check out their awesome pitchfork review.

i still don't know why this band got popular from the get-go

"check out their awesome pitchfork review."

post updated with a link.

Wow, both a a non-review and a lame meme ride. Stay relevant Pitchfork.

the pitchfork review was originally a 0.0, "written" by someone else, with an opening line on the front page that said "everybody makes mistakes sometimes."

Rocky Napoli heard one of their songs when he was in Europe and thought it sounded pretty good. In fact, this band reminds Rocky Napoli a little bit of Phoenix. Rocky Napoli wants to know why everybody is down on this band? Rocky Napoli thinks hipsters like to feel holier than thou by hating what others like. Is Rocky Napoli wrong about that?

Was that actually the original review?

I hope this band will realize they were just an accident.... even their own mother (pitchfork) can't stand them.

yeah. the first review was a 0.0, but they changed it to 3.3 for some reason.

i guess this is what happens when cuntfork gets too big for its britches

Anon@10:20, good one! I like how you replaced "pitch" with "cunt"

Pitchfork doesn't care about Black young people!

santos party house! why?! fuck! i hate that place.

This band used to be really 8.4 a few months ago. Now that they put out a full-length they've completely sold out.

kudos for Pitchfork for calling this bullshit out !

...Black Kids sound like 14 year olds making fun of The Cure

everyone is happy until they give the next rising Southern crunk superstar a 8.9

The Black Kids are just plain awful.

I mean, they have not one but two fat chicks.

Gross.

They sound like someone pooping with a delay pedal.

And everyone who is bitching about pitchfork being pretentious and overtly obnoxious, congrats on figuring that out.

Their music sounds tailored for Target commercials. Go join Be Your Own Pet on warped tour.

gimmick

0.0? what happened to the original review?

It was 0.0 with the pug photo and the tagline was "Everyone makes mistakes sometimes..." but now it has some copy from a press release as the review preview, a 3.3 and the pug photo.

Pitchfork really is an awful musical institution. i mean, they gave health-disco a 8.0 and still manage to be compete dickheads in the actual review. YOU FUCKING LIKED THE ALBUM BUT YOU STILL NEED TO BE ASSHOLES ABOUT IT? they annoy me to no end, seriously.

that being said the new black kids album is cringe worthy. which is sad because they're cute kids.

wow i love how they basically created this band
and now they are destroying them...oh the power of media.

More about this here (http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/2008/07/pitchfork_black_kids_backtrack.html) and here (http://festivals.drownedinsound.com/articles/3701487).

Pitchfork did the same to some other band. i don't remember. but they're always shafting people. they shafted the new pornographers, not as badly on their last album and they've always been NP 'n friends ass-kissers. and the album was good, just different. fuck you pitchfork, fascist mother fuckers.

The album's in line with the much hyped ep, so I dunno what more Pitchfork were expecting, but I'm disappointed by their editorial laziness. It's a 6/10 at best, but it's still a fun album, and the title track's a stormer.

"fuck you pitchfork, fascist mother fuckers."

hyperbole much?

INTERNET IS SERIOUS BUSINESS.

Can anyone on the Pitchfork staff even play an instrument? Or get laid for that matter?

i think the person was being facetious, lol. no one seriously calls someone a fascist anymore.

Rocky Napoli hates fascists. They destroyed his homeland which is why his grandparents had to leave.

looks like Pitchfork got punked by a publicist/manager/label again. remember when they took down that Beastie Boys review after their publicist complained?

i'm sorry rocky. i hate fascists too.

Pitchfork should publicly apologize for hyping this band up so much in the first place (which was bullshit in it's own right).

OK, liking the Black Kids or not is beside the point.

Pitchfork you did the most limp dick thing imaginable.

Hyping a band into superstardom and then turning on them is not it. You do this all the time as we know.

Yes Pitchfork, you copped out hard. Yes, you OWE your opinion to the fans, the band and most importantly your readers for an explanation.

OK, Jet we get 0.0, monkey peeing in it's mouth. Ha-ha. You didn't owe them anything, no one would have cared anyhow. But this was not funny, this was cowardly.

You are accountable, and you are not above explanation. Write a scathing review! Back up your thoughts, this is why we didn't like it because points a. b. & c., and yeah sure go ahead and mix those points in with the rest of your verbose bullshit. Anything but this, this arbitrary 3.3. We will swallow your numbers, but give us a paragraph to go along with it.

This is why I go back to Pitchfork less and less. This is why I care less and less what Pitchfork thinks.

Stop over hyping your festival and stop worrying about your pseudo tv channel that no one watches and get back to why people go to [went to] Pitchfork in the first place, otherwise go ahead keep adding these knots to your noose.

[I call a BIG B.S. on your computer error explanation... grow some balls!]

Mr. Blu--Mister Blutarsky. ZERO POINT ZERO.

wow, people still read pitchfork?

WTF? No one "seriously" calls someone a fascist anymore? Is it just jokey when they do then?

WTF? No one "seriously" calls someone a fascist anymore? Is it just jokey when they do then?

no, fascism should never be taken lightly

lol fascist.

I bet Billy Bragg really hates Pictchfork.

You see a lot of the same stuff around the NME and their practice of hyping up bands and then tearing them down. Thing is, I always thought there was a giddy excitement behind the hype. Somebody in the magazine really did love the band - maybe a little too much.

With Pitchfork, it just seems like a bunch of whiney little virgins. No Fun indeed.

I think reporting that someone is touring or that they got signed doesn't always mean that the person who will review their record will like it . they keep the news and the reviews somewhat separate. also a band could put a good EP and make a bad record. The only thing I think Pitchfork owes its readers is to be honest..

I'm not sure if a one word review with joke-photo counts as "honesty." Especially when pfork is obviously just stamping on Black Kids to position themselves as cool. They do this with a lot of good records that they feel aren't perceived as edgy, to make sure their positive reviews seem relevant.

And the idea that Black Kids made a good EP and a bad record...all four songs from the EP are on the full-length. Did these songs get worse somehow? Or is this just the most apparent example to date of pfork's slimy desperation to seem "in the know?"

It's obvious what's going on here. Clearly they wanted to give the album a 0.0 but, realizing that they'd given the EP an 8.4 before the band signed with Columbia and went to #5 in the UK, they had to stay consistent. Since 40% of the songs on the album were on the EP, they gave the album 40% of the EP's score, which would be 3.36. The new songs were all zero's. It makes perfect sense guys. PITCHFORK IS SCIENCE.

Also, the way they rerecorded "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You" is way derivative of Pavement. Minus .06 points.

The songs they rerecorded did get worse. The productions is all shiny.

maybe this band just fucking sucks. how about that?

pitchfork & santo's party house = two great tastes that taste great together!

I don't care about the Black Kids either way, but I sure hope that anon 10:50 wasn't calling out lil wayne. New Orleans doesn't do "crunk". We're better than that.