Pitchfork Condensed Reviews - Classic or dud?

I can't read that heading without thinking of "Reader's Digest Condensed Books."

It's too bad it referred to something in the longer review as already mentioned.

*uses ms word to summarize pfork*

Also, I find it a dud.

Certainly it wouldn't get the site away from the oft-mentioned criticism that it should talk more about the music, and sooner, but I found it to be a very interesting and affecting piece (the long one). While I don't find it to be the function of the site to run that kind of thing all the time, it would be very refreshing to see it have things like that more often (cf. Dahlen's Get That.. and Richardson's Resonant Frequency which are some of the most incisive and entertaining pieces there).

The band's trajectory was the genre's trajectory, and with "Me and Giuliani", !!! and disco-punk began to stray away from safe post-punk skronk, and gradually draw nearer to more adventurous disco sleek.
On Louden Up Now, !!! At the heart of the album is a suffocating, dark electro-acoustic disco smog that recalls Black Devil's 1979 Disco Club EP, as well as Larry Levan, Walter Gibbons, and Arthur Russell's more pessimistic contributions to the disco underground. Over the course of songs such as the first single "Pardon My Freedom", "Shit Scheisse Merde (Part 1)", and album highlight "Hello? Louden Up Now isn't all dancefloor thrills, however: !!! On "Shit Scheisse Merde (Part 2)", the band even curiously infringe on the drum sampling and sparse rhythmic figures of their sister group Out Hud.
s longer numbers. On both "Shit Scheisse Merde (Part 2)" and "Dear Can", !!! a larger audience.