Fellow Pitchfork patricians, it is once again the time for our nightly countdown for Pitchfork's new reviews to be updated on the site at 1am eastern time.
10.0?
0.0?
Best New Music?
Best New Reissue?
8.0+ with no BNM?
A shitty set of 7's and below?
Weird Al’s eternal BNM incoming hypetrain!
Noctourniquetcourtsney Barnett Review?
Titus Andronicus being robbed once again?
Dead Sara finally getting an 8.3 BNM?
Ian FUCKIN' Cohen?
Ryan "THE TASTEMAKER" Dombal?
Lindsay "qt feminist" Zoladz? [retired patrician, memory lives on forever]
Jayson "8.7" Greene?
Larry "retired BNM godfather" Fitzmaurice?
Craig "Meme Rap" Jenkins? [taking the Big Apple’s publications by storm]
Brandon “Meme Metal” Stosuy? [retired, metal albums still won't get BNM, everyone still won't care]
qt Kim "retired Meal Goddess now at Noisey" Kelly?
Grayson "Grizzly" Currin?
Brian "Backup" Howe?
Mark "the elder statesman" Richardson?
Evan "IS GARAGE ROCK DEAD" Minsker?
Meaghan “retired trap queen" Garvey?
Andy "secretly alpha" Beta?
Zoe "¡DALE!" Camp? [retired, will probably still get asked to show feet]
Philip "Electronic Wizard” Sherburne?
Stephen "M." Deusner?
Laura "Sun Kil Buffoon" Snapes?
Will someone dethrone Radiohead/Chance the Rapper’s 9.1 for AOTY?
OFFICIAL and accurate 2016 BNM Tally: 28
Nights since last BNM: 5
The most wonderful time of the night, every night, right now. Here it is, the nightly P4K thread. Time to get comfy.
>P4K Collection Rar (Over 300 deleted reviews, pics of every staff member, now slightly updated)
https://mega.nz/#!l1ZlRbqb!WYbGuia29w1_fpg05XS3F9Rtb8aFfj8WzZg8Z3mbwRQ
>Tonight's Top Stories
-This thread stands with Kesha eternally
-Frank Ocean teases release date for his next album
-Wildflower is out. Thoughts?
-This thread hypes and supports DIIV, BadBadNotGood, and The Avalanches.
-/p4k/ forever
>Wildflower is out. Thoughts?
For me it's RAM all over again wrt to all the positive scores/reactions. I legitimately don't get it - I thought the album was a total slog and pretty mediocre. Not gonna shove this in anyone's faces cause i'm glad loads of fans are happy with it, but.....
I'm saying 8.7 from Pitchfork btw
Avalanches 8.4 BNM
>tattoo this on your dick
Last two digits are Wildflower's score
>>66248495
95/10
dear fuck
>>66248532
>>66248495
Same score as SILY, noice.
>>66248495
spot fucking on
Tonight Avalanches will get 8.5-10 BNM
Snoop Dogg 6.x
dont care about the rest
>>66247557
This thread stands with Michael Gira, Freddie Gibbs, Afrika Bambaataa, Heathcliff Berru, Leslie Rasmussen, Gustavo Guerra & Dr. Luke -- and rejects the rape culture hysteria of Meagan Garvey, Amber Coffman, Bethany Cosentino, Larkin Grimm, Ke$ha, et al.
So Frank Ocean when guys?
Less than 23 days, we know this much
>>66248864
november is what the library card says
>>66248917
When asked about it, he confirmed it will be this month
>>66248944
source
What's everyone listening to?
>>66249332
cnn. world's on fire.
Dead Sara - Pleasure To Meet You 8.3 BNM
>>66249363
>>66247710
RAM is an excellent touchstone, yeah. Fans love it, magazines praise it, most people don't think twice about it
>>66249332
pic related
thought this thread would be bumpin' being that it's the Avalanches night
>>66249562
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XiYUYcpsT4
Dammit AllMusic, where's all the artists I anticipated to be on the chart? You know damn well (you don't actually) that...
Tonight is deadline night! Whatever albums on this chart are not reviewed by Pitchfork by 1 AM eastern time tonight will be marked "BITCHFORK".
So... Who's getting it tonight?
>>66249641
stop this meme please, this is accurate 0% of the time
>>66249641
i like your meme, bro. ignore this wet blanket >>66249666.
Reminder that Avalanches will get a 10 tonight
I knew Independent would too.
>>66249641
but they review new stuff tomorrow night, too. why are those BITCHFORK?
>>66249735
album with a track like frankie sinatra deserves a 10/10
>>66249792
Friday is the day that most new albums come out. By Saturday at 1 AM, a whole bunch of new albums will outdate the ones on the previous chart, making them (in my eyes, anyway) "hypeless" and unimportant to reviewers.
It sounds stupid, but there's gotta be some kind of schedule
miseducation getting a 10 on sunday, screenshot
>>66249641
this is an interesting idea, but have you considered using a different source other than allmusic?
>>66249900
Every masterpiece has that one Ringo song mate
>>66249921
I haven't, really. It seems like AllMusic compiles all the (important) new releases faster than other publications, but if there is another website, I'd be happy to know about it
DEAR TOMMY WHEN
WILDFLOWER TONIGHT?
>>66250050
Yes
>>66247710
It's honestly a 10/10 for me. It makes me so happy to be young and alive.
How close to release does Pitchfork put out a review for an album?
Do you think Wildflower's review will be up by tonight?
>>66250086
I agree anon! Thought it was perfect from first listen, haven't changed my mind.
Holding onto my opinion like Bill Cosby's wife. Even through the NME pan.
>>66249602
BEACH HOUSE = AOTY
>>66250103
It all depends on the circumstances and the specific album. Of course they will review Wildflower. It has been streaming since July 1st. In this case, as they have in other cases, they are waiting for the release date.
>>66250103
Yes, it came out a week early on Apple Music, and today is the official release date. They've had a week.
>>66247710
Hey, that's my prediction! I also guess 8.7 BNM.
i actually have a feeling pitchfork will give it a 10
based on how they normally critique albums of this type, this one is begging for it.
>>66250086
No snark - I'm happy you're satisfied with it, mate. I have pals who are huge fans and they never thought the album would even come out.
>>66249449
It'll definitely be interesting to see if/how perception changes about it over time.
>>66250139
>>66250142
Cool, thanks.
https://badbadnotgoodil.bandcamp.com/album/iv
its out finally
its out
>>66250179
are the avalanches black, women or trans?
To be honest famille, I have no idea of what their score will be. I love the album. I'm feeling a 9.4, personally, but I predict the cucks at Condenastfork will give it an 8.9
>>66250211
One of them looks like they're from SEA. Does that count?
will pitchfork review sufjan stevens - stalker?
>>66250236
lel fek no, they didn't even report on it. Maybe in the future, idfk.
>>66250210
they never dissapoint
>>66250323
Yeah, it's pretty rad. I'm loving the track with Kaytranada, the title track, and the one near the end with the Charlotte girl. I was surprised when I found out she's white. A hell of a voice.
>>66250086
It would be so awesome if they give it a 10 but I don´t think so.
They are trying to be really "foward thinking" spaming with soulless hip hop and shitty mixtapes made by black people from the u.s.a.
The next 10/10 they will ever give will go to Frank Ocean or Kendrick or Kanye or maybe someone they have been hyping to death (preferable someone from the united states and with some preachy shit message.)
God please make it higher than SILY. I want Bitchfork to just blow the haters away and skew the fuck out of that Metacritic score.
>>66250348
Kaytranada track sounds like something off of Jaco's "Word of Mouth" album, I love it. I didn't think I would like this more than III, but it's rapidly growing on me.
has anybody talked to tsk-a tsk-a tsk or whatever the 6.8 guys name was
How often does Pitchfork gives a newly released album a 10?
What are the chances of them giving Wildflower a 10?
>>66250417
last release 10 was MBDTF
>>66250417
Never. Just Kanye and Wilco iirc.
>>66250405
>trip opens new tab
>leave all fields blank
>has anyone seen [tripfag]
>5 mins later; use secure tripcode
>wat do everyone it's me [tripfag]
>>66250417
They used to do it more frequently, but there hasn't been one since MBDTF. There's a list here: http://rateyourmusic.com/list/VelvetDarkness/every_album_to_be_rated_10_0_by_pitchfork_media/
>>66250433
>>66250437
God damn.
>>66250467
I do this all the time
t. not noko
>>66250480
I think there's some more but not many at all in the last ~15 years. You know, Kid A, The Soft Bulletin, a few others.
>>66250471
>>66250529
Wow, they don't fuck around with handing out the tens, huh?
Happy BDC eve! Are you guys ready for new Frank tomorrow?
Are they automatically updated or does someone actually manually update it?
>>66250480
>>66250437
also Source Tags & Codes by ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
they did it a few more times in their very early years, but those don't really count, espeically the Walt Mink and 12 Rods records
i guess Kid A can count, too, but the others are pre-2000, babby p4k.
>>66250471
Then they won´t give a 10 to the avalanches.
If they were a controversial celebrity black person they would. Shit.
What are some albums you guys like that p4k absolutely trashed? personally i like panic at the discos first album. p4k gave it a 1.5
predicting high 8 low 9 for wildflower
Avalanches 9.1 incoming
This is the year of the 9.1, like last year was the 9.3
>>66250561
But they have an Asian guy
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/178-source-tags-and-codes/
>Source Tags and Codes will take you in, rip you to shreds, piece you together, lick your wounds clean, and send you back into the world with a concurrent sense of loss and hope. And you will never, ever be the same.
>>66247557
jesus fucking christ
memes have gone too far
https://twitter.com/p4kshill/following
8.5 BTFO
>8.5
>8.5
>8.5
8.5 :(
AVALANCHES 8.5 BNM
Guys, why are you taking so long to react?
>The Avalanches return with their first new album in 16 years.
That's it, huh? That's all you're gonna say about that? I guess they weren't interested in this album
K E K
E
K
that's so much more than it deserves, fuck p4k
NIGHTLY RUNDOWN
The Avalanches 8.5 BNM by Mark Richardson
Nite-Funk 7.8 by Kathy Iandoli
Nils Frahm / Woodkid 6.3 by Kevin Lozano
Gojira 7.6 by Zoe Camp
>>66250622
Here, in the Central Time Zone, where Pitchfork IS FUCKING LOCATED, the front page doesn't update until 12:03 AM
>>66250210
oh shit mate thanks for the heads up would've totally missed it
Just wait, in 20 years the reissue will get a 9.8
Screencap this
suicide watch, pan of the century, etc
8.5 is more than generous for having that awful rapping
no 9.x ;____;
nice to see a Zoe review though
>>66250646
Nah, it does the same for me. However, I found that if you switch between the "All Reviews" tab and the "Best New Albums" tab it loads it loads it quicker. At least by 1:01.
Not commenting on the score, but the review is really great and not laden with any pretension.
>The stable of vocalists underscores another way the Avalanches play with time: the guests are mostly members of Generation X, who arguably made their best music during the Bill Clinton era. Which, when combined with the fact that collage music built from dense samples is technique closely identified with the ‘90s, gives the album a weird funhouse-mirror quality. Nostalgia moves in 20-year cycles, which means the ‘90s sampling artists the Avalanches were inspired by were drawing from the ‘70s. So Wildflower’s references are doubled: the original music is sliced and diced and processed and filtered through a sensibility that emerged two decades later, and then that feeling is reflected once again into the present moment, two more decades later.
Interesting observation.
>>66250646
Websites don't update at different times in different time zones. That isn't how the internet works.
The front page updates slower than the review page for everyone, that's the one you should f5.
Well, that was disappointing.
Eh, I feel that's about right.
>>66250688
I fucking love Mark Richardson.
>>66250688
I actually agree and I usually despise this publication. The score is maybe higher than I would given but it's fair and proper context is given. Couldn't agree more that the rappers (especially Danny Brown) mostly disappoint, though the Camp Lo verses are great.
Dunno what she's on about Clint Eastwood, though, that song is great.
>>66247739
Pretty close senpai
>>66250744
I think she's just talking about how it was played everywhere all the time for a few years, and a lot of people got pretty burnt out on it.
I still love it tho.
how could anybody not like clint eastwood
why do people use pitchfork or discuss it when their reviews are memes so much at this point? I'm curious
>>66250719
Me too - he's one of my favorite writers there tbqh. It sucks that he barely reviews shit any more though. I love that he doesn't rely on super flowery language.
>>66250779
>their reviews are memes
where do you think you are?
we're in the meme zone baby
>>66250595
>Doesn't even follow +@
It's like they're not even trying
>>66250779
It's because their reviews are memes.
The idea that a single numeric score will set the tone of discourse around an album for the foreseeable future is enthralling. It is a pretty stupid circle - we care so much because we care so much - but to a dedicated NEET shitposter these scores really matter.
And honestly I think they still do some pretty good work in their writing.
>>66250566
it's not 1.5 level, but Asobi Seksu is my favorite band of the 00s, and they also panned Fluorescence
>>66250806
My bad, someone mentioned a Zoe review in the thread and I assumed it was in reference to the Wildflower review. Didn't check the byline and didn't think anyone cared about the other reviews t b h.
>>66250595
>IJ reference
>>66250719
him and Deusner are my favorites
they've also been around the longest
>>66250437
if you count reissue scores then before mbdtf the last 10 was J Dilla Donuts
>>66250823
>And honestly I think they still do some pretty good work in their writing.
Right. Pitchfork isn't made from one person, there are good writers and some not so good writers. From the main staff I generally like read Mark Richardson, Philip Sherburne, and Seth Colter Walls' thoughts. And they'll bring in other great writers too like Simon Reynolds.
>>66250719
him and simon reynolds are the only writers worth reading on p4k desu
>>66250849
Just because someone has the same name as a character in your shitty meme book with no discernible talent doesn't meant it's a reference to it.
>>66250927
are you a big michael bolton fan?
>>66250927
as if "Hal Incandenza" is someone's real name
>>66251369
It's a big world out there.
>>66250719
>when he reviewed MPP and mbv
christ, Tiny Mix Tapes is so fucking predictable
>>66252057
Ew what the fuck is that rating
>>66252057
lmao
>>66252057
>that interview snippet
What fucking "solutions" for the planet and humanity's existential dread could be offered in a James fucking Ferraro album? The very definition of pretentious, crystalline.
