pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

A WOC - and an electronic musician, no less (is this a first?) - gets a BNM today. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20450-dark-energy/

no capt-save-a-fork here but just flipping idly through the BNM reviews it seems like females, electronic musicians and female electronic musicians are pretty well-represented in BNM. women of color who are electronic musicians less so, last one i saw was FKA twigs back in august. but they only bestow BNM like every other week or something?

I still want to know why the Vampire Weekend guy was cut out of the piece.

I assume because Batmanglij is of Iranian heritage and the others are South Asian?

oh cool I've basically spent the last week raving about that album to anyone who will listen

I assume because Batmanglij is of Iranian heritage and the others are South Asian?

That will have been known by the author. The line was too easily misinterpreted as throwing shade at Batmanglij and Khan, i think.

not necessarily, it's sort of an unusual name

actually i retract that, i guess i probably don't have the best ear for that stuff

just realized his mom wrote a cookbook i own

and he recorded a couple albums I own

it's a really good cookbook!

dear god.
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/727-pitchfork-at-the-plate/

good choices from the phillies fans (andrew w.k. and deftones). dud: predictable "i know nothing about sports here's some artsy indie track i like" responses

really like the idea of walking up to that Pan Sonic song tbh

soaring skrrrtpeggios

Yeah any indie track there is a dud; you've gotta go for something the crowd can sing along to. It's sports, a time for us to drop pretensions and share collective emotions. If you feel the need to be standoffish in that context you're beyond repair. Might as well give up and write for Pitchfork.

I'd go for "Friday" myself.

lol at Br@ndon St0usy sticking to his shtick.

dud: predictable "i know nothing about sports here's some artsy indie track i like" responses

the people that said they knew nothing about baseball picked songs by Future, Amerie, and ACDC

how dare you go against the narrative

There's 2 "indie" bands on there, Led Savy Fav and Oh Sees which both rock and are catchy as hell

Lol at ilx no nothings acting like every band they haven't heard is like The Decemberists

I would like to know what Led Savy Fav sound like. Sort of an indie rock take on Dread Zeppelin maybe?

doofheaven are indie.

^^^

Ian Cohen expresses an unhealthy interest in how indie rock musicians make a living.

I love to know how musicians make a living.

Ian Cohen expresses an unhealthy interest in mediocre emo revival bands.

hey now

this brings up that thing by bringing up other things.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2015/04/against_indie_new_albums_from_modest_mouse_sufjan_stevens_and_more_show.html

in a nutshell: belle & sebastian are going DOWN.

yes, I'm sure a Decemberists show evokes the same level of hysteria as a One Direction show.

dud: predictable "i know nothing about sports here's some artsy indie track i like" responses

the people that said they knew nothing about baseball picked songs by Future, Amerie, and ACDC

― bae sremmurd (monotony), Wednesday, April 8, 2015 6:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how dare you go against the narrative

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, April 8, 2015 6:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There's 2 "indie" bands on there, Led Savy Fav and Oh Sees which both rock and are catchy as hell

― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, April 9, 2015 8:02 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol at ilx no nothings acting like every band they haven't heard is like The Decemberists

― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, April 9, 2015 8:02 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I would like to know what Led Savy Fav sound like. Sort of an indie rock take on Dread Zeppelin maybe?

― Position Position, Thursday, April 9, 2015 8:24 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

doofheaven are indie.

― scott seward, Thursday, April 9, 2015 8:26 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

― Mordy, Thursday, April 9, 2015 9:10 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ilm i love hate love hate love hate you

this is so sad
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/732-coachella-was-our-woodstock/

what the fuck?

I lol'd

The only drought that concerned us was the drought between Kasabian albums.

lmao

good article

You’ll never know what it was like to live half in a waking dream and half in a never-ending War On Drugs blog post.

good stuff

"Generation Steampunk By Necessity" is my fave...

for realz, just lemme know when ilx-centric reviews pop up, cuz i swear they are the best to read. and they usually aren't 4000 dreary words on the new album by some dreary thing i don't want to hear. this is a really good rock review!

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20430-batu-malablab-suite-for-prepared-piano-flute-and-electronics/

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/17437-downtown-boys-monstro/

The band's singer was about as happy about that writeup as you might expect. From Twitter:

"i don't speak spanish so idk what's happening and i don't I like it" - Pitchfork + most major music publications on songs w/ spanish lyrics

"My Spanish is shot, but I figure Victoria Ruiz is meant to be understood better through her energy than her words anyway" seriously guys?

Gonna put in our next press release that our songs are actually in a made up language mix of Elvish + Icelandic I bet they'll translate that

"we could have easily looked up what these Spanish words meant ANYWHERE but we don't care enough to do so because English is better"

oh huh a lot of out of context tweets suddenly make sense

yeah wow, that's not a well written review.

Enter Downtown Boys, self-billed as a "bi bilingual political dance sax punk party from Providence," which, okay.

A moratorium, please, on comparing synthy indie records to John Hughes soundtracks, especially as most of them don't actually sound like John Hughes soundtracks.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20345-glitterbug/

BWIP
BOM BOM
CHK
CHK-CHK AH!

this had to be written by an ILMer

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/719-in-defense-of-fangirls/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=general&utm_campaign=thepitch

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/peanuts/images/e/ed/Charlie-brown-1-sad.jpg

That Downtown Boys review is hilarious. Adds more fuel to the "Is Pitchfork racist?" fire.

Am I the only on who finds it weird - if not shocking - that Pitchfork has thus far ignored the new Built To Spill album, Built To Spill being one of the bands I used to very closely associate with Pitchfork, for better or worse?

the album comes out tomorrow. they don't seem to run reviews before the week of release very often (at least that had been the case for a number of years -- i was surprised recently that they ran a review of Mac McCaughan's album 3 weeks before its street date).

I thought this album was released on RSD?