#079 - Review The Review: TIMES TWO (Idles & Weezer) + Spotify’s Problem

Greg shared a new album a few weeks back that he was really enjoying. Idles released their sophomore album “Ultra Mono” back in September and is chock-full of some much needed energy this winter. Curious how others felt, Greg sought out the opinions of others, specifically the ones paid for their opinions, and landed on our friends at Pitchfork….so, first up on our special Review The Review TIMES TWO, we review Pitchfork’s review of “Ultra Mono” by Idles.Songs: Idles - “Model Village”Idles - “The Lover”Jay, on his semi-regular perusal of YouTube’s music-related offerings, came across a video called “The Dark Side of Spotify” (YouTube) by Slightly Sociable. The video presents a series of very concerning issues with the platform that Spotify has built, specifically that fraudulent streams were taking hundreds of millions of dollars out of a lot of artists pockets. We dig into the argument and, presuming this video has its facts right, dig in to Spotify quite a bit more. It’s a really good conversation, hope you enjoy it.Song: Ryo Fukui - “It Could Happen To You”Bookending the episode, we have our second round of Review The Review. This week Nick decided to jump right into last week’s “Album’s Coming in 2021” and listened to “OK Human” by Weezer. Feeling he may have started the year off on the wrong album, he consulted a variety of Google’s favorite articles; affirming his suspicion. Finding one article particularly well written, he submitted it for consideration in the week’s pool of potential segments &, to everyone’s surprised that he was awarded the opportunity to present a rare 2nd Review the Review to you today!Okay, I may have exaggerated some of that… Jay listened to it first and texted that everyone that it sucked. Nick immediately ran to Pitchfork to see if they too thought it sucked too (they did!) & then proceeded to listen to the album...also the ‘pool of articles’ part is entirely untrue…Nick didn’t like it either, that part was true though! [Pitchfork Review]Songs: Weezer - “All My Favorite Songs”