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Will someone dethrone Radiohead/Chance the Rapper’s 9.1 for AOTY?
OFFICIAL and accurate 2016 BNM Tally: 41 Nights since last BNM: 0
The most wonderful time of the night, every night, right now. Here it is, the nightly P4K thread. Time to get comfy.
>Tonight's Top Stories -This thread stands with Kesha eternally -BRANDON STOSUY REVIEWS 22, A MILLION for bandcamp -Atrocity Exhibition is now out -G.L.O.S.S. breaks up. Graveyard breaks up. -This thread hypes and supports DIIV, Danny Brown, Bon Iver, and Steve Hauschildt. -/p4k/ forever
This thread proudly rejects the concept that we should treat dogs or cats with any respect. We celebrate our rights to kick, neglect, or otherwise harm the animals we buy with our own money:
Michael Diaz
lmao
Brody Lee
i really want to know the origins of this meme. it has been years
Asher Flores
Holy fuck Bon Iver - 9.8 BNM? this is insane.
Xavier Myers
this thread supports the building of the Keystone XL pipeline and the proliferation of genetically modified crops and livestock
Ian Davis
ebin
Jayden Roberts
BON IVER GOAT 9.0
Aiden Kelly
9.0 BNM
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Carson Collins
Are you one of the RLM guys?
Isaac Gutierrez
>tfw bon cuckver gets a 9 and danny will get a 9.1 tomorrow
Jack Ortiz
NIGHTY RUNDOWN Bon Iver 9.0 BNM by Amanda Petrusich Mike & Rich 6.6 by Mark Richardson Thomas Brinkmann 6.9/7.8 by Philip Sherburne Psychic TV 7.0 by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Adrian Foster
black meme blm rap ccuks on suicide watch. the future is white indie.
James Lee
REMINDER: CHANCE > BON BON LMFAO
Joseph Gonzalez
I can't believe Radiohead is still tied with chance for AOTY wtf what a time 2 b alive
Jaxon Green
goodbye user
Kevin Cox
9.0
Chase Martinez
PANNED WHITE GUY PROVEN DEAD 2016 BLACK LIVES MATTER BLACK PEOPLE MAKE THE BEST MUSIC 2016 DANNY BROWN FORTHCOMING 9.5
Caleb Gray
"lol"
Gavin Morales
Welp, at this point I think Danny is the only person who can exceed 9.1 (unless Twigs or Arca surprise release something)
Anthony Hill
Pretty sure they're in Oak Creek
David Jenkins
>Amanda Petrusich whoa she's still around? i remember her writing stuff like 10 years ago. maybe she deserves a spot in the OP
and Mark Richardson and Philip Sherburne? they are bringing out the Old Guard tonite
Lucas Rodriguez
when the fuck are they gonna review danny
Zachary Stewart
>Mark Richardson and Philip Sherburne my faves
Xavier Young
this is fucking bullshit. the review reads like a 9.5-10. So why just a 9.0? There is no universe in which a bunch of half baked Radiohead tunes is better than this Bon Iver record.
Dylan Wood
this is just babbys first glitch
Christopher Allen
They always have a weird ceiling for some reason. This year it's 9.1, last year it was 9.3
Gabriel Hall
Anyone else think AE will end up just tying 9.1?
Brandon Ortiz
you're a cuck if you think the point of it is to be a glitchy album. the glitches accentuate the genius
Cooper Lewis
PANNED
Jayden Ramirez
I just don't think the glitches are very well done. It's super hackneyed.
Liam Hughes
"Kanye West once called Vernon his “favorite living artist,” and has long professed a deep and unexpected admiration for “Woods,” the closing track from 2009’s Blood Bank EP, and an obvious precursor to “715 - CRΣΣKS,” itself a kind of warped a capella jam." >this kind of shitty writing is why p4k is in a absolute landslide decline
Daniel Fisher
>Mike & Rich not getting at least a 7.0
I expected better from you p4k
Elijah Myers
trips confirms she wrote the 7+ reviews for Adele and Rihanna's recent albums.
Zachary Wilson
I don't see the problem. Do you object to mentioning Kanye west, the most influential artist of the past decade?
Julian Richardson
I love both of them but for some reason that album has always rubbed me the wrong way. 6.6 is sorta low tho.
Jonathan Miller
Wow panned
Danny confirmed for 9.4
Matthew Butler
Is it just that my taste has become more aquired over the years or is this not too experimental at all? Like, it's good and all but it's normal electronica with a folky flavor and some folk ballads. i think everyone is just calling it experimental because it has lots of warped vocals.
Carter Rodriguez
Adorable. And Vernon went and made a Kanye influenced album :,)
Christian Wilson
its not experimental in the least lol. maybe its ""'experimental"" if all your music discoveries come from stereogum or something.
Jeremiah Thomas
i was right. dubs decided.
Jose Ramirez
for real this is cringey asf
Sebastian Foster
It's experimental normiecore aka it's experimental to your average bon iver listener but not at all in a larger sense. still good though but yeah it's not as weird as people make it out to be, especially when it's just a logical successor to that last volcano choir album.
Liam Green
i don't think armenian genocide denial is an alt right thing, that's a turkish thing.
Logan White
more like a fairy tale thing bc it never happened.
Christian Diaz
Its searching is bottomless.
Lincoln Walker
Dinosaur Jr over/under segment is so fucking boring and awkward. Worst one yet.
Adrian Watson
It's a great album but it'd be nice if Pitchfork threw a 9+ to someone fresh no one's ever heard of, like they did back in their riskier days. Bon Iver, Radiohead, Chance, Frank, Nick Cave, all great albums, but pretty safe picks from artists p4k has put on a pedestal for some time
Ryder Campbell
they did namedrop Francis and the Lights at the end of that review along with all of those artists (minus Nick Cave) and this is their first album so maybe they're next
Camden Fisher
Me too user but I think that's over, they have their hype cycle down to a science. Give a new artist they like a lot of coverage and some BNTs and give their first album or mixtape an 8.something, then it's safe to give future albums a 9. The last 9 that truly surprised me was Sunbather three and a half years ago.
Logan Nguyen
I thought they had done that with Anohni earlier this year but then I realized it was just Antony
I feel like giving Sun Kil Moon a 9.2 a few years ago was pretty out of nowhere (even though Kozelek's been around for a while)
Nathan Cox
>Sunbather but that got an 8.9 user
what the fuck am I doing with my life, correcting people on p4k ratings
Jason Mitchell
True. Personally I haven't been too impressed with Francis, but with Justin and Chance and Kanye singing his praises I'm sure Pitchfork is on board.
Michael Miller
Oh damn you're right. So yeah I don't even know the last time a 9 surprised me
Ian Bell
it really does get so stale. It's just not realistic to listen to this volume of albums and not have a few crop up that unexpectedly stand out. All of these 9s are exactly who you would think a year ago
Nathaniel Watson
That's true, though Mark was someone they used to like a lot back in the early 2000s. I guess I mean like another Arcade Fire, truly out of nowhere high score and AOTY, but that was a long time ago and they were a completely different site, so I'm probably asking too much.
Jayden Murphy
Yeah it's just way too predictable. You can pick 90% of their BNMs months before the first single drops. Like you said there's just so much new music out there constantly, certainly SOMEONE brand spanking new deserves a 9+ and the exposure that would bring.
Adam Carter
Disclosure?
Isaac Rivera
i was hoping they'd give ian william craig a super high score just for the fuck of it.
Angel Stewart
Good call, that was a surprise. They should have at least one of those every year just to break the mold a little.
Elijah Stewart
It's true. If you had told me in late 2014 that the top 10 albums of 2015 would be by Kendrick Lamar, Jamie xx, Grimes, Vince Staples, Tame Impala, Sufjan Stevens, D'Angelo, Miguel, Courtney Barnett and Kamasi Washington — I would not be surprised at all (except for maybe the last two)
Liam Cook
Feeling Danny will get an 8.9. Really seems like the type of album they'd give an 8.9
Nicholas Hughes
ia
it is getting really good reviews across the board, but not -amazing- reviews. mostly 8s. and ever since they shed their "tastemaker" image, pitchfork is in line with most other music press when it comes to reviews - so i just can't see it getting aoty tb h.
Liam Morris
Animal Collective and the Rapture are the only bands to get AOTY from p4k and then have their follow-up album not get a BNM. I thought it might happen to Bon Iver, but I guess not.
Zachary White
I love 9.x days because it brings out the Pitchfork analytics autists like myself and I'm reminded that I'm not the only one who knows way too much about p4k history and trends