pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

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

haha that's better, but "pretty good" and "amazing" should just not exist in professional reviews. i refuse to click on p4k apart from tom ewing columns, i only read what gets c/ped here

would enjoy a monthly column of tom and lex taking turns just shitting on everything the other writes

"status ain't good"

oh was he the one who came up with "british people" as a response to my weeknd piece? lol

haha yes

haha that's better, but "pretty good" and "amazing" should just not exist in professional reviews

why?

http://twitter.com/#!/search/amazing

commonly used and easily understood words should not be used in reviews. gotcha.

they're so commonly used that they provoke little in terms of mental stimulii. thesauruses are a click away... this album was: enthralling, staggering, electrifying, flooring. each one of these words goes to far greater extents in the imagination than a tell-all word like "amazing" ever will.

"electrifying!" says rolling stone.

hmm....you're right.

amazing is sort of the Internet's word of the year, isn't it?

it's more like this weird cultural phenomenon where seemingly nothing is short of amazing, and amazing describes all and is sufficient for most anything. guess i'm one of the younginz here on ilx, but for the crowd in their 20's this is all i ever hear girlfriends describe anything as. but yeah, it's really prominent on the internet where a girl-to-girl compliment sesh will consist of at least 43 utterances of "you are the most amazing person"