pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

garden state is shit (#31467846953264847 in a series)

I've noticed a really irritating trend. So many of my favorite albums this year - like YG, tune-yards and Owen Pallett - has gotten 8.1 or 8.2, without a bnm-nod. Which, I mean, who cares, but the reviews never ever bother explaining why these albums - some of them from artists who were bnm'd before - weren't quite good enough this time. And todays review of Shabazz Palaces is just weird. It ends like this: The soul of Shabazz Palaces is pairing next-gen sounds with classic brass-tacks show-and-prove emceeing, and Lese Majesty tugs those extremes as far as they've ever been pulled; that it never shows signs of wear speaks to the strength of the bond. How is that not a bnm? Tugging next-gen sounds as far as they've ever been pulled? But there's nothing in the review taking it down. It just seems as if they've completely giving up on the idea of innovation being anything to be aplauded.

On another note, no hip-hop albums have been bnm'd this year. The only bnm'd black artists - afaict - are Beyoncé and the Hyperdub-comp. They've really become Mojo for hipsters, haven't they?

I'm furiously tugging next-gen over here

there it is

It's been established that reviewers don't assign BNM so the language of the review has nothing to do with whether it gets BNM or not. That said, they should just stop doing BNM because it's weird and confusing.

I don't think the reviewers assign the ratings either?

That said, they should just stop doing BNM because it's weird and confusing.

Maybe but it is a go-to for people who aren't hardcore music nerds and just want a cool playlist for their Hanukkah party, I've seen it happen.

Shabazz Palaces would be great at a Hanukkah party, give it BNM now.

bnm is for ppl w/ lives/jobs

Basic New Music

https://twitter.com/djperry1973/status/493789133601394690 <-- logical endpoint

I don't think the reviewers assign the ratings either?

― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, July 28, 2014 11:51 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is not true

yeah this canard comes up fairly regularly itt

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you're gonna break out your box sets this week aren't you

more braffology!

http://www.stereogum.com/1694425/premature-evaluation-spoon-they-want-my-soul/franchises/premature-evaluation/

here’s a moment on Spoon’s new song “Outlier” where Britt Daniel sneaks a sharp splinter of film criticism into one of the tough, terse, personal songs that Spoon is so known for: “I remember when you walked out of Garden State / You had taste, you had taste / You had no time to waste.” Imagine Zach Braff’s face when he hears that song — because you know he’ll hear it. As a guy who was making slick, broadly appealing indie rock in the early ’00s, Daniel probably indirectly made some money off of Garden State, and Joe Chiccarelli, the longtime music-biz insider who co-produced “Outlier,” previously produced the life-changing Shins’ Wincing the Night Away. Point is, that tossed-off dis, really just an aside in the song, is a potential bridge-burner, and most big-indie frontmen in 2014 aren’t in the business of burning bridges, at least not consciously. But Daniel has always carried himself above the fray, with a slight sneer in his voice and a clear sense of purpose in his melodies. And if he wants to say “fuck that” about something, he’s going to do it. That’s a minor moment on Spoon’s new album They Want My Soul, but it’s a telling one, and it shows off the haughty confidence that has always set both Daniel and his band apart. Spoon carry themselves with a certain strut, and it’s been too long since we’ve heard that strut in action.

whoa that beat that one to death.

i mean its kind of a funny line to take note of but to use it as like mathematical proof that britt daniel is a badass is kinda sad

it’s been too long since we’ve heard that strut in action.

Maybe Britt Daniel is talking about that time she walked out of the State of New Jersey.

strutted out of new jersey

I saw Britt Daniel at Pitchfork Fest six years ago in cargo shorts and high tops in the Chipotle line: he wasn't bad ass.

That review is trying a bit hard to turn being a spoon fan into a sign you're a fearless ice-cold mfer.

It would be pretty easy to read that line as sarcastic too.

cargo shorts are pretty badass, lots of pocket space for more handguns

or burritos

i bet you could rob ppl for a lot of burritos at pitchfork fest

Imagine Zach Braff’s face when you steal his burrito

in one of Britt Daniels' cargo shorts pockets is a interdimensional portal back to Austin, through which he rides on a burrito

the one place i ever saw britt daniel was in the pearl district in portland buying truffles at a boutique chocolate place called "moonstruck", no hirschberg

burritos, truffles, he's a gourmand, that Britt

burritos, truffles in my palm HANH
be like he's a gourmand HANH

lmao i've seen Britt Daniels irl and he was eating a burrito

Ha I was thinking

the one place i ever saw britt daniel was in the pearl district in portland buying truffles at a boutique chocolate place called "moonstruck", no hirschberg

this place has insanely good milkshakes btw

lol at the idea that burning your bridges with Zach Braff is a risky move. Weird to see another article way overstating the importance of that dude for indie music in 2014.

i've seen scrubs a few times -- if you cross braff, he'll prank you in a way that is hilarious but will also make you *think*

hospital television shows

greenday time of your life E.R. scene

braff's entire career is just trying to make that scene over and over

I kinda dug Scrubs tbh

if they've completely giving up on the idea of innovation being anything to be aplauded.

I hope so. "innovation" is a false god

"innovation" may be false, but what about innovation?

Britt Daniel sneaks a sharp splinter of film criticism into one of the tough, terse, personal songs that Spoon is so known for:

lol is this really what he's "known for", I have never had more than the barest glimmer of understanding of what any of his songs are about beyond the most obvious (Sister Jack etc)

innovation is more about technology, not so much about aesthetics. I don't really care about technology and it's false sense of progress. music is not about progress.

wait, what is false about the progress in say medical technology?

tons of things that were marketed as progress courtesy of technology have turned out to be detrimental - the idea that because something is new it is better than what came before (the very essence of the concept of progress) is, how you say, problematic

ah, so you meant 'technology and its sometimes false sense of progress'

I love Spoon and I have no idea what their songs are "about," Sister Jack included, this is part of the appeal tbh

i'm pretty sure i know what fitted shirt is about

rolling burrito with a spoon thread