May 2010
12 posts
“While you’re going around trying to keep people out of hell, I’m going around trying to keep hell out of people.”
—Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899)
David Cross on record reviews
- Pitchfork: Do you ever get anything out of album reviews?
- David C: Not really. Unless there's a reference, like, "If you like Cat Power's later stuff, it's sort of like that." Then I'll check it out. A verbose, prosaic review which mentions whistling winds and the timeless feeling of jade doesn't mean anything to me; I don't need a novella telling me about how an album is like a fine meal. But I'll go to Other Music in New York and nine times out of 10 I like what they recommend. The Onion does a pretty good job, too. But I've gotten burned a couple times when everybody loves a new record, and then I get it and don't love it.
