pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

the one linked by Dusted is good until she starts bellowing at you

i listened to most of her first record and that's basically all i remember

i feel like dusted used to run a lot of wild critical-theory addled reviews but that lately they have been a lot more descriptive and readable. i was totally thinking of that crazy "water curses" review by like the third sentence and almost lol'd when i saw that the reviewer then invoked it

tuneyards -- file under "malign influence of dr spock."

listening to dusted song--she sings like she's giving birth

hahaha yes

basically I spent the whole time going "damn, calm down"

this is gonna play real well on college campuses imo

Simon Reynolds just said some of it reminded him of Sublime. RED FLAG.

Man do I ever love Tune-Yards. Some crazy people up in this joint.

cool new music yeah

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

I think this is kind of unlistenable/unwatchable.

Unwatchable, sure!

Quirk overload!

i think the girl on the left is definitely watchable.

mystified as to what aesthetic criteria separates this from gang gang dance quality-wise

energy, production values, hugeness of sound, rhythm

I'll give you "hugeness of sound", but not the others

For me it just boils down to her voice. I like other idiosyncratic singers so I wouldn't think less of someone for digging them, but it's an instant grab for the volume knob when she starts singing.

To pump it up, right!

They remind me of a mid '90s Too Pure band, which is a good thing IMO.

there's pitchfork-branded "Pitchfork 3D" glasses in like every single store in Williamsburg right now

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feelin this gif

The logo on the Pitchfork 3D glasses is pretty awesome, so mad props to whoever created it...

that would be me! ty

ugh i thought yall were joking about pitchfork 3d glasses

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ahhhhh teeth so white

god so tired of ilm tuneyards-bashing

i saw her live in fall 2009 and she was gr8

this isn't too bad or anything i just don't really see the appeal of it, esp over the length of a full album -- it's like deeply indie but not in a conventional way like Yuck or something that appeals to me on an (almost bland) indie comfort food level, if that makes sense

this isn't too bad or anything i just don't really see the appeal of it

liking real african music means doing some homework

it would probably be deeply irritating over 40 mins

researching real african music? yeah probably

oh fuck off. condescending as shit.

tuneyards is great.

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I listen to a fair amount of african music but don't recall any homework assignments

u sure you were listening to the real stuff tho? then again u wouldn't know i guess

the vocals on this album remind me of some of the eye vocals on soul discharge

brb guys goin ta africa school

The Big KRIT review is kind of inane and I can't even figure out whether it's the writer or the editor giving it that score.

like, what the fuck is going on here when a review starts off like this

As a rapper, Mississippi's Big K.R.I.T. is pretty good but nothing amazing

i mean i understand that he's a more superior producer than rapper but this is the most awkward initial sentence of the year

i think tom did a nice job w/ that review

yep

this thread should be renamed "irate, you rate, we all rate"

Thre review flows nicely w/ inclusion of back-story, but it's the trivial things that bother me. It was like every sentence I read thereafterwords was me trying to figure out "so do you like him or not? do you like him or not?". I just find it bizarre that so blatant a ~thesis statement~ would kick things off. You kinda have to, you know, build to these things.

maybe i'm too methodical, iono

As a rapper, Mississippi's Big K.R.I.T. is pretty good but nothing amazing

good lord use better words, i put more effort into bloody tweets

will always maintain that a love of language is probably the #1 requirement for being a writer (nb this is not an excuse for flowery purple prose)

u guys should really read full sentences:

As a rapper, Mississippi's Big K.R.I.T. is pretty good but nothing amazing: With the empathetic warmth in his sticky drawl, he makes a convincing Southern everyman, and he has enough rhythmic dexterity to really stick to beats.

tom tends to use a more casual tone in general in his reviews but let's be clear that first bit is not like an entire topic sentence