http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/51246-black-kids-partie-traumatic

 

"Everybody Makes Mistakes."

 

It's undeniably on point. And by on point I mean 100% correct.

I don't know. They were the place where Black Kids first caught hype, and it's not like the band changed incredibly. They are essentially the same band they gave a 8.4 to. It kind of smells like backpedaling when they realized the band wasn't that amazing.

 

Still, it is pretty ballsy. Except not as cool as the Jet "Get Born" review.

 

 

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/51246-black-kids-partie-traumatic

Piss poor. Brandon wouldn't let that kind of thing happen.

the jet review was much funnier.

 

this one seems silly b/c P-fork championed this band less than 1 yr ago.

have you heard the album yet, andrew?

 

its a far cry from the ep. completely unlistenable. i didnt think the ep was horrible, but they managed to ruin every track on there except for maybe one.

Yeah I heard it. The production has more sheen (in this case, that's a bad, bad thing), and I think the fun that used to be evident on their songs has kind of vaporized. 

 

The thing is is that a lot of the problems of the band (i.e. weak songwriting, hokey new-wave sound) were all there a year ago. I think this is what happens when you jump on bands that aren't really out of the gestation period yet. The hype was way too soon to make a quality judgement on the band, and now Pitchfork has had to backpedal.   

For awhile I was pretty sure Pfork took their role as leaders of the indie press more seriously. Now they just seem to be returning to their overly snarky roots.

I thought this was hilarious. that album is really too bad to deserve any words. however, it's kinda shitty that the album was originally posted with a 0.0 and now it's up to 3.something.

 

 

Yeah, the EIC posted on Idolator about how that 0.0 was a mistake, that it was just a placeholder rating when they switched servers. I'm not sure I buy that.

I personally enjoyed the review.

doesn't the number sort of become arbitrary when you basically imply that there's zero reason to listen to this album. i mean, why not just give it a zero.

Here's Jason Gross' take:

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/blogs/post/61240/black-kids-and-pitchfork-screw-up-or-hubris/

does it not make sense that Pitchfork is just apologizing for recommending this band and not for "creating" them, as people seem to think is implied here. I just read it as "sorry, we were wrong. our bad." And not "sorry we created this."

I'm with Andrew, P-fork is totally backpedaling. They were so proud that they "discovered" this group and raved about how original their sound was, but then they finally realized that the band doesn't have the songwriting or musical chops to back it up. I'm glad I wasn't alone in being skeptical/uninterested from the start.