If Pitchfork slags your album, that is usually a sign that it might be pretty good. The magazine has a penchant for being so over this thing before the thing is even released. On release, the music mag(rag?) gave:
Tool’s Lataralus a rating of 1.9
Nine Inch Nails’ The Fragile faired a touch better with a 2.0
Moby’s Play managed to receive a whopping 5 out of ten
Maybe these reviews are meant to be clickbait or as inciteful as they are insightful. I can get behind that, I am guilty of intentionally doing the same thing from time to time (to time to time). Some people get off on trolling or flame-bating others. If you do it well and let people get a glimpse of the wry smile you have when you throw toss a verbal grenade out into the crowd, it can be a lot of fun.
But this is about BRMC’s album Baby 81, so let’s talk about that. This might not be a revolutionary album from a band that breaks down doors and reinvents entire genres, but if you like the grungy sound of electric guitars and blues-driven rock & roll such as what is made by Big Sugar, The Black Keys, and/or Royal Blood, then you might just enjoy this as well.
Maybe it won’t be an album that changes your world, and that is just fine. Hopefully, it will let you bob your head in time with the music, though. If it does that, then it has done its job.
Cheers,
Evan
I’ve been here a thousand times, I know
I thought that the point was to take it slow
Now I know what you said was true
I feel it gone
I feel it gone