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mackro wrote:In turn, the Arcade Fire's popularity has been able to allow Merge the opportunity to release a whole bunch of cool underground NZ stuff under the radar...

To my knowledge, Merge has been releasing cool stuff from New Zealand for years.
All their reviews are bad.
They give albums a rating but never talk about why they deserve these ratings.
They talk about cleaning their apartments or how their grandmother eats bugs.

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Christopher_Dragon wrote:Pitchfork Media Can Suck My Cock

Can it, Andy_? Can it really? Cause I don't think it can.

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i noticed a few years ago that they gave a score of 10 to albums by both radiohead and ....and you will know us by the trail of dead, two fairly trite and obvious bands if you ask me. but none the less, they're saying that those two albums are perfect albums, as great as any other album in history. wtf? since then i cannot take them seriously.

also, didn't they have the review stating that albini was the king of compression and reverb?

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I find myself reading Pitchfork when I'm bored. As long as you don't take it seriously, (how could you?) ,it's an entertaining read.

**Do we need the other Chemical Bros. records??

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russ wrote:This thread needs more pictures

kerble is right.

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**Do we need the other Chemical Bros. records??

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Christopher_Dragon wrote:If you're into ambient/drone stuff then you should check out
On Tape & The Sad Mac by Stephan Mathieu
Periphery by Christopher Bissonnette

John Zorn recently released a great album by Korean cellist Okyung Lee called Nihm. Amazingly great record.

Not much else as far as recent finds go.

Just yesterday Pitchfork opened my eyes to this new underground group called "Destiny's Child." Maybe these gals will end up like The Arcade Fire or Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah and MAKE IT BIG! Or at least get their own hilarious Neighborhoodie.

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The truly dangerous thing about Pitchfork (and this will probably only be true for another 1-3 years) is that they are seriously shaping the face of music. I don't want to get into why I know this, but a really good Pitchfork reveiw instantly translates into sales and people going out to see the band reveiwed.

Like, a lot.

Don't get me wrong LOTS of other factors play into this. But when Pitchfork gives you anything above an 8.5 you are golden. What other single 'publication' has that effect? Rolling Stone? nope, Spin? nope.

Recently some freinds of mine The Dead Science were reveiwed on Pithcfork and the entire reveiw was about how The Dead Sciene were a Xiu Xiu band. That Xiu Xiu had defined a genre and The Dead Science were a band in that genre. Okay, then they neglect to mention that several members of The Dead Science have played on several Xiu Xiu records and have been in touring line-ups of Xiu Xiu. They also neglect to mention that The Dead Science SOUND ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LIKE XIU XIU. Aside from the fact that they have a singer/guitarist, there are NO similarities in sound.

Anyways, The Dead Science's new record "Frost Giant" is one of my top 5 of the year.

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I meant to add something along the lines of they are essentially playing god.

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n.c. wrote:The truly dangerous thing about Pitchfork (and this will probably only be true for another 1-3 years) is that they are seriously shaping the face of music. I don't want to get into why I know this, but a really good Pitchfork reveiw instantly translates into sales and people going out to see the band reveiwed.

Like, a lot.

Don't get me wrong LOTS of other factors play into this. But when Pitchfork gives you anything above an 8.5 you are golden. What other single 'publication' has that effect? Rolling Stone? nope, Spin? nope.

Recently some freinds of mine The Dead Science were reveiwed on Pithcfork and the entire reveiw was about how The Dead Sciene were a Xiu Xiu band. That Xiu Xiu had defined a genre and The Dead Science were a band in that genre. Okay, then they neglect to mention that several members of The Dead Science have played on several Xiu Xiu records and have been in touring line-ups of Xiu Xiu. They also neglect to mention that The Dead Science SOUND ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LIKE XIU XIU. Aside from the fact that they have a singer/guitarist, there are NO similarities in sound.

Anyways, The Dead Science's new record "Frost Giant" is one of my top 5 of the year.

AOL News did an article about this recently. The record i think got the biggest raw deal (or, the "rawest deal") was Travis Morrison's solo album Travistan. Now, I have not heard this album, and maybe it deserved the 0.0 Pitchfork gave it...but it was essentially dead in the water from day 1 since Pitchfork published their review the day before the record came out. I even saw an ad for a Travis Morrison show that mentioned the 0.0 review! Of course, several writers at Pitchfork probably wrote reviews for the album, and they chose to publish the 0.0 since thats the most sensational, and totally fucked any chance Travis (even if its a bad album) may have had. Blah blah blah beating a dead horse. I'll stop.

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