As we stand in the second half of the year, we take some time to look back on some of the best projects of the year. For this edition, we look at the world around us, and ourselves while we're at it.
I really wish folks would become less obsessed with whether Fetch the Bolt Cutters is “perfect”. It’s a messy, disjointed art-house album. It’s not meant to be “perfect”. Pitchfork is the only place that claimed it was “perfect”. An album can be a masterpiece and not be perfect. People have got to let that “perfect” stuff go.
Brat isn’t one of my favorite albums of the year. But I do think it’s been undervalued.
I really wish folks would become less obsessed with whether Fetch the Bolt Cutters is “perfect”. It’s a messy, disjointed art-house album. It’s not meant to be “perfect”. Pitchfork is the only place that claimed it was “perfect”. An album can be a masterpiece and not be perfect. People have got to let that “perfect” stuff go.
Brat isn’t one of my favorite albums of the year. But I do think it’s been undervalued.