pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

your momma's so old she knew industry park when it was just a plant

Pigeon and Planes seems to have been mostly wiped off the web and exists as a few articles on Complex?

And No Jumper seems to be a merch site for a podcast or something

what a buch of sellouts amirite

If they conceptualize music as a cool lifestyle thing, and/or focus mainly on appealing to the youngs, they’ll always be chasing trends. Why not be an authoritative source of music info & insight for everyone who loves music? (But I guess that’s what an oldster would say.)

they’ll always be chasing trends

just like they always have.

if they were smart, they'd start a network of sites, each with a different specific focus but all revolving around music news and reviews. kind of like what the gawker cluster of sites was to gossip and social media news.

They’ve done branch off sites at least four times and they’ve all been absolute fiascos

They haven’t tried one about antique guitars yet

The trends will still be there, they don't have to ignore them. I feel like the niche they've fallen into - "aging Millennial, outgrowing "indie," interested in SNL and RRHOF updates" - may be an increasingly limiting one.

argue about what P4k should or shouldn't do or shouldn't or shouldn't be all day long if you want but a review of a reissue of Summerteeth is not a review of an album that sucks

I had just cited one that as part of the trend of reviewing lots of reissues. (Also, to be clear, I don't claim to know how to publish a successful music website in 2020. I'm just approaching this as a reader.)

If anything, they should probably be reviewing even more albums that suck! As long as it's new & somewhat notable.

point in their favor re: covering obscure stuff: one of the acts they reviewed today (Jake Muir) makes collage-based electronic stuff and currently sits at 712 monthly Spotify listeners

i've been pointed towards all sorts of gems like that via pitchfork!

the Topdown Dialectic albums, for example, both sit at <20K plays per track, and are incredible. it's not a mainstream music kind of thing (more like a honed version of late-90s autechre), but they're some of the best electronic releases in the last few years that i've heard.

I also think it's really cool they gave Angel Bat Dawid such prominent placement and a BNM! I mean, well deserved and it's not like that's a household name.

Just checked and its the fifth Best New Album tagged as 'jazz' this year. Must be a record for them?

(The other four are Jeff Parker, Nubya Garcia, Jyoti, and Makaya McCraven's reworking of Gil Scott-Heron)

Their jazz coverage is so weird and micro-focused; for a few years they would only review Vijay Iyer albums, then they branched out and reviewed a few other ECM artists, and now they're 100% in the tank for International Anthem. Which is a great label, make no mistake, but their jazz coverage is obviously (to me, because I know who the relevant publicists are) publicist-driven in a way that the rest of the stuff they write about isn't.

austin which is worse - pitchfork or the private prison system?

topdown dialectic is insanely fucking good and it’s fucked up that all their stuff is like 50 physical copies

Agreed and I think KM only mentioned it to brag about his copies ;)

that is 100% true!

i only picked up vol. 2, though (massive edition of 250!)

the 2 LPs are both free online, though, in the usual places

austin which is worse - pitchfork or the private prison system?

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, November 9, 2020 10:38 AM

two of the same thing.

dude

bro?

Barry Jenkins and Chopstars' latest collaboration turns @Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot into Yankee Purple Foxtrot https://t.co/1859yF8RZ5

— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) November 10, 2020

Feels kinda Pitchfork headlines via neural network

two of the same thing.

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, November 9, 2020 3:18 PM (yesterday)

idk, I'm pretty sure most people who hate private prisons don't visit one every day just to get mad

"heavy metal drummer" (chopped not slopped) might not really be worth listening to, but certainly could be worth sampling

lol @ Rob

i don't think anyone who has not been to prison can rightfully say.

Federal tastemakers have locked me up behind trends, man!

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. . .okay, i'll allow it.

It seems like it might be a temporary error and that we don't actually have another esteemed entry in the 0.0 canon, but for now we do with a meta commentary blank review.

wtf

Considering this same album was on their list of five albums out this week you should listen to, I’m assuming it’s just some sort of auto publishing glitch.

we really are due for another 0.0 sometime though, it's been a while

Yeezus, etc.

That album ended up getting a 7.7... the artist may have preferred a 0.0, for the notoriety.

Cool Chavez review. But why not complete this thought, and mention that James Lo was in Live Skull?:

Chavez began life as a supergroup of sorts, at least by an extremely 1995 metric. Lead singer and guitarist Matt Sweeney had been in Skunk, who put out two albums on Twin/Tone that sounded like New Jersey’s answer to old Twin/Tone Soul Asylum. (This is a compliment.) Guitarist Clay Tarver had been in Boston’s Bullet LaVolta, which put out a couple of albums of East Coast grunge before breaking up in 1992. Chavez was (significantly) greater than the sum of these parts.

(The review only glancingly mentions Lo; which is kind of weird, considering how important his drumming is to the band.)

Pusha-T’s third solo album Daytona re-established the early 2000s legend as a singular voice in hip-hop. Daytona couldn't be more 2018 if it tried.

i guess the first sentence is a matter of opinion but what does this second sentence even mean?

even being charitable, when i think of what rap music in 2018 sounded like it certainly was not this

when you know you know

You had to be there.

the paragraph's supposed to be awkward

Two years later, Daytona is still the only album to be celebrated in the INSTANT CLASSIC video franchise

https://pitchfork.com/tv/56-liner-notes/kendrick-lamar-or-damn-or-instant-classic/

It’s a Nathan Fielder kind of 2018 reference

"SAINt JHN was crooning woozy knock-off Future verses when a 19-year-old in a village in Kazakhstan illegally made him a hit."

uhh just my opinion but really uncharitable reading of saint jhn's career

Alfred!! Wtf