pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

why

it's just very beige and precious and consistently hits whatever the opposite of my pleasure spots are

I blame pfork for its proliferation

do you think this means Schreiber has fuck you money now?

I've heard of it. On what, fuckface?

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 9, 2019 8:23 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dailymotion.com, dickwad

btw site is good for most old sitcoms

wrong thread lol

This is an extremely murky article in (I guess?) the “allegations-of-impropriety” genre: https://pitchfork.com/news/superorganisms-mark-turner-sought-restraining-orders-against-two-women-who-spoke-out-against-him/

Not feelin’ the obligatory Chainsmokers slam

No one expected Taggart and Pall to crack open a copy of bell hooks’ The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love between albums, but the Chainsmokers’ determination to double down on their reputation for toxic masculinity is impressively disturbing.

so have they reduced the number of daily reviews to two?

Sure seems that way

they didn't get back to the usual 4 per day until Jan. 18 last year

this is the slow season for album releases

yeah this week's new release list is pretty slim pickings

https://www.pauseandplay.com/new-releases-jan-11-2019/
https://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/release-date/coming-soon/date
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/upcoming/

Yeah, they've done this for at least a couple of years now. They used to not post any reviews for 3-4 weeks in December/January. Also they made a bigger deal of their year-end lists (big banner on the main page, I think they even used to roll them out 10 or 20 albums/songs at a time, though I may be wrong about that)

no you're right, it used to be a week long rollout

which, to go back to earlier in this thread, is another part of what made pitchfork outlast their peers imo: the whole "canon-building as event" thing, in the form of long ranked lists of mostly indie rockers

Well, the "new tracks" page seems to be finished. Nothing at all since December 4 and it's now January 10.

Shame, that page introduced me to some absolutely incredible music.

https://oct.co/essays/having-beer-with-how-dress-well-tom-krell

Already resisted posting this once but I just realized they spelled it “Nihlism”

twitter is starting to realize that october sucks, i guess

just been shown how Pitchfork makes its money now, which is selling its position as An Hip Millenial Influencer to push things like an Anheuser InBev radicalization engine dressed as a pinteresting cool magazine called "October", and its the saddest fucking thing i've ever seen pic.twitter.com/0UEhrOt9YB

— ཊལབསརངཧ (@David_Rudnick) January 11, 2019

I guess this is more "I'm dumb, pt. 4532687" but I can't be the only person who did a double-take at the current top headline

If you’re talking about this:
https://pitchfork.com/features/profile/earl-sweatshirt-does-not-exist/
Then yeah the few seconds it takes to look down and see the “Interview” tag are confusing ones

grimes dies in tragic car accident:
the interview

lol

too soon ;_;

that was not the headline I was referring to, but it's probably best forgotten.

Exploring Hip Hop’s love affair with (product)

These run like once a week

His head is enveloped in a hood he never takes off,

lol

does anyone have any idea how much CN paid for p4k? ballpark number?

$53.86

Nah, they only use one decimal point
(/obv joke is obvious)

Nope, $420.69.

seems kinda high tbh 😉

VULTURE: Criticism can be hard to shut out. In particular, the Pitchfork review reached a large mass in terms of how people were interpreting your record.
GRETA VAN FLEET: I don’t know the intent behind the piece. I haven’t read it. I’m not sure if it’s a publication trying to get attention or if it’s somebody who genuinely doesn’t like us and what we’re doing. I really don’t think we get worked up about that, because here’s one person who’s complaining about it. If you can’t do it, then you just write about it. I feel like this man has had a troubled past. Prayers up for him. But it actually feels really good, because some of our favorite bands have had some pretty aggressive criticism. I think it’s cool. [Laughs.]

Seems like a chill bro!

I like how his response incorporates the entire gamut of typical artist responses to a negative review, one per sentence (sometimes even contradicting each other!)

lmao @ "i haven't read it" ---> "i feel like this man has had a troubled past"

I'm picturing Jason Lee in Almost Famous

I feel like this man has had a troubled past. Prayers up for him.

Incredible

Stellar response from the lad. Cant wait til their second album when they go back to basics of four guys in the room etc

He's like the musician version of boring sports interview guy: we have to give 110%, keep the pressure on, etc..

can't wait for the interview about the follow-up album: "We didn't want to make Anthem of the Peaceful Army 2." "The record label kept telling us they didn't hear a single." "You have your whole life to write your firt record and then you have to write your second record on tour."

hahah - thread potential

"Somehow we'd lost track of why were doing this in the first place. This record us is re-connecting with what's at the core of this band, our shared love of music. We didn't write with an audience in mind. If people like it, that's great, but fundamentally the main thing was, do we like this or not?"

music is a game where whoever moves the most units wins the game. you gotta have fans to move units, you gotta play the concerts the right way. all of us want to win out there, we know what we're capable of and it's just a matter of putting all the pieces together. we're gonna play hard no matter no matter how many people are out there, you know josh is going to sing his heart out, danny always comes ready to play, just a matter of focusing on fundamentals and having fun out there

To us, it's all about the fans; the listeners who supported us before the fame and the fortune.

"I think it’s so to-the-roots organic that it’s unmistakable to hear the music and not be convinced of something. Because when we’re playing, when we’re recording, we put out our very heart and soul into the sound. We played in shitty dive bars and biker clubs for maybe two or three years before anybody really said anything. I think that we really just developed to play like a band, like what it used to be. I don’t think that’s throwback or retro. It’s just guys that know how to play rock and roll with each other. You can design a band that’s perfect. You can get the most handsome boys and girls or whatever and you put them together and you’re like, this is going to be massive! Maybe it’s massive for ten seconds but tomorrow nobody cares. It really is a building process. You can’t just snap your fingers and have it all. You have to build it and love it and give it love and let the people give it love and get people’s attention, and that takes time. I think people just aren’t prepared for the investment."

this is amazing