Jimmy Eat World Band • Page 487

Score is too low!!!

Jk, terrific work @unbornwhiskey.

 

gorgeous writeup there

I think "A Sunday" has honestly become my favourite song from Clarity. it truly just sunk its hooks in minute by minute for over 10 years, and now I cannot live without it

 

hell yeah, wonderful

 

Glad to see the boys getting in front of a crowd again.

 

To be fair that’s not an indictment against Brad’s incredible review - it has to do with the powers above

 

listen, i nearly referenced the old brent dicrescenzo review in my review before i decided, y'know, fuck that

from my research there's at least one interview with jim adkins where he says he loves that old pan, one of his favorite reviews ever lol

 

good time as any to remind ppl that pfork is not a monolith (even though presents itself as such bc marketing dictates that sort of thing)

 

As far as I’m concerned, they can feel free to scrub the Futures and Bleed American reviews too.

 

oh btw i forgot to say!!! thank you all for reading it and saying such nice things about it

 

lmao

 

the Futures review is some truly embarrassing shit

 

Isn't there part that's like "How dare you namedrop Heatmiser"?

 

yepp, like that's such a sin.

and also they get accused of, like, putting emo in its coffin or something ridiculous like that

 

They just didn't "get" that kind of music back then. To be fair, not many publications/outlets did.

 

I have no idea what Zach is trying to say

 

Pitchfork took down the original review of Clarity, which panned it, and are now pretending like that review didn't exist. So he's saying artists don't have the luxury of being able to erase their prior work and do it over like it never existed.

It's totally fine if Pitchfork wants to re-evaluate the record and make up for a bad review, in fact they should absolutely do that, but they should own their mistakes at the same time instead of pretending they never happened.

 

laughed

that being said zach's tweets are more often that not, at best, incomprehensible. dude needs to log off.

 

Took advantage of the hat sale they had and snagged one of my favs.

 

The Shine On joke was definitely the best thing to come out of this tweet storm.

 

it is pretty weird they would do a Sunday review of an album that was scrubbed from their archives, not gonna lie, but @unbornwhiskey is obviously a genuine fan and not some random critic hopping on a trend now that liking emo music has seen a critical resurgence among the pitchfork crowd

 

It’s seeing a positive resurgence/reevaluation because a lot of the people working and writing there now grew up during the early aughts when third wave was extremely popular and influential. It’s not like the old writers from the 90’s are having a change of heart, it’s a different website helmed by different people with different taste.

 

Anyone here trying for tickets to the Metro show?

 

Oh yes.