Yay, a largely positive album review on an influential site that ostensibly should be reaching forward-thinking listeners though at times seems to be a forum for lowbrows pretending to be highbrows while struggling to maintain middlebrow humility! Anyway, thanks Joe Tangari for pushing these sounds, judging by the personnel involved I'm guessing that this is a killer set.
Riposte #1 -- taking Pitchfork to task for both undercoverage and underhyping good stuff.
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Riposte #2 -- taking old fogeys in the jazz community to task for thinking that young listeners in the internet age (i.e. yrs truly) can't engage a close listen from time to time. I'd actually argue that jazz (and plenty of other music across the rock/experimental/electronic/dance/etc spectra) give us a respite from the constant onslaught of online media; at the same time, those online media give us unprecedented access to deep listening from way further under the radar than print/broadcast media used to afford. Win+Win = WinWin.
