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Originally Posted by HeyNomad
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Don't have much to add to your list and I don't particularly mind Nirvana, but there are no words for how much I hate Fleet Foxes. This review comes pretty close though: "fucking canoeing music...fake-rustic rootsiness...hey-nonny-nonny" bullshit.
So tired of sensitive white guys sensitively strumming and crooning. |
If you don't like a given piece of music because of the image the musicians present, you don't understand music and probably aren't even capable of thinking or feeling at a higher level. The reviewer basically bashes Robin Pecknold & pals for their idiosyncrasies. At no point in the review does he actually criticize the music itself-- until near the end when he actually half-praises it.
I like the music itself. I don't know anything about the band, I had to be reminded what the lead singer's name was, and I'm pretty sure I'd despise whatever archetype their fans usually are, the review probably got that right. And I didn't like helplessness blues at all. But they did make good music. They helped modernize braindead hillbilly folk and make it palatable to young people who grew up in the suburbs, and San Francisco yuppies who put on their flannel shirt and go hike Mount Tamalpais once every 9 months and them claim they are outdoorsy. Who cares? Michael Jackson was a kid-diddler transracial weirdo but he changed music.