Glowing Review of The Points in New York Times = WTF?
That’s right. Check them out at the top of the page, sharing the limelight with quirky jazzbos The Bad Plus.
I’ll admit, the arts section of the New York Times isn’t the first place I turn when looking for the vanguard of loud and filthy rock music. For chrissake, they wouldn’t even print Pissed Jeans‘ name.
But New York Times critic Ben Ratliff had some genuinely kind words about The Points new album.
“Their record has poor sound quality, bad graphics and crooked typesetting, and it’s nearly perfect,” says Ratliff.
The Points are, of course, no strangers to adulation from the press–having been covered in The Washington Post, The Onion, and this very publication you are reading now.
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10:39 am
Yeah, but The Times has been turning this ‘this band’s so rad, we can’t even print their name’ bit for a minute now:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/arts/music/12musi.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Good review, though.
11:49 am
The NY Times reviewers and guest reviewers have consistently been highlighting great stuff in a variety of genres in that Sunday column/feature for quite awhile even if they don’t print the names of certain bands.