what next for Chris ott?

so necessary, so anti-capitalist

his gripe w/Joanna Newsome, whose work I don't generally like past Milk-Eyed Mender, is kinda ridiculous insofar as he only addresses her at the level of her "brand" - like, she's an incredibly talented songwriter, I just don't groove to what she does, but nobody who pretends to engage the actual craft can really dispute that she's pretty good at it. I just don't dig, y'know, the content. but this guy, who pretends to care first and foremost about that very quality...doesn't seem to actually know shit from shinola on this q

love the gif on jord's piece

Jordan's piece is way fairer than anything I could manage, or than Ott deserves.

he said joanna newsome is the balsamic vinegar of music
but balsamic vinegar is really good idgi

it was sweet of jord to wait a couple paragraphs to acknowledge that pitchfork has deleted plenty of old reviews before

i'll miss this one the most

https://web.archive.org/web/20150926150655/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1589-shine-a-light

y'know, i had some interested in pointing out Ott being a shitbag when there were still plenty of people who just thought of him as a harmless and/or admirable rebel vlogger or whatever, but now that the word is out i don't really see much of a point in giving him more and more and more of the attention he craves

"the frigid, faggy dungeon"

Up until very recently I had no idea who Chris Ott was and didn't particularly give that much of a fuck, but after reading this thread out of curiosity I deeply suspect that there'll be more than a few folks out there adopting a similar position in a few years time. Basically, the guy sounds to me like an absolute bellend and I'm in full support of Pitchfork's decision, to be quite honest with you.

Does he write for anyone else? I feel like he left Pitchfork and then became a Twitter/ask.fm/Vimeo crank with no actual paying outlets for his thoughts on music. So with his body of work effectively disappeared (because come on, the Wayback Machine is for obsessives and no one else), isn't he pretty much out of sight, out of mind from here on?

I would guess so.

oh so Schreiber says "moving forward" in emails now. He's been bought by The Man.

i've never listened to the Constantines before what is wrong w/this guy? he sounds like the Gaslight Anthem dude had a stroke

tbf i quite like that album but i don't think there was any wresting of abandon from effeminate black-and-dayglo pretenders

like this is fine! actually this reminds me a lot of something i forgot about old school "classic" pitchfork, is they would take a solid indie rock band like this band, or wrens, or tapes and tapes, which i guess were all fine and good but you could have found like 3 bands just as good in any decent sized college town and suddenly make them out to be this total genius next big thing

like this is fine! actually this reminds me a lot of something i forgot about old school "classic" pitchfork, is they would take a solid indie rock band like this band, or wrens, or tapes and tapes, which i guess were all fine and good but you could have found like 3 bands just as good in any decent sized college town and suddenly make them out to be this total genius next big thing

gotta be honest w/u this is p much how I felt about the 'Mats at the time w/r/t how ppl would be goin off and I'd be like "oh, ok, they get drunk and rock out, cool I guess??"

yeah I mean I duno they were no Suicide Commandos

or Buzz Barker and the Atomic Bums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57OgqHtVrBE

or NNB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AWTGExPigI

I remember well bands such as clearlake, cyann and ben, and the russian futurists

(I like the Mats but living in MN it's hard not to get permanantly sick of them...and sadly Prince as well to a degree)

ban sh@kedown

erase all of his posts immediately

irl lols here

ums has repeatedly made us aware of his negative views about prince, and we’ve determined that it no longer makes sense to have any association with him or his posts moving forward. We wish him all the best.

never getting sick of classic Prince but when i was living in mpls it got pretty depressing having to listen to the Current try to get excited about a new Prince single that would inevitably be garbage.

wonder if anybody's ever been fired from the Current for failing to get sufficiently pumped about a mid-2000s Prince jam

never getting sick of classic Prince but when i was living in mpls it got pretty depressing having to listen to the Current try to get excited about a new Prince single that would inevitably be garbage.

― JoeStork, Friday, October 16, 2015 4:00 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yah this what i mean, it's not like i hate "pop life" or "when doves cry" all of a sudden it's just like this whole state has camped out on his purple nutsack for soooo fucking long it's just grating

why did i remind myself of the existence of "Cause and Effect"?

ums has repeatedly made us aware of his negative views about prince, and we’ve determined that it no longer makes sense to have any association with him or his posts moving forward. We wish him all the best.

― tylerw, Friday, October 16, 2015 3:57 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm "exploring other opportunities" like making "20 best archers of loaf songs on rate your music

oh yeah chris ott seems like a cool guy who definitely doesn't twirl himself around in an office chair with his fingers steepled.

'lowest part is free' or keep on moving xp

lowest part is free is a ill archers jawn mooks

the frigid, faggy dungeon currently overrun with a thousand self-obsessed, coke-snorting keyboard players.

this place sounds great!!

lol
who was he even talking about? thank god the constantines made us all forget

camped out on his purple nutsack

hello DN

the constantines ruled

http://static.flickr.com/28/61616528_dfb91ab302_o.jpg

Yeah I like the Constantines.

It's not their fault Ott wrote their album review.

Constantpeens

We wish him all the best.

was there a time when this phrase meant anything other than the exact opposite of what it would seem to mean?

never forget

www.web.archive.org/web/20040810055748/www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/c/coltrane_john/living-space.shtml

while "The Last Blues" (aptly titled, as it was the last blues number Coltrane ever recorded)

Ah, Coltrane...smooth as Crystal Pepsi, yall

The two untitled tracks, "90314" and "90320" are not just crazy- assed, rabid jazz tunes, but California zip codes, as well.

they are not.

that's like the watered- down, syrupy cola, ultra- caucasian smooth

man i hope this ryan schreiber guy grew up

anyone know what he's up to now?

the fact that Ryan took a fanzine from "shit, cat" to a $15m paycheck -- aka probably the most money ANY human being has made w indie rock and would wager that includes anyone involved with the Sub Pop/Geffen deal -- should actually be an inspiring story that you can do anything if you follow your passion

assuming your passion is building a brand and your goal is to make millions of dollars