Who are the best music journalists currently/ever?

[luka]

I think she's pretty boring. pure facts and opinions, no overarching theory. perfect for todays day and age where not having ideological commitments is held up as somehow radical.

Yeah that's what they're all like now its really really depressing

 

[craner]

When are we putting out the dissensus lad mag?

The first magazine to feature an interview with JH Prynne and Lucy Pinder.

There are no magazines, only brands.

 

[thirdform]

Yeah that's what they're all like now its really really depressing

yeah, i don't really care what Clair Lobenfeld or Mark Richardson like...

This is why i love discogs reviews compared to journalists

"I've played and straight up watched munted ravers legitimately freaking out on the floor scared out of their wits with Suffering Souls. Freddy was a genius. It's good shit."

 

[Matthew]

See how it is described as the music Caberet Voltaire tried to make but couldn't. That's exactly what I was saying in the collage thread.

that was simon @blissblogger argument always

Hardcore/Darkcore/Jungle with the "sickest, most insane sonics"

Last night I revisited Woebot's infamous jungle comp blog. Here's what he has to say about Reinforced's The Definition of Hardcore: "The search for the sickest, most insane sonics had pushed the crews into new territories. At this point it really does make sense to compare Hardcore to the...

www.dissensus.com

 

[luka]

That's not as good. That sounds more like he's trying to dignify hardcore by making the comparison.

 

[luka]

Whereas what I heard, drunk, the other night, listening to the WYHs thread was music in search of hardcore, randomly pressing the buttons, hoping to find the correct sequence, and failing. Then it comes thrillingly into focus once you hit the early 90s

 

[boxedjoy]

I can't stand that post-Brooker style of hyperbole you get in a lot of modern writing where people mistake personality for rants. All that "this is so bad it makes me want to chop off my balls" Or "this is so good I feel like I'm on air and gas" - totally devoid of personality and nuance, and really easy to produce once you've conjured up a few graphic similes.

My ideal critic is someone who has taste, but also linguistic flair and the ability to place things in a broader context of scenes and perspective.

 

[luka]

Brooker is a blight but there's a danger in the other direction too reasonable let's not get carried away modest domesticated writing.

There has to be inflation. There has to be an ideal of music as peak experience, not a cosy cup of tea and a Mr Kipling

 

[luka]

There has to be a sense of music as the most important thing in the world and the most intense and electrifying experience. The sense that it all matters, life and death, vital signs of the health or sickness of humanity itself

 

[Corpsey]

That's how I wrote. You could feel the existential stakes reading one of my mixtape reviews in the Wire. You left each review a changed person, a person more intensely alive to the exquisite violence of life.

 

[boxedjoy]

Oh there definitely needs to be a passion there. But there's a difference between the giddy rush of enthusiasm that feels sincere and the grand posturing of performative (anti/)fandom

 

[luka]

Definitely. It has to be real, you have to feel it man!

 

[luka]

Which is why no one should write about music after the age of 14

 

[luka]

Cynical I love music adults writing about arianna grande for pitchfork is gross

 

[boxedjoy]

What if youre an adult who genuinely loves her though

 

[luka]

Then you wouldn't be a cynical I love music adult

 

[luka]

There's a kind of personality formation I find threatening and oppressive. People who keep things in perspective, some elegant irony, some deliberate deflation.

 

[luka]

A sense that you have no right to expect more from life, these are the rewards, savour their modest pleasures without putting too much weight on them.

 

[craner]

Then you wouldn't be a cynical I love music adult

I've been saying this for years. You told me off for saying this.

 

[craner]

There's a kind of personality formation I find threatening and oppressive. People who keep things in perspective, some elegant irony, some deliberate deflation.

Are you having a go at me again?