pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

whoa why'd you block joanne the scammer, fgti???? :-(

every old millenial/gen x p4k writer constantly makes tweets like this and it’s like... that’s how time works

????? https://t.co/tMVMpg3vB5

— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) March 10, 2019

I think today’s review of the Crosby album is very well written, btw. (I’m not familiar enough with the album to have an opinion about the score.)

if i could only remember my reviewer's name

Idk why I blocked Joanna! I blocked her so long ago. I don’t use Twitter anymore anyway. Bad discourse.

On Facebook I’ve blocked about 25 people though— abusive ex-lover, two stalkers, a former friend who I adore but was dangerous and threatening when he went off his meds, a friend-turned-Trumper, a really shitty woman who hated me and I hated her back. The rest are Zion*sts.

Everything Not Saved has been hyped as a kind of concept record to be footnoted in the Green New Deal: “In Degrees” and “Exits” could pass as torch songs for Mother Earth (“Now the sea eats the sky/But they say that it’s a lie”), yet there’s never any real sense of urgency to Foals’ crowd-pleasing Coachella-core: It’s less “the ice age is coming” and more “Iceage is up next.”

Idk what bugs me more about this particular dis, the forced internal linking/SEO juice via a totally unrelated band, the "wordplay," or the fact that the premise doesn't even make sense — in what world are Iceage *above* Foals on a festival bill?

I just thought they would be on a separate stage, which is why you would leave Foals to go see them.

in my head "up next" implies the same stage but anyway my real point is that it's a clunky zinger

You're probably right :)

At least they didn't make a "Clean Foal" joke

definitely in the first draft

also, uh, climate change = the opposite of “the ice age is coming”

but the sun's zooming in

In Denmark, climate change might definitely mean the ice age will be coming. If it weakens the gulf stream.

that david crosby album is fucking amazing

like some people have message boards where they wank. others have twitter

i literally come here to talk about the music, not myself.

let's kick it about #croz

Rappers Keep Putting Me on Blast for My Misspelled Rejection Letters, But I Get It

I have no idea what this sentence means

lol skimming the article it looks like rappers keep tweeting out the writer's email responses to their requests for reviews/coverage

it's a clumsy headline but the piece is amusing

"keep tweeting" = "it's happened twice"

To be fair that’s probably more than it happens to most people

Are “rejection letters” a common thing in music journalism?

it's a nice courtesy to tell a PR person that you aren't interested in xyz artist bcuz it's at least an acknowledgement of the PR person's existence

it's always appreciated. plus it's a way to make sure i will stop writing you ad infinitum. gotta tell the client something and "didn't answer me" sounds much worse than "said no".

I'm very bad about this. I delete about 90 percent of publicist emails without replying to them. That said, most of those are shotgun-blast emails where all they're doing is sending out a new album and saying "Hope you can write about this!" When someone takes the time to say "Hey, I read this thing you wrote and for that reason, I think you'll like my artist!" I will reply.

i often start with spray-and-pray and then narrow key folks with personal emails after; seems the best way to get broad work out and then follow more precisely afterward. In general, i try to find the balance between being enough of a pain in the ass that people feel compelled to respond but not so much of a pain in the ass that I'm actually a pain in the ass.

since i write too, i get hit with maybe 200 pitches a day too so i'm sympathetic on both sides!

i used to respond to publicists when i wasn't interested, but would often end up getting weird pass-agg responses back that just made me say "screw this" ...

The rapturous debut from the British singer-songwriter takes adventurous pop-rock crucibles to new heights with her illusory songwriting and stunning voice.

like david blaine, i think they mean

Yeah; I checked a few dictionaries, and on the third try I did find a secondary definition that seems to fit the way it’s used there. Had never encountered it used that way

How can an album be “rapturous”?

It delivers us from our chaotic, doomed lives into eternal heaven

Isn't intentional misuse of a word ("illusory" in this case) how new metaphors get minted? (giving the benefit of the doubt that it was intentional)
Anyway, it was confusing to me too -- it implied that, even though it seems like she can write songs, there really isn't any actual songwriting going on -- she's pulled one over on us all.

That‘s also how I read it... though I guess the word can also refer to something that generates illusions (similar to “hallucinatory”)

Wait, she promises eternal bliss but it’s all a lie? She is the Antichrist

I think we can all agree the blurb is a mix of “way too many adjectives, a few of which seem odd” and “weird terms like ‘pop-rock crucibles’ forced into metaphors like ‘taken to new heights’.”

how can a singer-songwriter be British?

ok I know this is the "Pitchfork is dumb" thread but I want to give them props for covering obscure Hull weirdos Fet.Nat today.

Symphony No. 3 has a nightmarish undertone that tends to get smoothed out in dulcet recordings—one of the texts is meant to be the sound of a woman calling out for her murdered child—and Gibbons brings that squirming danger right to the surface.

Yeah, and another one is based on scribblings on the walls of a Gestapo cell... Not really an 'undertone' I'd say.

The reissue doesn’t include any “special” exclusive materials, but considering the difficulty of finding other physical Autoclave memorabilia (at the time of publication, there’s a single copy of the CD available on Amazon and it costs $100.26), the tangible album feels special and exclusive enough.

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how can a singer-songwriter be British?

lots of lyrics about the queen

These Baby Beers Are the Cutest Things We’ve Ever Seen

Badly misplaced modified in opening paragraph of today’s T. Rex review — had me genuinely confused as I read it.

*modifier

Also, for purposes of an obituary, maybe use a more formal term (for releasing an album) than “dropped”?

With Brad, Smith dropped five records in total, the last being 2012’s United We Stand.

ok I know this is the "Pitchfork is dumb" thread but I want to give them props for covering obscure Hull weirdos Fet.Nat today.

― Simon H.

ok wow these people are nice, they remind me a bit of miriodor (is that stereotyping?)