Pick Of The ‘Fork: Your Wordsmiths Revealed
After taking a beating for two weeks, we’re happy to announce that our ability to craft a sentence like the folks over at Pitchfork seems to have returned. The sentence that won this week’s Pick of the ‘Fork installment with 37% of the vote–“Like paranoid dystopian survivors hoarding an energy source, we encounter a new band sporting Go4 and Wire touchstones and impulsively proceed to blow its head off …”–was actually from Adam Moerder’s 7.3 review of The Young Knives’ Voices of Animals and Men.
A mere 15% of you picked out the Idolator-penned sentence, which was the following: “It’s hard to be loved, and they know this, so they drape their sad-sack romantic rhyme schemes in black clouds of guitar fuzz. Their message: ‘Don’t touch.’ “ We’re not going to trumpet our awesomeness just yet, but we will say that this week’s triumph has restored at least a little bit of our writerly egos.
The remaining contenders:
… intuitive leaps between lo-fi bedroom folk that emphasized monotonous gloom and cacophonous samples to comparatively laid-back country biased toward majestic arrangements and electronic beats.”—Bright Eyes, Noise Floor (a 6.4 from Brian Howe, and 25% of the vote)
“It’s the Age of Chaos and all, but in what club outside of the Epcot Biergarten would this be hot?”—Gwen Stefani, “Wind It Up” (One star from Peter Macia, and 24% of the vote)
