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Some of their songs are quite good.
I actually discovered a completely new music review site when I was looking for more information about them. Have any of y'all heard of something called "pitchfork?"
Personally, I prefer small, underground community review sites like Rate Your Music. You're more likely to get people who really know what they're talking about.
Edit: also, anyone heard of Last.fm? I heard someone suggesting it but it looks like a Spotify knock-off that only gives you playlist suggestions and stuff like that, but you have to provide your own music. Why would anyone want something like that?
Last.fm is great for keeping track of your music
The sarcasm flying over people's heads in this thread is killing me lmao
I hadn't, but I googled it:
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/
I'll check it out!
Their modern reviews are pretty bland, but from 2000-2012 or so, they were probably the best indie reviewers out there. Since then, they gotten a little too afraid to write negative reviews for stuff that other publications like (IMHO), but they still provide a slightly different point of view than the big dogs like Rolling Stone.
These days, I typically like Consequence of Sound and Line of Best Fit a little better, and albumoftheyear.org is great for seeing both positive and negative reviews of pretty much everything out there
Edit: albumoftheyear is also a great way to find new music sites, since they cast a pretty wide net
Pitchfork fucking sucks now; they did my bois Clipping. so dirty, how tf you gonna give all of their albums sub-six you fools? They’re masterpieces.
It's too early for me to know if this is 3 layers of irony but Pitchfork was one of the most influential taste-maker's when it came to that kind of indy / rock / whatever scenes through like 2010? Had music festivals and stuff too.
I was being a bit snarky, but I totally agree with you. I think I honestly did find Vampire Weekend's first album along with several of my favorite bands of all time through Pitchfork in the mid 2000's.
As bland and useless as they've gotten, I will forever be grateful to Pitchfork for first introducing me to The Hold Steady, The Drive-by Truckers, and TV on the Radio.
I thought Vampire Weekend and fun. were similar and both really good at the time!