The Thousands

Man, you read so much mindless shit on music blogs these days. It seems it’s more about who gets what first than actually, errr, making a coherent point. I mean, just because you can write and post a review of a track in the time it takes to listen to it doesn’t mean you should.

Realising that great albums – whether they come from Brian Eno, Black Sabbath or Pavement – deserve better than this knee jerk criticism, the folks at 33â…“ have set about getting it right. The idea behind the 33â…“ series of books is simple: Get the best critics to write a book about their favourite classic album, placing no restrictions on how they do it.

I can’t tell you how invigorating it is to read music criticism by someone who’s taken the time to do this thing called ‘research’; talking to people in the band and reading (wait for it) – books!