Pitchfork's Chris Ott takes No Prisoners

Guess who's coming to dinner?

otty dreadlock

Maybe should have said: Guess who's coming to YouTube?

if you play shoegaze around The Ott, he becomes a big preeening softie.

but only slowdive or catherine wheel or moose or ride B-sides - none of that my bloody valentine crap nothing that any urban-outfitters-patronizing millennial might have heard of, amirite???? because INTEGRITY and REALNESS and STICK IT TO DA MAN

no, IIRC he loves that stuff too

It's about ethics in rocking.

― wk, Wednesday, November 26, 2014 12:02 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love you

it's one of the only things he loves and will be totally sincere about it. also The Cure. but anything else will be reduced to rich kid posturing accordingly

huh. interesting. it sure can be beautiful sometimes & it involves an aesthetic that i imagine is attractive to a purity/integrity/DIY obsessed shitbiscuit like him

his goth thing was kinda good

Sloth, dude, are you down with Moose?

Moose are among the purest artists in history. those guys were THE ETHIC and THE LIGHT

havent listened to be quite honest, i knew they went under the obscure column of shoegaze bands as opposed to MBV and ride tho

i might do a deep dive on the genre, i have quite a bit of vacation time coming up

if you've heard mbv you will go to your grave no poorer if you just stop there

do not listen to Ray Tabano, when it comes to shoegaze-type music he is totally insane

Ride is just as good as mbv

You're the one for me, Otty.

Moose are one of the reasons i found this board and here i still am around seven years and 10,000 posts later. they only started as a shoegaze band with their first three EP's (aka Sonny & Sam EP). by the time their first album ...XYZ come out they were completely different band. they actually got better by mellowing out with "Honey Bee" and Live A Little, Love A Lot both being outstanding albums.

bee I will give them a shot (btw I'm sorry about panda we will treat him well in boston)

Yeah ...XYZ is my favorite. One of my favorite records in the genre!

wish i'd been here 13 hours ago to post "your bennies, sir"

all shoegaze fans unfamiliar with vaadat charigim's album from last year need to remedy that immediately

just ascending more into complete loserdom

https://twitter.com/shallowrewards/status/542365704163708928

which band/artist is he alluding to?

dude is the REAL pitchfork reviews reviews

How is getting hit by a car or your mom getting cancer a failure?

He's referring to this article, I believe: http://noisey.vice.com/blog/andrew-rinehart-you-cant-break-my-heart-pretty-people-make-graves-music-video-premiere

But let's be honest. There's a thin line between many ILX users and @shallowrewards dude

its really not that thin

it's a thin line between lol and hate

http://pitchfork.com/features/rising/9528-tobias-jesso-jr/

if we're lucky one of chris's sock will grace us with its presence

socks*

http://pitchfork.com/features/rising/9528-tobias-jesso-jr/

― hackshaw, Tuesday, December 9, 2014 7:18 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what a failure. a real shoegaze man would've stood there as the car blew into pieces around him Rabbit In Your Headlights-style.

two-month-old zings

between his ambitious writing projects and twitter celebrity status, the man is just playing catch up

all the from the comfort of a Duxbury IT cubicle. sometimes there is a man...

wonder if this dude really gets how intense it is to one's life & art when a person's mother gets cancer

wott an asshole

https://twitter.com/shallowrewards/status/542498134257967104

lmao what a maroon

Will they look back with appreciation and say, "Thank God for that Ott guy in 2014 who headed off that loss of freedom, who kept us now 100 years later free, who kept our genre from selling out"?

And if we failed, they probably won't get to read the tweets at all because they spoke of indie rock, and they won't be allowed to talk of that or read of it.

i mean, the narrative that the pitchfork piece is putting out is basically "dude was an aspiring money-hungry L.A. session dude who failed, and now, two years later, wants to be indie rock I guess"

Like idgaf about this guy, but can you blame ott for not seeing this as the sympathetic story of rags-to-RSSches it's supposed to be, idk?

RSSches

smh

i dunno, what kind of background does he need to be a real indie-rocker?

probably grad school

NPR internship

one floor tom

he would've tried to cover his tracks if he wanted to be a REAL INDIE ROCKER. the dude is putting himself out there. that doesn't warrant comments about his dead mom as sort of ponzi scheme for success

https://twitter.com/shallowrewards/status/542498134257967104
--goole

man he really is that fucking naive that he's this truth warrior

*thinking that he's

Like I'm sure whoever that interview is with is totally crappy but like I dunno dude's mom died of cancer so lay off