Crash Chords Podcast

A Critical Look at Criticism: It's our FIFTH anniversary! That's five seasons at fifty episodes a piece, covering nearly that many albums, topics, as well as debates over what many would consider a trifling corner of cultural discourse. Five years has taught us that music truly is a boundless medium. And so, in our album discussions---incorporating everything from literary analogies to politics, psychology, sociology, life, love, pain, sorrow, and ever more complex conditions---we strive to honor artists' hard labor by (at the very least) participating in combined acts of analysis, brainstorming, ruthless criticism, and garrulous adulation. It's a mixed bag, but we hope, a fruitful one. In this episode, we will be: • Reflecting on the project; • Discussing the barriers between criticism and analysis; • Championing the merits of fact-checking; • Discussing logical fallacies, laws, and rhetorical gibberish; • Citing examples of specific critics and critical works, from Glenn Gould, to Pitchfork, to Yaht