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rawkblog: markrichardson: The brickwall master of the Paramore...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:02:51 -0400

markrichardson:

The brickwall master of the Paramore track is just hard for me to listen to at length.

I really think Mark is too smart and reasonable to post this as a kind of cop-out for why Pitchfork isn’t reviewing the universally well-reviewed Paramore album, but can we acknowledge that this has been an industry-wide problem for decades that many, if not most, modern albums indie or otherwise suffer from? Engineers were already pushing the limits at the end of the original vinyl era. I don’t listen to the Hold Steady’s Boys and Girls in America because the mastering is so ugly. Stay Positive is barely better. The reviews didn’t complain. And you don’t want to look at the waveforms for the new My Bloody Valentine album’s official MP3s, which were transcoded and have chopped substantial data from the album masters.

You get a similar compressing effect with MP3 conversion, of course, which compounds the problem (and presumably has in the above image). Again, I don’t think Mark is being purposefully defensive here, but worthwhile albums that look like this come out every week and there’s a generation of listeners that prefers ‘em that way. I don’t, and it’s pretty obvious it’s an inferior product, but it’s pretty inescapable.

Here is what a Paramore song that isn’t the crunchiest track on the album looks like.

Also: Pitchfork threw a ten-point-oh on Kanye’s brickwall-mastered My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Mark Richardson wrote a great, 8.7, Best New Music review of Sleigh Bells’ terrific debut Treats, which made clipping an aesthetic choice as much as any record in recent memory.

Photo

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 10:23:00 -0400

barthel: College scorecard for the University of Phoenix...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:16:51 -0400

barthel:

College scorecard for the University of Phoenix online. More full-time students default on their loans (twice the national median) than graduate.

560. Don't DVR the big game.

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:28:57 -0400

Agree, though I think I’d say “watch the big game live.” Using the DVR’s...

Keys

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 14:07:00 -0500

badkidsjokes: what do you call a monkey eating keys? bonkers Perhaps my favorite Bad Kids Joke so...

1-800-dinosaur: James Blake - Digital Lion

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:11:26 -0500

1-800-dinosaur:

James Blake - Digital Lion

pitchersandpoets: Father and son. Time Magazine photo (h/t Jon...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:27:39 -0500

pitchersandpoets:

Father and son. Time Magazine photo (h/t Jon Weisman).

Whoa.

Youth Lagoon :: Dropla I’m really pleased to hear this,...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:40:22 -0500

Youth Lagoon :: Dropla

I’m really pleased to hear this, especially seemingly so soon. I loved The Year of Hibernation, which played like an album-length reminder that the anxieties of young adulthood are valid. This sounds like thematic and sonic maturity from what was one of my favorite records of 2011.

My favorite records, 2012

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:34:10 -0500

Alphabetically: 6Bit Collective :.: Generataion Y Not compilation Best Coast :.: The Only Place Cat...

My favorite songs of 2012: a Spotify playlist

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:18:38 -0500

My favorite songs of 2012: a Spotify playlist: I tried to arrange these in some semblance of flow;...

The Wikipedia page for 555 (telephone number)

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:18:06 -0400

The Wikipedia page for 555 (telephone number)

“similar artists”

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:19:06 -0400

“similar artists”

Solange :: Losing You

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:23:17 -0400

Solange :: Losing You

The xx :: Angels (via Fluxblog) The general consensus on Coexist...

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:05:07 -0400

The xx :: Angels (via Fluxblog)

The general consensus on Coexist feels about right to me: more of a consolidation than a great leap forward. “Angels” is basically perfect, though; one side of the sort of conversation that requires trust and vulnerability. The arrangement - especially the wordless drum break - capture that feeling, and those emotions, without parallel.

Video

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:22:51 -0400

Janelle Monáe :: I Want You Back Live @ the Nobel Peace Price...

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 13:18:07 -0400

Janelle Monáe :: I Want You Back

Live @ the Nobel Peace Price Concert, 2011

How did the internet fail to alert me that this existed until the Dean mentioned it in passing?

When is Pitchfork going to start reviewing chart-toppers who play guitar?

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:57:19 -0400

rawkblog: Why Usher and Lady Gaga and not Taylor Swift or Paramore? If the explanation is “We just...

dauthan: This is a photo of my dad and bunch of his college...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 19:54:09 -0400

dauthan:

This is a photo of my dad and bunch of his college friends outside the university gymnasium - a gymnasium which still looks exactly like that, trust me, I just graduated from Taylor in December (I’ll walk in May).

My dad is the mustachioed one in the back next to the guy in sunglasses.

I have sunglasses pretty much just like that currently.

I love this picture.

Happy Father’s Day self-reblog.

Ghost Hands :: Aching Eyes An unexpected, Alaskan gem. {via...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:14:32 -0400

Ghost Hands :: Aching Eyes

An unexpected, Alaskan gem.

{via stereogum}

Eight days ago, I took Amanda out to a new Japanese steakhouse and sushi place. We both enjoyed...

Tue, 01 May 2012 17:59:21 -0400

Eight days ago, I took Amanda out to a new Japanese steakhouse and sushi place. We both enjoyed...