Quote Originally Posted by mad rhetorik
Nevermind that The Mars Volta made a equally ambitious and far, far better concept album last year and that got dismissed as "pretentious," while Blueberry Boat is equally "pretentious" (or more so) and everybody's creaming their pants over it.
Well, not to prolong what has turned into kind of a silly discussion, but if you check I think you'll find that the Comatorium album got much more favorable reviews overall than Blueberry Boat. Not from Pitchfork as you know, but most of the other mags and sites loved it, while BB has gotten very mixed reviews, with some even panning it worse than what our good buddy tentoze said above (see NME for instance which gave it close to a zero rating ).

But Pitchfork does tend to "pull" some of the smaller zines along with them when they power up the bandwagon and both the Fiery Furnaces and Arcade Fire benefitted greatly this year from Pitchfork raves. But it's no secret that I think both albums deserve the good press they've been getting as a result and I'm glad that more people are being exposed to such creative music that otherwise wouldn't have been. A lot of them will go back and take maybe their first serious listen to Zappa or Bowie or the Who or the Beach Boys or whoever, and that keeps the music alive