pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

That whole track review is based on a misreading of the lyrics:

The lyrical arena is where Arcade Fire have out-Arcade-Fired themselves, with the song humble-bragging at one point about Funeral preventing a fan’s suicide. There are specific moments of empathy here that ring true to how music can be the salve, like the line, “Some girls hate their bodies, stand in the mirror and wait for the feedback.” And their overflowing hearts are in the right places, amplifying the unspoken struggle over whether to go through with it in the chorus before Win Butler reasons, “Well if you’re not sure, better safe than sorry.” Inevitably, this song will stop someone from doing something rash. The problem is that Arcade Fire are pompous about knowing that, throwing their arms wide around the problem and presenting their own music as the solution. Bono on line one for you, Win.

That sounds horrible, but the verse in question is pretty clear that Funeral was going to help her kill herself, not prevent it:

Assisted suicide
She dreams about dying all the time
She told me she came so close
Filled up the bathtub and put on our first record

Not the worlds best lyrics but... That's a pretty weird reading of it.

Last night a BNM saved my life

wait 'til she hears Reflektor!

my least favorite band

Are Pitchfork no longer updating their rss feeds?

FWIW, 30 album reviews landed in my feed this morning.

i liked this piece on PSY and "Gangnam Style" http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/psys-gangnam-style-changed-pop-music-whether-you-like-it-or-not/

I liked a couple recent features also. Looks like things are turning around.

oh http://pitchfork.com/features/sponsor-content/rough-and-polished-a-diamond-playlist/

*goes to spotify and types in "diamond"*

gold in them thar hills!

#1 Diamonds and Pearls lol

In the intervening decades of empowered female pop stars—from Millie Jackson to Madonna, Lil’ Kim to Rihanna—has any one of them baldly put their bikini-clad camel toe front and center on an album as Costa did back in 1973?

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F_COPk7dnIPKU%2FSXhYo7-3nOI%2FAAAAAAAAAJs%2FafGSaw5yTzo%2Fs320%2Fkim.jpg&f=1

I don't know, I don't think that invalidates the point at all? For reference:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41KBHS4ANQL.jpg

Though really going into detail in this discussion would get very awkward very rapidly.

itt dudes discuss the history of the musical coochshot

that's not the album cover

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Lil_Kim_-_Hard_Core.png

they're doing film reviews now? http://www.pitchfork.com/thepitch/person-to-person-is-an-indie-comedy-for-music-nerds-like-you/

or is this an ad, I can't tell anymore

i don't know but the pitchfork radio overlay which can't be hidden in the corner of the screen is a fantastic new UI feature

Who knows. Pitchfork told me that Nathan For You is coming back for a new season.

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/5-new-releases-that-continue-metals-horror-obsession/?mbid=homepage-more-latest-and-video

5 New Releases That Continue Metal’s Horror Obsession

Below you’ll find five recent metal releases that draw inspiration from the haunted, the gothic, and the grotesque.

huh

"Here are five metal albums I like, and literally the first thing I could think of to potentially tie them together into a column."

"In the underground, metal bands continue to indulge in the themes of horror in new, dynamic ways."

xp lol otm

that guy has a rad metal writer name and I fear he may be coasting as a result

Here are 5 recent Hip Hop releases that explore the selling and taking of drugs

lmao

lol

yeah shit is gettin p lazy over there

is there a way to see P4k reviews by day they published, by chance? for example, "show me the 5 reviews from July 16, 2007"?

sorry for the lack of lols

wayback machine, i think? maybe. or maybe there's a better resource.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/pitchfork.com

five albums with skulls on the cover

If I want to look through old reviews I just increase the page # at the end of this link:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/?page=1

currently goes up to around 1600 pages, but the years 1999-2002 seem to have been pared down a lot

^^^That's why it's best to use the Web Archive, as they have scrubbed a lot of reviews from the site.

Yeah, there's a lot of embarrassing stuff that was published early on on Pitchfork that got scrubbed long ago.

I did a blog about the whole issue several years back: http://austintayeshus.blogspot.com/2010/09/deleted-pitchork-reviews.html

No real broader point to be derived from this, but:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/ben-frost-threshold-of-faith-ep/
"We hear exactly who Ben Frost wants us to think he is but get precious little view of the man behind the persona."
Ah, yes, because what's the value of sheets of electronic noise if there isn't something of the confessional to it.

It's not really important but I just kinda like the ending of this news story: http://pitchfork.com/news/arcade-fires-everything-now-earn-third-straight-us-no-1-album/

“Everything Now” was one of Pitchfork’s “Best New Tracks of June 2017”

Yeah... That's not the review people are going to remember from this cycle...

lol

http://pitchfork.com/news/broad-city-are-selling-officially-licensed-sex-toys/

new band name

WUXTRA WUXTRA: broad city branded yas kween vibrators announced on pitchfork

lol they're all sold out already

grace and frankie > broad city

lol um no

Grace and Frankie is fine for what it is - a senior sitcom - but it's largely joke-free and some of the acting (primarily Waterston/Sheen) is legit painful

Broad City rules, psyched for the return. Ilana was v good in otherwise mediocre Rough Night - Abbi is in a new movie called Person to Person that just opened here, heard it's more "a look into the lives of quirky new yorkers!" sorta thing but w/e i'll still see it bc I love her and Michael Cera.

BC jumped the shark pretty definitively for me mid last season

broad city is annoyingly full of itself and has been since midway through season two

otm, sadly

eh i thought season 3 was mostly good, even the hillary episode was whatever, but the whole bleeping out Trump's name in season 4 thing is so dumb