pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

this reads like vice. I hate writing that attempts to make me feel uncool.

what about threads

OK, for lack of a better thread and despite liking the article:
http://pitchfork.com/features/resonant-frequency/8757-permission-to-avalanche-four-fragments-on-bass/

It's a thick, purple, crunchy record where all of the most interesting stuff is happening in the lowest octave. The structure had nothing to do with dubstep, but On the Bright Side seemed bent on transmitting emotional information by scrunching up the bass like a fist and hitting you where you live.

Maybe I am just listening wrong, but this is... not an album with heavy bass? There's a kick drum on that song, but most of the stuff is going on in the mid-range as far as I can tell? Maybe I'm just used to stuff with really low-octave bass, but it's puzzling.

did you listen to them with Beats by Dre?

nah, on a decent stereo and with TMA-1 headphones, though!

Ah well, if these nights with such different-yet-complementary performers had taught me anything, it was that one person's garbage was another person's horcrux.

this is not okay.

I am listening to On The Bright Side waiting for the interesting stuff to happen

I'm already halfway through it, so far the only vaguely interesting thing has been some metallic flange reverb on the percussion track in "A Better Shore"

(permission to) avalanche was the only song on that album i really dug, if only for the changeup at ~5:35

Yeah it's not incredibly engaging but it had some nice remixes and such. It is the "by the numbers" project of the guy, to be fair.

one person's garbage was another person's horcrux

wat

I guess the way I read sites like Pitchfork is that I'll skim things about music it seems I might like, read articles or reviews by writers I do like, and kind of ignore the rest.

I guess that means I miss out on gems like that.

one person's garbage was another person's horcrux

:o :o :o

I really want to say something about that but every time I try to I burst into laughter

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16425-action-bronson-blue-chips

holy shit this is difficult to read

god damn

nigh on unreadable
can we hear more about what he's "like"? christ on a cracker

rap critics who try to write w/ the lyrical flair of rappers almost always fall off that tightrope into total worthless bullshit imo

I think he needs to mention that some people compare Action Bronson to Ghostface Killah.

definitely prefer the days of "shit, cat" to this

That review is hilarious, like Eddie Murphy's Delirious. It's meritorious on the basis that it is merit-less, a new leader in nadir whose meaning grows fainter the more that it feints it, because you can't fake this.

Sorry, just had to spit a little.

I think the review starts off a little rough, but explains AB's appeal pretty well as it moves along. I think the ghostface comparison is getting a little played at this point. Yeah we get it, it needs to be mentioned, but as a focus its a little hack at this point.

Too many comparisons to Ghostdini
His prose getting tangled like linguini

So I actually swung by the Pitchfork offices yesterday. Very spacious!

Also someone pretended to be me last week to get into the Pitchfork day party at SXSW. That was amusing to discover.

not excusing the review but a lot of the first half is the reviewer interpolating AB's lyrics into the text of the review. you may know this, you may not.

that kinda makes it worse

so AB is backpack rap?

I'm glad that p4k is going back to mindmeltingly terrible after a few years of just being bland.

I just uncovered their video-game (or just game?) section Kill Screen the other day. I guess that's been going on for a little while, but somehow I hadn't noticed it. I'm really not sure what's going on there.

something horrible is going on over at Kill Screen

also in what way was that review a "difficult read"

it's hard to read w/ a hand in front of your face

not excusing the review but a lot of the first half is the reviewer interpolating AB's lyrics into the text of the review. you may know this, you may not.

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, March 23, 2012 12:30 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

also some ghostface lyrics

i guess its a difficult read if you dont realise that?

idk i think it's pretty obvious that weiss paraphrasing the music he's referencing... i mean, nobody writes like that

except Brent DiCrescenzo

I've never listened to AB before so I thought it was more of a schreiber does coltrane kind of thing

yeah I figured most of those lyrics were quotes but its still really hacky and stupid

but not actually unreadable

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i may have a vested interest here but this review really bothered me:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16309-the-end-of-that/

"[L]ike so much of the record, it initially sounds plainspoken and charming until you realize absolutely nobody talks like that."

criticizing a song for not sounding like people... talk??

^Actually unreadable

xpost

s1ocki, you ruined my joke, joke-blocker

And people actually do talk like that.

haha that's a weird criticism

is that dude's platonic ideal of lyric writing "Popular" by Nada Surf

people in movies don't actually talk like people do irl

people don't say irl in person!

I have no idea about that album but I think this is a valid criticism in some form. It bothered me in Clerks b/c the whole appeal of that movie was that it was supposedly "real talk"!

people don't say irl in person!

they say "meatspace"

people don't say irl in person!

― bnw, Friday, March 23, 2012 1:26 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

I am the irl of sandwiches

duke of irl

And people actually do talk like that

i've never heard the album, or even heard of the band, but anyone who talks like this needs to have their mouth privileges revoked:

"...fucked-up bumblebee/ Headed for the potpourri...You turn me on so with your bee-sting lips/ And your pepper-grinder hips/ Like a thread in the needle/ We're just typical people"