OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

I haven't read the piece and only skim-read the conversation here but I already feel better about having been on-record as someone more than willing to make fun of both Bob Dylan and Joanna Newsom

Man voice make ILM good.

blown display name opp

Man troll gas beany jim-jam

this is one of my favorite voices ever. starts at 3:22 right after the witch is hanged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDxMnjRZT7M

where are you, Trella Hart! i could listen to that song all day long.

blaaack lucky hammerhead...

Mark Of The Witch written by two women, fyi...

"now i wonder...if anybody'd miss me if i died..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqq8vMt2I9E

not the same as her mark of the witch jam, but pretty cool and depressing.

this song is amazing though. luckily a family member posted it along with family photos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6q1w0RPhBU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rENJbKqS9ns

Here is PAMS' Swiszle package, Series 32 for WKLO. Trella Hart is the captivating lady with the amazing voice singing lead on many of the cuts. Trella's voice had a fascinating, (even sexy) "smokey" sort of quality. She was paired on many cuts with PAMS's answer to the Four Freshmen, here called the Good Timers.

you've sold me scott

this is her only spotify track and i diggit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg6cpbzJez4

pretty much all music "opinion" writing these days is presenting totally obvious, self-evident things as "revelations" because social justice

yeah the number of "if you don't like this / do like this, your politics are wrong" articles is really depressing but since the default mode of writing about music is now "this is how I felt as I listened," it's natural that this is what we'd get

it's definitely what you get when blogging = journalism.

or "journalism".

i don't really know what you call the awl. awl-ful!

webblogzine or whatever.

what i found more striking was that i think i've read five profiles of newsom from this album cycle, all of them by men, and all of them identical (1. something about unicorns 2. her songs are complicated 3. she was in inherent vice)

― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, October 27, 2015 8:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I spent €8 on Uncut to read a dreadful feature that went on about the 'constellation of birthmarks' (read: freckles) on her face, and hit all these other marks mentioned above.

Apologies if an ILMer wrote this but shit like this make me pray for asteroids

http://thequietus.com/articles/19113-carly-rae-jepsen-emotion-best-record-2015-olafur-eliasson-drake

i don't really know what you call the awl. awl-ful!

webblogzine or whatever.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 02:28 (2 days ago) Permalink

For a while it seemed like they were trying to distinguish themselves as sort of "above the fray", not too clickbaity, perhaps a little more literate than most sites, but not with articles like that.

all you really need to know right here about that carly ray review:

"As with the briefcase in Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction..."

If an ILMer wrote that you should be even less apologetic

Heh, probably.

The Quietus are usually pretty good generally though which is why it's always a bit odd when they drop the ball so heavily

New winner.

http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/10-of-the-best-debut-albums-of-2015

painful stuff.
makes the bojack horseman takeover issue look like a masterclass in subtlety.

It didn't have "sponsored post" on it at first. It had a byline. Of a writer who took to Twitter to angrily deny he had anything to do with it.

Viet Cong is not a noise band

Clearly that's the issue here.

tbh i'd rather have my advertorial hilariously clunky like that than anything more insidious (or worse journalists repping brands in non-advertorial copy)

found out about the late of the pier frontman's record from this. the system works! listening to it now, though - perhaps it doesn't

ha, that is only one article from a four part series

You’d think we’d run out of battery or grind to a halt. But two hours in and we were still at 71%. The system is designed to handle multi-tasking by balancing memory and processor resources efficiently. So we carried on, gliding from tab to tab like Sleaford Mods on a pub crawl. Juiced up and eager to keep the party going.

http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/the-5-best-collaborations-of-2015

this is surely someone who has been lumbered with an unenviable writing assignment and intentionally making it as corny as possible to maintain some personal dignity?

Amazing.

"Getting a job done has never been so lolz."

I was just coming to post that.

Hefty.

is it a joke? a conceptual prank of some kind? institutional critique about the advertorial fate of journalism today?

this has the same earnest tone as the clean bandit cortana adverts, which were not done in jest

it has the feel of something which has been rewritten in spite after a request for amendments

Canadian trio Badbadnotgood bring their intricate jazz flex to the philosophical whims of Wu-Tang wordsmith Ghostface Killah

Kind of wondering if these pieces were even written by anyone internally at all, they have the feeling of being at the very least heavily rewritten by some Microsoft marketing hack.

Exactly what I thought Matt

http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7vsmmztyf1rvjt2vo1_500.gif

http://thenewswheel.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/tumblr_m7vsmmztyf1rvjt2vo2_500.gif

https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/an-in-depth-textual-analysis-of-cajmeres-percolator

http://thetalkhouse.com/music/talks/will-butler-arcade-fire-talks-grimes-art-angels/

I just keep wondering if the funkiness is justified.

vs.

It’s like Grimes herself sings — I think — on “Flesh Without Blood”: “I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each/I do not think that they will sing to me/We have lingered in the chambers of the sea/By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown / Till human voices wake us, and we drown.”

i feel like music writing hits new lows every few days lately

Nah. It's like Grimes herself sings, "Your Highness, no ; things there are bad as ever ; Men pass their time in so much wretchedness, That I, in sooth, have not the heart to plague them."