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Nihonniboku posted:I love Whiteout Conditions. I saw them on the opening show of their tour last year. Aside from finding out that AC hates Miss Teen Word Power, it was a pretty good show. This one woman kept dancing into me with her backpack for a little bit though... And they didn't play Letter from an Occupant. But Neko was there! And theyb played a lot of great songs.
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Solomon Gumball posted:Secret Machines have reunited, first single: what whoa haven't thought about this band in a dog's age!
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Sturgill Simpson has a bluegrass album coming out tonight at midnight. I know there are some Sturgill fans on here even if this isn't the bluegrass thread (does that exist?) Cuttin’ Grass Vol 1 – The Butcher Shoppe Sessions edit - I looked up his old band they mentioned and holy poo poo it rocks. Check this out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU19dWpeWTg bows1 fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Hey here's a stupid question. A friend is reading a book about Kid A and we started talking about Pitchfork's funniest reviews. I remember their review of Agaetis Byrjun being really, really funny - probably funnier than their Kid A review - with language like: "wrists will be slit and children will be conceived to this album." But they've since replaced their review with an updated one, and now I can't find the old review anywhere!! Can anyone help me find it? edit: found it! https://web.archive.org/web/20021003125137/http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/s/sigur-ros/agaetis-byrjun.shtml Polo-Rican fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Polo-Rican posted:Hey here's a stupid question. A friend is reading a book about Kid A and we started talking about Pitchfork's funniest reviews. I remember their review of Agaetis Byrjun being really, really funny - probably funnier than their Kid A review - with language like: "wrists will be slit and children will be conceived to this album." But they've since replaced their review with an updated one, and now I can't find the old review anywhere!! Can anyone help me find it? My favorite is the Jet review that was just a gif of a chimp passing in its' own mouth
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I like the review for the Black Kids album that was just "we are sorry", because they had really liked their EP. There is an article somewhere that went to a few different bands to discuss the effects of a negative review from Pitchfork. It's been a while, so I don't even know how to search for this.
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Polo-Rican posted:Hey here's a stupid question. A friend is reading a book about Kid A and we started talking about Pitchfork's funniest reviews. I remember their review of Agaetis Byrjun being really, really funny - probably funnier than their Kid A review - with language like: "wrists will be slit and children will be conceived to this album." But they've since replaced their review with an updated one, and now I can't find the old review anywhere!! Can anyone help me find it? It's basically always Brent DiCrescenzo. When he left, so did most of their infamous reviews. I know he left because he told me all about it in his review of Beastie Boys' To The Five Boroughs.
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Sir Lemming posted:It's basically always Brent DiCrescenzo. When he left, so did most of their infamous reviews. Yep. This is still a classic imo: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8104-lateralus/
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bows1 posted:Sturgill Simpson has a bluegrass album coming out tonight at midnight. I know there are some Sturgill fans on here even if this isn't the bluegrass thread (does that exist?) gently caress that's good.
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angrygodofjebus posted:Yep. This is still a classic imo: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8104-lateralus/ It is kind of weird to see Pitchfork's shift in critical appreciation for some nu-metal (or, at least, nu-metal adjacent bands). They have had recent positive reviews for Deftones, Linkin Park, and Rage.
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Pitchfork also just hasn't been the same since they shifted their primary focus from indie rock to pop/electronic/rap.
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The 1-2 Punch https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/184-i-get-wet/ https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16836-i-get-wet/
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Polo-Rican posted:Hey here's a stupid question. A friend is reading a book about Kid A and we started talking about Pitchfork's funniest reviews. I remember their review of Agaetis Byrjun being really, really funny - probably funnier than their Kid A review - with language like: "wrists will be slit and children will be conceived to this album." But they've since replaced their review with an updated one, and now I can't find the old review anywhere!! Can anyone help me find it? i always chuckled at the difference between And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead's Source Tags and Codes and Worlds Apart album reviews... Perfect 10 for Source Tags and Codes... lots of gushing over it: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/178-source-tags-and-codes/ For Worlds Apart? Scored a "4". The opening line: quote:Did Source Tags & Codes deserve a 10.0? That's not for me to say... https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/182-worlds-apart/
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lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TP3FG79BVs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_2wrvmUrOk
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Lid posted:The 1-2 Punch Lol they used to just hate everything. I remember the same with like a nine inch nails album too.
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Matt Berninger’s solo album came out today I like it when the mumbly man sings the sad words
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Twin Cinema posted:It is kind of weird to see Pitchfork's shift in critical appreciation for some nu-metal (or, at least, nu-metal adjacent bands). They have had recent positive reviews for Deftones, Linkin Park, and Rage. Yeah they’ve been defanged ever since Condé Nast bought them imo. I figure in a couple years they’ll be informing us that Greta van fleet was underrated
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The biggest problem is that they don't have a voice any more. They're just another music news website. For example, they'll rip apart Takeshi 6ix9ine and give him a terrible review, and then the next day, run a news story about a new song or remix he did. And it's like - why are you giving this guy press after all the horrible poo poo he did, and then if you trash his album, why would you give him more press? It's not like they ever thought he was good. Cemetry Gator fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Oct 16, 2020 |
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Friend promo time again. I think I've dropped by buds in here before but they have a new full-length out that I think is genuinely great. It really taps into one of my favorite tropes in indie and emo, which is when everything sounds like it's going to fall apart at any moment. Also produced by one of my bandmates and available on streaming platforms. https://upstairsuk.bandcamp.com/album/i-could-die-whenever
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Really digging new albums from Machinedrum, Sub Focus and Wilkinson, and Annie - was a pleasant surprise to hear about Annie's new album today
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Lol they used to just hate everything. I remember the same with like a nine inch nails album too. Yeah they took a pretty huge dump on The Fragile which is pretty revered nowadays https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5799-the-fragile/ ..and then of course some years later they scored it more than 4x higher that the original review https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22746-the-fragile-2017-definitive-edition-the-fragile-deviations-1/
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To be fair, Brent was a pretty poo poo critic. He's like the Tim Rogers of music criticism, where it feels like he's more interested in showing off his writing than he is at actually writing a review. It's insufferable.
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I remember them rating a British sea power album "U.2" Much funnier than the 8.2 they changed it to.
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Oxxidation posted:Matt Berninger’s solo album came out today If you like him, check out Hayden who has been around longer than The National and played on Matt's album along with Andrew Bird who is all over it. I think he uses his full name now too, but he was supposed to be the next Jack Johnson type deal out of Canada in the mid-90s for a major and he hated it and started releasing stuff on his own, he got into a bit of alt-country phase but most of it's sad indie rock. "Bad As They Seem" was supposed to be his breakout hit and hasn't dated well lyrically (he changes it live), "Dynamite Walls", and "Bass Song" were some minor hits in Canada but writes some of the saddest songs next to Leonard Cohen and Elliott Smith. Matt and The National began speaking about him interviews, befriended him, and it revived his career, got signed to Arts & Crafts, and is pumping out new music. I recommend "Instructions", "Hearts Just Beat", "Orange Curtain Light", "Let's Break Up" (for a happy sad song), "More Than Alive" "drat this Feeling" (the whole "In Field & Town" was a great album), "Did I Wake Up Beside You?", "Lonely Security Guard", "Dynamite Walls", "Bass Song", "The Hazards of Sitting Beneath Palm Trees", "Home By Saturday" (him at his peak alt-country), "You Are All I Have", "Tragedy", "You Were Loved", "Choking", "Wasting My Days Away", "Woody" is the fan favorite because it's about his cat. Anyway, The National saved the guy's career and got him to sign to Arts & Crafts for a couple of albums after disappearing and now he's back. I'm not a fan of The National but they were influenced by the guy and helped him start making music again and I'll always love The National for that. Solomon Gumball fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Oct 18, 2020 |
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Cemetry Gator posted:The biggest problem is that they don't have a voice any more. They're just another music news website. Nothong is funnier than them being all in on Lil Peep and emo cloud being the future. They gave his atrocious Hellboy EP the same rating as Danny Brown's Atrocity Exhibition which came out that same year a d is one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3fdrEthXkE so good, i’m really regretting not paying for this livestream 2 days ago.
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Lid posted:Nothong is funnier than them being all in on Lil Peep and emo cloud being the future. They gave his atrocious Hellboy EP the same rating as Danny Brown's Atrocity Exhibition which came out that same year a d is one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time. Hellboy is fantastic though and Lil Peep was the future 🤔
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He’s the past now tho. Rip yung Xanax bar
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 The Beths are doing a live-stream gig in a couple of weeks. I saw them play last week and it rules, they just keep getting better and better every time I see 'em. Anyway tickets are available here and you should check it out if you've got some spare cash. Also they dropped a new video today cptn_dr fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Oct 21, 2020 |
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quote:JULIEN BAKER ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM LITTLE OBLIVIONS OUT FEBRUARY 26 Sounds good to me e: first song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWAOkg2i6_g angrygodofjebus fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Oct 21, 2020 |
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This sucks.. https://www.stereogum.com/2103041/girls-chet-jr-white-has-died/news/
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mycophobia posted:great album: I love it, was very surprised by the lack of drums and just the shift from the sound of the NTS sessions and Elseq, etc. but Oversteps and Quaristice are probably my favorite Autechre albums and I really like their more melodic albums.
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New Loma album came out yesterday and I'm really loving it – moody, atmospheric, clever songwriting and instrumentation. It's a collaboration of Emily Cross from Cross Record and Jonathan Meiburg from Shearwater. Their first album was one of my favorites for a while and I think this one is even better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkDXIcpQs2Q
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Imhotep posted:I love it, was very surprised by the lack of drums and just the shift from the sound of the NTS sessions and Elseq, etc. but Oversteps and Quaristice are probably my favorite Autechre albums and I really like their more melodic albums. it seems drier than Quaristice and Oversteps. like a lot less reverb, which is interesting. tons of little details going on in the background too. im just glad to have an album-rear end album after NTS. my big issue there wasn't that it was 8 hours long but that most of the tracks were about twice as long as they needed to be. so this is a welcome return to tradition
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it really does. Album was definitely pivotal in my musical development and it still sounds absolutely perfect to this day, and everything Girls put out had a sound to it like someone was able to get 50% more out of it because they knew some sort of production magic and that's all on him
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mycophobia posted:it seems drier than Quaristice and Oversteps. like a lot less reverb, which is interesting. tons of little details going on in the background too. Hm, yeah although I love the way they use reverb, not when it’s just drenched in dark reverb, but stuff like fwze from quaristice, if you listen to that on headphones it’s almost like whiplash as the space that the sounds are ‘in’ transform rapidly as they pan back and forth, and swell/shrink/mutate like every other beat, it’s bonkers https://youtu.be/O_DaqCB8aHU Stuff like Bladelores tho is an example of the sort of autechre verb that I don’t like. But yeah the new album is weird and unexpected but I was in love by the time the second track finished. It’s not only a normal album length, but it’s weirdly straight forward, and tracks like psin m and th red a remind me of boards of Canada and F7 almost sounds like it could be a post rock song if Autechre remixes or covered one. And then stuff like Metaz Form8, gr4 and r cazt are beautiful and lush, overall it’s a bizarrely ‘sentimental’ album if you can call autechre’s stuff sentimental, it’s just more blatantly uh, optimistic or something. Then of course there’s tracks like sch.mefd 2, or M4 Lema and esc desc which are more abrasive, but then they sort of open up and make way for a beautiful pad, or you can sort of just hear the inner workings of them and hear that there’s more to it. Then like au14 is pretty classic autechre, but still cool. And agreed, it’s really nice to have an hour long album and not a 5 disc album, or an 8 hour thing like the NTS sessions.. even Exai was 2 hours long, and I thought that was excessive. You heard this, the Japanese bonus track? It’s lovely, I like it more than some tracks on the album, the subtle movement and texture of the pad underneath the violin sounding lead, which i think sounds like the closest they’ve come to emulating an actual acoustic instrument, is just incredible https://youtu.be/2Kqbu8VSDd4 imhotep fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Oct 27, 2020 |
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lol i listened to Quaristice while I was tripping on acid a few weeks ago and fwzE made me laugh my rear end off at how loving crazy it sounded. and ive heard that album a billion times but that time it sounded like it came from a different planet, like i couldnt comprehend how people could make music that sounds like that i see what you're saying about the straightforwardness. it feels like most of the tracks are like this one big in-your-face element and then a bunch of quiet subtle stuff happening underneath it. Metaz form8 is one of the prettiest tracks they've ever done. esc desc is really sad (like emotionally, not quality-wise) i love the japanese bonus track but i cant get the drat download in the youtube video description to work!! it doesnt do anything
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