a fan of cheesy snack foods and well-curated superhero film soundtracks, Doritos has developed just the thing for you.

If you’re a fan of cheesy snack foods and well-curated superhero film soundtracks, Doritos has developed just the thing for you.

sorry my keyboard is sticky from all the Doritos

props on them for digging up "Mr. Blue Sky" i haven't heard that song in a commercial in a while

bonkers
http://pitchfork.com/news/73115-father-john-mistys-bonkers-new-total-entertainment-forever-video-stars-macaulay-culkin-as-kurt-cobain/

did they steal that "bonkers" set from Adam Green's Aladdin movie?

If you’re a fan of cheesy snack foods and well-curated superhero film soundtracks, Doritos has developed just the thing for you.

Father John Misty Confirms That When He Bedded Taylor "Bonkers" Swift, There Were Virtual Dorito Crumbs in the Sheets

did they steal that "bonkers" set from Adam Green's Aladdin movie?

ask and ye shall receive. they saved that for the interview w Adam Green. PWND

jfc it feels like Pform is FJM's personal PR platform at this point, just stop it already

I will never not be funny that Pitchfork still runs lede grafs like this after 20 years

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/23086-digital-dance/

okay lol

like an old friend

That Software review is one of the more embarrassing ones I've seen in a while.

it's not perfect but that Software album definitely dserves far better than that write-up and lowest billing for the day

Like honestly, it's so so so funny to me that this company has made literal millions upon millions on deals with huge media companies and inventing wildly profitable music festivals and at no point do they ever think to change their house style from "let's start with two sentences passionately explaining what it's like to use a service that's more popular than Facebook"

And, to be fair, since I'm old now, no shots at a young writer in a broken system.

never heard of Software but I'm liking this quite a bit

Worth reading Annie Zaleski's story on them and their rediscovery some weeks back:

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/03/09/software-band-interview/

I really don't like being told I like something because it's ironic and I'm just having a chuckle. No, actually, I like the album, and my feelings are completely genuine.

i never thought it was that obscure. but i live in a weird world.

"embraced by a new Doritos generation" might be closer to the truth.

Oh, ffs.

Klaus's label had good distro in the 80's. not that hard to come by. prog people who turned into new age people bought a lot of that stuff. Software had a bunch of albums!

waiting for the inevitable Dancing Fantasy resurgence

(seriously, they're better than Software)

that was a few years ago already

dancing fantasy was probably sampled in a lot of vaporwave tunes

from whosampled.com:

Macintosh Plus's ECCOと悪寒ダイビング sample of Dancing Fantasy's Déjà Vu
Macintosh Plus's 数学 sample of Dancing Fantasy's Worldwide
Macintosh Plus's 待機 sample of Dancing Fantasy's Hang Loose
Macintosh Plus's ピコ sample of Dancing Fantasy's Carioca Groove

Thanks for the link Need
Bandcamp Daily does some great stuff

Good ol' Need.

Lol

In my time of Ned

pitchfork, day 6752: first deployment of autoplaying videos with sound that don't appear above the fold so you have no idea where the sound is or how to stop it.

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1501-amber-coffman-on-why-her-solo-debut-is-more-than-a-breakup-album/

autoplay is a scourge

i think that's something to do with the vevo embed, those always seem to autoplay now

I am usually listening to Spotify when I go onto Pitchfork (searching for what they said about such-and-such album). Drives me crazy that something in their autoplay embeds forces Spotify to stop playing. And yet the audio for their autoplay doesn't actually come on unless I tap for sound. So that's irritating.

Are there any actual Chromatics fans in real life, aside from a handful of Pitchfork writers? Seriously, the hagiography of this guy is absurd. I have literally never heard a single human being talk about this band, and there are two threads on ILX with fewer than twenty posts between them.

For reference: there are ten Blue Nile threads on ILX

I'm so old that I remember when Chromatics was a noise band on the same label that put out Locust records

Oh, I have a friend who is a huge Chromatics fan! They exist.

a lot of outrun fans like nu-chromatics

a thread for Italians Do It Better

love the chromatics and the IDIB comps

but are you in real life?

https://cdn-webimages.wimages.net/051aa1a32f2269385321c0de69d6ace18c46fe-wm.jpg?v=3

I love the Chromatics but between IDIB's determination to reissue and repackage the same material multiple times, and the music news cycle willing to report every brainfart of Johnny Jewel as exciting developments, I can see why they would seem over-exposed.

I would consider Chromatics an ILM staple - they've placed in EOY polls a couple of times

i love chromatics, but they def are one of "those critically feted bands" to a degree that's sometimes annoying