pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

didn't know h.r's entire family was born paul hudson

ssshhh, let the legend blossom.

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, July 27, 2020 4:35 PM

H.R. is the hardcore Voltron

what a fucking badass title to have jeez

In 2004 my solo album got an 8.8 BNM and I received none of these things. I had to go back to my day job. https://t.co/64frrSqj1Q

— Carl Newman (@ACNewman) July 28, 2020

lol, i remember at one point i was waiting tables and an issue of a national magazine with a paragraph about my ~~bL0g~~ came out and i went to pick it up a the newsstand on my break and when I came back I showed it to the floor manager and he said "oh so are you gonna quit your day job now?"
I made lousy bank that night too

xpost lol The first response was basically, wait, wasn't your day job the New Pornographers? And his response to that was "my point is still valid."

That album remains my 2nd favourite New Pornographers-related recording fwiw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2bMKnuv_-k

He's right-- it was only a handshake

I'm losing my fucking mind

we live in a society were female excellence gets paid dust pic.twitter.com/cSq0p6s9Cr

— M I A N G E L O ₁₃ (@doublemantra13) July 27, 2020

hmm, I wonder what the scores are for Styles, Bieber, Sheehan, Malone etc.

also, I mean - Bolt Cutters(?)

"10 years ago things were different."

"I don't agree because it wasn't like that 16 years ago"

"..."

^Yeah I don't get the point of the A.C. Newman tweet. Not saying the original tweet is exactly right, but Pitchfork was more influential in 2010 than 2004, no?

it is called a humble brag guys
rip harris

also, I mean - Bolt Cutters(?)

And also BNMs for Waxhatchee, Haim and Phoebe Bridgers in recent months

twitter has melted our brains

rip harris

I think of this tweet more than any old tweet by anyone (including every year around my b-day):

Nothing worse than an adult guy super into his birthday.

— Harris Wittels (@twittels) March 7, 2013

entitled stans get more pathetic every year. they will get worse but at least there's no mark david chapmans yet.

Do you think the Swift stans would have even cared if Pitchfork just didn't review it at all? Like, would there by nasty tweets and threatening emails if they just ignored it?

Doubt it. It's all about the Metacritic average, I think?

I would like to see p4k tweet back "We don't review country music."

Assume the New York Times is getting some shit at the moment

Yep: who are you a stan of?

https://i.imgur.com/cbe3Zea.png

hmm

I've said this in the artists you have tried to get into but can't thread, but I just don't really get the Taylor Swift thing at all. All of her music seems eminently mediocre, and listening to "cardigan" just now hasn't really changed my opinion on that.

Like yeah, it's basically the same as an 8.0, but that anyone with ears could possibly think this record by Ambrose Akinmusire is less good that Taylor's new sentimental pop diarrea opus is wild to me.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/ambrose-akinmusire-on-the-tender-spot-of-every-calloused-moment/

I believe you'll find that she had indie diarrhea.... Brought on by indiegestion

sentimental pop diarrea opus

otm, diaryea is the fucking worst.

Diarrhea Planet was a pretty good band

whoa someone can’t get into the music taylor swift holy shit!

she makes music?

Her work compels us to reassess our tacit understanding of ‘music’.

Personally I find that no other music has ever sounded quite like it

I dont know Folklore is pretty good indie folk music, but is it going to inspire a thread with 1000 unicorn pics? I dont think so.

light - if you’re mad at a jazz album getting a sub-8.0 score, don’t take it out on Folklore... it’s totally a 4-star pop album. (I don’t think it makes sense anyway to comparatively rank albums in different genres, but I’ve said that in this thread already.)

I should do what now?

hmm

― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Saturday, August 1, 2020 12:59 AM

Ha, I noticed that with the review of the new Greg Dulli album at one point. I briefly thought the days of the inscrutable pan had returned.

Like yeah, it's basically the same as an 8.0, but that anyone with ears could possibly think this record by Ambrose Akinmusire is less good that Taylor's new sentimental pop diarrea opus is wild to me.

As I've noted on here before, pretty much every jazz album reviewed on Pitchfork gets a score of between 7.0 and 8.0. It's the law.

sentimental pop diarrea opus

so you're saying it's watered down?

I assumed it meant the music is all over the place, throw it at the wall and see what sticks kind of thing

I guess that's one way of creating abstract set

*art

The header on the Sunday review reads "Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible."

But some of the albums *were* in the archives at some point, right? Like today, Philip Sherburne reviewed Smog's Knock Knock, which was originally reviewed by Samir Khan.

So was Khan's review scrubbed at some point in the past, or did Sherburne's review replace it? I know that the site has gotten rid of all reviews before 1999, but the Smog record came out in January 1999. Other reviews from that month are still online.

Though probably quite insane, Callahan possesses three very important attributes: an unmistakable voice, a perplexing gift for the language of story, and the ability to make a simple song sound like a universe with impeccable taste in arrangements. He's a true slave of the song, and whatever he may lack in production technique is excused by something most musicians would kill their pregnant cat for: soul.

Why was quality work like this scrubbed i wonder

"honey, have you seen my pregnant cat anywhere?"

shit, pregnant cat!

katherine (if you’re reading) - I believe there’s a typo in today’s Alanis review(?):

just imagine the respose to “Thank U”

Great review. Love the "method to the badness" / "she knows what she's doing" paragraph.

Samir was 19 when he wrote that, just saying

This sounds like someone writing a paper in college about rap lyrics:

Like Cardi, she states what her body needs to reach this level of excitement. Her stellar performance is contingent on whether the other party is equipped to match what she’s bringing