Mar 19, 2009
POSTED BY Jay Babcock
Anonymous Arthur music reviewers C & D were supposed to review this Canadian cat’s debut album back in November but they don’t want to share yet (something to do with a hash deal gone wrong) and, anyways, why do C & D, who are, after all, volunteers, have to do all the work? Where the fuck is the North American booster “music press” on somebody this obviously great? Pitchfork, NPR — they should be all over this guy. Does anybody with a paying gig at these places actually do work anymore, other than regurgitating the highest-dollar marketing/publicity spoonfeed, all else damned to obscurity? Sheesh.
Whatever. We’ll go find some hash, okay guys? In the meantime, here’s some live Paisley…
Here here! Much like everything lese, all our bullshit infrastructure needs to be ripped down (pitchfork, etc) and real people with actual opinion, education, and no agendas should be alerting us to talent like his…
did I just fuck it up…
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