pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

Cool, good to hear. Maybe Pitchfork will follow your lead!

yes we need to lift pat metheny out of obscurity

says the person who recently started a Sarah McLachlan thread

how tf is that relevant to this discussion?

Brad made a snide comment about Pat Metheny being undeserving of coverage in SG because he's not obscure. I was merely pointing out that their refined tastes didn't prevent them from starting an ILX poll about one of the most famous (and blandest) pop artists of all time

Don't spend all your time waiting for that second chance at an explanation. For that would make it okay. There's always some reason to bring up Sarah Mclaughlin, and it's hard to post coherently at the end of a Friday. I need some distraction. Oh, beautiful ilx. Memories of p4k seep from my veins. Let me be empty- oh, and weightless, and maybe I'll find some Pat Metheny tonight.

I kind of love that part of Friday afternoon when everyone is some flavor of "u mad"

xp The mailbag was priceless. The mailbag was actually how I found out that the Alanis/Kylie reviews were an elaborate troll (this being before in the days before it was standard for websites to prank their readers on April Fools Day). The reader vitriol was real.

hi what'd I miss

i was making a snide comment about your weird priorities paul. i love pat metheny and can't wait to hear the record/read whatever idk prob seth colter walls has to say about it

and i not only started a sarah mclachlan thread here, a few years ago i wrote about her... for pitchfork... oh nooooooo

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/gil-scott-heron-makaya-mccraven-were-new-again-a-reimagining-by-makaya-mccraven/

Quit yo carping and listen to this.

did they review the new Jeff Parker?

they bnm'd it, iirc

here: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jeff-parker-suite-for-max-brown/

unrelated, i thought that photo of julian casablancas in their top spot was billie eilish for a sec

oh good, like that a lot and it seems solidly in the "jazz records Pitchfork might review" zone

decrying a lack of jazz reviews seems particularly off the mark: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/?genre=jazz

iirc Mary Halvorson and ECM were both specifically mentioned upthread yet both have featured within the past 4 months

obvs there are reasons to critique pitchfork but the "pitchfork" itt is a chimera

All media are chimeras.

This is much more like it. Exactly the kind of record they should be digging up on a Sunday.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/buffy-sainte-marie-illuminations/

Yeah, that was a really interesting review that makes me want to hear that album. (My mom owned Fire & Fleet & Candlelight when I was a kid but I don't think she ever played it for me or my brother.)

Amazing album and an amazing write-up. “God Is Alive..” is my vote for the best recorded song of all time tbh. Buffy told me she wrote it the day she’d recorded it and was literally just singing with a copy of Beautiful Losers open in front of her, and told me she’d only performed it once, since, for a CBC thing with a teleprompter. (A Buffy superfan I spoke to contradicted this, and insisted that Buffy had played it live in the 70s.)

-0.8 for not being Xenakis, amirite?

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/pauline-oliveros-stuart-dempster-pan-deep-listening/

Haha. Good review though! Oliveros deserves all the credit that is (long) overdue.

I find it kind of funny that someone sat through eight episodes of a Justin Bieber docuseries, just to report that it is, in fact, bad.

"redemption propaganda" is how i'd describe his previous album too

saw SNL, why does he dress like he's selling drugs outside the Anger Management tour?

because he's a fucking moron?

he’s hilarious, just look at the man

A long piece titled We Didn’t Need the High Fidelity TV Show starts off by talking at length about how retrograde the book & movie were; spends a few paragraphs talking about how the new TV series (starring Zoe Kravitz) is better; but then -- citing the thesis of an older NY Times article -- concludes (again at length) that the show is nonetheless a drag, because it uses a gender-switch in an attempt to absolve the source material of its sins.

I guess this is a totally valid way to critique a TV show (and it's not poorly written)... but like the Bieber thing, it had me wondering, Who is this being written for?

FWIW, the answer to the article’s core question —

Is High Fidelity really so beloved (or its brand name so powerful) that they couldn’t have started from scratch on a series about music obsessives who aren’t exclusively straight white men?

Why spend all this time, money, and energy updating and changing the gender on source material that, in hindsight, is pretty dodgy about women? https://t.co/gKpWJ33b2Y

— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) February 14, 2020

It’s absolutely bananas to try and score woke points on High Fidelity for its toxic whiteboy masculinity when ... that’s ... literally what the movie was about.

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it's the role rollins was born to play

I don’t think that news even makes the yearly activity summary enclosed with Rollins’ Xmas cards.

Is High Fidelity really so beloved (or its brand name so powerful) that they couldn’t have started from scratch on a series about music obsessives who aren’t exclusively straight white men?

We're literally getting a Karn Evil 9 movie, the answer is "yes".

Another good retrospective review today.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-klf-chill-out/

I just came here to post that - one of the best things I've read in a long long time!

Yeah, that was a great read, even though I've never been able to crack that particular record.

I love it up until the synths kick in

Not "dumb", but I couldn't disagree with that Elkhorn review more strongly, I think it's a really great record.

The disparity seems stark between the positive tone of the Mhysa review (can’t wait to find a moment to check out this record), and its “6.9” rating(??)

The 0.7 difference btw Elkhorn (negative review) and Mhysa (positive review) doin a lot of work

Yeah that's a bummer for Elkhorn I really like those guys

when will Pitchfork stop trying to make the Men happen

Porridge Radio Make Indie Rock for the Angsty Antisocial in All of Us

they’re a very good band

not too hot 100?

The use of “Alleged” in this headline feels misplaced; it could be read as implying there is some doubt about the claim’s veracity. I would redo the entire headline... make it about her statement (which is lengthy), or public reappearance, not the assault.