pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

Has anyone heard the last two songs to make it to their 'best new tracks' section? A band called Think About Life and another one called Sleigh Bells. I must be getting old because I found them very increasingly annoying.

think about life are the best band in montreal at the moment. the album was released this spring in canada and they played a seeminly endless string of incredible live shows all summer. i think they could do a lot of good if they got big, i think the world needs a good 'ole high-energy indie-friendly cut-and-paste dance pop slap in the face.

and i think the annoyingness was even adressed in the sleigh bells review iirc. the song's not so bad.

like both of those songs a lot, but i guess i'm pretty young

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q77Zu75JtY
they should have hyped this as the next "paper planes"

belated zing

but i'm now listening to dashboard confessional so it's all good

I really hate that band name but I just listened to Johanna by Think About Life and it's pretty decent so I must apologize for my previous diss on them.

Wont be sold on the Sleigh Bells tho, I dont really care how or artsy or ironic it's supposed to be. Sounds annoying to my ears to me regardless of the 'immensely interesting' statement they're trying to push on.

did you listen to the one i posted above?

Yes. It still sounds like shit to me. I really hate that blown speakers aesthetic style. Can't really tell if I'd be more interested in the song buried underneath if they fixed the treble, i find somewhat annoying that those twee vocals never really quiet down and allow the other elements to breathe (if they could) except in the intro and the finale. I don't know, I could see some sort of people excited about this sort of sounds but it's really not my thing.

Also, Gucci's line about how his little boy one but his shoes 400 isn't that thematically far from "My Girls".

I don't know much about Gucci Mayne, but I'm having problems parsing this sentence.

"i just want adobe slabs for my girls" = "my little boy one but his shoes 400" (as in $4000 dollars, as in both just want to provide for their families)

er $400 dollars, obv

perhaps there's additional context that supports your analysis but, on its own, it looks like Gucci is bragging about how much money he can waste on baby shoes, not saying that he just wants to support his family

i don't even know what the context of the original statement is but it's a pretty easy connection to draw at a baseline just from the one excerpt that kingkong c+p'd in here

i'm not saying it's not tenuous at best, but that is what whoever wrote that sentence is saying

yeah I thought that was a c/p from upthread and you were fleshing out yr own argument, oops

okay

what is that from though anyway?

http://pitchfork.com/news/37038-mia-working-on-gucci-mane-meets-animal-collective-album

i would smh @ tom but he's just bravely trying to make sense of some diplo bullshit soundbyte

obviously any "has gucci caught on with the hipsters yet?" convos can get sewed up now

the most dismaying thing in that story is the mention of the Major Lazer Adult Swim show

Also, Gucci's line about how his little boy one but his shoes 400 isn't that thematically far from "My Girls".

I had trouble parsing this sentence, too, but it had more to do with not recognizing the dropped "is" and "are" at first.

ha, that's funny cuz our blog used to get a lot of hits from a hollerboard gucci mane thread but mostly it was just emynd defending him & the rest of them hating him

although i am interested in how one would even sound like gucci mane - he doesn't have a sound per se unless tons of new m.i.a. tracks are going to be at-points indecipherable - maybe he means animal collective +fatboi

Some of her tracks already ARE at-points indecipherable! I had no idea what she was saying at the beginning of "Jimmy" for about a year.

yah ayers & co basically said they didnt think he could rap way back when ....

i think MIA and gucci have always been pretty much equal on the enuncuation/indecipherability scale

haha xpost

I had trouble parsing this sentence, too, but it had more to do with not recognizing the dropped "is" and "are" at first.

I think the writer should have put Mayne's quote in quotation marks too.

there is no y in his name

kenni mane

hahaha

yung joc feat. kenni mane - "YAHTZEE"

Before Chris Brown forced her into one of the most public celebrity domestic-abuse dramas since Ike and Tina, Rihanna's defining vocal trait was always how completely in control she sounded.

gratuitous and pointless lead-in alert!

not if they're arguing that her "defining vocal trait" changed post-chris brown

yeah that is not what happens tho

yes but just look at that s.e.o. bait

i hate this kinda crap in the second sentence

The group's first full-length offering this year, Help, is the apotheosis of what Thee Oh Sees can do as a rock group-- namely, kick out jams that pack a thick and brutal punch while offering a softer, poppier, and not-so-mildly psychedelic side at the same time. If the group rolled their joints on the sleeve of a first-edition copy of Black Monk Time, and took slugs of moonshine from the 13th Floor Elevators' electric jug (unplugged, of course), it wouldn't come as a surprise.

The group's first full-length offering this year, Help - not to be confused with the Beatles album put back into the limelight by the video game Rock Band, which vies with Singstar and Guitar Hero for domination of the crucial XBox 360, Playstation and Wii markets - is the apotheosis of what Thee Oh Sees can do as a rock group-- namely, kick out jams that pack a thick and brutal punch while offering a softer, poppier, and not-so-mildly psychedelic side at the same time.

Fixed

hahaha, A+

do people actually read album reviews

just the bands, I think

pitchfork seems to have this knack for pairing up the style of the writer and the style of the music. i appreciate it. whenever i start reading a review and the writing is off on some tangent or stretching waaaaay too far to create a simile, the music seems to have indescribably similar problems. \

If Rock Critic Fatigue exists, the kind of music Best Coast make is what most tired us out in 2009. So insert your cleverest lo-fi/beach-pop/chillwave amalgamation here because quite frankly, I'm exhausted.

this is a tad rich coming from the guy who penned just about ever lo-fi/beach-pop/chillwave track review for pfork this summer

dope song tho

it's good but "the sun was high (so was i)" is a lot lot better

hahahahahah this Animal Collective review, man

can't decide between the "dude, all their stuff sounds different, that makes them good"/totally off the mark AC vs. Grateful Dead == indie band vs. jam band thing/quoting Rakim for some reason even though the logic doesn't match

ok it's Rakim

when a writer quotes a musician that has nothing to do with the song/album in the last line of a review i think it's pretty much a dead giveaway that they didn't know how to end the piece/spent a lot of time working on it and decided to give up at the end out of frustration

"Whoa, I walk" is deliberately misheard as "What would I want?" I mention it because it's what this band has always done for me: take a sound and turn it inside out to make something new, but something recognizable, even familiar. I'm reminded of the words of the ever-wise Rakim: "Spread the word, 'cause I'm in E-F-F-E-C-T A smooth operator operating correctly."