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I just think it's weird to have a problem with artful, flowery language being used to describe art.
I dont find it artful or flowery. Its some dick sitting down at his desk with a thesaurus and using as many words as he can to not actually explain anything.
Kevin Davis is flowery and artful, Pitchfork is donald trump with a thesaurus
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Strat wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
I just think it's weird to have a problem with artful, flowery language being used to describe art.
I dont find it artful or flowery. Its some dick sitting down at his desk with a thesaurus and using as many words as he can to not actually explain anything.
Kevin Davis is flowery and artful, Pitchfork is donald trump with a thesaurus
It's like KD said though, there are many writers who write with varying degrees of quality that work or have worked for pitchfork over the years.
I just think it's weird to have a problem with artful, flowery language being used to describe art.
I dont find it artful or flowery. Its some dick sitting down at his desk with a thesaurus and using as many words as he can to not actually explain anything.
Kevin Davis is flowery and artful, Pitchfork is donald trump with a thesaurus
It's like KD said though, there are many writers who write with varying degrees of quality that work or have worked for pitchfork over the years.
I think artful language is okay, desireable even; the problem is when the writing becomes merely a vanity project for the author. To the extent that music writing has a "job," beyond its diminishing role as a consumer buyer's guide, I think that job is to look at something abstract and explain it in a way that is more concrete -- I know a lot of my favorite music writing works this way, essentially telling me why something works as it does in a way my more visceral reaction to the music can't articulate. Personal essay, humor, etc., can all contribute greatly to this, but I think it's usually pretty clear when a writer's indulgences are pointing somewhere and when he's just self-servingly talking out of his ass.
To a certain extent, all music criticism is kind of ridiculous, with the exception of Jorge's and my Elvis Costello column for "Trunkworthy." You really can't blame people for running out of new ways to say "I like this" or "this sucks" after all these years.
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Love this:
Pitchfork wrote:
Pearl Jam are arguably the only modern rock band of note that consciously moved away from its formative, hit-making sound—in the period spanning Vitalogy through to 2000’s Binaural—but came out the other side an even more traditional, predictable band.
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