Deerhunter records are better when the words are indecipherable. I mean this as praise.

O for a record review without a narrative in it.

If there is something that could be called purely musical, I usually feel like Simon Reynolds ignores it as it suits him.

'how perfect the entire system of things'

There are kinds of music that you can only do if you can say 'baby' the right way.

Mark Richardson (Richard-San) as tastemaker. I can't think of many other reviewers I trust implicitly.

Too much fucking tympani.

'Every expression that does not negate is taken as an affirmation; every gesture that does not destroy is interpreted as approval.'

'So few writers are honest that we should really distrust all people who write.'