One More Piece of Evidence Rock Criticism Is Dead
This morning I got a promo package in the mail–an album by a band called Colourmusic. This mailing was a nice, old-school gesture on the promo people’s part. It is rare getting an actual promo CD. So yeah, thanks Colourmusic! I celebrate your whimsical, vaguely psych-folk stylings! In fact, you can use that as a blurb on your CD. It would look like this:
“I celebrate your whimsical, vaguely psych-folk stylings!–Washington City Paper.”
Instead, Colourmusic chose to blurb from something with a little more gravitas–Wikipedia.
Wikipedia!
The blurb is sooooooo Lester Bangs meets Pitchfork: “They run some sort of hippie commune out there in rural Oklahoma. I heard they all had the same girlfriend.”
Should rock critics get mad? Or is this just a joke?
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August 26th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Has to be a joke.
(But I’m a jazz critic and therefore have no cache here. I’ll just step aside.)
August 26th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Could it be a comment about how the environment of the artist affects the music? I’m scratching my head.
August 26th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Colourmusic is tops! And I live in Oklahoma. Nearby. In the vicinity. All very colourful. Come on out sometime.
August 28th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
I’m an Okie, too. The blurb is simply hilarious. Most people don’t read those sticker things before they tear the plastic wrapper off, anyway. Enough said.
It makes me WISH it were true!