yah, P4K held so much cultural space in my head as an early teen; i had deep feelings of inferiority and insecurity and the website sort of was doubly inaccessible: for one thing, it's comparative worldliness and sophistication (in the writing, in the music) was very threatening, and also, to fashion myself as a reader was to risk being inauthentic and putting on airs and exposing myself as a wannabe hipster, the most shameful thing, truly.
but before the latter years of trend-chasing and review retconing, they really had a voice (as goofy as it was) and curated and presented some very cool independent and experimental music; and i'm sure i hooked up with a fair share of similarly culturally maladroit young women because i knew the hip todd terje or crystal castles tracks, all thanks to them.
yah, P4K held so much cultural space in my head as an early teen; i had deep feelings of inferiority and insecurity and the website sort of was doubly inaccessible: for one thing, it's comparative worldliness and sophistication (in the writing, in the music) was very threatening, and also, to fashion myself as a reader was to risk being inauthentic and putting on airs and exposing myself as a wannabe hipster, the most shameful thing, truly.
but before the latter years of trend-chasing and review retconing, they really had a voice (as goofy as it was) and curated and presented some very cool independent and experimental music; and i'm sure i hooked up with a fair share of similarly culturally maladroit young women because i knew the hip todd terje or crystal castles tracks, all thanks to them.
idk what counts for latter years but weren't they retconning their fleet foxes reviews in the late aughts?