Is this the closest music reviewing has come to avant-garde literature?

>>61595419
so what's the album

>>61595439
Paul Hares - astral travel

>>61595419
far the fuck out. i would love to be given free creative license like this, to just rave about albums i like in whatever kind of overblown, insane poetic language i like.

this shit is probably my nominee for the most like "avant-garde literature" though. so fucking meta, this guy had some killer joke reviews.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2232-transatlanticism/

>>61595575
that review rocks

Yeah, dude was pretty great. Has written some of the more absurd scathing reviews I've seen on there as well.

Decent example:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8896-year-of-the-rabbit/

"Which brings us to the lyrics, which are platitudinally freighted in from a Los Angeles high school freshman's algebra notebook, replete with bourgeois drug references and fashionable apathetic musings. Who needs the third person? Never YOTR. "I can't break out/ From this blanket of doubt/ Got me trapped in a maze of shadows." "If I'm trying to be hidden/ You still see me.../ If my whole world is crashing it won't matter/ I can keep it together when you are here." The latter lines are from "Hold Me Up", the record's requisite acoustic-with-strings moment, and break from open discourse on feeling down, getting picked up, not giving a fuck, and keeping it together amidst so much estrangement. (I hope I didn't just inadvertently plagiarize anything from them.) I'm still not sure which bear more of a striking resemblance to each other-- the songs or the band members."

trolololol

>>61596052
haha that's great. i think the review i posted in OP is a great way of describing a lot of exotic, tribal hypnagogic pop (james ferraro, spencer clark, etc.).

>>61596301
i agree, and i like that the reviewer just really fucking embraced it and almost totally shunned any conventional description.

i mean, you could probably accomplish more or less the same thing with some appropriate sub-genre tags, but that isn't near as fun.

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>>61595419
its this Marcel kid, just fuck yourself, you fucking prick, go to bed

Lester Bangs was one giant Hunter Thompson ripoff, does that count?

>>61596438
i don't know lol