pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

I would assume that bracket is there so the sentence doesn't get parsed as "I always connected with music more than other people did."

^Yeah, I agree... I might have just put “with” in the bracket, but I see why it deemed necessary for clarity.

i agree with flappy bird it's unnecessary, the meaning is apparent

A more elegant solution may have been to switch a few words around — “...connected more with music than people.”

i don't find this to be particularly noble behavior! but i guess i am not suf's pr

Seems like a good day to tell one of my favorite @ryanpitchfork stories and one that really shows how his personal championing of artists has made such a difference over the years - back in 2003 I had just started working with an unknown Brooklyn singer-songwriter named Sufjan

— Force Field PR (@forcefieldpr) January 9, 2019

oh, i guess you will have to click thru for thread/story

and people were asking why he is so bad and hated

It’s funny to me that the Hand of God came down and changed the score from a 7.4 to an... 8.5

He was thinking strategically. Had to leave room to give Illinois a 9+, then sustain a backlash long enough to ensure maximum impact of the big comeback album after Suf's mom died a decade later.

Schreiber plays indie rock 3D chess.

just the idea of a Sufjan Stevens album makes me carsick

why

it's just very beige and precious and consistently hits whatever the opposite of my pleasure spots are

I blame pfork for its proliferation

do you think this means Schreiber has fuck you money now?

I've heard of it. On what, fuckface?

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 9, 2019 8:23 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dailymotion.com, dickwad

btw site is good for most old sitcoms

wrong thread lol

This is an extremely murky article in (I guess?) the “allegations-of-impropriety” genre: https://pitchfork.com/news/superorganisms-mark-turner-sought-restraining-orders-against-two-women-who-spoke-out-against-him/

Not feelin’ the obligatory Chainsmokers slam

No one expected Taggart and Pall to crack open a copy of bell hooks’ The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love between albums, but the Chainsmokers’ determination to double down on their reputation for toxic masculinity is impressively disturbing.

so have they reduced the number of daily reviews to two?

Sure seems that way

they didn't get back to the usual 4 per day until Jan. 18 last year

this is the slow season for album releases

yeah this week's new release list is pretty slim pickings

https://www.pauseandplay.com/new-releases-jan-11-2019/
https://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/release-date/coming-soon/date
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/upcoming/

Yeah, they've done this for at least a couple of years now. They used to not post any reviews for 3-4 weeks in December/January. Also they made a bigger deal of their year-end lists (big banner on the main page, I think they even used to roll them out 10 or 20 albums/songs at a time, though I may be wrong about that)

no you're right, it used to be a week long rollout

which, to go back to earlier in this thread, is another part of what made pitchfork outlast their peers imo: the whole "canon-building as event" thing, in the form of long ranked lists of mostly indie rockers

Well, the "new tracks" page seems to be finished. Nothing at all since December 4 and it's now January 10.

Shame, that page introduced me to some absolutely incredible music.

https://oct.co/essays/having-beer-with-how-dress-well-tom-krell

Already resisted posting this once but I just realized they spelled it “Nihlism”

twitter is starting to realize that october sucks, i guess

just been shown how Pitchfork makes its money now, which is selling its position as An Hip Millenial Influencer to push things like an Anheuser InBev radicalization engine dressed as a pinteresting cool magazine called "October", and its the saddest fucking thing i've ever seen pic.twitter.com/0UEhrOt9YB

— ཊལབསརངཧ (@David_Rudnick) January 11, 2019

I guess this is more "I'm dumb, pt. 4532687" but I can't be the only person who did a double-take at the current top headline

If you’re talking about this:
https://pitchfork.com/features/profile/earl-sweatshirt-does-not-exist/
Then yeah the few seconds it takes to look down and see the “Interview” tag are confusing ones

grimes dies in tragic car accident:
the interview

lol

too soon ;_;

that was not the headline I was referring to, but it's probably best forgotten.

Exploring Hip Hop’s love affair with (product)

These run like once a week

His head is enveloped in a hood he never takes off,

lol

does anyone have any idea how much CN paid for p4k? ballpark number?

$53.86

Nah, they only use one decimal point
(/obv joke is obvious)

Nope, $420.69.

seems kinda high tbh 😉

VULTURE: Criticism can be hard to shut out. In particular, the Pitchfork review reached a large mass in terms of how people were interpreting your record.
GRETA VAN FLEET: I don’t know the intent behind the piece. I haven’t read it. I’m not sure if it’s a publication trying to get attention or if it’s somebody who genuinely doesn’t like us and what we’re doing. I really don’t think we get worked up about that, because here’s one person who’s complaining about it. If you can’t do it, then you just write about it. I feel like this man has had a troubled past. Prayers up for him. But it actually feels really good, because some of our favorite bands have had some pretty aggressive criticism. I think it’s cool. [Laughs.]

Seems like a chill bro!

I like how his response incorporates the entire gamut of typical artist responses to a negative review, one per sentence (sometimes even contradicting each other!)

lmao @ "i haven't read it" ---> "i feel like this man has had a troubled past"