pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

er okay *a year earlier* but whatever

and that's the short version!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCGI_R36oVc

mostly used them very sparingly when he did*

anyway yeah I agree w ums and whiney that this isn't really accurate

Did you hear Dave Grohl recruited the surviving members of Nirvana, along with other individual people that do have actual names, for a performance?

OK so I guess there were technically players besides the core 3 but it sounds like an intentional way to frame it to get better SEO than simply "Krist Novoselic". I was amused by this.

Dave should bring in all the old Nirvana drummers

and that guy who became an Army Ranger or whatever

He was a Bomb Squad fan. Suggesting otherwise is insanity.

oh word? my mistake, I should have listened to this guy

use a bunch in Bomb Squad-influenced fashion

While k bye for now may not have much new information, it builds on our understanding of Grande as an artist.

not to pick on this particular reviewer, but this sentence sort of sums up the trend toward treating pop artists as Rolling Stone used to treat, say, Jackson Browne back in the 70s.

reports of the death of rockism greatly exaggerated

the peter gabriel sunday review was really good imo

xxp Yeah, the Ariana review is fine -- but the overarching theme of whether "we need" a live album (or whether it's "necessary") is strange, especially considering it's a digital-only release, aimed mainly at fans, etc.

Karin Hellqvist – Flock 6.8
Kanye West – Jesus Is Born 7.4

Truly a Catholic reach.

Lol. The write up of the former reads more like a 7.6 tbf, have you heard it?

Not yet, but I'm a fan of most of those composers and can hardly imagine their works for solo violin & electronics being less compelling than Jesus Is Fucking Born.

Hear, hear.

There is an egregious grammar mistake in the first paragraph of that Kanye review.

Actually there are two (though one may be better classified as "incorrect use of idiom" rather than "incorrect grammar")

lmao at the description of the choir, which really comes across like the author has never actually heard a choir before

The author also likes putting ideas in opposition that actually reinforce each other

For someone who built his earliest songs out of extracting vocal loops from obscure, sometimes decades-old songs, Kanye has seen the way musicians can be resurrected and given new life.

this sentence hurts my brain

It's SO BAD

I wonder if they considered even for a moment just not reviewing this.

(yes, I know the real answer.)

Or at least giving it to someone who knows what a choir is and therefore wouldn't write The Sunday Service Choir as a whole also seems to be taking cues from groups with no real lead singer like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, the Dixie Hummingbirds, and the Blind Boys of Alabama as if it was searing insight.

"On this album, the choir... performs as a choir." /galaxy brain

I graded too many student papers recently to read more than a paragraph of this. Or at any rate, the opening of the second one made me genuinely sad.

"he fuses two seemingly disparate venues: the club and the church."

wow, very cool to see someone fusing gospel influences into secular R&B and hip hop - very innovative, never heard of that before

rare audio of kanye rehearsing before his eye surgery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uTDa3771HM

you know what would be dope is if Kanye invents a new form of hip hop based on jazz samples, and maybe I dunno has like Ron Carter or Donald Byrd do some jams, just spitballing here

biddy biddy bop, funky funky

As is the case with many creative types, West has described himself as an artist with synesthesia

many creative types

architects and clowns for instance

That sentence

↓

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

xp

the creative types at pitchfork suffer from an ever rarer form of synesthesia where they feel compelled to translate audio into incomprehensible sequences of words

I understand the rhetorical conceit of introducing the concept of synesthesia and then using it to describe the music but... it's not particularly helpful

you guys are making me want to read Pitchfork again

ok not really but

I understand the rhetorical conceit of introducing the concept of synesthesia and then using it to describe the music

what color is "bad"

olive-brown with bright orange and puce flecks

Red because when we are angry our face will be change in red colour.

See also: gammons.

I know that complaining about October is beyond the scope of this thread — but this is currently promoted on Pfork’s home page, and it’s sooooo dumb: https://oct.co/articles/5-types-craft-beer-drinker

oof. that's kinda fascinating for the existential crisis it raises - maybe there's just not enough meaningful content about beer to have a whole website devoted to it.

A first-day Buzzfeed intern would be embarrassed to hit publish on that.

Most of us remember that it doesn't really matter what you're drinking, as long as you're enjoying it.

Oh good, there was an utterly banal point to all this.

I like how one of the knocks on the stout enthusiast is basically that he’s fat.

I resemble that remark

Is this... “humor”?

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/22-musical-predictions-for-the-2020s/

it sure tries

Apparently: https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/tags/humor/