Bill Callahan Join Twitter.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
oh sick, now I can ask what poem he read before a screening of Faces in 2010
― flappy bird, Thursday, 20 December 2018 00:26 (five years ago) link
Like Christine & The Queens "only" got a 7.9 and a review which clearly didn't really liked the record.
― Ludo, Wednesday, December 19, 2018 3:48 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Chris is a portrait of an instantly memorable character making utterly gleaming pop music. ... The resulting album is an electric blend of unforgettable imagery, emotional depth, and lurid, sizzling pop-funk.
yeah sounds like he totally hated it!
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 20 December 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
there's a good point above about how Pitchfork really does crank out good writing pretty regularly...But today there's the music of Malcolm Gladwell's life! I really need to stop visiting this site daily. Maybe we can have a "Pitchfork is great" thread just to link the good stuff!
― maffew12, Thursday, 20 December 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
isn’t that just intra conde synergy
― maura, Thursday, 20 December 2018 22:31 (five years ago) link
it's actually a p good list
― flopson, Thursday, 20 December 2018 22:51 (five years ago) link
who cares he sucks
― maura, Thursday, 20 December 2018 23:07 (five years ago) link
i don’t have a strong opinion on him either way
― flopson, Friday, 21 December 2018 02:55 (five years ago) link
God bless em, they still have RSS feeds. Getting back on that!
― maffew12, Friday, 21 December 2018 12:43 (five years ago) link
Have Pitchfork discontinued their "new tracks" page? No updates on it at all since December 1.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/
A shame if they have, I found some great tunes via that page.
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
Sorry, December 4 not December 1. Anyway the point stands.
Watch Ezra Koenig, Haim Members Cover “Little Drummer Boy”
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
i think both of the lsat few posts can be summed up with "it's december"
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 December 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
They should get back to their genre-specific 2018 album lists — they petered out after Rock, Rap, and Metal.
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
what other genres are there
― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 23:47 (five years ago) link
they experimental & electronic lists
― flappy bird, Thursday, 27 December 2018 00:10 (five years ago) link
they had*
― flappy bird, Thursday, 27 December 2018 00:11 (five years ago) link
I wish they'd do a list like this one for every year: https://pitchfork.com/features/the-out-door/9323-genres-of-one/?page=1
But since The Out Door fizzled in 2015…
― pomenitul, Thursday, 27 December 2018 00:15 (five years ago) link
"i think both of the lsat few posts can be summed up with "it's december""
okay, but to post pretty much nothing for the entire month seems a bit extreme. I'd understand if they went silent for a week or so either side of christmas.
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Thursday, 27 December 2018 08:31 (five years ago) link
They used to suspend album reviews after the ROY list until Jan, but have published one or two a day in that period the past few years
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 27 December 2018 11:36 (five years ago) link
EOY that is
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 27 December 2018 11:37 (five years ago) link
i'd been down to see a Roy list, list of the best Roys
― flappy bird, Thursday, 27 December 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
I really miss both The Out Door and Resonant Frequency columns. Two of Pfork's best ever.
― ilxor, Friday, 28 December 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
agreed
― flappy bird, Friday, 28 December 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
I was checking for a review of the last Drive-By Truckers album (2016) and I see that there wasn't one. It makes sense that over time Pitchfork is going to give up on bands they used to review habitually (studio, live, solo albums, comps, etc.) Are there other cases like this--where a band that used to score 8s (or higher) loses relevance and gets left behind?
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
sometimes it's less a conspiracy theory and more that a band is championed by one staff writer and/or freelancer who, for whatever reason, doesn't pitch the latest album
― theorizing your yells (katherine), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
What happens when a band loses a publicist to narrate the record, which Lost Highway did so well.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
or, like, the writer gets the flu and by the time they no longer have the flu it's too late to pitch
― theorizing your yells (katherine), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 17:50 (five years ago) link
not everything is an epic smoking gun
― theorizing your yells (katherine), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
imo too many albums
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
I'm not looking for Cancer Man in the Pitchfork offices or anything, but it seems almost natural that once some bands hit a certain age they no longer seem a burning topic of interest.
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link
they skipped some kristin hersh albums.
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link
yeah that is an actual example of what I am talking about, I did not pitch a review of the album because I was in task hell when it came out
― theorizing your yells (katherine), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
Ok, this The-Dream review...
On other occasions, his words are clearly meant as commands to his partner. “I’ma send a picture of your pussy to my ex’s DM/And you gon’ send a picture of my pussy to your ex’s DM,” he sings on “Yours and Mine,” granting him a measure of control over all involved.
incisive analysis to be sure but is that an accurate quote?
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:19 (five years ago) link
Schreiber has quit? Shit, cat.
― Position Position, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
Yup. Here's the tweet.
I have some personal news to share today. Check out my statement below. pic.twitter.com/ooi0Dt5prN— Ryan Schreiber (@ryanpitchfork) January 8, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
good riddance and eat shit
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
he can reduce the scores on my album reviews in hell
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link
his mom is gonna be so irritated that he's living in her basement again, best of luck to him in his job search, might have to suck it up and get a haircut and go corporate
― j., Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
is he actually bad?
― flopson, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
yes
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
4.6— 😩 (@coralcola) January 8, 2019
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link
i’ve imagined that pitchfork old heads in senior positions were the thing keeping CN execs from turning it into bustle.com for music or wtv and insisting on publishing 5 pieces of longform music criticism every day
― flopson, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link
Did you hear they were trying? Because it doesn't seem like they've been too successful (except for the review part).
― Evan, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
nah just my imagination
kinda funny that schrieb still rides for hell hath no fury https://pitchfork.com/features/5-10-15-20/pitchfork-founder-ryan-schreiber-on-the-music-of-his-life/
― flopson, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
it's not like you just stop being a hack
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
they should republish that john coltrane review in his honor
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:12 (five years ago) link
brutal
I moved to New York a few years before I turned 35, and by then I was fully embedded in the scene—it was the peak of NYC DIY culture. It was such a wildly special time for me. [DIY venues] 285 Kent, Death by Audio, Glasslands were all on the same block. There was always a show happening every single night. It was the height of the chillwave era.
― flopson, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:12 (five years ago) link
I had managed to get myself on the mailing list for, like, every record label in existence. That was a big part of my motivation early on. Once I found out that they could send me free music I was like, “Game over, this is what I’m doing.
Hmm
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
tt
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link