pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

i feel sometimes like dudes decide whether they like a rapper right off the bat and stick with that feeling for life

i tend to do the opposite; decide i like a rapper right off the bat and then forget about them

i agree w/ mccoll except that i think it's hilarious reading angry rap blogger shpiel in the p4k & appreciate how much license noz has to openly attack the site's readership. like while it's pretty horrifying to contemplate the innerworkings of the mind of an adult human who would write "just know that none of this stuff is notable or interesting or entertaining to anybody who was listening to rap music back before 2008," it's perversely comforting to imagine someone out there who feels they've just lost pitchfork as a friend

flopson you have not experienced true horror

i've seen things you people wouldn't believe

negative opinions about rap music

all those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain

time to die

don't come at the king, lil flip

― dead cera (J0rdan S.), Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if the best the king can do is 'lol complex makes slideshows' im gonna argues hes not wearing any clothes n/h

i dont normally n/h but i thought it was lightweight funny to do so here

i feel lightweight agitated

complex has done listicles for years but it seems like only since deef's been there that they do hopelessly meta listicles of "25 things everyone thinks about hip-hop (but nobody will say" and "25 most hated on rappers"

shit's actually been readable imo

oh it's def improved in some ways, props for that. just saying, my post was more pointed than just 'lol complex makes slideshows.'

the EOY stuff has been particularly ugly and difficult to navigate this year.

the hideous glowing trapezoids are part of an emerging visual culture, man

"hopelessly meta" does this phrase even have meaning

you were the one scolding me for being meta on twitter the other day lol

getting an smartphone is the first thing that's made me understand complex's layout at all. it would be nice if they had a non-mobile version of their site tho.

the EOY stuff has been particularly ugly and difficult to navigate this year.

― how's life, Monday, December 31, 2012 10:55 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you can say it's ugly but how is it difficult to navigate? you click on the name of the feature you want and it takes you there

youre apparently better at communicating ambiguity

just to be clear, you realize i'm talking about the place his vocals land on the beat (as in which part of the beat) rather than the slightly 'off' rhythmic nature of his voice that somedude is talking about, right -- hes putting his vocals down in unconventional places w/in the rhythm of the track

blah wrong tab ignore me

that seemed like a very cryptic metaphor for pitchfork's layout, yes

you can say it's ugly but how is it difficult to navigate? you click on the name of the feature you want and it takes you there

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, December 31, 2012 4:58 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you click on the name of the feature you want a whole bunch and then it takes you there

works on one click for me, must be my indie cred

LOL @ 'the hideous glowing trapezoids'

I tend to believe that the qualitative aspects of a classic—the ones not dictated by the great tastemaker called time—should be measured by an artist's ability to perfect their own blueprint, not The Blueprint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VqTaV3hbvY

Confusing de dicto with de re...

It's like I don't think you fully understand who I am, y'know?
I'm just a good kid from Compton that wanna rap
I don't represent no colors, I represent my lil' sisters and brothers
I'm the oldest, nigga
And if you can't respect that, your whole perspective is wack
Check it out

I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z
until I finally realised that Jay wasn't me

i hate the idea of 'the great tastemaker called time' btw so stupid

Time, the great hate duller, shall dull your hatred

or possibly reinforce it. did u think about that? old bitter ppl are everywhere

Mirror, i'ma talkin' to you

Perhaps Time, the great timer, shall call times up on them

And then Time, the big brother, will take the controller back and play earthworm Jim because Time, the great Jimmer, knows how to beat this part

Time swears it

Been visiting family & traveling since the 29th, so been sporadic on ilx, but is p much every thread about deej and/or chief keef now?

I figured that since we were on ilm, chief keef was some underground rapper who only put out mixtapes on datpiff or something, but i just saw one of his CDs in target today! I guess he's the taylor swift of rappers or something?

naw, that's drake

some indie record that's much cooler than mine, that's that shit i don't like

Meanies, that's that shit I don't like

On a date with cutest boy, higher than a kite

daddy said stay away from juliet, like #huahhuahhuah

On a date with cutest boy, higher than a kite

― Binder, Binder & (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, January 6, 2013 2:59 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

Admittedly I haven't tried to stream the YLT record yet, so maybe the "controllable" content is really awesome, but man they are really proud of themselves for catching up to what NPR has been doing for years now.

I was glad to stream the album, and happy to easily see/read the liner notes for the record - something that is missing from the rest of my iTunes library. I don't really knock them for giving it a heavy PR spin, even if the BS is high. What are they supposed to do, not announce that they are streaming full albums?

yeah, seems fine to me.

it's IMMERSIVE

its also a shot against NPR which kinda locked down the ON FIRST LISTEN hits awhile back

the thing about NPR album streams is that they kinda sucked from a user perspective

i mean it was cool that they existed but that was about all

blurbs for today's reviews:

Tall Ships
Everything Touching
By Laura Snapes

Known for their ferocious live show, the Brighton-based post-rock band's long-time-coming debut is equal parts meditative and cathartic.

Various Artists
L.I.E.S. Presents: American Noise
By Andrew Gaerig

Offering an unparalleled collection of fresh talent, the rise of Ron Morelli's Long Island Electrical System is one of the most significant and encouraging developments in American underground electronic music in years. This sprawling 2xCD label compilation is a bewitching collection of underground dance, experimental, and analog ephemera.

Mats Gustafsson / Colin Stetson
Stones
By Brian Howe

Recorded live at the 2011 Vancouver Jazz Festival, Stones doesn't allow Stetson and Gustafsson to complement their respective, opposing traits, but pits them against each other for a furious, abrasive record that bombards the listener into submission.

Wooden Wand
Blood Oaths of the New Blues
By Grayson Currin

During the last decade, James Jackson Toth has used the Wooden Wand handle and variations on it to release a mountain of barely compatible material. His proper debut for British vanguard Fire Records captures the best essences of this career in 41 seamless minutes.

T.I.
Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head
By Ian Cohen

T.I.'s scattershot 70-minute eighth album features guest spots from A$AP Rocky, R. Kelly, André 3000, Pink, Lil Wayne, Cee Lo Green, Meek Mill, and others.

spot the odd man out

only one of those artists posted to ilm??

lol

I was talking about how every blurb manages to give you an idea of what the album is like except for the T.I. blurb, which is just a list of names

haha i thought you were referring to pink

they seriously need to start having the writers pen frontpage blurbs for their own reviews, or have the editor(s) put more thought into the summaries, because the 'randomly cherrypick and recontextualize words from the review' style has gotten so sloppy