In
my experience, when an artist of my liking comes out with a new album I always
seek it out, regardless of what critics say.
Whether Pitchfork or Rolling Stone give it a 9 or a 3 doesn’t matter
because in most cases, my previous attachment to the band gives me reason to
accepting the new material regardless of public opinion.
That being said, I am introducing a
new category on TUNEclatter titled “Review.”
It’s important that the word contain those quotations because as I previously stated,
I don’t stand by reviews of music as much as I do for movies. What I will begin to attempt with this new
category is not to give the album a rating as much as I would like to comment on the new material in terms of its sound comparison with the artist’s previously released album.
On my other blog, FILMclatter, I
have a category titled ‘Why See This’ in which I state the reasons why I
believe a particular movie is worth seeing.
In other words, I would rather just promote the movies and music I love as opposed to giving a mark of criticism to everything I can. There are plenty of people out there doing the
same thing, so I see any effort of my own to be rather trivial.
Above all though, I have always
found myself interested in looking at the particular change in style a band encompasses
over the years and therefore feel that comparing albums in that
matter is a much more noteworthy thing for me to write about as opposed to shelling
out the 100th review of an album months after its release.
+ The first albums that will be “reviewed”
then will be from the San Francisco indie band, Girls. Their two albums being Father, Son, Holy Ghost from last September and their
debut feature, Album, from 2010.
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