An intriguing vision of some records you may have missed later this year that were actually released last year
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/great-records-you-may-have-missed-winter-2022/
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 5 May 2022 12:21 (two years ago) link
actually one for a pedants thread probably
those roundups are usually good
one of the few things I read on p4k
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 5 May 2022 12:30 (two years ago) link
yeah they're fine, should have had the subeditors do a proper check though!
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 5 May 2022 12:32 (two years ago) link
for what exactly?
― rob, Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:11 (two years ago) link
"Records you may have missed" for winter 2022?
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:14 (two years ago) link
I just woke up so maybe I'm being super dense, but is this not a list of records released in the winter (Jan, Feb, March, April) of 2022? "Winter term" just ended a few days ago at my university, for example
― rob, Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:21 (two years ago) link
hah yeah fair enough, it's probably a US/UK thing, here I think we would say Winter 2022 was later this year. My bad, apologies Pitchfork.
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:23 (two years ago) link
tbf I live in Canada
― rob, Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link
sorry, a N America/UK thing then
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:27 (two years ago) link
Haha no I just meant winter here is ridiculously long
― rob, Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:28 (two years ago) link
now I'm wondering what percentage of the global population even live in places where the "normal" four-season distribution is a fact of life, must be pretty small
― rob, Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:31 (two years ago) link
good q, probably confined to northern N America, Europe and northern Russia, southern S America, southern S Africa and temperate Southern parts of Australasia? So maybe c. 8% of the world's population?
heavy thread derail here, sorry everyone
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:35 (two years ago) link
maybe also Northern China, Japan and Korea? In which case a significant extra number of people
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:36 (two years ago) link
I was writing off the entire southern hemisphere (the start of this derailing train of thought was imagining a southern hemisphere pedant constantly outraged about this), but I suppose that isn't right since you can still experience four distinct seasons there
― rob, Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:44 (two years ago) link
Astronomical winter is late December (winter solstice) to late March (vernal equinox). Meteorological winter is usually understood as December, January, and February. In both definitions, winter spans two calendar years, but the majority of the season is in the latter year.
― jaymc, Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:58 (two years ago) link
One day all the pitchfork reviews that are like "perfect music for this spring/summer/winter/fall" are going to seem hopelessly dated and/or northern hemispherecentric
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 5 May 2022 14:18 (two years ago) link
all the pitchfork reviews that are like "perfect music for this spring/summer/winter/fall" are going to seem hopelessly dated when the glaciers melt and President DeSantis has ordered the last of the polar bears to eat me.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 May 2022 14:20 (two years ago) link
in the future, there will be bear season and croc season, and pitchfork will be there to tell us which albums are best for running from each beast
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 5 May 2022 14:37 (two years ago) link
Best New Mauling
― alpine static, Thursday, 5 May 2022 15:11 (two years ago) link
I know it’s ridiculous to complain about Pitchfork in 2022 and it has been slowly developing into a wider net “culture” site for some time now, but that “here’s what the stars wore at the Met Gala” photo essay was really striking in a, “do not want” kind of way. I guess whatever gets clicks, but that felt out of step even with their current incarnation. Figure we’re about a season away from “Phoebe Bridgers are lunch at THIS east village hot spot” paparazzi shots.
They maybe were required to do this as a sister site to Vogue, as I'm pretty sure they didn't share this article on socials? Not a big deal imo!
― Frozen CD, Friday, 6 May 2022 17:02 (two years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/watch-feist-harmonize-with-an-obnoxious-buzzing-sound-in-a-theaters-basement-dressing-room/
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Friday, 6 May 2022 17:41 (two years ago) link
I heard An Obnoxious Buzzing Sound on WFMU and they sounded great, pretty cool to see them collaborate with Feist
― Evan, Friday, 6 May 2022 17:43 (two years ago) link
update: the Obnoxious Buzzing Sound has Covid
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Friday, 6 May 2022 17:45 (two years ago) link
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Bobby Rhubarb, a dog, would support Jenny Lewis on her summer tour dates.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 14:39 (two years ago) link
depends on your definition of support i guess
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 14:45 (two years ago) link
Definitely depends. I don’t know this Rhubarb dog but I can only assume that they WILL be there to support Jenny Lewis every step of the way, no matter when or where
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 15:06 (two years ago) link
For anyone looking for more evidence of Pitchfork's metamorphosis into Rolling Stone, the latest 3 reviews on the site right now are:- Florence and the Machine- The Black Keys- Richard Thompson(that is, if you can find the reviews section amongst all the breaking news about the new Kendrick album)
― enochroot, Friday, 13 May 2022 15:13 (two years ago) link
Rolling Stone only publishes 2 reviews a month now, and probably not by those artists?
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 13 May 2022 15:22 (two years ago) link
pitchfork was reviewing all of those artists back in the 00s
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Friday, 13 May 2022 15:35 (two years ago) link
"Major Online Music Site Remains Major Online Music Site in Absolute Shocker"
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Friday, 13 May 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link
There are a lot of legitimate Pitchfork complaints, but "metamorphosis into Rolling Stone" is not one of them
― Indexed, Friday, 13 May 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link
Also the reviews are not exactly hidden away - they're still fairly prominent on the homepage
― groovypanda, Friday, 13 May 2022 15:40 (two years ago) link
www.rollingstone.com
― Indexed, Friday, 13 May 2022 15:43 (two years ago) link
But also, it's like— they might be reviewing these record by legacy acts, they're also reviewing the latest releases by KMRU, Whatever the Weather, Oren Ambarchi, Jeanines, and any number of niche/somewhat more obscure groups. The hand-wringing over the inclusion of more mainstream stuff is weird, as much as I agree that most of the mainstream stuff is garbage.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Friday, 13 May 2022 15:43 (two years ago) link
^^
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 13 May 2022 15:46 (two years ago) link
Winter term" just ended a few days ago at my university, for example
Haha definitions of "winter term" and "spring term" always lead to mild US/Canada cross-border confusion ime.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 13 May 2022 15:48 (two years ago) link
Reviewing a Richard Thompson album (ft. Henry Kaiser) is a good thing for a music site to do, IMO
― Bob Dylan's iconic Ray Ban sunglasses (morrisp), Friday, 13 May 2022 15:56 (two years ago) link
I'm not a disinterested poster, but are we complaining about a Richard Thompson review?
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 May 2022 16:03 (two years ago) link
i'm complaining about the bonnie raitt review. she's shifted over 16 million units in the united states alone! i am sick of being smothered by bonnie raitt every time i walk outside
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 13 May 2022 16:04 (two years ago) link
do you raitt her
― Evan, Friday, 13 May 2022 16:10 (two years ago) link
I can't make you love her.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 May 2022 16:11 (two years ago) link
Bonnie Prince Billy gets a raitting of 33.3333333333
― Evan, Friday, 13 May 2022 16:14 (two years ago) link
i see what you did there
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 13 May 2022 16:16 (two years ago) link
at least it gave us something to talk about
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Friday, 13 May 2022 16:30 (two years ago) link
Richard Thompson is good.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 13 May 2022 16:32 (two years ago) link
that's one stellar Richard Thompson reissue, deserves every review it gets
― corrs unplugged, Saturday, 14 May 2022 07:02 (two years ago) link
I enjoyed the Black Keys review, which was not at all dumb, but when exactly did this band ever count among its fans "wayward factions of 78-collecting blues traditionalists?" As far as I can tell they were beer commercial fodder from the jump, pretty much anathema to the crusty blues collector demographic
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 14 May 2022 14:08 (two years ago) link
the first few black keys records were definitely "cool" in my memory
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 14 May 2022 14:17 (two years ago) link
Yeah the first album came out on Alive Records, a small label founded in the 90s by a French dude who was in thick with the whole extended Bomp Records empire; IIRC Greg and Suzy were their distributors from the get-go. So there was a definite cachet in that vein among those of us following/interested in such things when that came out, "Oh, another thing on Alive, could be good."
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 May 2022 14:32 (two years ago) link