pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

= writer probably thought it was BNM worthy and editor resisted (xpost)

also it bears mentioning that Tom tends to come off SO ENTHUSIASTIC about like his 40th fav record of the year

lol true

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^ that's sort of what i thought. it's sort of subscribing to p4k's whole modus operandi of praising the innovative for the sake of innovation, and trying to make clear that they're not simply a "music review" site. which is ridiculous, considering how much they fawned over kanye's regressive new album last year.

what

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just saying p4k's particular fond of fashioning itself as the taste-maker, or purveyor, of innovative music. they've done that a lot less so since expanding ~beyond indie~ in the past couple years but that's always where i thought their mission-statement laid.

pitchfork is not a person fyi

i mean could you imagine

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=last%3A%22Pitchfork%22

enthusiastic review qualified by "simple and low-stakes music done extremely well" prolley justifies 7.7 (which is a lucky # in itself)

http://www.pitchfork.org/Classics.html

'One of the very first, much sought-after sons of "Toby,"' Sons of Toby sounds like it should've been the name to band from the early 2000s

"A long, tall, correct female out of vintage North American bloodlines. ...she has delivering six cria alive and totally unassisted. Her crias grow quickly and exhibit her same stretch and pattern." BNM 8.8

the first tune-yards had some jams but i couldn't even finish the song i heard off the new one it was too embarassing, reminds me of like there's this family of mentally challenged people who sing in the metro i always transfer at & like, i get that it's beautiful & a triumph that they love singing & aren't shy but something abt hearing someone sing like that makes me shudder

why do reviewers take great pains to typeset tUnE-YarDs correctly but they typeset the title as ｗ　ｈ　ｏ　ｋ　ｉ　ｌ　ｌ when it's obvs uppercase?

w h o c a r e s

i actually tried this tune-yards thing this morning because several people i kinda trust loved it, also compared it to glasser, assured me it didn't sound like dirty projectors. fucking terrible! and then a few hours later i kept seeing other people talk about pitchfork and best new blah blah and i felt a bit dirty for having been taken in.

yeah that album is fucken garbage

ａ　ｇ　ｒ　ｅ　ｅ　ｄ

deep thoughts over here

seems out of character for Dusted really.

is it like miccachu?

kinda the midpoint of micachu/cocorosie/dirty proj? on one listen only. next to gang gang dance and glasser this sort of pan-genre experimentation sounds so puny and pointless

I just listened to 10 seconds of some random tune-yards song on Youtube and I really cannot fathom why anyone would want to listen to it

the typographical bullshit alone is enough to get me to hate this but the music is bad too.

omg that dusted review

the one linked by Dusted is good until she starts bellowing at you

i listened to most of her first record and that's basically all i remember

i feel like dusted used to run a lot of wild critical-theory addled reviews but that lately they have been a lot more descriptive and readable. i was totally thinking of that crazy "water curses" review by like the third sentence and almost lol'd when i saw that the reviewer then invoked it

tuneyards -- file under "malign influence of dr spock."

listening to dusted song--she sings like she's giving birth

hahaha yes

basically I spent the whole time going "damn, calm down"

this is gonna play real well on college campuses imo

Simon Reynolds just said some of it reminded him of Sublime. RED FLAG.

Man do I ever love Tune-Yards. Some crazy people up in this joint.

cool new music yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwDEQWaSiEU

I think this is kind of unlistenable/unwatchable.

Unwatchable, sure!

Quirk overload!

i think the girl on the left is definitely watchable.

mystified as to what aesthetic criteria separates this from gang gang dance quality-wise

energy, production values, hugeness of sound, rhythm

I'll give you "hugeness of sound", but not the others

For me it just boils down to her voice. I like other idiosyncratic singers so I wouldn't think less of someone for digging them, but it's an instant grab for the volume knob when she starts singing.

To pump it up, right!

They remind me of a mid '90s Too Pure band, which is a good thing IMO.

there's pitchfork-branded "Pitchfork 3D" glasses in like every single store in Williamsburg right now

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feelin this gif