The Quietus | News | Richard H. Kirk Has Died, Aged 65
The news was confirmed by his label Mute
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It's a super fun album.I hope you guys don't mind me self promoting. I recently published a review of the new Amyl & The Sniffers album:
Album Review: Amyl and The Sniffers – Comfort To Me
Amyl and The Sniffers – Comfort To Me is genuine, cathartic Punk, and one of the most faultless albums of 2021.boilerrhapsody.wordpress.com
Tl;dr
Its really good.
Pitchfork Reviews: Rescored
We’ve all thought about it: Here are 19 album review scores that we’d change if we could.pitchfork.com
Not sure if this is the place, but Pitchfork proposed changing several of their review scores and explains why. It's mad corny imo; most of their reasoning boils down to "we were overhyped for this album and are disappointed it didn't have as much cultural impact as we'd hoped," or "we were being snobs but it turns out mainstream music culture loves this thing so we're falling in line."
This was always the push-pull I had to square with Pitchfork when I read them more avidly. That grain of salt was always there: they knew their place as tastemakers and anointers of new talent, and that sword cut both ways. Over the last decade I've only paid mind to their Best New Music for the sake of discovering new music; I try to avoid the edge-courting of bad reviews and tepid 7.6s for albums I've been anticipating.I've never been big into Pitchfork but the fact that the people who write the review are different from the people giving it a score makes it kinda dumb to me. I always got the impression that they score albums based on how they want to be perceived as a company instead of the music itself.
This is absolutely brutal and unnecessary. Just stick to your guns. They don't even correct some of their more egregious reviews (say what you will about Kid Cudi's MOTM: End of Day, but it deserved much better). Why bother even going back and correcting some of these reviews? Nobody is going to remember they gave great scores to albums like Lucious Left Foot and Turn on the Bright Lights...people will remember more that you gave great albums a terrible score than good albums great scores.Pitchfork Reviews: Rescored
We’ve all thought about it: Here are 19 album review scores that we’d change if we could.pitchfork.com
Not sure if this is the place, but Pitchfork proposed changing several of their review scores and explains why. It's mad corny imo; most of their reasoning boils down to "we were overhyped for this album and are disappointed it didn't have as much cultural impact as we'd hoped," or "we were being snobs but it turns out mainstream music culture loves this thing so we're falling in line."
That's why they went ahead and revised some great albums to have terrible scores!...people will remember more that you gave great albums a terrible score than good albums great scores.
For the most part it seems like they're bumping up albums they probably got a lot of flack for, while bumping down albums only a point or two. It's a really bizarre thing for sure. Like, did you just realize Discovery was a masterpiece, or are you still getting hate mail to this day about it and decided to rectify it?That's why they went ahead and revised some great albums to have terrible scores!
The new album from Hand Habits is fantastic! I've listened to two of her previous records and liked them well enough, but this latest has grabbed me like few albums do on first listen. Subsequent listens solidify that view!
I'd say there's quite a bit of variety from song to song, with all of the different styles working very well. Somehow, different songs have me searching in my mind for the different artists they remind me of. It has taken me quite a while to figure this one out, but one of the better (so far!) songs on Fun House, "Concrete & Feathers," had me searching through shelves of records to read off a title/band that would spark a memory of what this song reminded me of. Finally figured it out! (but listening to both, Hand Habits prevails). Anyway, check out this album. It's even better than what you might expect, and better with every listen (I'm up to four....)
The new album from Hand Habits is fantastic! I've listened to two of her previous records and liked them well enough, but this latest has grabbed me like few albums do on first listen. Subsequent listens solidify that view!
I'd say there's quite a bit of variety from song to song, with all of the different styles working very well. Somehow, different songs have me searching in my mind for the different artists they remind me of. It has taken me quite a while to figure this one out, but one of the better (so far!) songs on Fun House, "Concrete & Feathers," had me searching through shelves of records to read off a title/band that would spark a memory of what this song reminded me of. Finally figured it out! (but listening to both, Hand Habits prevails). Anyway, check out this album. It's even better than what you might expect, and better with every listen (I'm up to four....)
Awesome! I hope you enjoy it. I can't say I've listened to her previous records a ton, but whatever, it was enough to be blown away by how good this one is.The physical is on it's way to me. I cannot wait!!