It was over seven years ago now that Bassnectar’s musical career was just beginning to blossom. Fresh off appearances at Sonic Bloom and Burning Man, Lorin was starting to burst from the underground bass scene and was in the process of making himself the household name he is today. He’s widely regarded as one of the most influential and boundary-pushing artists in music today, and his album Underground Communication has been loved by many diehards since the moment it came out…well that is except by the reviewers over at Pitchfork.
If Underground Communication is any indication, (Lorin’s) preferred method for fighting the system and tearing down the artificial plastic robot assembly-line spoon-fed plugged-into-the-Matrix horrors of mainstream commercial radio pop is to sound about 10 years out of date.
– Pitchfork
Writing a scathing review back in August of 2007 when it first came out, phrases like “gimmicky” and “10 years out of date” were tossed around when describing the “overwhelmingly repetitive” Bassnectar. After re-listening to this album I have a hard time grasping what the reviewer was apparently hearing. With tracks like “Kick It Complex”, “Bomb The Blocks”, “Select Frequency”, and “Alkher Illa Doffor” it’s crazy to think these songs could have the staying power to still be played in 2014. Especially when you take into account it’s on an album so…gimmicky.
Luckily for us critics have proved to not exactly nail it 100% of the time; even Rolling Stone bashed Led Zeppelin’s debut album in 1969 (which went on to become 2x Platinum) with a hilariously negative review of the to-be legendary rock n roll band. All this does is serve as a reminder to not worry about what the critics think and to keep doing your thing. Who knows, maybe the artist will even end up selling out Madison Square Garden one day.
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