pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

for sure

xp just to be clear we're saying a perfect circle (paz lechantin) was better than the smashing pumpkins? bc in some ways i do think that...

(assessment is otm regardless due to those other folks)

sloth do you listen to Chavez?

you showed me them IRL and i have listened here and there & liked what i heard, they are not currently in my regular rotation

its a funny troll joke and u all fell for it lol

i wld listen to some rn but just about to give this owen pallett the old college (re)try after not loving it the first time around (except the riverbed IIRC, liked that one immediately)

whose, cohen's in the original review?

...ian is that you?

(xp)

Paz not a "dude" iirc

I'm having trouble discerning who is at fault for implying Paz is a dude here...

i too have a distinct recollection of paz lechantin being a woman

so that's settled

(not sure if shake is saying anyone is, prob just having a laugh, all i know is i didnt)

HAT GAME ON 100 IMO
http://www.spin.com/sites/all/files/styles/style820_546/public/131209-pixies-bass-a-perfect-circle-paz-lenchantin.jpg

http://www.samviral.com/beck/beckmorningphase.png

whoa whoa whoa thats just hateful hers is way better

yelawolf wears a hat now

http://assets.audiomack.com/rapxclusive/0b0e307c41054160ea878eff4a73a99f.jpg

he wears quite a few. (sidebar: man he used to be sorta good, what happened)

I like 'till it's gone' but i am not a music or hat critic

what a horribly formed "skinsman"

skinsman is what i imagine variety calls drummers

Creepy-looking finger-sniffing guy takes out own Nice Guy psychodrama on Ed Sheeran, overreacts, calls bog-standard "why don't you fancy me?" lyrics "morally toxic", ends on predictable lecture about entitlement. And for why?

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/624-the-problem-with-ed-sheeran-and-nice-guys-like-him/

finger sniffer in the header is lou barlow

i dont think lou barlow wrote that (lol xps)

idk i read like 30 words of that, seemed ok

That's completely wrong, he is sucking his thumb.

it was kinda weird when he acknowledges the dino jr. song he drug into his whole thesis was probably lou writing to mascis and not a girl

i really dug the philip sherburne panda bear piece, just kind of cool to see interesting media and video content integrated into the writing.

xp would be willing to wager everything I own that several hundred words of of that piece wouldn't have been written if the Dinosaur Jr song had been called something else

Ha, oops. I didn't recognise Lou. Article is still terrible though.

lol the idea of pitchfork posting huge photos of authors as the art for blog posts

I thought it was a new thing for 2015. Lou's rocking the thoughtful columnist look and he looks like a music critic who'd have a problem with Ed Sheeran.

guess the author

The most frequently quoted fact from Cloakroom’s bio is that they’re a trio of factory workers from Indiana. It is a nice bit of backstory that makes sense in hindsight upon hearing their minimally arranged, moderately morose and maximally loud debut LP Further Out—so long as they’re not framed as the sort of blue-collar Hoosier hero that might inspire a John Mellencamp/Bruce Springsteen collaboration. In 2015, factory work seems more like a vocation for people who just somehow ended up with that job, because that’s what you do, I guess. But it’s also a potentially attractive situation where the repetition and physical labor can be meditative, a good way to shut off one’s mind, especially when it tries to parse how you ended up as a factory worker in 2015.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20138-further-out/

What an asshole

yikes

not as meditative as wanking all day everyday apparently

irony is 3rd shift factory workers still make about 50x what you'd make if you spent an equal amount of time writing pfork reviews

but they probably don't know about Panda Bear

whoa, i can't believe that was published. no one took him aside and said dude wtf is wrong with you?

we the workers do not understand modern art.

so shitty, jeez

when the workers finally storm the pitchfork offices will they be carrying torches and garden hoes?

it's funny cuz i have friends from HS who ended up being tradesmen like plumbers and electricians or worked up to supervisory roles in agricultural factories etc and they seem to be doing a fuck of a lot better than most ppl i know

"danny glover" has one of the GOAT thug bars too

all my cups are muddy
i fuck my bitches buddies

power to the people

That's because they became so good at meditation that they've become completely numb to the fact that working factory jobs in 2015 makes them lesser people. Right?

xxp

there must be some benefit to playing "young smithers" irl

[Editors note: an earlier version of this review contained an aside in the first paragraph whose meaning was unclear; it should have been removed in editing initially and we have done so in hindsight.]

lmao

finally, clarity