pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

(Or does today just happen to be the beginning of a new era, in which track reviews are mixed in with album reviews, and it just as easily could have been Gum Country or whatever?)

it would make more sense if from now on they're putting track reviews in with album reviews instead of in with news

I wonder why they didn’t review that Beyoncé track; seems like it would have been a natural choice.

A Sufjan single is now the lead review and labeled BNM. So I guess this is a thing now.

they're finally catching up with the fast-paced lifestyles of generation zoom

#allgenerationsmatter

Featured Videos have also been moved to the top of the page (where news used to be)?

#allvideosmatter

weird posts austin

#allpostsmatter

not the pish ones

Featured Videos have also been moved to the top of the page (where news used to be)?

― Pat McGroin (morrisp), Sunday, 5 July 2020 3:48 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this happens every weekend

ah

12 minutes of maximalist minimalism that makes a hackneyed political statement, can’t wait.

idk seems credible

Are they deliberately not reporting on Kanye for prez? If so, I applaud that.

perhaps we could follow suit

had the same thought. good on 'em if so.

Or they could just not be reporting on it because of holiday weekend, since there hasn't been any new news items since July 3?

That Pure Moods review is lovely and made me laugh quite a bit, particularly in the sections about Enigma.

Crockett's Theme came back for a brief while during the balearic times of the mid-aughts, I used to play it at parties, same with Enya. People would go nuts for it?

Tiga’s remix of FPU’s cover of “crockett’s theme” is a goddam jam

wait the original mix I mean

the kanye news is there now but framed in a way that I appreciate ("has filed no paperwork" right in the headline)

so their new podcast is gonna flop right

rude

sorry didn't know you were producing

ah cool whiney congrats

Serious power move to place a review of an album entitled Fucking Hell directly alongside a review of an album entitled Massey Fucking Hall on today's albums page.

Surviving under capitalism is a drag—it’s the oldest story in rock’n’roll—

Is it? Like, "Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip, Mum mum mum mum mum mum, get a job"?

pretty sure the oldest story in rock 'n' roll is "I want to fuck"

You woman have heard of jalopies
You heard the noise they make
Let me introduce you to my Rocket '88
Yes, it's great, just won't wait
Everybody likes my Rocket '88
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism

more like a drag race

I guess Meddle is exactly on par with Set My Heart on Fire Immediately.

I can't believe Pink Floyd had a dog in the band who could play the blues and make sound collages, and even more amazingly, the dog wasn't able to get a record deal of his own! Blatant music industry species-ism.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcuL4nIXoAEKDU6.jpg

Kind of funny to see Pink Floyd and the Grateful Dead at the top of the reviews section

It's a good writeup even if I think it should be a 9.5 or whatever

“And here you are, still doin’ you,” she sings. “It never worked out, but it never stopped you.” Those are great lines

they are?

"The best pop songs leave you wanting more."

They do?

I disagree strongly with this review. The EP is fantastic.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/summer-walker-life-on-earth-ep/

The main complaint seems to be that her lyrics aren’t to the reviewer’s taste. Like, sorry about that, but the music has other qualities.

Wipers review reads like parody

There’s some good writing and analysis in it but the opening paragraph is ridiculous.

Missing the obvious childishness of 'No fair' is… not a good start. And the extended development around Reagan is peak p4k contextsplaining.

this project of reassessing the alt canon through a social justice lens sometimes reads like a less entertaining version of the Maoist International Movement movie reviews, p4k shouldn’t be afraid to lean into the absurdity a bit more imo

I remember, in college, reading a review of the Cranberries single “Zombie” in the pages of the Socialist Worker, the free paper distributed by the (now-defunct) ISO, which was big on my campus. The entire review was a diatribe about how the song was reactionary propaganda designed to weaken support for the IRA... it ended with something like: “Unfortunately, the song is very catchy and well-produced, which will probably make it popular and increase the damage it will cause.” I thought this was so funny.

(And honestly, that’s more attention to the music than Pfork sometimes pays!)

Can't wait for p4k and Plugged In to converge at last, e.g.:

https://www.pluggedin.com/album-reviews/juice-wrld-legends-never-die/

xpost can’t wait for Ian Curtis’ suicide to be critiqued as politically impotent

A Tory offing himself? Nah.

I guess if Protomartyr wanted that sweet, sweet BNM they wouldn't have dissed ian cohen in song