John Feinauer
Jul 28, 2017 · 1 min read

Part of the album’s critique is that we’re obsessed with brief flashes of self-importance and the internet is more than happy to exacerbate that primal urge. The existence of this article, and the the existence of my useless ego-driven comment, could serve as a footnote in an annotation of the album some day. It makes little sense for a music critic to examine/critique a marketing strategy beyond serving the insatiable hunger for providing commentary that has big things to say about little subjects. The band overtly satirized that ethos in public for like a month, and still a number of writers took the bait. Fascinating.

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