Vampire Weekend were known as the pioneers of One Direction knock-offs, being largely successful with their approach of making music completely different than the famous boygroup even years before their start in music.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Some of their songs are quite good.

[–] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I actually discovered a completely new music review site when I was looking for more information about them. Have any of y'all heard of something called "pitchfork?"

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hadn't, but I googled it:

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/

I'll check it out!

[–] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Their modern reviews are pretty bland, but from 2000-2012 or so, they were probably the best indie reviewers out there. Since then, they gotten a little too afraid to write negative reviews for stuff that other publications like and vice versa (IMHO), but they still provide a slightly different point of view than the big dogs like Rolling Stone.

These days, I typically like Consequence of Sound and Line of Best Fit a little better, and albumoftheyear.org is great for seeing both positive and negative reviews of pretty much everything out there

Edit: albumoftheyear is also a great way to find new music sites, since they cast a pretty wide net

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Pitchfork fucking sucks now; they did my bois Clipping. so dirty, how tf you gonna give all of their albums sub-six you fools? They’re masterpieces.

[–] HATEFISH@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's too early for me to know if this is 3 layers of irony but Pitchfork was one of the most influential taste-maker's when it came to that kind of indy / rock / whatever scenes through like 2010? Had music festivals and stuff too.

[–] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I was being a bit snarky, but I totally agree with you. I think I honestly did find Vampire Weekend's first album along with several of my favorite bands of all time through Pitchfork in the mid 2000's.

As bland and useless as they've gotten, I will forever be grateful to Pitchfork for first introducing me to The Hold Steady, The Drive-by Truckers, and TV on the Radio.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

I thought Vampire Weekend and fun. were similar and both really good at the time!