pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

the 2 LPs are both free online, though, in the usual places

austin which is worse - pitchfork or the private prison system?

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, November 9, 2020 10:38 AM

two of the same thing.

dude

bro?

Barry Jenkins and Chopstars' latest collaboration turns @Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot into Yankee Purple Foxtrot https://t.co/1859yF8RZ5

— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) November 10, 2020

Feels kinda Pitchfork headlines via neural network

two of the same thing.

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, November 9, 2020 3:18 PM (yesterday)

idk, I'm pretty sure most people who hate private prisons don't visit one every day just to get mad

"heavy metal drummer" (chopped not slopped) might not really be worth listening to, but certainly could be worth sampling

lol @ Rob

i don't think anyone who has not been to prison can rightfully say.

Federal tastemakers have locked me up behind trends, man!

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. . .okay, i'll allow it.

It seems like it might be a temporary error and that we don't actually have another esteemed entry in the 0.0 canon, but for now we do with a meta commentary blank review.

wtf

Considering this same album was on their list of five albums out this week you should listen to, I’m assuming it’s just some sort of auto publishing glitch.

we really are due for another 0.0 sometime though, it's been a while

Yeezus, etc.

That album ended up getting a 7.7... the artist may have preferred a 0.0, for the notoriety.

Cool Chavez review. But why not complete this thought, and mention that James Lo was in Live Skull?:

Chavez began life as a supergroup of sorts, at least by an extremely 1995 metric. Lead singer and guitarist Matt Sweeney had been in Skunk, who put out two albums on Twin/Tone that sounded like New Jersey’s answer to old Twin/Tone Soul Asylum. (This is a compliment.) Guitarist Clay Tarver had been in Boston’s Bullet LaVolta, which put out a couple of albums of East Coast grunge before breaking up in 1992. Chavez was (significantly) greater than the sum of these parts.

(The review only glancingly mentions Lo; which is kind of weird, considering how important his drumming is to the band.)

Pusha-T’s third solo album Daytona re-established the early 2000s legend as a singular voice in hip-hop. Daytona couldn't be more 2018 if it tried.

i guess the first sentence is a matter of opinion but what does this second sentence even mean?

even being charitable, when i think of what rap music in 2018 sounded like it certainly was not this

when you know you know

You had to be there.

the paragraph's supposed to be awkward

Two years later, Daytona is still the only album to be celebrated in the INSTANT CLASSIC video franchise

https://pitchfork.com/tv/56-liner-notes/kendrick-lamar-or-damn-or-instant-classic/

It’s a Nathan Fielder kind of 2018 reference

"SAINt JHN was crooning woozy knock-off Future verses when a 19-year-old in a village in Kazakhstan illegally made him a hit."

uhh just my opinion but really uncharitable reading of saint jhn's career

Alfred!! Wtf

https://img.discogs.com/lO3KlBn5Y3WaSJKLgX7maElQFUw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-827485-1308703158.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/lO3KlBn5Y3WaSJKLgX7maElQFUw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-827485-1308703158.jpeg.jpg

What? I like the album, though it's more epochal than good.

you can talk about it down at the station

okay this revive got me to go look at pfork to see what you guys were talking about and i have two items to address here:

1. why is that album being reviewed? was it recently reissued?

2. yes i'm sorry alfred, we're going to have to bring you in for this. your bail will be set at seventy million dollars.

Yes. A 25th anniversary edition.

I'll have to sell Negronis at lemonade stands to make bail.

Alfred mentions it the beginning of his paragraph, but the editor failed to do their job and mention in the subhed that it's an anniversary edition -- thus leading to Austin's confusion.

(*third paragraph)

I like that review Alfred!

Absolutely stunned to learn that Aimee Mann is 60. I mean, it makes sense when I look at the arc of her career, but it still also doesn't make sense at all.

It's okay because I'm gettin' flayed on Twitter.

and thanks, jon

I love that ilx is a safe space for idiosyncratic takes, a place for true iconoclasts. However, Alfred is wrong; the songwriting is Great

You know what’s good though? Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory

it's practically hidden in the review that it's a reissue. i was so confused.

not trying to nitpick you, alfred. not your fault at all, really.

It didn't help that the label was coy about the title because it's...26 years since My Life.

Annoying that people interpret anything less than an unqualified rave as a personal attack.

A couple people called me a cracker.

i'm also a cracker. self-proclaimed.

hive culture sucks