The Pitchfork News/reviews thread

[TallGuyCM]

The new Tame Impala is not worthy of that score...or all the hype. It's a clear step down from their debut. Not even close to how good that is. What's wrong with you people?!

I've come to the same conclusion after several listens. I mean, it's really good...but for the most part is missing that wonderful stoney haze that the first album did so well. This one is very poppy, it sounds very influenced by Todd Rundgren's Something/Anything?. Mind Mischief and Apocalypse Dreams are my current faves, but nothing on this album comes anywhere near matching the greatness of those first two songs on their debut.

[Gribbz]

I think Lonerism is the better album. I'm going to give the first one another spin though. Been a bit.

[ods..]

9.3

[loomer]

9.3

That's a bit surprising considering how much they used to undervalue them.

[TallGuyCM]

Massively deserved.

[IceyHotshot]

That's a bit surprising considering how much they used to undervalue them.

So now they overrate.

[wmgaretjax]

Massively deserved.

yeah... no.

[TallGuyCM]

yeah... no.

What don't you like about it?

[wmgaretjax]

for starters I can't stand the absurdity of that first track (didn't like it live either). it's all of the quibbles I'd had with the band here and there in the past wrapped up in a single song. so much silly melodrama. the shorter tracks are solid though.

[TallGuyCM]

Haha, the first track is probably my favorite track of this whole year!

[IceyHotshot]

I like the album, but still don't think the first 10 minutes of that track are very worthwhile.

[MuseRadio]

Haha, the first track is probably my favorite track of this whole year!

QFT.

[Gribbz]

I liked it. Kind of underwhelming though IMO.

[Neighborhood Creep]

Song 3 is best

I'm too lazy to find the name of it/ still in bed

[cutterbutter]

9.5

[TallGuyCM]

Wow. I listened to most of the album, and I'm not real crazy about it. Compton is awesome, but so much of it sounds like the mindless bullshit that fills the FM radio waves these days.

[ods..]

Wow. I listened to most of the album, and I'm not real crazy about it. Compton is awesome, but so much of it sounds like the mindless bullshit that fills the FM radio waves these days.

LOLLLLLLLLLLL WOW

Listen again and clear out your ears big guy

If this is what fills the FM radio waves then we live in a perfect world

This is hip hop done right

aka well-deserved 9.5, I would have loved a tic higher. This is a more fully conceived album than Frank's Channel Orange. I think Kendrick succeeds more.

[ods..]

Also, this is really well put and exactly what I said to myself about the album. Kendrick balances the heavy-handed concept record with perfect beats and vibes:

All this weighty material might make good kid, m.A.A.d city sound like a bit of a drag. But the miracle of this album is how it ties straightforward rap thrills-- dazzling lyrical virtuosity, slick quotables, pulverizing beats, star turns from guest rappers-- directly to its narrative.

[xanman86]

I wonder if Pitchfork will include Weeknd's 'Trilogy' in the best albums running.

I've had gk,mc on repeat all weekend pretty much.

[TallGuyCM]

LOLLLLLLLLLLL WOW

Listen again and clear out your ears big guy

Listened again. After a second spin - still not that hot on it. The Art of Peer Pressure is really great, Backseat Freestyle is fucking awful. The rest falls somewhere in between.

[wmgaretjax]

the lamar hyperbole is silly. wasn't even the best hip hop album released this week. it's a good album though. (i think backseat freestyle is one of the best tracks on the album fwiw)

[PrettyVacant]

You guys are crazy. M.A.A.D. City is the most complete hip-hop album this year. Kendrick continues to get better with every release. A 9.5 was too low. 9.7 at least.

[LickTheLizzard]

I really like a lot of songs on the Kendrick Lamar album, but there is some pretty boring shit on there too. 9.5 seems way too high.

[bmack86]

I listened to the first half on the walk to work today and I really liked every track, but Backseat Freestyle is just something else.

[xanman86]

1.good kid
2.Money Trees
3.Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst
4.m.A.A.d city
5.Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe
6.The Art of Peer Pressure

as of now...I like all of it though.

[xanman86]

7

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/...ocal-business/

[swhite423]

7

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/...ocal-business/

bbbbbBULLSHIT

[LickTheLizzard]

Definitely better than a 7.

[FEELS]

so wrong

[ods..]

Yeah... I'm tired of defending GKMC... Obviously I love it. If you don't, I don't see how.

But yeah, maybe you'll come around.

edit: this is addressed to any naysayer