pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

i was a little bummed by the new Modern Nature release, but their album from last year (I think) was awesome.

bonus if you like both, ums

both of those Ultimate Painting guys seem to be pretty much worth following no matter what they do.

did anyone cancel or postpone a tour due to Covid?

alpine - all new to me will check out the other one

A statement from Pitchfork Union: https://t.co/YHs9sUVY7u pic.twitter.com/0uz5dIeVCK

— Pitchfork Union (@p4kunion) June 18, 2020

yeah, some big shit

"not every job is created equal"

so their female Indian EIC is targeting POC for layoffs, or was that decision made above her head?

they just laid off their white male EIC so that characterization doesn't seem fair to me

a problem w/ media unions is that they're very good at addressing things like money but very bad (or at least inefficient) in addressing diversity issues (separate from pay), and the problem only gets more intractable in a climate such as this where every site is making cuts and nobody is hiring

their female Indian EIC
their white male EIC

wait, who is (or was) the EIC?

matthew schnipper was the (executive) editor they laid off

puja patel is the eic

I've been freelancing for Pitchfork since 2014. I won't be accepting any new assignments from them until they and Conde Nast reach an agreement with the union https://t.co/uUuWqSgVn4

— simple garak (@sashageffen) June 18, 2020

am I allowed to pitch these assignments and then submit pieces that are just the word "fart" up to whatever the max word count is

EXCLUSIVE: Employees at the music and culture site Pitchfork are staging a work stoppage in protest of what they say are anti-union initiatives taken by the publication and its parent company, magazine publisher Condé Nasthttps://t.co/tGpCEeNZWX

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 18, 2020

Earlier this month, CEO Lynch dismissed the usefulness of unionization, saying in an all-staff email that while “some may believe that joining a union will protect their job, unfortunately, it’s just not the case. We all have seen the thousands of journalists who have lost their jobs over the last many months. The headwinds that the media industry is experiencing right now, combined with COVID-19, are just too strong for any union.”

“What will save jobs is an entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to be innovative when it comes to the ways we evolve and grow our business together,” he said.

fuck yoooooouuu

the ways we evolve and grow our business together

holy shit, a shiver of disgust just went down my spine. the crappy place i work at has an "evolve" initiative that has never been explained and has no point, but usually involves some guy i don't know telling us about how we need to "grow our business together"

he's right that being in a union won't save your job -- journalists aren't cops. but it's also one of the best pitches for creating a union. get money now by extracting structural raises and get money later by bargaining and ratifying severance for when you get thrown out on the street, bcuz they will throw you out on the street

never mind the business, how does one grow the hops that make the perfect session ipa

Best New Reissue today for an album titled Get in Union.

That was from yesterday
No new reviews today

The new Neil Young album was awarded "Best New Reissue," but I don't think it's a reissue (the material is old, but it's a new album)?

it's not a reissue but it's hard to fit what it is into stamp form. "best new formerly lost music"

anyway even though it's not accurate i think it fits that tag better than bnm

October is the most embarrassing shit

https://oct.co/essays/sylvan-esso-interview?utm_source=p4k

In particular, what type of wine do you guys like to drink?
Nick: Well, it's hot out, so there's been a lot of Italian whites.

Amelia: Yeah. A lot of Italian whites.

Nick: There's no way to talk about what wine you're drinking without sounding like a turd.

Amelia: It's a beer publication. You can say whatever you want.

Nick: I guess that's true.

Amelia: Yeah. Into Italian whites right now. I like anything from the Loire Valley. Mostly white, unless we're having food, or steak. And then we'll go for really solid Nebbiolo.

Is this different from when you're out on the road? What's the tour drink of choice?
Nick: Gin.

Amelia: Yeah, yeah. I have gin and then we put grapefruits on the rider, so that I can make like a gin, La Croix, fresh squeezed grapefruit drink every night.

Nick: That's kind of like the tour drink. That and, like, Peroni.

how the other half live

cringefork presents cringetober

i don't like Sylvan Esso's music but i don't understand the issue here. it's not like they're bragging about popping magnums of Dom Perignon or whatever.

real indie heads only drink rubbing alcohol

I remember when October was a real beer site. Now there's all this "woke" wine talk there.

I'm not going to spew any elitist bullshit, but white wine? Oh my fucking God. I'll stay for a little while to see if October still serves my needs, but with today's interview, I'm not counting on it. I understand the career move, but I just don't think it's going to serve me any more.

I wonder if it's going to serve anyone's needs. I don't think a web- only publication can attract readers interest in Barefoot and Ecco. To my knowledge, no one actually hunts down information about such wines. People just see it on the shelves and that's it. Let's give October a few months, until the corporate contributors pull the plug.

let's not and say we did.

I've started to hear good things about October, seems like it's breaking down barriers between genres by allowing token appreciation of drinks that beer kids usually look down on.

maybe it's time beer kids got looked down on, not pandered to.

I don’t know. Before October came around you had to actually go to a show to find out that your favorite band were a bunch of farty drunks

Enjoyed this review today, although most of the music on that compilation is the sonic equivalent of lentil soup.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/various-artists-pure-moods-vol-1/

1. "Return to Innocence" Enigma 4:10
2. "Sweet Lullaby" Deep Forest 3:51
3. "Crockett's Theme" Jan Hammer 3:34
4. "Oxygène Part IV" Jean Michel Jarre 3:19
5. "Orinoco Flow" Enya 3:46
6. "Tubular Bells Part 1" (opening excerpt) Mike Oldfield 4:59
7. "Chariots of Fire" Vangelis 3:26
8. "The Heart Asks Pleasure First / The Promise" (theme from The Piano) Michael Nyman 3:13
9. "Chi Mai" Ennio Morricone 5:04
10. "Inspector Morse Theme" Barrington Pheloung 2:08
11. "Sadeness" Enigma 4:16
12. "Little Fluffy Clouds" The Orb 4:02
13. "Only You" Praise 3:38
14. "Aria on Air" (as used on a British Airways commercial) Malcolm McLaren 4:09
15. "Lily Was Here" David A. Stewart featuring Candy Dulfer 4:18
16. "Songbird" Kenny G 4:59
17. "Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence" Ryuichi Sakamoto 4:29
18. "Theme from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" Angelo Badalamenti 5:01
19. "Theme from The Mission" Ennio Morricone 2:52
20. "Another Green World" Brian Eno 1:31

Some good stuff there

17. "Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence" Ryuichi Sakamoto 4:29

is this the instrumental version of 'forbidden colours'?

that's a good fucking album

wow pure moods is dope

for real, i just built a playlist with this shit and it's good

got to be over thirty years since i listened to crockett's theme, A+

Remember seeing ads for Pure Moods a lot on TV (didn't we poll it?). I had never heard "Return to Innocence" before and the 10-second snippet they played really made me want to hear the whole song

I really liked this review, because even though I own and adore that compilation, the writing put a new perspective on it, the piece is a really good justification for why it's worth them doing these Sunday revisits

Some good lines in that review, for sure. (Quoting Sontag on camp is a bit of a “Webster’s Dictionary defines ________ as...” move, but the citation feels earned in the 2nd reference.)

this is one of my favorite pieces of writing of the year (I've wanted to pitch an enigma sunday review for a while but have never quite gotten the courage)

That Deep Forest track is mad underrated

a little confused on this, I think they are reviewing a 97 edition with a different tracklist than the one President Keyes posted?

The review itself mentions that there was an original UK version, which was tweaked for the later US release. Not clear on what the changes were tbh.

yeah, great review!

as for track lists, yes, they changed pretty significantly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Moods

Pure Moods (original 1994 release)
No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Return to Innocence"	Enigma	4:10
2.	"Sweet Lullaby"	Deep Forest	3:51
3.	"Crockett's Theme"	Jan Hammer	3:34
4.	"Oxygène Part IV"	Jean Michel Jarre	3:19
5.	"Orinoco Flow"	Enya	3:46
6.	"Tubular Bells Part 1" (opening excerpt)	Mike Oldfield	4:59
7.	"Chariots of Fire"	Vangelis	3:26
8.	"The Heart Asks Pleasure First / The Promise" (theme from The Piano)	Michael Nyman	3:13
9.	"Chi Mai"	Ennio Morricone	5:04
10.	"Inspector Morse Theme"	Barrington Pheloung	2:08
11.	"Sadeness"	Enigma	4:16
12.	"Little Fluffy Clouds"	The Orb	4:02
13.	"Only You"	Praise	3:38
14.	"Aria on Air" (as used on a British Airways commercial)	Malcolm McLaren	4:09
15.	"Lily Was Here"	David A. Stewart featuring Candy Dulfer	4:18
16.	"Songbird"	Kenny G	4:59
17.	"Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence"	Ryuichi Sakamoto	4:29
18.	"Theme from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me"	Angelo Badalamenti	5:01
19.	"Theme from The Mission"	Ennio Morricone	2:52
20.	"Another Green World"	Brian Eno	1:31
Pure Moods (1997 re-release) [5]
Release Date: April 1, 1997
Label / Catalog #: Virgin Records US: 42186
UPC: 7 24384 21862 1
No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Return to Innocence"	Enigma	4:10
2.	"Orinoco Flow"	Enya	3:46
3.	"Sweet Lullaby"	Deep Forest	3:51
4.	"Oxygène Part IV"	Jean Michel Jarre	3:19
5.	"The X-Files Theme (DADO Paranormal Activity Mix)"	DJ Dado	3:30
6.	"Tubular Bells Part 1"	Mike Oldfield	4:59
7.	"Sadeness, Pt. 1"	Enigma	4:16
8.	"Adiemus"	Karl Jenkins	3:59
9.	"Crockett's Theme"	Jan Hammer	3:34
10.	"Theme from The Mission"	Ennio Morricone	2:52
11.	"Main Title Theme from The Last Emperor"	David Byrne	4:03
12.	"Yeha-Noha (Wishes of Happiness & Prosperity)"	Sacred Spirit	4:26
13.	"Theme from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me"	Angelo Badalamenti	5:01
14.	"Makambo"	Geoffrey Oryema	5:01
15.	"My Wife with Champagne Shoulders"	Mark Isham	5:32
16.	"The Promise"	Michael Nyman	3:13
17.	"Lily Was Here"	David A. Stewart, Candy Dulfer	4:18