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?"
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Friday, 29 April 2016 15:39 (eight years ago) link
This
Cat is someone we need to rap iirc
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 April 2016 15:45 (eight years ago) link
Shit, cat. It don’t make a difference.
― mandatory sex webinar (contenderizer), Friday, 29 April 2016 16:01 (eight years ago) link
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.
― alpine static, Monday, 2 May 2016 22:14 (eight years ago) link
Obligatory "there are only three reviews today" post. I dunno, it doesn't feel like there's much left to read on P4K that I can't just read elsewhere.
― Position Position, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:35 (eight years ago) link
They're now on their 143rd Prince article since his death.
― Evan, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:42 (eight years ago) link
"News just in: Prince still dead"
― ghosts that don't exist (Neil S), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:44 (eight years ago) link
Disintegrating music is a happening thing now. It's like The Twist for people who can't make it off the couch.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:49 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkUxFB6jbDc
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 14:12 (eight years ago) link
Is there any chance that I won't regret clicking on this video?
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 14:17 (eight years ago) link
Is he a dumb pitchfork?
― Evan, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 14:20 (eight years ago) link
there's plenty of dumb stuff we can find on pitchfork, and sometimes some good stuff too, but I'm pretty sure Fantano has zero redeeming qualities
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 14:22 (eight years ago) link
the first 30 seconds of that video was pretty painful
― ulysses, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 14:25 (eight years ago) link
that dude is the single worst thing about the internet
― adam, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 14:59 (eight years ago) link
.... 19 minutes
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 15:09 (eight years ago) link
he has a decent to good taste imo
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 15:23 (eight years ago) link
Was there a direct reason it was posted here buried in those 19 minutes? Not thread policing just curious.
― Evan, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link
he does not have taste. what music he deigns to listen appears to be wholly determined by how many times it has been reviewed (favorably) by the tastemaker publications. typical rateyourmusic bro with a youtube account.
― dyl, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 17:35 (eight years ago) link
almost all of his reviews reveal him as an uncareful listener who is deeply concerned with appearing cool
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
his "taste" is also a byproduct of him reviewing literally anything. first time i saw a fantano video on youtube he was reviewing a free jazz record i really loved (little women's throat).
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
he's evidence that it's possible to listen to a ton of music and put together one's thoughts on all of it and literally never get better at articulating yourself or developing your reasoning
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 17:49 (eight years ago) link
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Wednesday, May 4, 2016 10:23 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
is this how british ppl say this? it sounds like you licked him
― een, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link
I think he mentions in an interview somewhere that he'd needed someone to show him the joys of music prior to the year 2000 (I think). So his take on music is through a lens that doesn't necessarily consider that music made before the 00s is "cool" and not just historically important. I'll look for it if I can find it.
― Evan, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
whiney is p into this guy and likes to watch the videos and then post them on ilx
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 17:58 (eight years ago) link
The "Who Gives A Shit" stamp of quality
― ulysses, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link
i've never watched one of his videos because i hate his dumb face
― ejemplo (crüt), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
Ok redacting my last post, it was the Nardwuar interview I was thinking of and he said he was in high school when he was called out for only listening to music from the 00s. So not entirely fair on my part.
― Evan, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:03 (eight years ago) link
crüt otm
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, May 4, 2016 1:58 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I can't watch more than a few seconds of any "nerd talks at camera" video but it's fascinating to me how this dude is probably a more influential critical entity in 2016 than Pitchfork, yet ILX isn't nearly as obsessed with him
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:35 (eight years ago) link
Because analyzing a piece of writing is more interesting to a bunch of writers than suffering through some jabbering clown's 20-minute monologue about Beyonce?
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
what does influential mean in that statement
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
from youtube comments apparently his fans (gonna call them "fanstano") think he's fallen off in the past year or so. no idea how they can tell
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link
this dude is probably a more influential critical entity in 2016 than Pitchfork, yet ILX isn't nearly as obsessed with him
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:40 (eight years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, May 4, 2016 2:36 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't think festival bookers or whoever have picked up on it yet but I would bet there is a better good-review-to-purchased-album ratio from a Needle Drop than Best New Music at this point unless Anna Meredith and Kevin Morby are secretly topping the charts
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:43 (eight years ago) link
I would bet there is a better good-review-to-purchased-album ratio from a Needle Drop than Best New Music at this point
nfw
― de l'asshole (flopson), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link
also a lot of his reviews are requests by fans who i assume have...already heard the records they're requesting. not sure that amounts to the same ratio
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:49 (eight years ago) link
I agree with Whiney. Y'all are severely underestimating AF's popularity and influence. I don't watch him regularly but I don't find him disagreeable at all, certainly not repulsive. He's pretty fair. I mean, yeah he's a hack, but so what? He knows his place, I feel. The Stephen King of YouTube stars?
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:53 (eight years ago) link
i literally cannot bear to watch him for multiple seconds
― Is Jack Nicholson really qualify as "Partyman"? (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I mean, I've said this before, I can't be mad at dude because he's pulling it off, living off it and not trying to get in any of our lanes.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
Pitchfork is less interested in talking about indie music these days. I think people are looking elsewhere these days more and more to hear about newer acts.
― Evan, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 19:03 (eight years ago) link
I watched a few of his videos years ago and, an unexpected fondness for Brandon Flowers aside, his opinions mostly just seemed like reiterations of conventional P4k wisdom. I have nothing against him; he does his thing and it just happens to be of very little use to me, probably because when it comes to post-00s music, I'm more selective than consumptive (in that I feel like I fall in love with fewer and fewer new acts each year). I have had more than one friend (both born after 1990) reference his reviews/opinions to me out of the blue, so I'm guessing that for a certain strain of this generation of music fan, his reviews have some utility.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 19:11 (eight years ago) link
That's also really interesting to see what looks like a very aggressive rebrand of Pitchfork to include more R&B and Datpiff rap mixtapes instead of like reviewing 300 Burger Records clones and letting Grayson and Marc talk about Hair Police or w/e. All of which means more POC, more women, more LGBT — all unquestionably awesome and great from a purely ideological and philosophical standpoint that I'm sure 100% of ILX (including myself) would laud.
But Conde Nast has made it abundantly clear that their audience is still millennial males, so time is only gonna tell if a huge indie-centric audience is gonna change with Pitchfork; or fully jump ship to Fantanoy shores.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 19:13 (eight years ago) link
speaking for myself, i am willing to bide time for the next ten to twenty years until millennial males no longer have key purchasing power before making any rash decisions regarding what youtubes i have to watch.
― ulysses, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 19:15 (eight years ago) link
hear, hear
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 19:16 (eight years ago) link
i feel like millenial males are down with the rebrand though
― de l'asshole (flopson), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
Feels like pitchfork has been about 80% r&b and mixtapes for years now.
― how's life, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 19:20 (eight years ago) link
also metal
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 19:24 (eight years ago) link
A bit of anecdotal evidence to back up the "nfw" stance, he did a glowing review of the new Drones album a few months ago and they are still totally invisible stateside.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
wait, what's wrong with Fantano
― frogbs, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 19:33 (eight years ago) link