Tried to see if this would stream soon but the person that runs the Tiny Engines Twitter wouldn't give me an answer lol
If anyone else is desperately looking for music to hold them over till this album like I am, Tiny Moving Parts are streaming their new album. I've never listened to them before, but I'm liking this quite a bit on first listen.
Tbh I need music that doesn't sound anything like Hotelier so I don't get sad every time I remember I'm not listening to this album
i'll even make it easier and new song out today! Young Jesus releasing a new EP & touring (stream “Baked Goods”)
yeah that Young Jesus record hasnt left my rotation for the past few weeks, hit that up if you havnt.
the streaming site version loses the first song, but i actually don't like it enough to care enough to put it back on, haha. i like how it starts with more energy in the streaming version
i mean it's bigger than normal DIY fests, but don giovanni is keeping that feeling for it. so many amazing bands on this bill, p sure i'm going with a friend and taking off a day of work for it
With how hard Pitchfork and other big outlets have been gushing about this record, plus given that I've heard it, I think they'll explode even more.
hoping for that BNM, probably just a low 8s though. can't wait to see them and carly rae on the same pitchfork fest lol
I'll be shocked if it doesn't get BNM but who knows. I just know Ian absolutely adores it so it'll probably score high with him. But given how weird pitchforks scoring is who knows.
exactly. ive been wondering how much all the pitchfork / other big media outlets coverage will effect their audience.
it's very different, you can't compare. pitchfork's editors choose the score, currents is in the realm of stuff that pitchfork and the mainstream indie media rate highly. even if a writer loves this record if it's not in the sphere of what the site thinks as an important record in the hyposphere for 2016, it'll get like an 8.2 and not BNM we're at least getting emo reviews on pitchfork, which was unthinkable in 2010 when the genre was thought of as not cool enough, next step is a breakthrough record that puts the genre into the mainstream indie hivemind
That's an atrocious way of scoring things, but I guess whatever integrity they have to sacrifice for hits... I mean the review was insanely hyperbolic anyway iirc, think there was a Kid A comparison in there, personally (again to reiterate, this is my opinion, you're welcome to think different) I didn't think Currents was that great or worthy of such praise.
i mean that's how most big sites do it. you think a random writer on rolling stone decides what they want to give a record? nah, it's all the editors that decide how things work welcome to the real world, everyone! it's a real shitty place to be!
obviously that's how rolling stone would do it, but does anyone actually take them seriously? i thought pitchfork's niche was to go against that sort of thing but what do i know, i barely read reviews from any big websites like that, i value the opinion of amateur writers who review albums purely out of passion for music, which hasn't gone wrong for me so far