OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

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Air’s vast 20-year retrospective will put your head in the clouds

For two decades, the French duo of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel have been devoted in their focus to suspend focus via series after series of downtempo synths and treated, blissful vocals—so much so that it seems out of character for them to celebrate their legacy with a high-gloss deluxe anthology. It’s damn near ostentatious for Air anyway. It does, however, help knowing that they were the ones to actually construct Twentyears in all of its grandeur. It is certainly fucking grand: First comes a 17-track album of cuts accompanied by 14 more tracks of rarities and unreleased material, all to be followed in late July by an add-on of remixes of David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Beck, Neneh Cherry, and MGMT. Boy, oh boy, that’s a lot of Moog.

"Air have released a best-of with a bonus disc."

glandular lansbury (sic), Friday, 10 June 2016 09:09 (ten years ago)

" have been devoted in their focus to suspend focus" That's an awkward way to state this, though I'm not sure even what they are trying to state.

husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, 10 June 2016 14:03 (ten years ago)

Good lord

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/flumes-skin-is-the-audio-equivalent-of-ecstasy-a7073486.html

Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 15:25 (nine years ago)

o no :(

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 15:28 (nine years ago)

just came to post that. what... is it

lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 15:40 (nine years ago)

To be frank, this is the type of shit that fuels interracial relationships

Oh baby, if only you knew / Gabnebb hit a hundred-and-two (stevie), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 15:49 (nine years ago)

shit b

contenderizer, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 15:49 (nine years ago)

being cornered at a bar by a half ass hipster runoff carles character who is aggressively gushing about an unspectacular record

Evan, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 15:52 (nine years ago)

"He’s previously worked as an editor at Ashton Kutcher’s A Plus and as a staff writer at BuzzFeed."

maura, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 15:56 (nine years ago)

we all said we wanted the Pitchfork '00-style review to make a comeback but I don't think we really thought the implications through

volumetric god rays (DJP), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 17:14 (nine years ago)

exclusive pic of the Independent editors keeping the vessel afloat

http://i.imgur.com/l6fCM96.png

reader, if you love him so much why don't you marry him? (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 17:57 (nine years ago)

Oh my god, what the fuck did I just read!?!

the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 19:37 (nine years ago)

we all said we wanted the Pitchfork '00-style review to make a comeback but I don't think we really thought the implications through

― volumetric god rays (DJP), Tuesday, June 14, 2016 1:14 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who said this and how soon can we start rounding them up

if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 19:51 (nine years ago)

http://www.monologuedb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Claude-Rains-Captain-Louis-Renault-Casablanca.jpg

Cry for a Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 19:56 (nine years ago)

lol this feels like it's been written by 17 different writers. all teenagers.

Ludo, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 19:57 (nine years ago)

I'm telling you, this album is primetime vodka and molly music for summer 2016, my guy. This is not music for the Uber ride home by yourself at 3am, upset because you'll be alone for the rest of your life b. This is the shit you play before you make an ill-advised decision and cheat on the love of your life, or do some freaky shit with the person you forgot to formally break things off with. Essentially this record’s theme is all about embracing imperfections, saying fuck it, and getting down while you can. Okay, I hate myself for that sentence, but I have no idea who Toronto singer Kai is, and she sounds fucking perfect on “Never Be Like You.” Tell her people to hit up my people so we can do this joint interview with Streten on some behind-the-scenes shit. She might be the most slept on artist to date b.

De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 20:04 (nine years ago)

can we get this guy on ilx pronto plz

De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 20:04 (nine years ago)

oh wait, there's like a half dozen people who do this schtick already

De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 20:05 (nine years ago)

Did none of you who are upset over this ever read a Vice album review from like 2007 (I'd understand if you didn't, I don't really cherish the time I spent reading those either)

self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 20:30 (nine years ago)

this reads like a style parody of big ghost, except without the funny parts

a poon shaped mule (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 20:37 (nine years ago)

xp those at least had the decency to be brief

reader, if you love him so much why don't you marry him? (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 21:10 (nine years ago)

Did none of you who are upset over this ever read a Vice album review from like 2007

no because it was on Vice and fuck Vice forever

volumetric god rays (DJP), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 21:11 (nine years ago)

the "b." sentence enders read like typos that result from him trying to hit the space bar twice and failing

maura, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 21:37 (nine years ago)

oh wait, there's like a half dozen people who do this schtick already

― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Tuesday, June 14, 2016 3:05 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there are?

Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 22:34 (nine years ago)

are there people on ILX who say "my guy" at the end of a sentence? just wondering, my guy.

scott seward, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 22:37 (nine years ago)

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zuQK6t2Esng

maura, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 22:38 (nine years ago)

DORKS WHO SIGN THEIR POSTS LIKE IT'S A FREAKIN EMAIL

De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 22:58 (nine years ago)

guilty.

Ludo

Ludo, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 09:46 (nine years ago)

bring back Old Fart

Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 10:53 (nine years ago)

Both Sky and Madonna have similar breasts in both cup size and ability to cause a shitstorm. When Ferreira dropped her debut, Night Time, My Time, three years ago, the bare-breasted album cover nearly broke the internet. Misogynists claimed it was a desperate attempt to sell records; feminists saw it as the calculated move of a defiant young woman. A third unnamed group that included me couldn't help but reminisce on the past, on Madonna's defiantly atomic boobs — the two knockers that altered the course of human history.

http://www.laweekly.com/music/sky-ferreiras-sex-appeal-is-what-pop-music-needs-right-now-7027759

:(

Evan R, Friday, 17 June 2016 19:31 (nine years ago)

ew

Even in the candid photo of her nude in the shower, soaking wet, she looks natural, like she's shooting a home video, rather than being photographed by a creeper. She looks like a more cherubic Sharon Stone, icy but also sweet, like a freshly licked lollipop.

thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 17 June 2016 19:34 (nine years ago)

o_O

Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 17 June 2016 19:41 (nine years ago)

..........what in the actual bloody fuck

if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Friday, 17 June 2016 19:44 (nine years ago)

Welcome to "Art Tavana vs. the World," a monthly column in which L.A. Weekly's angriest (and nerdiest) music critic, Art Tavana, takes on his many nemeses in an ambitious quest to boldly go where no other critic has gone before.

this is the text equivalent of the jerk-off hand motion.

a basset hound (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 17 June 2016 19:44 (nine years ago)

a nerd edgy and ambitious enough to call robb stark a pussy

if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Friday, 17 June 2016 19:44 (nine years ago)

wow the la weekly ran something shitty, what a surprise

maura, Friday, 17 June 2016 19:52 (nine years ago)

i guess this guy had to stay erect after writing a cover story on sasha grey

maura, Friday, 17 June 2016 19:53 (nine years ago)

the thing is it's getting traffic and i know from experience that the paper's upper management only cares about clicks

maura, Friday, 17 June 2016 19:53 (nine years ago)

so, you know. fuck it

maura, Friday, 17 June 2016 19:53 (nine years ago)

Read that as:

the thing is it's getting traffic and i know from experience that the paper's upper management only cares about dicks

Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Friday, 17 June 2016 19:54 (nine years ago)

six of one

maura, Friday, 17 June 2016 20:02 (nine years ago)

dickbait

fact checking cuz, Friday, 17 June 2016 20:16 (nine years ago)

right-dick to save image

Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 17 June 2016 20:30 (nine years ago)

the funny thing is when you realize that y'all are the only target audience for this stuff

yolo mostly (sleepingbag), Friday, 17 June 2016 20:31 (nine years ago)

You mean, we are the dicks?

Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Friday, 17 June 2016 20:33 (nine years ago)

don't give them your rage-dicks!

queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 June 2016 20:36 (nine years ago)

this guy's article history reminds me of all the things i hate about l.a.

R.I.P. Haram-bae, the good posts goy (s.clover), Friday, 17 June 2016 20:41 (nine years ago)

(also went to look at the independent article and looks like the editors took it down. was there a statement or something or did they just "whoops" away the thing because it was getting clowned?)

R.I.P. Haram-bae, the good posts goy (s.clover), Friday, 17 June 2016 20:46 (nine years ago)

Even in the candid photo of her nude in the shower, soaking wet, she looks natural like a terrified young woman about to be butchered by a man wearing a mask made of skin

Wimmels, Friday, 17 June 2016 22:55 (nine years ago)

Wait so was the guy in the Independent thing ending every other sentence with "b" because he was so street?

On this timescale, all matter is liquid. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 17 June 2016 23:29 (nine years ago)


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