>tfw this will never be recognized as oM's magnum opus because Pitchfork panned it for no reason
>>65066486
>Pitchfork makes and breaks artists
Pitchfork literally does nothing, senpai.
>>65066841
Tell that to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
>>65066859
pretty accurate. their debut is a fun listen, but fuck is the opener annoying
>>65066859
Correction: If p4k drone plebs like you stopped giving a shit about pans and bnm's, it wouldn't matter.
>no reason
uhh...it was terrible bro...c'mon...
>>65067162
Explain why.
While it is definitely of Montreal's most artistic, most emotionally invested, and divergent album, it was not their best album from a pop perspective, which Kevin prides.
Hissing Fauna and Skeletal Lamping are both absolute pop masterpieces keeping the experimentalism under heavy wraps.
Pitchfork doesn't like anything that sounds like "prog" because they subscribe to the point of view that prog is somehow the opposite of punk and therefore uncool.
I know there's more than one writer at pitchfork but this is part of their editorial voice. It's kind of backwards and arbitrary
>>65067267
But even though it experiments more than their other work, a lot of the songs are still very catchy and work well as pop songs. The only thing that would prevent songs like Gelid Ascent, Spiteful Intervention, and Tonight We Will Commit Wolf Murder from being pop hits are the names, but the same is true with Hissing Fauna and Skeletal Lamping so that's not an excuse.
so what is the best oM album
>>65067269
More like they prefer when experimentation is still in a pop format, those are always their prefered albums
>>65067390
I'm not saying it was the excuse. It's just those albums are far more soaked in pop sensibilities comparatively.
This album is also, of the three, by far the most bitter. Hissing Fauna is anxious as all hell, but manages to keep up a sense of humor to maintain the pop facade, and Skeletal Lamping does that to an extreme, burrowing its emotional complexity deep in sexuality.
Paralytic Stalks is bare. The only of Montreal album that's as angry and bitter as it is Aureate Gloom, which puts on the pop costume but doesn't play the part.
