The Pains of Being Part of a Subculture

"This new Slumberland band will be bracketed with other lo-fi/noise-pop peers, but they have songs that will appeal beyond the confines of subcultures: Anyone with a weakness for trebly, melancholy pop music will find a lot to like about this record."

Question - Who out side of a particular subculture (ie - the Pitchfork/hipster/elitist subculture) has "a weakness for trebly, melancholy pop music"? I think that if I went up to most anyone not sporting a tote-bag/a shirt about saving the environment and asked them, "Do you have a weakness for trebly, melancholy pop music?" They would look at me blankly/think that I am some kind of hipster scum.

Also - trebly? Really guys...trebly?

Dark Was the Night

"When focusing on what's not here rather than what is, Dark Was the Night comes off as a gray, monotone look at the current indie landscape and, as a result, works best in small batches."


This is why, when reviewing a record, YOU GENERALLY FOCUS ON THE RECORD ITSELF, instead of bitching about the lack of electronic music. This review felt like an over-extended English101 paper written by a freshman, coming up short on the word limit and padding his essay with pointless blathering.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/149390-various-artists-dark-was-the-night

Jean on Jean

Jean on Jean is defined as - "a collection of strummy bedroom chamber-pop."

Pitchfork Media is defined as - "a collection of dilettantes whose elitist sensibilities are so far out of hand that they don't even try to make believable sounding genres anymore."

Bedroom chamber-pop? C'mon guys...you can do better than that.

...And You Will Know Us By Our Trail of Incongruous Sentences

"Having departed Interscope, and now far enough under the radar to avoid the BS of backlash for backlash's sake, Trail of Dead are in their best position in years to resuscitate their image."


Lucky for them, P-Fork is always happy to offer backlash for other reasons.
Much like a Henry James novel or the ramblings of my senile grandfather, not even repeated readings can shed any light on the meaning, standard, or point of Ian Cohen's review.

Azita - How Will You

"As a Steely Dan fan, I found the past two Drag City albums by Chicago singer-songwriter Azita intriguing. Startling, too-- at least considering her background in the Fall-meets-Melt-Banana noise-punk group Scissor Girls and the no-wavey Bride of No No, who were about as far from the pristine smoothness of Aja as you could get."

Number of Sentences: 2
Number of Bands Referenced: 5
Amount of Sense Made: NONE