pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

more like a drag race

I guess Meddle is exactly on par with Set My Heart on Fire Immediately.

I can't believe Pink Floyd had a dog in the band who could play the blues and make sound collages, and even more amazingly, the dog wasn't able to get a record deal of his own! Blatant music industry species-ism.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcuL4nIXoAEKDU6.jpg

Kind of funny to see Pink Floyd and the Grateful Dead at the top of the reviews section

It's a good writeup even if I think it should be a 9.5 or whatever

“And here you are, still doin’ you,” she sings. “It never worked out, but it never stopped you.” Those are great lines

they are?

"The best pop songs leave you wanting more."

They do?

I disagree strongly with this review. The EP is fantastic.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/summer-walker-life-on-earth-ep/

The main complaint seems to be that her lyrics aren’t to the reviewer’s taste. Like, sorry about that, but the music has other qualities.

Wipers review reads like parody

There’s some good writing and analysis in it but the opening paragraph is ridiculous.

Missing the obvious childishness of 'No fair' is… not a good start. And the extended development around Reagan is peak p4k contextsplaining.

this project of reassessing the alt canon through a social justice lens sometimes reads like a less entertaining version of the Maoist International Movement movie reviews, p4k shouldn’t be afraid to lean into the absurdity a bit more imo

I remember, in college, reading a review of the Cranberries single “Zombie” in the pages of the Socialist Worker, the free paper distributed by the (now-defunct) ISO, which was big on my campus. The entire review was a diatribe about how the song was reactionary propaganda designed to weaken support for the IRA... it ended with something like: “Unfortunately, the song is very catchy and well-produced, which will probably make it popular and increase the damage it will cause.” I thought this was so funny.

(And honestly, that’s more attention to the music than Pfork sometimes pays!)

Can't wait for p4k and Plugged In to converge at last, e.g.:

https://www.pluggedin.com/album-reviews/juice-wrld-legends-never-die/

xpost can’t wait for Ian Curtis’ suicide to be critiqued as politically impotent

A Tory offing himself? Nah.

I guess if Protomartyr wanted that sweet, sweet BNM they wouldn't have dissed ian cohen in song

You’ll never guess how this emergency room physician runs her own cassette-only label (note-she is married to one of our staffers)

I remember, in college, reading a review of the Cranberries single “Zombie” in the pages of the Socialist Worker, the free paper distributed by the (now-defunct) ISO, which was big on my campus. The entire review was a diatribe about how the song was reactionary propaganda designed to weaken support for the IRA... it ended with something like: “Unfortunately, the song is very catchy and well-produced, which will probably make it popular and increase the damage it will cause.” I thought this was so funny.

Hah, just seen this. I live in Ireland and for about 20 years it was physically impossible to go more than a few months without hearing Zombie.

It's such a horrendous song, politically illiterate and musically abysmal. It's like what you would get if you put the op-ed pages of the Irish Times in a blender with a copy of What's Up by 4 Non Blondes.

By then, of course, the support for the IRA was no longer a debate, and we all perceptively knew that it wouldn't be nice

Something tells me that p4k isn’t going to give the new t swift album a very high score.. I could be wrong but if I’m not you heard it here first!

i haven't heard it or read anyone's reaction to it, but based off of my gut i'm going to say it's a 7.4, some really good moments in there but a step back from what we've come to expect

Pitchfork are big stans of The National and the album is getting universal acclaim - I'd be pretty surprised if it scores less than an 8.0 and might even get a BNM

Quarantine narrative can’t hurt

Excerpt from the upcoming review: 'No music has ever sounded quite like it.'

Three paragraphs about Kanye

"Betty" is unlike anything @TaylorSwift13 has made before https://t.co/Q989PR6Xwg

— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) July 25, 2020

Gonna guess 8.2. I’d forgotten Lover only notched a 7.1 though I’m banking on that mostly being a function of how much everyone hated the lead singles.

I think more like 9.2. The stars seem aligned for this one.

not that high, i say ... that's pretty high

8.7 and BNM

lover getting 7.1 seemed really high for how bad half of it is

Yeah, i take back my previous comment, 8.7 seems about right

Surprised that the new Bad Brains piece doesn’t even allude to the controversy involving the band and homophobia (despite spending several paragraphs on their 1989 album which has that infamous song). Just seems like something a retrospective like this would typically attempt to wrestle with a bit.

While you wait for our review of @TaylorSwift13's new album, revisit our writing on her entire discography → https://t.co/wLNJhkPLzb pic.twitter.com/TQzzrARfro

— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) July 25, 2020

Yes, we await so anxiously, lol. This can only mean it's 8.5 or up I fear.

Different subject but their twitter game is just god awful.

Hi @pitchfork im diagnosed with stage 1 cancer if folklore gets a bad review, it'll affect my body and results with coma, please be kind and rate it 10/10 🙏😭

— betty • 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒆 (@FolkloreBop) July 26, 2020

jesus christ

if folklore doesn't get a 10 i'll kill myself on live tv

First things first - they need to circle back and review the Nelly Furtado album of the same title

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Folklore_cover.png

Should've been today's Sunday Review.

smh at all of this

Dear pitchfork, my cousin is very sick and said it would bring him great joy if you'd give folklore 0/10. Have a great day!

i hate that gay teenage stans have started caring so much about critic scores (not the reviews, just the scores) ever since critical consensus got metacritified, + legacy outlets get to rub their titties 'withholding' their 'anticipated' reviews as hordes of netizens wait with bated breath, harassment emails at the ready

they get to what now

i hate that gay teenage stans have started caring so much about critic scores (not the reviews, just the scores) ever since critical consensus got metacritified, + legacy outlets get to rub their titties 'withholding' their 'anticipated' reviews as hordes of netizens wait with bated breath, harassment emails at the ready

― dyl, Sunday, 26 July 2020 19:32 (fifty seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

whose fault is this though, the stans' or the critics'

the biggest problem with professional music criticism is that it has been reduced to a few key voices, whose scores 'matter' increasingly given the ever-decreasing wealth of debate or competition. we end up with monopolies and coronations. queen taytay awaits her 9.something, and we the flagwaving public line pall mall in slavering anticipation

meanwhile hundreds of good albums come out every week, more than ever before, and the old critic models, not least pitchfork, are just so hopeless at keeping up with them all

I love you Pitchfork I'm sorry for laughing at you in this thread, you're not dumb, please give Folklore a 5.2

queen taytay awaits her 9.something, and we the flagwaving public line pall mall in slavering anticipation

― imago, Sunday, July 26, 2020 3:43 PM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

what planet would queen taytay care about her pitchfork score or her Fantano review. P4k didn't even deign to review Taylor until nearly a decade after her debut