Reviews and other such uselessness.
 
I never dug critics, I never dug the idea of them, and I never dug the  
concept of album reviews, I never NOT ONCE bought an album based on a  
review and I never not ever thought reading reviews was worth spending  
time on because in that time I suppose I could go the record store and  
listen to some good music, so its interesting to be sent a bunch of  
reviews in my email, reviews of my work, and be told here is what  
people think....Most of the time I don't bother reading any of my own  
press because it made me crazy once so I just left it alone, this time  
I dabbled and so here I am blogging when I could be doing a million  
other fantastic things like screwing or drinking or eating or well  
anything really.
 
  Its interesting to see we got mainly 4 star reviews, thanks, some  
people didn't like it quite as much and gave it 3 and a half, still  
much better than calling it a useless piece of crap.  The majority of  
the negativity of the reviews focused mainly on the Labels press  
release that was sent out (no we didn't write it) that claimed we were  
"kryptonite to the ordinary" and a mix of "biggie and Sam Cook",  
fantastic, so in the small space a review has to explain what a record  
sounds like the reviewer uses to attack the writing of someone on the  
label, brilliant, or our use of stage names, awsome,  or in some cases  
the designer of the cover art, here's an idea, why don't you review a  
record based on your understanding of music and what you hear when you  
put it on. Call me crazy, and I don't want to burst your bubble but no  
one really cares what you think of the labels presser or our fucking  
stupid stage names or our fucking cover art (which I quite like), ITS  
ABOUT THE MUSIC, how it sounds how it makes you feel.  THATS WHY WE  
LOVE IT, when I got Santo Gold or Battles or Fleet Foxes, it ran a  
chill up my spine because I knew music had a future, and it was  
beautiful and dark and lovely.  I HAD A FEELING, and if i needed to  
write about that feeling the last thing that would concern me would be  
the way their Bio was written or the way they displayed their records  
covers.
 
Its so gross to put out a record in an already flooded market, what do  
you want me to say, "buy this I'm a fucking genius, its the best thing  
since Tribe Called Quest?".  I wont, if you like the sound of what we  
do buy our record and dig a little deeper, if you like the idea of  
what we do listen to more stuff here and decide if you want it, ideas  
and concepts wont get your guts, Music will.  GET IT IN YOUR SOUL
 
Much love
 
RHyNO