Sometimes it hurts to be so right all the time...

Once again, dear reader, I have beaten the venerable pitchfork.com to the proverbial punch. Just today, pitchfork placed the new and still-unreleased Arcade Fire track "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" on its Best New Music list:



A worthy addition to Pitchfork's BNM list, indeed; but as any of my devoted Twitter followers would already know, I had already tweeted a 140 character-long load of glowing praise onto the track last weekend:



Once again...I called it. And Pitchfork can suck it.

Well, I Scooped Pitchfork Again...

Yesterday, Pitchfork placed The Tallest Man on Earth's new album, "The Wild Hunt", on its venerable best new music list. As you'll see in the picture below, however, I lauded the album with the same fervor, oh...about a month ago.



Once again, this proves that I have, like, the best taste in music evar. I win.

I'm so awesome, I scooped pitchfork twice

(For those who don't know, pitchforkmedia.com is a website that publishes music reviews of the uber-snobby/"indie"/hipster variety. They're rather well-respected and well-hated in equal measure by hipster ilk; they are, for better or worse, pretty much the gold standard in online music criticism.)


I just read Pitchfork's "Overlooked Records 2008" feature, which came out today, and felt a twinge of music-nerd pride when I saw that I had already glowingly praised a couple of their selections--in one case, lonnnnng--before they did:


Umm, Pitchfork... I'm not overlooking Paavoharju's "Laulu Laakson Kukista." It made #5 on my mid-year best-of '08 list, like, three weeks ago.

Annnnd...

Black Mountain's "In The Future" is definitely a great record. But I knew that when I put it at #13 on my best-of-the-whole-year list... last year.

BUUUUUURN!