Maybe it's Pitchfork's fault. The notoriously lacerating blog that famously posted a wordless review of Jet's 2006 Shine On album accompanied by a nine-second video of a chimp urinating in its own mouth and then topped that with a review of the Black Kids' 2008 debut that featured a picture of two sad pug dogs and the word "sorry" helped set the stage for the micro album review.
Now, thanks to the just-launched, Twitter-ific review site Musebin, the days of the 500-plus-word, navel-gazing, "serious" album review by opinion-bloated rock critics could be going the way of HD DVDs. How can the Robert Christgaus of the world compete with such pithy 140-character takes on albums like Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy that opine: "Chinese Democracy: What a piece of f---ing sh--," as well as "It took Michelangelo 4 years to paint the Sistine Chapel. It takes Axl 15 to sh-- on a CD, and gravity was on his side." Read More...
