Foxing - Foxing (September 13, 2024) • Page 37

yeah thats like the elite score for this scene

 

Yeah I'm in love in love with this thing now.

Idk what it is about Barking - I don't think it's the best song on the record yet it's the one I feel the most for whatever reason.

 

barking has been in my head since the first time ive heard it

 

Whoa I just opened the record and it might be the coolest looking vinyl in my entire collection.

 

Yeah, this has officially surpassed NMG for me, I think it's their best and I hope they make a decent amount of money from merch and touring and whatnot. "Greyhound" is such a fucking monolith

 

My lol at the 7.8 was referring to the people a few pages back who predicted the score exactly. I agree it's a good score and also agree it's meangless

 

Y’all gotta get over Ian being a jerk to Brian Fallon ages ago, from what I can remember, he’s apologized, or at least expressed regret on that review, and continues to put incredible bands from this scene in the forefront for people to read about who might not have heard about them otherwise.

 

ive heard him say he and brian have talked about it and cleared the air

 

I think it’s the frightened rabbit thing that most people still hold against him

I personally just think he’s kind of a dork and him comparing the last wild pink album to nearer my god made me permanently question his judgement lol. I do like his taste though (obviously) and when he's passionate about something the writing is usually pretty good

 

I believe the majority of Cohen hate has to do with a review of Frightened Rabbit that was insensitive regarding Scott Hutchison’s mental health and came out preceding his suicide (pretty sure it was before but not sure how much before).

 

I Love You So Much is that good though

 

Yeah it’s the frightened rabbit stuff and the fact how gross he was about the Cloakroom guys working factory jobs in his review.

 

people hold long grudges against people they don’t know and I’ll never understand it. yeah he’s made some flippant remarks in reviews but jfc lol

 

Sorry that I found it extremely off putting the shit he said about Scott in reviews and don’t want to hear his opinions on music after that!

People hold grudges for stupider shit but go off

 

IMO, Ian Cohen is a steward for rock music and one of the only semi-mainstream music critics who writes thought-provoking reviews.

This had a 7.8 written all over it, but the review itself is very well done, sheds a little bit of a different light on the record. I forgot about how the band was deep down kinda hoping DDTM would be panned so they could be liberated from all expectations. It feels like that really shines through on the album and the circumstances surrounding its release.

I've also grown to really appreciate the album art and how it ties into the thematic thread woven through each song.

 

Pitchfork can fuck off

 

Great thread we’ve got here, consistently stays normal for more than a few days at a time

(entirely possible I’ve contributed to Bad Discourse in here before lol)

 

what does this mean

 

I interviewed Ian Cohen once and he was very nice but also didn't want me to publish our interview after the fact for one reason or another, which is fine, but I would agree that Pitchfork in general has a bad habit of writing about mental health insensitively. Brockhampton's Iridescence review was like that as well.

 

Just read that frightened rabbit review for the first time and like... Is that really worth calling him a piece of shit every time he's mentioned on this site? Yeah it was pretty insensitive but he was writing a review and the lyrics didn't ring true to him. Feels like a mistake a lot of people could make.

 

That pithy The National quote/quip makes me wanna punch something every single time I think of it. No apology either.

 

This is their fourth near perfect club in a row for me. God tier band at this point.

 

Yeah the only album of theirs I don’t absolutely love is The Albatross

 

Throw away the albatross

 

And take fortune in everything