https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/molly-lewis-on-the-lips/
I get that this is not a novelty record, and I enjoy her whistling, but can't help but feel that this is... very generous
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 09:35 (two months ago) link
I really like the album but I like this kind of exotica soundtrack stuff like this. Her whistling is much less silly than Andre 3000's flute playing.
That being said I did a double take at the line in the review that refers to it as an "inviting ambient record". In what universe is this ambient? Have been really annoyed lately at ppl's tendency the last few years to throw that word around to basically mean "kinda chill vibes". Was talking to a friend recently abt Light in the Attic's reissue of Pete Jolly's Seasons which they are billing as "ambient jazz" in the press release - my friend was surprised when he listened to it and found it was just a nice mellow jazz album. I know that there's a huge postpandemic surge of interest in ambient & new age, but every non-rock instrumental album can't be "ambient".
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 14:43 (two months ago) link
haha wow yeah that's super silly
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 14:49 (two months ago) link
maybe they meant Ambien, that it put them to sleep
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:06 (two months ago) link
I think people are using Ambient to mean Atmospheric.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:07 (two months ago) link
Im a super duper ambient snob but basically any music can be used as ambient music in the right contextthere is also a style of music known as ambient music that is more about creating an atmosphere. a lot of that music sucks because it tries to do too much and be foreground music.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 22:05 (two months ago) link
feel like the genre and the idea of coffee shop non-verbal music are different
cue 1000 people saying aphid’s selected ambient works vol 1 is NOT but vol 2 is, only for someone to say it’s not
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 29 February 2024 03:41 (one month ago) link
aphid? Aphex
ambient for a rave vs ambient for a bank vault
― brimstead, Thursday, 29 February 2024 15:24 (one month ago) link
no that’s not quite right, back to unpacking
― brimstead, Thursday, 29 February 2024 15:25 (one month ago) link
no new reviews today, is this a us holiday?
― devvvine, Thursday, 7 March 2024 09:58 (one month ago) link
or an ominous sign...
― devvvine, Thursday, 7 March 2024 09:59 (one month ago) link
This is not a U.S. holiday!
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 7 March 2024 10:20 (one month ago) link
There are new reviews
― President Keyes, Thursday, 7 March 2024 12:13 (one month ago) link
^reporters CUmmings and Keyes doing the lord's work
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 March 2024 13:59 (one month ago) link
Something weird is going on because they removed a bunch of recent reviews. there was a schoolboy q review this week but its gone now. Some others too - very odd.
― anonanon, Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:44 (one month ago) link
Huh
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:46 (one month ago) link
yeah there's a big gap in the bnm and 8.0 review sections - between march 2024 and october 2023
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:47 (one month ago) link
PAnon over here
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:55 (one month ago) link
if you google the schoolboy q review, you can find it https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/schoolboy-q-blue-lips/
but within the site itself you can't find it.
― omar little, Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:58 (one month ago) link
what're they hidin
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:58 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgflip.com/1amtvd.jpg
― omar little, Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:59 (one month ago) link
I thought I was going crazy today when they had the news feature on the Dreamville lineup announcement and there was no Nicki link, nor did any of her reviews show up when I searched her on the site. I was starting to think I was crazy like surely Pitchfork has reviewed Nicki albums and then I finally found one of her most recent album on its wiki page.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 8 March 2024 05:09 (one month ago) link
https://slate.com/culture/2024/03/pitchfork-oral-history-music-festival-conde-nast-review.html
it's weird that this had zero mentions of any list that pitchfork ever did. the year end lists couldn't drive attention week to week like best new music could, but they felt like an important part of building and maintaining a pitchfork editorial voice.
― circles, Friday, 22 March 2024 11:31 (one month ago) link
why do we have two "pitchfork is dumb" threads?
― jaymc, Friday, 22 March 2024 12:36 (one month ago) link
ilx is dumb
― na (NA), Friday, 22 March 2024 12:37 (one month ago) link
It's a series
― Nabozo, Friday, 22 March 2024 12:38 (one month ago) link
this one is gigantic and ancient so a sequel thread was made at some point but people keep using this old one anyway
― ufo, Friday, 22 March 2024 12:38 (one month ago) link
thread names are too similar
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Friday, 22 March 2024 12:42 (one month ago) link
i feel like having to ask demonstrates the reason. in the original thread there was a discussion about it being too big and being impossible to go back to if you're after anything but the latest few messages. but that message is buried forever because the thread is too big and is impossible to go back to if you're after anything but the latest few messages.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 22 March 2024 12:43 (one month ago) link
(and obv i do know this is the original thread i haven't lost my mind just yet)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 22 March 2024 12:44 (one month ago) link
Condé Nast should buy out this thread.
― let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Friday, 22 March 2024 12:45 (one month ago) link
this one is gigantic and ancient so a sequel thread was made at some point but people keep using this old one anywaylol I thought this one *was* the sequel and that the earlier discussion of the Slate oral history was on the original. ah well.
― jaymc, Friday, 22 March 2024 13:22 (one month ago) link
Thread names too similar
― President Keyes, Friday, 22 March 2024 13:25 (one month ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/future-metro-boomin-like-that-kendrick-lamar/As exciting as it is to finally have a full-length from the duo, “Like That” doesn’t show either at the peak of their powers. In fact, it’s boilerplate by their standards, Future boasting about nameless one-off flings and endless supplies of drugs over a so-so Metro beat that splits the difference between modern Atlanta and vintage California and Memphis.the beat is literally "Everlasting Bass" by Rodney O and Joe Cooley
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 24 March 2024 16:27 (one month ago) link
That was not good.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 24 March 2024 17:00 (one month ago) link
I haven’t listened to the song but rap nerd internet seems to be pointing out that the beat is sampling Three 6 Mafia sampling Rodney O
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 24 March 2024 17:22 (one month ago) link
Or referencing or whatever, again, I haven’t listened to the song
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 24 March 2024 17:23 (one month ago) link
I dont buy the three 6 thing. idk maybe he was inspired by how they flipped it. but metro flipped rodney o and joe cooley on the 21 savage album too hes not like ignorant of them
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:09 (one month ago) link
I just saw an article where Rodney O said Metro approached him about it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:31 (one month ago) link
The cut up vocal sample is from Three 6's 'Ridin Spinners', no? Not sure where it was from before that.
― mr.raffles, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:20 (one month ago) link
you mean the Eazy E sample?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdf_GIV9Svo
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:26 (one month ago) link
that's the one
― mr.raffles, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:26 (one month ago) link
chops up vocals from eazy e's "eazy duz it"
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:27 (one month ago) link
right
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:28 (one month ago) link
that little chant has been sampled in duz-ens of songs through the years
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:30 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQTHxGdWv4
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:31 (one month ago) link
A lot of people sampled Gumby's hightop fade
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 15:40 (one month ago) link
I feel like lazy/obvious sampling in current hip hop could be a thread of its own
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 15:43 (one month ago) link