![]() ![]() Indirectly, her review is much more about the state of the hype cycle and a music business all too willing these days to leverage it at the cost of the musician's career arc. Third: part of it might be that her ideas in the initial submission just aren't as developed as those in the following submission. Funny, gets a lot of page views, adds nothing to the conversation. When I think condescending, I think an album review that's just a picture of a monkey pissing in its own mouth. That comes off as condescending, but I'm not sure it really is. If it comes off as condescending, it's because she's being honest without being intentionally mean-spirited, and supportive without being overly enthusiastic. She never said "OMG THIS IS SHIT WHY IS EVERYBODY SO BLAH ABOUT BLAH," nor did she follow the more popular path of rolling out the red carpet for Marshall. And that's exactly what she was trying to do. Secondly: she did temper what she said early on by pointing out that the most constructive reviews- and correspondingly the rarest- forego hyperbole for frank, un-dramatic appraisal. From this perspective, her treatment of Archy Marshall (you show promise, but you're not there yet) is understandable, if not warranted on those grounds alone. I read less true malintent in her King Krule review and more than a little frustration: after all, for all of her insider accolades, she enjoys little recognition within the broader scene. She's put out two records under the Lower Dens moniker, and has been touring her ass off since at least 2004. She's been around for a good long while, played with a cast that includes Devendra Banhart, Sharon Van Etten and Phosphorescent. First, you have to take her pedigree into account. Think there could be a few reasons for the tone of her initial review, little of which has to do with true condescension. As with you, I don't agree with a lot of what she said, but I can at least respect the way she presented it in her follow-up. I dunno, she seems overly jaded and negative. The recordings get more and more press, a label gets interested, and suddenly you've got The Orwells. We're just people doing this to make music and play shows, but somebody in a blog gets word of it and suddenly the hype cycle is in effect. I guess here's my problem: Lets say I'm in a band and we're putting together our first album. You're not really going to get a stipend to record something, and you're almost certainly not going to the middle of nowhere to record it (unless you're The Men and you feel like recording in the Catskill Mountains). But that's also not going to happen with most people, not with the state that the industry is in today in terms of profitability, and also because home recordings are becoming much more prevalent. The culture being sold to them right now encourages the opposite, and they deserve better. It’s my wish for them that they take all the fucking time they need to make the best versions of themselves possible. I wouldn’t say I’d like Archy Marshall and others like him to stop making records I just wish I could give them a stipend and send them to some internetless middle-of-nowhere in which to do it. ![]() I think her clarification is a lot less condescending and soapbox-y. I liked this response and Hunter's clarifications a lot better than that Talkhouse piece. Youtube, Vimeo, Soundcloud, Twitter, and Spotify urls will embed the content automatically. Text can link to URLs by using the following format: () Hubski URLS become embedded cards, displaying information about the post or comment. However, new users cannot post links in comments. Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim in a different font. Symbols such as *, +, |, and ~ can be used literally by placed a \ in front of the text.Ī user's name surrounded by at signs links to their profile, and the user is notified that you mentioned them.Ī word surrounded by hash signs (#) becomes a tag and links to posts with that tag. Text surrounded by tildes (~) is blocked out. If you double-click a paragraph, it will be quoted. Text surrounded by vertical bars (|) is quoted. Text surrounded by plus signs (+) is bolded. Text surrounded by asterisks (*) is italicized.
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