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The criticism I've seen most often is that she presents all this stuff but doesn't tell us what to do about it.

Yeah that seems to be the gist of it. Pointing something out but offering no alternatives is never a good idea.

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one of the best shorter reviews ive read in a while, nice job

ive never really got that criticism, its perfectly fine to point out something is fucked but have no idea how to fix it/off an alternative, the first part to fixing something is recognising its broke

Ive seen this criticism levelled at Enter Shikari before because they moan about the state of english politics a lot etc etc but dont have a political manifesto in their music where they offer all the solutions, artists should be allowed to bemoan over the state of things in art without being held to the standards of a political commentator for fucksake

Henry Cow/Art Bears were good at pointing out everything wrong about globalist capitalist society and their solution was bold, pure-ass communism lol

it's not "activism" to explain what you see as wrong, just your duty as an observer

i dunno actively pointing out what you see as wrong to other people in hopes they change their view could certainly be thought of activism in my mind, albeit a less meaningful version than actually getting off your ass and making a change

the "armchair activism" criticism gets thrown around a lot

which i see no problem with as long as your actually changing peoples minds to your side and not just in an echo chamber on facebook where you're posting your shitty political opinions and having all your like minded friends like it and thinking that means something

like with veganism/vegetarianism, if you can actually get people to change their minds and see your point just by explaining your views to them etc over social media or whatever that may be armchair activism but one i think is actually quite useful because your still making at least some change

but with most things its not really like that

Her career's been pretty consistently great

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People seem to have overlooked the fact that Harvey literally witnessed most of what she's writing about, or at least that this was influenced by more than stuffy research. She's done more than the rest of us in that regard. It seems her intention is to let us do thinking. I'm sure she knows how she feels about all this - she's just trying to get the word out there. This album is really a multimedia project, combining her poetry book, album, and upcoming documentary.



Also people have focused far too much on the lyrics here - at the end of the day, this is just music, and with a few exceptions, these are very well constructed, and I would say fairly creative, songs.

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Disagreed they're sloppy and poor and the lyrics, firsthand or not, are tripe

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2016 - The year that all major releases are varying degrees of disappointing. (Except Blackstar)

hell no

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^ this (meaning Ed's post...)

Blackstar is still AOTY though

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M83 - hot garbage

AnCo - lol

Frightened Rabbit - Barely didn't disappoint, but only if you factor in the bonus tracks

Yndi Halda - Yawn

Weezer - Cringe

Deftones - meeeeh



(don't get me wrong, there is a lot of very good stuff out there, but the big indie Darlings are all kinda faltering)

Weezer is the dog's bollocks

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I don't know why you were anticipating most of those tbh Ed, but Weezer killed it

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This a great write up man.

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"I don't know why you were anticipating most of those tbh Ed, but Weezer killed it"



I only really anticipated M83 and FRabbit, but I checked all of the mentioned albums.