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Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:03 pm
by zx81
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 6:58 pm
by Solstice
vballs wrote:
A nice positive review. BUT; the "2005`s disappointing Campfire Headphase"? Says who? What a Jackass, he could have at least stated that it was his personal opinion and not a generic straight up fact.
I hate music journalists, bunch of music snobs who try to dictate what is good and what is not, people don't need to listen to these monkeys. Just make your own mind up and think for yourself.
As for that NME one above. FFS!!
/small rant, feeling better
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... /shopping3
Lazy journalism, they gave TCH 5/5 back in 2005!
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 8:22 pm
by radiateme
http://mamacolive.com/thefly/reviews/al ... s-harvest/
Positive review, but does everyone really need to comment on Daft Punk in every review? lol
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 9:16 pm
by PorridgeGun
Solstice wrote:vballs wrote:
A nice positive review. BUT; the "2005`s disappointing Campfire Headphase"? Says who? What a Jackass, he could have at least stated that it was his personal opinion and not a generic straight up fact.
I hate music journalists, bunch of music snobs who try to dictate what is good and what is not, people don't need to listen to these monkeys. Just make your own mind up and think for yourself.
As for that NME one above. FFS!!
/small rant, feeling better
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... /shopping3
Lazy journalism, they gave TCH 5/5 back in 2005!
So they had Simon Reynolds, who is considered one of the best music journalists around, review The Campfire Headphase. He gives it 5/5. And now we have this numpty, who rated Frank Ocean number one for 2012 (I couldn't help noticing Tame Impala's 'Lonerism' was nowhere to be seen in his top ten) talking out of his ass about TCH??? At least it didn't appear in the print version... and he avoided mentioning Daft Punk.
The Guardian should have had the guy who interviewed BOC review the album.
Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 4:24 am
by saturdayindex
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/ju ... est-review
Rife with mistakes, as is becoming the norm for Guardian's mediocre journalism as of late...
It's "Tomorrow's Harvest", not "Tomorrow's World" for chrissakes, how could you miss that one? And the guy in Telepath is counting up, not down. And the title of Music Has the Right to Children was certainly not "pro-internet".
Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 5:07 am
by squid
Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 3:40 pm
by hexagon son
Oh my! Fucking wow! I'm going to do it again right now! I feel sorry for the lot of you who spoiled it early listening to low-qual etc...
Having said that, I decided to to buy my daughter a 3DS LL and a game for her birthday instead of investing in headphones.
I have enjoyed the album through iPhone5 earphones and I'm going to do so right now again. MHTRTC is the benchmark for me,... so far it hasn't hit it.
Ergo, I'm listening again!
Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 4:37 pm
by The Telepathic Kid
for the all important pitchfuck review i'll assume it'll be somewhere between 8.3-8.6.
Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 6:34 pm
by 2020k
Listening for the first time properly as I type this. Going to give it a few spins before the 2020k review. Very Interested in Pitchfork.
Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 8:16 pm
by radiateme
saturdayindex wrote:http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/ju ... est-review
Rife with mistakes, as is becoming the norm for Guardian's mediocre journalism as of late...
It's "Tomorrow's Harvest", not "Tomorrow's World" for chrissakes, how could you miss that one? And the guy in Telepath is counting up, not down. And the title of Music Has the Right to Children was certainly not "pro-internet".
The Guardian actually put out a better review already earlier this week here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/ju ... est-review
Donno why there's another one, the one I posted is what Metacritic took into account anyway.
Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 9:04 pm
by The Friendly Stranger
saturdayindex wrote:http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/ju ... est-review
Rife with mistakes, as is becoming the norm for Guardian's mediocre journalism as of late...
It's "Tomorrow's Harvest", not "Tomorrow's World" for chrissakes, how could you miss that one? And the guy in Telepath is counting up, not down. And the title of Music Has the Right to Children was certainly not "pro-internet".
Possibly the worst review I've ever read.
Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 9:05 pm
by Keeoaddi
radiateme wrote:
Donno why there's another one, the one I posted is what Metacritic took into account anyway.
one was the guardian, one was the observer. they're essentially the same thing though.
i liked both reviews but not sure why she gave the album only 3 stars when she does nothing but praise it.
Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 9:05 pm
by Magrathea
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:01 am
by plasselb
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:17 am
by NorthcutTAmnestY
Pitchfork gave it an 8.3.
It's the review I agree with the most though. The album is deceptively simple and minimal, but there are tons of virtually unconscious textures, and is just as complicated in that sense as any of their past works if no more so. And each listen you practically have to pick just a couple of textures to follow along with the groove because of the layers, so then on a second listen you might pick a few of the other textures to accompany the groove and hear a subtly different tune.
I guess Richardson said it better than I could by saying they've went inward instead of skirting the edges looking for new sounds, but all the same, the brothers still sound like BoC but completely different in a lot of ways.
Instead of evoking the past as it is, it's kinda like they are trying to evoke the past of a future that has yet to occur - in the present. Or some shit. Retro-futuristic was a great term to describe it, dunno where I heard that mentioned though.
EDIT: Oops, beat
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:40 am
by radiateme
time for all the pitchfork drones to go >panned and listen to the next flavor of the month for them
lol
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:41 am
by Fredd-E
Please no discussion in this thread. I have it on email notification for each post just so I can post the reviews more quickly. A notification for merely a discussion is a bit too much really.
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:44 am
by irv
Can anyone paste the FT text anywhere? It's behind a paywall...
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:13 am
by kelp
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:26 am
by kelp