Gigaton: Official album thread

[lecherouslittlestump]

Pitchfork review. 4.5, not great.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18 ... m-gigaton/

It's better than their last three efforts, but that's like saying Episode III was the best of the prequels. A turd is still a turd no matter how hard you clench your ass-cheeks.

[joostone]

Pitchfork review. 4.5, not great.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18 ... m-gigaton/

It's better than their last three efforts, but that's like saying Episode III was the best of the prequels. A turd is still a turd no matter how hard you clench your ass-cheeks.

[McParadigm]

Re: Superblood Wolfmoon

“Superblood Wolfmoon”
Again, the experimental nature here is in the songwriting and the structure. For a while, what I was calling “chorus,” Ed was calling “verse.” At some point, we realized it didn’t matter. Some of that led to these textural elements, like, OK, we don’t have an easily digestible structure to hang your ear on as a listener, so let’s play around with the sound a little bit more to push things from one section to the next, or build the tension up and release it. In a traditional songwriting structure, some of those things are more baked in. This is them teetering on the edge a little bit, and it can be a little unsettling for the listener, because you don’t know what’s coming next. The normal roadsigns for what a song is aren’t there.


I am proud of myself for picking up on that, given my lack of a musical background

Post-songwriting

For a moment I was like, “no plat, I think this kind of arranging work can be considered part of the songwriting process.”

[oneway23]

Pitchfork review. 4.5, not great.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18 ... m-gigaton/

It's better than their last three efforts, but that's like saying Episode III was the best of the prequels. A turd is still a turd no matter how hard you clench your ass-cheeks.

I got 404'ed.

Have they pulled the review?

[bodysnatcher]

Pitchfork review. 4.5, not great.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18 ... m-gigaton/

It's better than their last three efforts, but that's like saying Episode III was the best of the prequels. A turd is still a turd no matter how hard you clench your ass-cheeks.

I got 404'ed.

Have they pulled the review?

It’s lump. It’s made up.

[dad]

I doubt it was even real.

[oneway23]

Pitchfork review. 4.5, not great.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18 ... m-gigaton/

It's better than their last three efforts, but that's like saying Episode III was the best of the prequels. A turd is still a turd no matter how hard you clench your ass-cheeks.

I got 404'ed.

Have they pulled the review?

It’s lump. It’s made up.

What a little greasy scumbag jabroni

[Jorge]

McCready was never a particularly innovative player, but there are extended sections during some of Gigaton's more outwardly embarrassing songs where it sounds like he's given up completely, trading in boilerplate pentatonic shredding for half-hearted twiddly-diddly diarrhea.

Damn. Seems particularly harsh given Mike's history with Crohn's

[RAG319]

Pitchfork review. 4.5, not great.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18 ... m-gigaton/

It's better than their last three efforts, but that's like saying Episode III was the best of the prequels. A turd is still a turd no matter how hard you clench your ass-cheeks.

Ouch. Yeah, this part is also not great:

Gigaton? More like Giga-ton-of-shit. But, seriously. Eddie Vedder? More like Eddie-Vedder-Give-Scott-Stapp's-Voice-Back. Remember Creed?

[dad]

Pitchfork review. 4.5, not great.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18 ... m-gigaton/

It's better than their last three efforts, but that's like saying Episode III was the best of the prequels. A turd is still a turd no matter how hard you clench your ass-cheeks.

I got 404'ed.

Have they pulled the review?

It’s lump. It’s made up.

[scrub12]

Honestly if I hadn’t clicked on the link I probably would have believed Pitchfork would write that.

[Strat]

Every fucking song is catchy.

random parts of the day ill just realize im humming and singing one of the songs.

[Ms Harmless]

I've been kind of embarrassed to sing PJ songs to myself for three albums now, whereas I used to constantly sing the old stuff, it was melodically amazing

the dark ages have truly ended, the tunes here are so singable

[LuNY]

Hey by the way universe..... the outro to Retrograde is the best sounding fucking thing of all time, life changer.

[liebzz]

Next up: the lost album of material from the sessions they may or may not have abandoned. They will call the b-sides release Gigaturd featuring Can’t Deny Me.

As an aside. I am still very much loving this album.

[super nintendo chalmers]

I think I...like this.

[MemoFromTurner]

Pitchfork review. 4.5, not great.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18 ... m-gigaton/

It's better than their last three efforts, but that's like saying Episode III was the best of the prequels. A turd is still a turd no matter how hard you clench your ass-cheeks.

I 100% fell for this although upon further review, I’d anticipate Pitchfork will elevate their searing derision above the scatalogical.

[Anders]

That was interesting.

[bodysnatcher]

Just release an Of The Earth single so we can stop talking about it please

[joostone]

Put it on lost dogs 2 for 2021