Album Rating: 5.0

All the middle-class, white-male posturing and angst is very much in place but minus the intrigue. "Japam" is short attention span theatre at its worst, crashing through a number of uninspired chord changes between hardcore and lazy pulse with violent wails, churning pop punk riffs, and insipid drums. It's all so predictable that one could train the ear to identify this supposed experimentation as Botch's brand of verse/chorus/verse. Sure, it's all negative, ominous, and assuredly very angry but where's the weenie? Guess what-- there isn't one. Spend two minutes with the first actual song on the disc and you've got a master's understanding of all the tricks and textural and temporal variation present on * An Anthology of Dead Ends * .

Album Rating: 4.5

Lol is that from the pitchfork review

Album Rating: 5.0

Yes



Good to know they were always like this I guess

Pitchfork doesn't have a comments sections because they know how hard they'd get shat on on the regular

Album Rating: 4.5

jesus that review is amazing



"To all you tepid metalheads fond of referencing this fallen pack of übergeeks-with-attitude, fear not, you've still got several dozen pariahs with overdrive pedals to cling to."

Album Rating: 4.0

lmao like who’s the audience for that sentence

Afghamistam man what a song
unbelievable discog on these guys from start to finish

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

framce has always been my favorite

WE OWE YOU.

NOTHINGGGGGGG

Album Rating: 4.5

'All the middle-class, white-male posturing and angst is very much in place but minus the intrigue. "Japam" is short attention span theatre at its worst, crashing through a number of uninspired chord changes between hardcore and lazy pulse with violent wails, churning pop punk riffs, and insipid drums. It's all so predictable that one could train the ear to identify this supposed experimentation as Botch's brand of verse/chorus/verse. Sure, it's all negative, ominous, and assuredly very angry but where's the weenie? Guess what-- there isn't one. Spend two minutes with the first actual song on the disc and you've got a master's understanding of all the tricks and textural and temporal variation present on * An Anthology of Dead Ends *'



god i fucking hate this sort of review



anyways, off to pejoratively characterize aggressive hip hop as 'black-male posturing and angst' to see how long it takes before someone calls me a cunt

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Album Rating: 5.0

I don’t even get it he’s complaining about the album’s supposed “middle class white male posturing” but the “where’s the weenie” line seems to indicate that there needed to be more of it???



The worst Pitchfork reviews are the ones where the writer clearly went in hating it and didn’t even bother meeting the band halfway

Album Rating: 4.5

yeah i mean, if you go into a genre like hardcore and want to characterize it as middle class white male posturing' you were never gonna give it a proper chance



its like negatively reviewing a jazz record by characterising it as 'pretentious elitist hipster for people who order their coffee black'. It really is saying nothing about the music at all. why not engage with the artist? what are they angry about? is it really angry? plenty of death metal has the surface impression of anger but the lyrics tend to be goofy as fuck and the band were never actually channeling any anger into making the music



it reminds me of when at secondary school people would characterise anything with harsh vocals in it as 'suicide music' or ask 'why are they so angry'.



i know its a beating a dead horse at this point but holy fuck, pitchfork has had so many dogshit reviews over the years

Album Rating: 4.5

Mabraska

Album Rating: 4.0

Best Botch

Album Rating: 4.5

bro we have mathcore now

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

>god i fucking hate this sort of review



i love that based ass fucking review

Album Rating: 4.5

tremendous bump even if its a rare smok L with that 2.0

I think the icing on the cake for that comically bad pitchfork review is the fact that they couldn’t even get the drummer’s name right...

“including a suitably unimpressive drum solo from Cook”

Poorly written, not even proof read for basic information, and just generally someone who was desperate to dislike it before even hearing a note. I was very active around the ‘scene’ at that point and that person was exactly the type to call someone a ‘Nigel hipster’ unironically, whilst suggesting you check out much inferior (lesser known) bands who have aged like milk.

Album Rating: 4.5

Did Pitchfork ever contribute anything worthwhile during their existence? The whole thing seems like nothing but an elaborate prank trying to channel Christgau-styled "reviews."

Album Rating: 4.5

Even supposedly respected guys like Chris Ptt, dared to talk shit about everyone. He accused Aaron Turner of being a rich kid who could afford releasing neatly packaged albums during Hydrahead's lifespan because apparently he found the label due to him receiving an inheritance.

Album Rating: 5.0

Pitchfork is not who you guys should be going to for reliable reviews about heavy music lol