pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

I kinda associate this time period with people ‘praising’/laughing at “this is why I’m hot”

First you ignore Big and Rich, then you laugh at Big and Rich, then you fight Big and Rich, then they win

Most 2020 title, kind of:

https://pitchfork.com/news/american-football-headlining-coronavirus-relief-festival-in-minecraft/

Came here to post that. I think the only word in that headline that doesnt trigger me is “in”.

Baths Announces New Album, Shares New Song: Listen

weird way to spell "The Beths"

my sad terrible superpower is usually being able to predict Pfork scores for marquee releases within about .2 of a point just based on the surrounding narrative/buzz.

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Saturday, March 28, 2020 1:19 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

I can always guess the general score range by reading the blurbs.

Most 2020 title, kind of:

https://pitchfork.com/news/american-football-headlining-coronavirus-relief-festival-in-minecraft/

That's a Yahoo Serious Festival headline if ever I've seen one.

Sodomsky's one of their best writers.

The dude writes really well about Phish — cf. the review that’s currently up, and especially this previous one (a pan by a fan of a band, which is great kind of review to read).

His Strokes review today is good, too... Sam S. writes measured, thoughtful negative reviews; he really gets into diagnosing what doesn’t work and how it could have been better.

Watch These Nature Webcams While Listening to These Albums

Pictured: a bird feeder in someone's backyard, Mastodon album

It's like a step or two away from a legit Clickhole post.

Annual Flowers emerges from its chrysalis a wounded, staggeringly beautiful statement that feels like a new high point in his career.

...What may have begun as demos and sketches in 2011, and an overlooked highlight in 2016, has aged to perfection in 2020.

7.9

i know, i know. it's just funny

lol yeah that webcam thing killed me

If there was no pandemic would they post Best Albums To Soundtrack 10-Hour Train Journey YouTube Videos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNiN7gOcNI4

How many times will the phrase “recorded while in quarantine” appear in pitchfork over the next year or two?

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters/

holy shit

When's the last time they gave a 10 to a non-reissue?

a decade ago, I think. I don't keep track of such things.

Yeah, Kanye West maybe?

it's a great record more deserving than most but them leaning into the 'perfect' score thing feels a lil off

Fiona Apple's Fetch the Bolt Cutters—named Best New Music—is a perfect album https://t.co/IFQSikfarH

— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) April 17, 2020

Kanye West was the last time they gave a 10 to a non-reissue/retrospective.

The last time before that might have been Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in April 2002.

and a hair before that, Source Tags and Codes. different times.

Source Tags and Codes still bangs, I'd say it's 2/3 years away from a hugely positive reappraisal.

9.9 a more appropriate score for this Fiona album. It's so good.

yeah i think i resent something this special being used for brand building (completely separate to the content of the review)

Source Tags and Codes is so great

Inevitable, though.

xpost

haven't listened yet but i am skeptical that "No music has ever sounded quite like [this new fiona apple album]" as repeated multiple times on the front page, review intro, and review proper

silly to fixate on that phrase i know but it's bad bc you can either take it literally and it's wrong, or figuratively and it's meaningless

9.9 repeating

my silly prediction is that this will happen again this year

no music has ever sounded quite like the new weezer album

my silly prediction is that this will happen again this year

― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, April 17, 2020 7:05 AM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

who though

I can think of at least two options but both are highly speculative and potentially embarrassing

finally the 10 that the 1975 deserve

Kendrick Lamar?
Dixie Chicks?

haven't listened yet but i am skeptical that "No music has ever sounded quite like [this new fiona apple album]" as repeated multiple times on the front page, review intro, and review proper

― na (NA), Friday, April 17, 2020 9:49 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

silly to fixate on that phrase i know but it's bad bc you can either take it literally and it's wrong, or figuratively and it's meaningless

― na (NA), Friday, April 17, 2020 9:50 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I had a similar reaction to "she wrote lyrics and melodies on par with the finest pop songs ever recorded."

I would just give them the benefit of the doubt and take some of the hyperbolic writing as partially being the result of being under quarantine for several weeks.

a breathing person made this record!

I dunno guys in my opinion the experience and emotions tied to listening to Fetch the Bolt Cutters is like witnessing the stillborn birth of a child while simultaneously having the opportunity to see her play in the afterlife on Imax.

Is that good or bad?

"No music has ever sounded quite like [this new fiona apple album]"

The tUnE-yArDs erasure is really in full swing, huh!

okay, now i'm interested

So everyone missed Talking Heads Day?

A couple were terrific.

Everything else—records to play, letters to write, identity crises to have (“I’ve changed my hairstyle so many times now…”) is just quaint, a reminder of better times when we were allowed to be miserable for our own little reasons.

The one clear relationship portrait he paints is completely absurd, centering around a couple that funnels their stupid fights into a hit TV show; cheekily, it’s called “Found a Job.”

Just the idea of a couple “saving their relationship” by producing their own mass-media art; plus the guidance “Think about this little scene, apply it to your life / If your work isn't what you love, then something isn't right — and capped off with that rhythm guitar solo... it’s like the ultimate Talking Heads song, probably #1 in my book.

eat fast foods (morrisp) at 10:53 23 Apr 20

Everything else—records to play, letters to write, identity crises to have (“I’ve changed my hairstyle so many times now…”) is just quaint, a reminder of better times when we were allowed to be miserable for our own little reasons.

I always took those lines (“We dress like students, we dress like housewives / Or in a suit and a tie / I changed my hairstyle so many times now / I don't know what I look like”) to indicate militants taking measures to blend in with the populace... not a recollection of pre-“wartime” life. NBD

yes, you are absolutely right and it's incredibly obvious and I don't understand how anyone could think otherwise

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