Pick Of The ‘Fork: Your Wordsmiths Revealed

Brian Raftery | March 9, 2007 4:06 am
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We’re on a roll! For the second time in a row, our fake Pitchfork quote–the one with the “piss and vinegar and more piss” line–placed last, this time with 38 votes, or 16.1 percent of the vote. As for the other entries:

“Now any monster jam like this needs to ebb and flow, but this breakdown feels particularly forced, as if the players weren’t sure where to take the piece and decided to take an aesthetic coffee break instead.” Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Damo Suzuki, Please Heat This Eventually EP (6.0 from Stuart Berman, and 25% of the vote)

“The keyboard’s playful, ascending scale acts as a cheerful motif as the song twists off in unexpected directions with sudden melodic breaks and interludes, and juxtaposes Wolf’s lyrical darkness with sonic brightness.” Patrick Wolf, The Magic Position (an 8.3 from Liz Colville, and 16.5% of the vote)

“A surprising trick to their craft– one akin to shouting “Boo!”– is an abrupt tempo change attack, usually in the form of complex and note-y Mastodon-like fractals. Frequent sprinklings of deep-fried-and-battered Iommi solos only help matters.” Rwake, Voices of Omens (an 8.0 from D. Shawn Bosler, and a Clintonian 42.4% of the vote)

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