pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

And she doesn't sound like she's "putting her soul into it," she sounds shy at least on record.

― Evan, Monday, December 17, 2012 1:04 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I haven't listened so I don't know, but i know you can be shy and put your soul into it.

― Van Horn Street, Monday, December 17, 2012 1:08 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Late response. I guess it seemed like she was just describing herself, is all. Anyway, carry on.

Should Animal Collective go to jail? Should Grizzly Bear go to jail? Should Bon Iver go to jail? Is it time?

o_O @ "white youth movement" but this is surely the greatest thing anyone has said in 2012

it's a pretty ufwa statement i gotta say.

white youth movement wtf

he's been hanging around Current 93's friends too much perhaps

In electronic music, the term "futurism" always seems to indicate dissonance: The sound of tomorrow is stuck in sci-fi dystopia-mode, demanding stark minimalism, abstract squelching, and plenty foreboding low-end wobble. If you try to add little sunshine here and there, then you're probably going retro. But Lone's Galaxy Garden summons up a lush, warm, and, possibly, vacation-friendly vision of Tomorrowland. The UK-based producer takes a few cues from old-school rave (see "Crystal Caverns 1991"), but the dizzy rhythms and thought-clouding keyboard runs driving the record would be hard to excavate from any vintage mixtape. Galaxy Garden's sound palate is Discovery Store-centric, with steel drums, new age pads, and the sloshing of a digital rainstick here and there. It's a record that plays best in its most surreal moments, where the headphone candy momentarily takes precedence over the floor-friendliness. --Aaron Leitko

it's the future, but it has bits of the past, but it's really future because it has sounds from a store that closed five years ago and 1980s cliches

Kinda sad Mount Eeerie didn't even crack the honorable mentions.

Oh shit! They didn't

And both albums were great. I feel bad they didn't rate my lists

Top tens anyway

Julia H does a fine job of summing up the Salem thread; just needs a late pass is all

,(obv shes not the only one)

...the rap that was uniquely propped up on indie PR machine/cool kid blog circuit this year was ephemeral, amateurish, or even outright depressing. I won't name names since you guys seem to love them. Or at least you love reblogging their photos on Tumblr and getting free drinks at their Heineken sponsored shows. Have fun, drive safely and just know that none of this stuff is notable or interesting or entertaining to anybody who was listening to rap music back before 2008.

Elder statesman, talking shit

shoulda named names

Heineken rap: you like it, but four-year goons know better

mcoll who are your fav rappers that you are offended on the behalf of here

that noz paragraph should be posted in "pitchfork is awesome" thread

yeah last three bullet points in the noz year in rap article are so otm

loved the noz article, yeah why are you butthurt mcoll.

I enjoyed that noz piece.

This, otoh, seems pretty crap: http://nothingmajor.com/

My work computer messes the sight up and makes it like just another shitty #menswear tumblr

site

the noz article is good altho i have issues w/ two parts, the first apparently i'm no longer allowed to talk about because i've written a lot about the subject so i cant weigh in or something, and the 2nd is that i don't understand how he doesn't see chicago's scene as a substantial subject worth talking about, considering it had like 8 major label signings & made up a significant portion of his list this year.

"nothing major" is almost like an overt attempt to come up with a worse name than "altered zones," i love it

he pretty explicitly says the column is just a selective look at "some of the individual fragments that the year produced," i don't think the lack of specific topics is meant as any kind of pointed exclusion

For a 'emerging visual culture' blog that site looks absolutely dull.

maybe it's going to emerge very slowly

lol some dude

the noz article is good altho i have issues w/ two parts, the first apparently i'm no longer allowed to talk about because i've written a lot about the subject so i cant weigh in or something, and the 2nd is that i don't understand how he doesn't see chicago's scene as a substantial subject worth talking about, considering it had like 8 major label signings & made up a significant portion of his list this year.
--D-40

you just can't help yourself, huh?

noz gonna drag his feet the whole way on the keef thing

― D-40, Thursday, December 27, 2012 3:20 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was the post that killed me

Yo, contenderizer, man, yo... Meet the post that killed me.

stop dragging your feet, whiney, history is passing you by

shoulda named names

― small-scale fux with (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, December 28, 2012 3:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seemed pretty clear who he was talking about--Das Racist, Flatbush Zombies, Le1f, etc. etc.

terminator x in the whineyverse

stop dragging your feet, whiney, history is passing you by

― some dude, Saturday, December 29, 2012 5:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you take this stance on any new artist you hear about thru us on ilx first rather than via radio

i think its a fair statement to make considering he wrote an article about how keef's career was over before it began on the wire earlier this year

i'm a poptimist whore it's true but honestly i see nothing wrong with greeting new artists with skepticism and letting the work they put in win you over gradually, i actually change my mind about people all the time whereas i feel sometimes like dudes decide whether they like a rapper right off the bat and stick with that feeling for life

i mean i hear good and bad in the CK album, no idea which i will be leaning toward more a few months from now but i'm keeping an open mind to either

"he wrote an article about how keef's career was over before it began on the wire earlier this year"

I do so look forward to reading this article in The Annual Compendium Of Slights Towards Chief Keef That D-40 Has Imagined.

doxxed

idgaf dude is airing out my professional name on a daily basis.

airing out? this isnt personal. im disagreeing w/ an element of your argument (after linking to & praising the bulk of it)

its also not 'slights towards chief keef' like this is some 'defense' of the artist. im disagreeing w/ the assessment, i dont care if ultimately ppl do or dont like the art. im taking issue w/ the particular arguments made in describing it

no, you have completely misrepresented one element of my argument and presented it as the entirety of the argument.

but lol at the wire ever running "an article about chief keef."

the artist who made one of their top ten rap albums of the year? lol

i likely agree with the parts of the argument i haven't brought up which is why i don't take issue w/ those specifically

i'm a poptimist whore it's true but honestly i see nothing wrong with greeting new artists with skepticism and letting the work they put in win you over gradually, i actually change my mind about people all the time whereas i feel sometimes like dudes decide whether they like a rapper right off the bat and stick with that feeling for life

― PliesStripAThon5Jan2✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ (some dude), Sunday, December 30, 2012 4:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fwiw i get this perspective & the phrase dragging feet was a bit of a provocation obv

"the artist who made one of their top ten rap albums of the year? lol"

http://gifsforum.com/images/gif/facepalm/grand/2pac_facepalm_gif.gif

much ado about noz zing

i agree with some of noz's posts but not all of them -- will have a tumblr post about this tonight, perhaps will explain it some more on twitter tomorrow

lol its almost as if its not about noz at all, but the subjects being discussed!

yeah i agree with noz more often than not, working on a 30 page gallery of Things Noz Is Right About