RYM is my go-to source for discovering music, but the community that's really into reviewing has few gems among a lot of rough. Tiny Mix Tapes is good for their brand of edgier views and edgier picks, though they sometimes are a bit ridiculous or uneven in their reviews. I check Pitchfork to keep an eye on the zeitgeist even if I rarely listen to music they review. In the past, I've subscribed to The Wire (unfulfilling in an age of internet news and opinions, but I can see how its voice would be essential to people), devoured Scaruffi, cringed at Fantano, been interested in but never in love with The Quietus and FACT Magazine, and avoided Rolling Stone and the likes like the plague. To round out the list, Mark Prindle is a fun reviewer with idiosyncratic taste that's not my cuppa these days and Christgau for what arguable influence he had seems to me like a variation on the Grammys.
RYM is my go-to source for discovering music, but the community that's really into reviewing has few gems among a lot of rough. Tiny Mix Tapes is good for their brand of edgier views and edgier picks, though they sometimes are a bit ridiculous or uneven in their reviews. I check Pitchfork to keep an eye on the zeitgeist even if I rarely listen to music they review. In the past, I've subscribed to The Wire (unfulfilling in an age of internet news and opinions, but I can see how its voice would be essential to people), devoured Scaruffi, cringed at Fantano, been interested in but never in love with The Quietus and FACT Magazine, and avoided Rolling Stone and the likes like the plague. To round out the list, Mark Prindle is a fun reviewer with idiosyncratic taste that's not my cuppa these days and Christgau for what arguable influence he had seems to me like a variation on the Grammys.
I agree with almost all of this. I've never bothered with The Wire though, and I actually really like The Quietus, but for the most part I share these sentiments. Especially the cringing at Fantano part.
He's like those teachers who try to be kids' friends. Or recommend them music they're listening to anyway cause they read the same three music review websites he does.
He's like those teachers who try to be kids' friends. Or recommend them music they're listening to anyway cause they read the same three music review websites he does.
I just hate his style of review. I've always found his humor to be really forced and unfunny, and I feel like for the decent control over language he has he doesn't really understand that much about music. So often I see him using production as a scapegoat for things he doesn't like on albums that it makes me really question whether he knows what production entails. Aside from that, there's something in the way he speaks that really bothers me. The way he draws out every single album title when he's introducing them just kills me. Plus he's so heavily into the whole /mu/ culture that I dislike him as a default anyways.
Aw . Well I find him far less obnoxious as sth like Pitchfork or Tiny Mix Tapes or Scaruffi, I like the videos he does where he answers (well at least brings up for discussion) fans questions. He doesn't describe music with some overly sophisticated adjectives that would be unnecessary (or that I wouldn't understand on account of my Slovenian-ness). And every year I'll get a few albums from him that I wouldn't get from other sites that I follow.
His sense of humour is.. ugh... hit and miss I guess, but I dunno, it doesn't really bother me anymore.
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. Well I find him far less obnoxious as sth like Pitchfork or Tiny Mix Tapes or Scaruffi, I like the videos he does where he answers (well at least brings up for discussion) fans questions. He doesn't describe music with some overly sophisticated adjectives that would be unnecessary (or that I wouldn't understand on account of my Slovenian-ness). And every year I'll get a few albums from him that I wouldn't get from other sites that I follow.
