pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

did u guys read my pj harvey story though #RollingStoneforaginghipsters

I read stuff you link via twitter but I just can't look at that site

i will always read ilxors on pitchfork if they link it on the facebook. but that's all i read on there.

i actually think the pitch section has really improved lately -- less hot take-y stuff and more interesting niche pieces.

it has (including your stuff!), but unfortunately it coincided with the time that the section got demoted to a tag

more of a promotion tbh

yeah i don't know, it seems more buried now? but it also just looks the same as the rest of the site ... guessing that most readers don't really care what section a thing is in

i mean, everything is kind of buried now. but at least they appear as news items when fresh

they should bring peter sotos back to pitchfork. his critical voice has been sorely missed.

http://pitchfork.com/features/show-no-mercy/6398-show-no-mercy/

yeah i don't know, it seems more buried now? but it also just looks the same as the rest of the site ... guessing that most readers don't really care what section a thing is in

― tylerw, Thursday, April 14, 2016 12:49 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

everyone gets their articles through twitter and facebook

lol i kind of wish people shared p4k articles on my FB, no one talks about music in my feed, it is all bernie bros and bad memes

A lot of the people I'm connected to on Facebook actually work for record labels, so I see more links to Billboard than to Pitchfork.

My FB is about 99% articles about which poets are white supremacists and/or rapists

FB feed, that is

"bernie bros" is a thing?

i saw the link to ilx in the xiu xiu twin peaks review classy

Now, having long ago donated the majority of the Kickstarter proceeds to a Malian NGO, Dibb has finally emerged with a mostly self-financed, small-scale album that was quietly released this month in a special cassette/book edition for donors (and on Bandcamp for everyone else). But despite all the Kickstarter confusion and communication breakdowns, none of Dibb’s out-of-pocket supporters should feel short-changed. Because whatever anxiety Dibb felt about not following through on his Kickstarter campaign has been channeled into a wonderful little album about overcoming the anxiety of not following through on your Kickstarter campaign. Okay, so Sleep Cycle doesn’t include any lyrics that specifically reference inflated funding targets and comment-section outrage, but this exercise in self-help psychedelia provides a poignant portrait of an artist regaining their confidence one song at a time.

aw i love this http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1083-lisa-simpsons-second-grade-blues/

Pfft. "Lisa's Sax" was a Season 9 episode, not a Season 3 episode!
I hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

Only four album reviews up today instead of the usual five.

Maybe there are no other new albums?

Sturgill is so good it counts as two albums

4 reviews fits their layout better

on mobile

"Animal Collective’s most mysterious member."

sneaky deaky

And this is why there are only four reviews:
http://pitchfork.com/news/64915-pitchfork-to-publish-album-reviews-on-saturdays/

also genre tags are back for album reviews

though maybe this has been the case for a while? maybe i missed it

I kind of like this change.

do you any of you remember when they used to do that? there would be microgenres too like i remember "glitch" being there

2016 marks the 20th anniversary of the Squirrel Nut Zippers most celebrated and commercially successful album Hot. Originally released in the summer of 1996, Hot was the follow up to the band’s critically acclaimed debut The Inevitable. By this time the group had already established a substantial live following across the country thanks to early support from NPR, college radio and non-commercial stations. Hot wound up selling over 1.3 million copies.

Pitchfork, which was in it’s second year of operation at the time, raved about Hot giving it a 9.5 and saying: “When you first splashdown into the CD, ya hit this realization: that people even older than your parents liked music like this. …Hot is exuberant, gin house swing without apologies and it rocks without pretense. If you can manage to resist liking it, you must be dead.”

my two year old says a lot of dumb stuff

ya hit this realization

ya just hit that realization?

Father John Misty Tells Two Stories About Beyoncé Collaboration: One Real, One Fake

what a coincidence, i don't give two shits about this: one real, one fake

Ha ha ha. Yeah, pfork's embrace of this clown is consistently shocking to me, even when taking into account how terrible nu-pfork is

Holy shit

Pitchfork to Review Key Albums in the Prince Catalog

This is like what the 35th Prince related headline so far in the past week?

they needed a headline to let people know what old albums they're planning on reviewing

Pitchfork to Announce that Pitchfork to Review Key Albums in the Prince Catalog

I wonder if they'll give Purple Rain a 10?

it is kind of corny how they do this isn't it

would be funnier/more interesting if they just reviewed the albums nobody knows/remembers - The Gold Experience, Come, Rainbow Children, Rave un2 the Joy Fantastic, Musicology etc.

There's an article for every single Prince cover this week as well.

Pitchfork publishes four new Prince reviews, links beneath this headline

Did p4k review them in the voice of an 80s hipster: "Hey turn down Miami Vice and pass me an album cover I can snort this nose candy off. Whoa, who is cat?"

This

Cat is someone we need to rap iirc

Shit, cat. It don’t make a difference.

i'm not really a "pitchfork is dumb" thread guy, but the parenthetical here made me chuckle:

William Basinski, the composer behind the iconic Disintegration Loops, is among 31 contributors to a new Red Bull Music Academy project called Shattered Streams. Billed as "an experiment in musical ephemerality," it features artists including Fatima Al Qadiri, Fennesz, Wolf Eyes, Mumdance, Eluvium, Zebra Katz, and more, each of whom has created one track that will play on a loop, gradually degrading, over a 24-hour period, before disappearing completely. (Coincidentally, the project went under way yesterday, the same day Radiohead began fading out their social media presence.) Listeners can choose the period over which the track will degrade, with settings ranging from one minute to the full 24 hours. Check out today's track, by Basinski, here.