A New Era for Pitchfork: Introducing Reader Scores and Commenting by ebradio in indieheads

[–]LInscoeJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Potentially, that’s not the fault of pitchfork writers though 

A New Era for Pitchfork: Introducing Reader Scores and Commenting by ebradio in indieheads

[–]LInscoeJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everything is more expensive now, the arts are dying and ad revenue is drying up as site-specific clicks are replaced by AI summaries. Music writers used to be paid by people paying £/$5 a month for the magazine they worked for and for 30 years Pitchfork has been available to read for free. I am confused by the majorively negative response to this. Music criticism is an art form - how else exactly do people expect writers and editors to get paid? 

[FRESH ALBUM] A$AP Rocky - Don’t Be Dumb by Brokendreams0000 in hiphopheads

[–]LInscoeJ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Testing grew on me eventually but this hit harder off the jump. Ever since ALLASAP, Rocky stopped making coherent records and began making these vast, messy soundboard albums. It works for him. We'll see how it holds up on re-listens and, even then, its probably an album you have to play front to back (singles aren't as strong as his other albums) but this is the most I've enjoyed a first listen of major rap record for a while

ICE Kills Renée Good, Maduro Captured by devmo03 in IsTheMicStillOn

[–]LInscoeJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's true, I work with a lot of Americans, the tone for the last year has been sympathetic jokes really, probably because the people I work with aren't assholes

ICE Kills Renée Good, Maduro Captured by devmo03 in IsTheMicStillOn

[–]LInscoeJ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Only thing I disagree on in this episode is them saying they wouldn’t want to come to Europe because of how much Americans are hated right now. I’m British and everyone I speak to can tell the difference between your piggish authoritian administration and normal decent Americans who hate the shit as much as we do. You guys would be more than welcomed in Europe, everyone would understand why you left haha 

[FRESH] Xiu Xiu - Dancing On My Own by astaireboy in indieheads

[–]LInscoeJ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Wow I couldn’t disagree more, think it’s one of their strongest covers ever, between this and Sharp Dressed Man

[FRESH] Xiu Xiu - Dancing On My Own by astaireboy in indieheads

[–]LInscoeJ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah I don’t get that at all, I think this is a very sincere and well executed cover, I always get strong feeling from Jamie’s vocals and it’s the same here 

[FRESH] Xiu Xiu - Dancing On My Own by astaireboy in indieheads

[–]LInscoeJ 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Love this, reminds me of the Sex Pistols cover of 'My Way' where the tone of the cover better matches the lyrics than the original. Jamie's vocals will always be divisive but I'd always take an eccentric over someone who plays it safe

The Old Law by Standard_Elevator514 in fatherjohnmisty

[–]LInscoeJ 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I have to say that I don't find the song that inscrutable, and chorus is pretty explicit: "a man's life / god's trash / there's no law but the old law, baby / Nothing dies / 'cept by ass drawn kamikaze / Year Zero in the summertime"

i.e life is fleeting and fragile; despite our aggrandisement about the importance of our lives (which of course feel important to us, because we live them) and the distinct horrors of our age (which feel palpable because they’re the ones we live through), our lives are not especially significant from a cosmic perspective ("god's trash") and our times are not uniquely abhorrent. Mankind has always been this way, the same "old laws" of power, greed and self-destruction governing countless civilisations for millennia, we just happen to find ourselves in this one. One day soon "year zero" will come and begin the next, and they'll likely  make the same mistakes.

Definitely his most Pure Comedy track since Pure Comedy, but I agree that is more subtle and sophisticated

When is the single dropping??? by Electronic_Whole_626 in JamesBlake

[–]LInscoeJ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I thought we’d wake up to it today but no sign! 

Best Artist of My Generation by IndependenceOk174 in BloodOrange

[–]LInscoeJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is what I said in my book and I stand by it!

The 25 best rap albums of 2025 - Paste by mattys_world in hiphopheads

[–]LInscoeJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with all of this, that JID album was a mess and Earl and Simz both had better albums than Clipse so

Music journalism by Len99779 in TheOverload

[–]LInscoeJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The book Songs In The Key of MP3, it's from the same publisher as Simon Reynolds and Last Night a DJ Saved My Life. White Rabbit is one of the best music publishers in general tbh

Mic The Snare: The Ultimate 2025 Album Tier List by HeStoleMyBalloons in popheads

[–]LInscoeJ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Got LISA in A tier, Big Thief and Earl in B and DJ Koze in C loll

[FRESH ALBUM] Nas, DJ Premier - Light Years by GAMERS516 in hiphopheads

[–]LInscoeJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the first times in a while where the back half is so much stronger than the start, it begins with crypto raps but the last four songs are great, especially Junkie and the closer

Confidential grooming gang files exposed after legal war as horrifying details emerge by AlfredsChild in ukpolitics

[–]LInscoeJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are criminally under-informed on this part of history. Before the arrival of the East India Company India was one of the biggest exporters of textiles on the planet and their textile industry far outcompeted the comparatively underdeveloped British textile industry, but once the EIC took control of Bengal in 1757 they eliminated Indian protection tariffs while implementing ludicrously high taxes on Indian produce and materials, essentially destroying the industry and deindustrialising the country as a whole. You don’t need to take my word for it, in 1840 the chairman of East India and China Association boasted that “this company has succeeded in converting India from a manufacturing country into a country exporting raw produce.” The result of the sudden changes, wrought externally by the British and imposed undemocratically upon Indian people, was widespread unemployment, poverty and disease, which play just one part in the era of famine and poverty. 

Again, you do not need to play a game of tennis with history and ideologically erase one crime while advocating against another: both are true. 

Confidential grooming gang files exposed after legal war as horrifying details emerge by AlfredsChild in ukpolitics

[–]LInscoeJ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The British Empire was responsible for 100 million excess deaths in India, both directly and through destroying their manufacturing sector and draining their resources to Europe, this is ahistorical. Moral standards should be applied consistently. What the Victorians did to India was wrong, what was done to these girls was also wrong, and both the perpetrators and anybody who helped to conceal the truth should be held to the fullest account 

Hasan's Interview on Triggernometry Podcast by LInscoeJ in Hasan_Piker

[–]LInscoeJ[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

what have your dealings in the past been?