pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

I love Big Thief, and was reading the review thinking “huh this sounds like the kind of album that this site usually pans, and I love”. It rules! I listened to the whole thing twice this morning

huh this sounds like the kind of album that this site usually pans, and I love

Heh, how so? Capacity, Big Hands and U.F.O.F. all got BNM'd, and abysskiss garnered an 8.0, so I can't say I'm surprised by their love for Lenker's recent solo material.

waiting for my copy to arrive in the mail! should be sometime this afternoon, i hope

I’m a big fan, but I’m not in a rush... somehow I feel like I’ll have my whole life to listen to it, y’know? :)

I'm a bit burned out on This Sort of Thing at the moment but she's obviously excellent at it.

Made it 1 min into 'Zombie Girl' and yep, this is still Very Much Not For Me.

Not too keen on her voice, no. The instrumentals I'm interested in.

"Zombie Girl," though, did remind me a bit of new weird america stuff, and for some reason this Jana Hunter album in particular: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/4026-blank-unstaring-heirs-of-doom/

I will forever stan that record— it's really good, probably one of the best "folk" records to come out of the aughts.

These, "Here's Everything XX Did as SNL's Host" articles every time a musician hosts are so obnoxious.

Just wait till Jamie XX hosts an episode.

What would Vision of Bodies Being Burned sound like if clipping. made scary movies rather than just liked them?

That review is terrible, but most of their clipping reviews have been. It's getting clowned in the clipping thread.

Not sure why they even bother reviewing clipping anymore. The reviews are basically the same pan over and over.

I got excited for a second for that Menswe@r review though, hoping to see a Ned byline but uh... no.

I'd like to see Stephen Kearse's pitch, "Remember that clipping album I gave 4.5 to last year? Well, there's a new album of leftover tracks from the sessions for it and I think the people are dying to hear my opinion."

Not sure why they even bother reviewing clipping anymore.

RYM rage-traffic.

Raaargh

I don't think I've consciously heard a single track by clipping., Do they have a rabid fan base?

They have a Rabid (Cronenberg, 1977) fanbase

These, "Here's Everything XX Did as SNL's Host" articles every time a musician hosts are so obnoxious.

iyo did facebook ruin the internet?

lol Whiney

Very good

I got excited for a second for that Menswe@r review though, hoping to see a Ned byline but uh... no.

That's because you needed to look elsewhere, my friend:

https://thequietus.com/articles/29097-menswear-nuisance-review-anniversary

"when it comes to pfork, look elsewhere my friend"

words of wisdom, ned.

Thanks Ned, I had read that one already - was just hoping you had another outlet to share your wisdom with.

One exception is “Truckin’,” the album closer, an easygoing ode to the open highway that became an anthem for Deadheads and for freaks and hippies more generally.

errr that's not at all what that song is about

If you enjoy tortuous, paragraph-long paraphrasing of song lyrics, the new Tigermilk review is for you.

And while we were all being distracted by the election, Pitchfork kickstarted the witch house revival.

i got more than one automated marketing email today that started with something like "Now that the election is over (Phew!)..."

An interview with Bono’s sunglasses

https://www.spin.com/2020/11/bono-spin-interview-sunglasses/

lol sorry wrong thread

"Inspired by his mother’s Alzheimer’s, the"

lol come on

it may very well be true, that he was inspired, but if so, it is a tale told 5 or 25 chapters deep into some fucked up story, not the very first words to describe a set of music for commercial release

inspired by my only child's diarrhea vomit deathbed, the

Inspired by the gruesome death of Princess Di at age 36, the

tbf Ulver did actually have a recent album inspired by that

I keep getting Salem videos rec'd to me, and I keep on internally saying to myself, "I didn't like this shit the first time"

congratulations! you're officially too old now.

I think I just don't like shitty music.

Salem has always been bullshit

Oh that’s not in reference to Salem, just to that feeling.

Oh, then definitely. I started posting here when I was barely 21. I'm now 36.

i don't mean for here! i mean for pitchfork!

Oh lol. I haven't read Pitchfork for years, I'm a Quietus and Resident Advisor guy.

looking at p4k's reviews over the past month or so--very heavy with reissue and retrospective reviews. Release schedule must be light for some reason.

almost like there's a global event making it difficult for bands to write and release new albums

It's kind of funny how Pitchfork writes about shit like Salem as if they ever fucking mattered in the first place

tbf there's a piece in the New Yorker this week as well. critics of a certain age.

when music turns 10 years old it is suddenly classic

eagerly awaiting the critical resurgence of Kitty Pryde