Dear Adam,
If you are interested in conducting some sort of interview, it would certainly not have to be a pissing contest. As the interviewer, I would leave that up to you. I imagine that you are clever enough to find a way to turn it into something productive and I would try my best to do the same.

At the end of the day, the album stands on it's own. I'm not sure if you are aware of the intentional fallacy or the affective fallacy, but they state, respectively, that a piece of literature is not defined by its author's intent or the affect it has on the reader. I believe the same applies to music.

You painted a picture in your review where we resorted to cheap tricks of imitation to craft a sound that is familiar, but ultimately hollow. Perhaps, you'd be interested to know where these songs come from or what they mean to me as an artist. Perhaps not. This should not alter your opinion of the music itself, but it may further your understanding.

You could also ask me what music I hate or where one goes to get a decent hangar steak in Iowa City. It's up to you.

Cheers,
Greg

Also - I have no idea what your e-mail address is.

^...dinosaurfeathers should review adam downer

Album Rating: 2.5

Im sure that review would be entirely original

I know you were mostly just trying to be funny Adam (and I like this review), but I honestly don't see why their MySpace profile's content is relevant with respects to the album you're reviewing. And even if they were simply "trying to be ironic", why and how does that affect their overall aesthetic?

i was literally just crafting the email to them as that comment was posted

In case you couldn’t tell from his username, Adam Downer is a person that is trying too hard. Not trying too hard to be nice or anything, but to be, you know, critical and shit. You could find this out retrospectively, as I did, getting more pissed off at the contents of his Fantasy Memorial review with each calculated “criticism” you discover that this guy attributes to himself (see: the section of his review in which he discusses the influences section on Dinosaur Feathers' Myspace page, which includes words like ”ironic" and "cool" which calls into question just how critical he's really being but I digress), but the better solution is to enjoy Adam Downer as you might enjoy a Chicken McNugget: by not eating it at all and sending an angry letter instead.

destroyeD

I know you were mostly just trying to be funny Adam (and I like this review), but I honestly don't see why their MySpace profile's content is relevant with respects to the album you're reviewing. And even if they were simply "trying to be ironic", why and how does that affect their overall aesthetic?

To clarify the Myspace jabs: obviously what you guys post on your Myspace isn't relevant to the content of Fantasy Memorial, but I intended it to help illustrate my greater gripe with the album. To me, Fantasy Memorial came off insincere, "substituting honesty for quirkiness" is the quote I believe.

Album Rating: 2.5

I agree



It was for the greater gripe

the greater gripe of indiekind

hmmmm, where's all the complaints about the review?

"some of your criticisms are pretty dumb"
"like, all of them

"it's just a dumb way to review an album. the whole premise of your writing is acting like you were there when they wrote and recorded the music, when you weren't. you talk about what they set out to do, what they were trying to accomplish, like you know beyond the shadow of a doubt that you're right."

-chan

"Criticisms are pretty unfounded, you can always say that you don't think someone is being genuine but it really depends on the person."

"I agree that this is a really stupid way to review an album. Something might be cliche and overstated throughout pop culture, but I think it is stupid to say that the emotions of the vocalist are faux unless you know them personally because everybody expresses themself differently."

-musicaddiction


fantastic review, especially pulling off an Office reference. I just think it's a little ironic that, what I feel, is basically the same analyzation of an album is accepted wholeheartedly when a staff member writes it as compared to the criticism met with a user. Trust me, I'm well-aware that my writing isn't on the same level as yours, Adam, I'm merely talking about the complaints and criticisms- because that's what are being accepted here (despite robertsona's little issues) and were denounced in a review of mine that is an incredibly similar analyzation. idk, no big deal, I just found it curious : )

I'm sorry?

don't be like that now.

i feel you for you eric

haha thanks caleb, but to put it simply and like I should have before-- I just don't like it how staff seem to get a free pass (even though I think the review/criticism here is well-founded), and I thought this served as an example of that.

i dont know if its a free pass- neither chan nor musicaddiction has commented on this review

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

You guys are crazy.

Album Rating: 2.5

crazy in love





with you

In case you couldn’t tell from his username, Adam Downer is a person that is trying too hard. Not trying too hard to be nice or anything, but to be, you know, critical and shit. You could find this out retrospectively, as I did, getting more pissed off at the contents of his Fantasy Memorial review with each calculated “criticism” you discover that this guy attributes to himself (see: the section of his review in which he discusses the influences section on Dinosaur Feathers' Myspace page, which includes words like ”ironic" and "cool" which calls into question just how critical he's really being but I digress), but the better solution is to enjoy Adam Downer as you might enjoy a Chicken McNugget: by not eating it at all and sending an angry letter instead.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

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