Music criticism can still be informative and entertaining and while it is easy to listen and evaluate music yourself it’s certainly much harder to focus in a world where everything is available all the time everywhere all at once. I personally appreciate a good recommendation and that is what good music or any other criticism provides. It can direct others (who seek it out) where to direct their gaze.
I agree, to some extent at least. I'm not sure if you think this is what I was saying or not, but it isn't what I meant.
You ultimately have to make choices, you can’t listen to everything. At a certain point you have to cull your options down. If you have a large swath of trusted critics who are hopefully a bit knowledgeable and passionate about music than your average person my guess is you will have more success at finding new and interesting music that you enjoy than if you were to just to dig through things by yourself.
I like to do that as well, but sometimes it's just fun or at least interesting to see what someone else has to say about it, whether they like it more or less than you.
This. I love me some feisty Lester Bangs criticism. I might have to pull the old copy of Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung off the bookshelf tonight and spin some VU.But venturing out can be reading articles and getting pointed fo stuff you otherwise might have overlooked. that does not necessary take a professional music critic, but could also be someone from the local record store or in some forum ( Just got an email that the SOAK rexord is waiting at my local for pickup @Teeeee )
They just straight refunded you for it? Did you have to send them a pic with a nickel?
Sorry I don’t understand this take at all. I love music criticism whether I agree with the take or not. It allows me to view music through a different perspective and maybe hear something new. Do what you please, but I don’t see many cons in 1. Reading 2. Listening to others opinions.
Right! and everyone from that time knows exactly what you mean because if you typed in just www.pitchfork.com (until they purchased the rights) I forget where it took you but it wasn’t the indie music review site.
So then people, like yourself for example, can be taught and understood on why Lil’ Kim’s discography is much more impressive than Foxy Brown’s discography.
I didn’t order Hatchie or Weyes Blood so I don’t necessarily have a dog in this fight but has anyone attempted to hard press them on the Weyes Blood release to see if they can get a refund AND the album from them in a similar fashion to the way they are handling the Hatchie snafu? It seems like a reasonable ask and I know the CS have been sticklers lately. This seem like you might have a winning argument.especially if you make a big enough stink. I mean this the Weyes Blood record came out like 4 months ago and many won’t have it until even later still. Seems like a reasonable request to me.
