Quirk overload!
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 18 April 2011 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the girl on the left is definitely watchable.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 18 April 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
mystified as to what aesthetic criteria separates this from gang gang dance quality-wise
― All this information makes America phat (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 18 April 2011 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
energy, production values, hugeness of sound, rhythm
― lex pretend, Monday, 18 April 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll give you "hugeness of sound", but not the others
― All this information makes America phat (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 18 April 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― rob, Monday, 18 April 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
To pump it up, right!
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 18 April 2011 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
They remind me of a mid '90s Too Pure band, which is a good thing IMO.
― wk, Monday, 18 April 2011 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
there's pitchfork-branded "Pitchfork 3D" glasses in like every single store in Williamsburg right now
― i put that on my sub (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 18 April 2011 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/v0l1N.gif
― markers, Monday, 18 April 2011 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
― D-40, Monday, 18 April 2011 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
feelin this gif
The logo on the Pitchfork 3D glasses is pretty awesome, so mad props to whoever created it...
― i put that on my sub (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 18 April 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
that would be me! ty
― H3LP, Monday, 18 April 2011 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh i thought yall were joking about pitchfork 3d glasses
― diamonddave85, Monday, 18 April 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/nEnXE.gif
― markers, Monday, 18 April 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i53.tinypic.com/2nbejkl.gif
― jay lenonononono (abanana), Monday, 18 April 2011 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
ahhhhh teeth so white
― burn me at the stake if you must (reddening), Monday, 18 April 2011 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
god so tired of ilm tuneyards-bashing
― flopson, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i saw her live in fall 2009 and she was gr8
― markers, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 00:09 (thirteen years ago) link
this isn't too bad or anything i just don't really see the appeal of it, esp over the length of a full album -- it's like deeply indie but not in a conventional way like Yuck or something that appeals to me on an (almost bland) indie comfort food level, if that makes sense
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 19 April 2011 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
this isn't too bad or anything i just don't really see the appeal of it
liking real african music means doing some homework
― i put that on my sub (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
it would probably be deeply irritating over 40 mins
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 19 April 2011 04:00 (thirteen years ago) link
researching real african music? yeah probably
― flopson, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link
oh fuck off. condescending as shit.
tuneyards is great.
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
(xpost)
I listen to a fair amount of african music but don't recall any homework assignments
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 04:35 (thirteen years ago) link
u sure you were listening to the real stuff tho? then again u wouldn't know i guess
― flopson, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 04:36 (thirteen years ago) link
the vocals on this album remind me of some of the eye vocals on soul discharge
― flopson, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 04:37 (thirteen years ago) link
brb guys goin ta africa school
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 04:41 (thirteen years ago) link
The Big KRIT review is kind of inane and I can't even figure out whether it's the writer or the editor giving it that score.
like, what the fuck is going on here when a review starts off like this
As a rapper, Mississippi's Big K.R.I.T. is pretty good but nothing amazing
― kelpolaris, Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean i understand that he's a more superior producer than rapper but this is the most awkward initial sentence of the year
― kelpolaris, Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i think tom did a nice job w/ that review
― geeks, dweebs, nerds & lames (D-40), Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
yep
― just sayin, Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
this thread should be renamed "irate, you rate, we all rate"
― some dude, Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Thre review flows nicely w/ inclusion of back-story, but it's the trivial things that bother me. It was like every sentence I read thereafterwords was me trying to figure out "so do you like him or not? do you like him or not?". I just find it bizarre that so blatant a ~thesis statement~ would kick things off. You kinda have to, you know, build to these things.
maybe i'm too methodical, iono
― kelpolaris, Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
good lord use better words, i put more effort into bloody tweets
― lex pretend, Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
will always maintain that a love of language is probably the #1 requirement for being a writer (nb this is not an excuse for flowery purple prose)
u guys should really read full sentences:
As a rapper, Mississippi's Big K.R.I.T. is pretty good but nothing amazing: With the empathetic warmth in his sticky drawl, he makes a convincing Southern everyman, and he has enough rhythmic dexterity to really stick to beats.
tom tends to use a more casual tone in general in his reviews but let's be clear that first bit is not like an entire topic sentence
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
haha that's better, but "pretty good" and "amazing" should just not exist in professional reviews. i refuse to click on p4k apart from tom ewing columns, i only read what gets c/ped here
― lex pretend, Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
would enjoy a monthly column of tom and lex taking turns just shitting on everything the other writes
― some dude, Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
"status ain't good"
oh was he the one who came up with "british people" as a response to my weeknd piece? lol
― lex pretend, Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
haha yes
― some dude, Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
haha that's better, but "pretty good" and "amazing" should just not exist in professional reviews
why?
― jay lenonononono (abanana), Thursday, 21 April 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/search/amazing
― kelpolaris, Thursday, 21 April 2011 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
commonly used and easily understood words should not be used in reviews. gotcha.
― jay lenonononono (abanana), Thursday, 21 April 2011 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
they're so commonly used that they provoke little in terms of mental stimulii. thesauruses are a click away... this album was: enthralling, staggering, electrifying, flooring. each one of these words goes to far greater extents in the imagination than a tell-all word like "amazing" ever will.
― kelpolaris, Thursday, 21 April 2011 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
"electrifying!" says rolling stone.
hmm....you're right.
― omar little, Thursday, 21 April 2011 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
amazing is sort of the Internet's word of the year, isn't it?
― Hippie! Crack! Nitrous! Mafia! Boston! (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 21 April 2011 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link