New forms
Excellent thought provoking essay/post by Alex Thomson over at NYLPM. It feels more and more as if we're at some sort of pivot-point, not so much in criticism, as in how we conceive of criticism (well, "conceive of" may be a bit vague, but I'm not sure how to be more precise). I think/hope one thing that we'll see more of, and see discussed more often, is not only the sort of "narrowcasting" Alex talks about, but a move to more personal criticism as well (which is, of course, one of the things Stylus tries to do, and one of the reasons I gravitated to it (I think)); just as fewer and fewer writers are going to try (or at least try and succeed) to be "central" in the way Alex talks about, maybe they'll stop trying to be so "objective"?
(Yes, objectivity in music criticism is good, but also bad, that's a wholly separate topic and one I don't have the time/desire to write about right this instant, partly because it's so complicated...)
(Yes, objectivity in music criticism is good, but also bad, that's a wholly separate topic and one I don't have the time/desire to write about right this instant, partly because it's so complicated...)
