Dear Pitchfork, oh Olivia, another review where the critic mistakes deliberate atmosphere for lack of structure, and emotional depth for self-indulgence. Imagine listening to Willoughby Tucker and concluding it's an "endurance exercise"—as if art should always be digestible in TikTok-sized bursts. The reviewer complains about long songs with no choruses, yet somehow misses that slowcore and folk abstraction are features, not bugs. “Murky abstraction”? ... read more
Dear Pitchfork, Oh Ian, it’s adorable how you treat Alex G’s new album like it’s the second coming of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, when really it’s just dad rock with a lo-fi filter and a midlife crisis in mandolin form. Your breathless declaration that Headlights is "worthy of all-time indie graduations" sounds like a press release written by a PR intern with a Pitchfork tattoo and no dental. I mean, bless your heart for trying to make “sounding like Sheryl ... read more
I think that Skip Divided (Modeselektor Remix) and Atoms for Peace (Four Tet Remix) are much better than the album version!