pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

wow

most of their reviews are like that iirc

I actually like that record as well.

It certainly didn't deserve having that review happen to it

gonna go transcend transcendence itself, brb

That's kind of like what I imagine my writing is like in my nightmares.

Like, you know that dream everyone apparently has where they suddenly and belatedly realise they're naked in a public place? My equiv is a computer screen flashing up:

Julia Holter - Ekstasis
9/10
You don’t give yourself over to Ekstasis so much as inexorably lose yourself within its glistening contours and fleeting visions of potentially misremembered moments of interpersonal, emotional, and spiritual enlightenment. Forget about “finding yourself”; everything, it seems, is all around us, yet each grasp at concrete experience inevitably yields a recession into the shadows from whence these feelings came. But then we remember, as if awakening from a dream: this is not ekstasis, this is ecstasy. This is not the shackle of an ontological reality, but euphoric possibility perpetually drawing us on toward its horizon, like a lost memory that lives on as desire. With Julia Holter, with this profound and inexhaustibly gorgeous album, we can transcend our own transcendence and find the greatest bliss in the joyful renunciation of what makes us us. And all we have to do is go outside.
Review by Tim Finney

At least your dream spared you from that Heidegger drop.

I just went outside and nothing like all that other stuff happened :(

xpost Some things are too dangerous even in dreams.

C'mon, dude's a philosophy PhD student, he KNOWS his shit and KNOWS that an album review is the place to drop it.

Might be a bit off topic but I have wondered if members of Tinariwen and Terakaft might be involved in the fighting in Mali.

― badg, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 6:01 AM (6 hours ago)

No re Tinariwen and I have not read any more about other bands. On the Rolling Whirled music thread I posted a link to a piece about 2 members of Tinariwen who are in a refugee camp now and unable to join up with other band members who had already left Mali for a tour.

xp lol Tim

cokemachineglow is the worst

^^ cannot be said enough, i'm actually curious to know who their audience actually is. at this point i'm assuming its at least 80% people reading it to roll their eyes

cokemachinejagger

the audience for that type of writing = 15-year-old theater kids

signed, a former 15-year-old theater kid who wishes he had a time machine so he could go back and shake some sense into his younger self

timemachineglow

At least your dream spared you from that Heidegger drop.

Ah, always waiting for the drop.

Shout outs to Heidegger, always already, presence/absence, based, proper to human existence, swag, etc.

heiswagger

as when a skrillex drops from a fixed point to its consequences, it always sees before it an empty space where it can never set foot, no matter how it wriggles

That Holter review might need its own thread? IDK. Basking in its awfulness.

a poll thread, obv

I just went outside and nothing like all that other stuff happened :(

lol

In a recent interview with NME, Breton frontman Roman Rappak claimed that the London four-piece is "not out to make a big political statement." His declaration is hardly provocative until you learn that Breton's HQ-- functioning as studio, home, squat, party venue-- is a disused bank in south London.

http://www.reclusland.com/compass/wp-content/uploads/HLIC/fd2140ebc47fed75f7f18b8cd0566adb.jpg

lol

hahaha

only reason any1 reads cokemachineglow is cuz sum1 at metacritic decided 2 aggregate their reviews as a joke

LOL they just compared Zooey Deschanel to Daniel Johnston

On its self-titled debut, this Vancouver "garage soul" band does a faithful, playful recreation of 1960s girl-group sounds, filtered through proudly grimy production.

this is like the ur-pitchfork band description

I think, perhaps, that this article gives the impression, or maybe confirms the suspicion, that Pitchfork pays, not by the word, but by the, comma

er article sentence

is it just me or is it a a bit weird that pfork runs a long review of the new amadou & mariam album (one that longs for more sounds of their homeland) without the slightest mention of the military coup currently taking place in mali?

This is a good piece addressing the phenomenon of Western media ignoring the political realities of Mali in their reporting on Malian musicians (in this case, Tinariwen):
http://blog.afropop.org/2012/04/tinariwen-mali-and-failure-of-western.html

cool will read

CMG again...err, what?

http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6879/gotye-makingmirrors-2011

omfg

thinking maybe this site deserves its own thread, Pitchfork hasn't been on this path since like 2004

[The lights slowly come back up on 31, still tapping on his laptop. As the conversation between 26 and Dom fades to murmurs, Christopher’s Mom, aka HNIC (HEAD NAGGER IN CHARGE), walks in.]

:o

they've been doing this for years guys

also about a million viciously mean things popped into my head to say about the dude who wrote that that I will keep to myself and replace with:

I did not enjoy that at all.

Rating: Whisper-Quiet-Maytag-Dishwasher%

tbh that was the funniest thing dude wrote

i really hope the dude who wrote that isn't 31.

or 26 for that matter.

I like how he name-drops other CMG staff writers.

cokemachineglow, you are reliably terrible

^ it's true

it at least got me to listen to the goyte song, which isn't bad

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13564-honeycomb/

glad they took the time to post this gem, really hearing the track in a new light now

sarcasm?

can't be