Post by blackpilledbird on Oct 11, 2022 2:31:30 GMT
Pitchfork is a music site known for “free-form” reviews (a 0/10 review with no words and a video of a gorilla pissing in its own mouth, a review framed as a presidential debate between George Bush and Al Gore, etc.). These reviews were often seen as mean-spirited and bombastic especially in the site’s early days.
The site’s review for Jeffery Lewis’ 2003 album It’s The Ones Who’ve Cracked That the Light Shines Through was apparently conveyed in images drawn in the style of a graphic novel. Poking fun at the fact that Lewis is a comic book illustrator in addition to his music career.
The paragraph preceding the review is still up on Pitchfork. However, none of the images from the actual review are hosted on the site.
The earliest snapshot on the Internet Archive is from 2008. Sadly, none of the images are accessible there, either. Inspecting element on Pitchfork shows that each blank rectangle is seemingly a gif file that was hosted on media.pitchfork.com.
The review’s author Andy Beta is active on Twitter and has a personal site. I DMed him today if he had the original images. I’m still waiting for a response.
web.archive.org/web/20090319023956/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/4948-its-the-ones-whove-cracked-that-the-light-shines-through/
Or. Maybe I’m dumb and the whole joke is that the images are supposed to be blank. As in nothing in the album was interesting enough to inspire any response at all.
The site’s review for Jeffery Lewis’ 2003 album It’s The Ones Who’ve Cracked That the Light Shines Through was apparently conveyed in images drawn in the style of a graphic novel. Poking fun at the fact that Lewis is a comic book illustrator in addition to his music career.
The paragraph preceding the review is still up on Pitchfork. However, none of the images from the actual review are hosted on the site.
The earliest snapshot on the Internet Archive is from 2008. Sadly, none of the images are accessible there, either. Inspecting element on Pitchfork shows that each blank rectangle is seemingly a gif file that was hosted on media.pitchfork.com.
The review’s author Andy Beta is active on Twitter and has a personal site. I DMed him today if he had the original images. I’m still waiting for a response.
web.archive.org/web/20090319023956/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/4948-its-the-ones-whove-cracked-that-the-light-shines-through/
Or. Maybe I’m dumb and the whole joke is that the images are supposed to be blank. As in nothing in the album was interesting enough to inspire any response at all.
