pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

i like to consider those topics "off limits" itt

how is my post 'splaining any more than your last couple posts (xp)

for the love of god, let's not talk about Pitchfork on the "Pitchfork is dumb" thread

surprised nobody mentionned anthony's 'should animal collective go to jail' quote.

ah fuck I was jk u idiot

well my feelings weren't hurt before but they definitely are now! :(

I mean if anything I am holding myself back from making a julia holter pussy tastes like joke

and I dont even know who julia holter is

some dude, I guess we're talking about Julia Holter for a moment, but I was making the shaky argument that the JH quote was included deliberately to cast her in a negative light, as opposed to, say, the John Maus one, where it was like "we have passed over all the famously dumb things this man has said to include this innocuous (but still idiomatic) opinion on cannibalism"

Like, "did Pitchfork curated these quotes with an agenda?" of course they did editorially, but it just seemed especially strange

xp "should animal collective go to jail"? really? i missed that one

wow pitchfork picked a quote from andrew wk about partying, how profound, how utterly worthy

Did you hear what Pussy Riot said in the courtroom? "Even though we're behind bars, we're more free than anyone." That's like Benazir Bhutto before she went back to Pakistan to be killed. That's like Oscar Wilde facing the courtroom before he was jailed. To see that courage among women in a white youth movement? That is incredibly powerful. It sets a new bar: How are we going to participate now? Should we all be going to jail? Should Animal Collective go to jail? Should Grizzly Bear go to jail? Should Bon Iver go to jail? Is it time?

- Anthony

- Hey Justin, it is time.
- Aww ok.

that's kind of amazing

To see that courage among women in a white youth movement?

there is some very cruel editing going on with some of these

consider for example the quote from Elite Gymnastics' James Brooks:

I don't know if I could ever write a song for a girl to sing. I hate that paradigm of male producer/songwriter, female frontperson-- I feel like encouraging it reinforces this bullshit that all women are good for is looking pretty out in front.

here is the associated picture:

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/b3404d1e.jpg?wmode=transparent

OTOH the Killer Mike quote is amazing

Agreed.

lol djp

i posted on (a different) board with that kid, he's um...very very serious but basically deemed like a decent guy

xp When Antony allows himself some candour he rules the school

re: James, I like his tumblr posts, he actually reminds me of Lex like a lot

-_-

jusssst kidddding

And she doesn't sound like she's "putting her soul into it," she sounds shy at least on record.

― Evan, Monday, December 17, 2012 1:04 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I haven't listened so I don't know, but i know you can be shy and put your soul into it.

― Van Horn Street, Monday, December 17, 2012 1:08 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Late response. I guess it seemed like she was just describing herself, is all. Anyway, carry on.

Should Animal Collective go to jail? Should Grizzly Bear go to jail? Should Bon Iver go to jail? Is it time?

o_O @ "white youth movement" but this is surely the greatest thing anyone has said in 2012

it's a pretty ufwa statement i gotta say.

white youth movement wtf

he's been hanging around Current 93's friends too much perhaps

In electronic music, the term "futurism" always seems to indicate dissonance: The sound of tomorrow is stuck in sci-fi dystopia-mode, demanding stark minimalism, abstract squelching, and plenty foreboding low-end wobble. If you try to add little sunshine here and there, then you're probably going retro. But Lone's Galaxy Garden summons up a lush, warm, and, possibly, vacation-friendly vision of Tomorrowland. The UK-based producer takes a few cues from old-school rave (see "Crystal Caverns 1991"), but the dizzy rhythms and thought-clouding keyboard runs driving the record would be hard to excavate from any vintage mixtape. Galaxy Garden's sound palate is Discovery Store-centric, with steel drums, new age pads, and the sloshing of a digital rainstick here and there. It's a record that plays best in its most surreal moments, where the headphone candy momentarily takes precedence over the floor-friendliness. --Aaron Leitko

it's the future, but it has bits of the past, but it's really future because it has sounds from a store that closed five years ago and 1980s cliches

Kinda sad Mount Eeerie didn't even crack the honorable mentions.

Oh shit! They didn't

And both albums were great. I feel bad they didn't rate my lists

Top tens anyway

Julia H does a fine job of summing up the Salem thread; just needs a late pass is all

,(obv shes not the only one)

...the rap that was uniquely propped up on indie PR machine/cool kid blog circuit this year was ephemeral, amateurish, or even outright depressing. I won't name names since you guys seem to love them. Or at least you love reblogging their photos on Tumblr and getting free drinks at their Heineken sponsored shows. Have fun, drive safely and just know that none of this stuff is notable or interesting or entertaining to anybody who was listening to rap music back before 2008.

Elder statesman, talking shit

shoulda named names

Heineken rap: you like it, but four-year goons know better

mcoll who are your fav rappers that you are offended on the behalf of here

that noz paragraph should be posted in "pitchfork is awesome" thread

yeah last three bullet points in the noz year in rap article are so otm

loved the noz article, yeah why are you butthurt mcoll.

I enjoyed that noz piece.

This, otoh, seems pretty crap: http://nothingmajor.com/

My work computer messes the sight up and makes it like just another shitty #menswear tumblr

site

the noz article is good altho i have issues w/ two parts, the first apparently i'm no longer allowed to talk about because i've written a lot about the subject so i cant weigh in or something, and the 2nd is that i don't understand how he doesn't see chicago's scene as a substantial subject worth talking about, considering it had like 8 major label signings & made up a significant portion of his list this year.

"nothing major" is almost like an overt attempt to come up with a worse name than "altered zones," i love it

he pretty explicitly says the column is just a selective look at "some of the individual fragments that the year produced," i don't think the lack of specific topics is meant as any kind of pointed exclusion

For a 'emerging visual culture' blog that site looks absolutely dull.

maybe it's going to emerge very slowly

lol some dude

the noz article is good altho i have issues w/ two parts, the first apparently i'm no longer allowed to talk about because i've written a lot about the subject so i cant weigh in or something, and the 2nd is that i don't understand how he doesn't see chicago's scene as a substantial subject worth talking about, considering it had like 8 major label signings & made up a significant portion of his list this year.
--D-40

you just can't help yourself, huh?