I don't plan on reading that.

rip pitchfork (1995 - 2010??)

Album Rating: 4.0

p4k died to me when they stopped reviewing indie and started worshiping every shitty trap rap artist on the planet and making every review exclusively political

Album Rating: 2.5

the revisionist reviews/ratings for old albums are beyond parody sometimes

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

P4k is so fucking weird now

Album Rating: 3.5

It’s odd, for example, that two songs on the album refer to calling “the cops,” or 911, in light of the past year’s uprisings against police brutality. A reference to Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam” in “The Melting of the Sun” is similarly ill-considered. Like Hozier before her, Clark dilutes Simone’s fierce and intentional anti-racist activism by listing her alongside white celebrities. The album’s title track deploys a sticky bassline, a syncopated funk groove, and the voices of seasoned Black back-up singers Kenya Hathaway and Lynne Fiddmont to tell the story of Clark and her father, a white man who committed a white-collar crime. Why deploy the conventions of Black music to reckon with his sins? Why wear a mask at all?

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Jfc

when pitchfork got bought out by conde nast in 2015, that was the beginning of the end. around 2018, that felt like the end of pitchfork.

Album Rating: 3.0

live in the dream is a nice pink floyd jam. album should've been more of that, less of "baby wants baby" or whatever, that shit sucked.

Album Rating: 3.0

that track (My Baby...) is the most classic St Vincent thing here and by no coincidence one of the best. shit could have been on Actor or the s/t with a different arrangement

Album Rating: 3.0

i don't see how it took "my baby takes the morning train" in any sort of interesting direction, tbh.

album reminds me of the last Arctic Monkeys. It needed more sleaze and grease and decadence, felt a little middle of the road-ish. It's overall a nice listen.

Sucks

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Just listened to this for the first time in a couple weeks and...

Yeah still very good

Album Rating: 3.0

About to wrap listen #2 and I'm pretty comfortable calling this mediocre. Lotta potential here but as pleasant as most of it is it comes off a lot more emotionless than I want an album about fraught parent/child relationships to



Points for "Down" and for Antonoff actually sounding like he's trying though

Album Rating: 4.5

Wow, this really surprised me. I was let down by Masseduction and was wary of listening to this based off of the singles, but they work within the context of the album. Beautiful record.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Ok so The Nowhere Inn, Open Desert, and Waiting On A Wave fucking rule

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

I really love My Baby Wants a Baby and At the Holiday Party

*wins a Grammy*

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

this still sounds like it's all over the place, but i prefer it to masseduction

Album Rating: 2.0

i totally forgot this album exists tbh

Album Rating: 3.0

Same