pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

for all this list's problems, if you compare just the 1996-2011 results of this one to the previous list, this one is a significant improvement

Really disappointed Pfork’s review of the new live Coltrane set makes no mention of how much drum-n-bass is derived from this music.

how many shitcats did they give it?

lol at calling the very vanilla new charli track 'avant-garde', like there are certainly charli tracks where that's a bit less of a stretch but ... ?

did they call her "the future of pop" for the 7th year in a row?

no but she's not even aspiring to that here for once

Yes, the two recent singles are less "avant-garde" than anything she's done bar "Sucker", and more anonymous than that album too.

10 + 9.0 = 9.2… guess the math works out

Glad Pitchfork finally weighed in on Kid A

Like Bob Dylan post-motorcycle crash, doing everything he could to discourage the press and his fan’s interest only to increase his enigmatic appeal, Yorke struggled against the straitjacket of his band’s grandness only to feel it pull tighter.

Like Bob Dylan post-motorcycle crash, doing everything she could to discourage the press and her voters' interest only to increase her enigmatic appeal, Sinema struggled against the straitjacket of her maverickness only to feel it pull tighter.

hahahaha nooooooo

wait bob dylan wore a straitjacket on a motorcycle? i hope it was listed as a contributing factor in the investigation

https://pitchfork.com/news/vote-now-for-your-favorite-albums-and-songs-of-2021/

Dude… it’s November 9

Like Xmas, now the season starts after Halloween

the year's not over for me until next Friday when a fantastic British musician with a one-word name drops their latest album. that's right, I'm a pretty big STING fan

GAZCOOMBES

lmao, both Elbow and Oasis are dropping records next Friday

Lol

Elbow vs Oasis!!

who is going to top the charts?! If oasis wins, brexit is good, if elbow wins, than Tony Blair made the right decision on Iraq

Elbow vs Psoriasis

Ugh just read that kid amnesiac review. I grunted at this piece of fan fic:

Perhaps no single song encapsulates this mix of aimlessness and invention, the will toward prettiness and the losing war against it, as neatly as “Like Spinning Plates.” In the studio, they were grimacing their way through another demo—the chord progressions were somehow insulting, too obvious. Thom Yorke, always quick with a withering aside for their own material, dubbed it “dodgy Kraftwerk.”

They couldn’t stop messing with it, however. No idea the band generated, no matter how wispy or maddeningly incomplete, seemed to stay away forever. (Yorke apparently wrote the bassline for “The National Anthem” when he was 16, and it sounds like it.) Their song fragments were like sick dogs that wouldn’t stop limping after their masters. So there was Greenwood, messing around with the latest playback of that pretty ballad. Out of boredom, a fit of pique, whatever, he played it backwards.

Yorke, who was nearby, was transfixed. He crossed the room and demanded to hear it again. The track, played backwards, sounded like it was sucking nearby debris inward and pulling everything down with it. Yorke sat down and wrote a new song on top of his upside-down old one. But the backwards/forwards vortex seemed to have inspired a fever. So he sang his own lyrics backwards, on purpose, live. Then he reversed them so we heard them forwards—a subliminal message, just like the hysterical censors told us there would be when we played our records backward. But there it was, floating on the surface like a plastic bottle on the ocean.

How good is this Sodomsky piece?: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/boz-scaggs-silk-degrees/

Good.

I'd like a series of positive reviews of used record bin mainstays. They could do the Pretty Things Freeway Madness next.

score should be a 10 but i love that sam got to write about it

always thought it was flutes doubled with trumpets on lowdown

brilliant review, loved the description of Lowdown as like a party which was awesome but you couldn't quite remember what happened the next day

Often the backing band, who would join forces under the name Toto shortly after touring Silk Degrees, stands toe-to-toe with Scaggs

I see what you did there!

Kanye West and Drake Pose for Photo Together in Apparent Beef Squash

Beef Squash for dinner again?

Now I’m imagining them photographed at a county fair, holding their prize squashes.

Lol

Beef Squash Spice--rejected Spice Girl names

i love that there are two writers credit in the beef squash article, a 5 paragraph article about an instagram post

seems like a beef squash bot could handle it

https://www.thehealthimprovementcenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Beef-Stuffed-Butternut-Squash.jpg

(l-r) Drake, Kanye

they're cowards for not giving adele bnm

nb, i haven't heard the album

haha i haven't either but those type of reviews are the weirdest to me, where it's clear they love it and it's written as a rave but they sit there and - for whatever reasons - make this decision that we are not giving this best new music

I haven’t visited pitchfork regularly in years but decided to do some end-of-year scroll today through sites, looked at theirs first, and they review like a dozen albums every week? (don’t fact check me, maybe it’s 5-10). I maybe just need to set some news feed to skim and selectively look at music every week

3-4 a day during the week I believe, there are dips and pauses

Beef squash is when you and a bro mash your penises together.

"Greenwood must be the only artist who has both headlined Coachella and collaborated with Krzysztof Penderecki, the Polish composer whose turbulent tone clusters he often evokes in The Power of the Dog."

Beth Gibbons recorded an album with Penderecki... just off the top of my head

ya, but she's like . . . a girl.

Two Jonny Greenwood soundtrack reviews within a week seems a bit much. Maybe cover those in one joint review and give a slot to... anything else

there's not a lot out at this time of year

tbh puzzled by their #1 album being a 30 minute album/EP? where half of it were spoken word skits so there were like, 4 actual songs on it?

Anyway, whatever gets more people to listen to Jasmine Sullivan I guess

Sorry to resurrect this trope, but the long blurb says absolutely nothing about the singing or music (other than her narratives are “packaged as confessional R&B”). This is still a music website, right?

still working through my calculations of 'nice to see l'rain getting hype' vs 'grumpy that l'rain's superior debut album didn't get this hype'

you’ll survive