Top 5 Reasons You're a Total Record Geek

Musical classification nerds rejoice, for Pitchfork proves (again) that it can play the absurdly obscure categorization game with the best of 'em, describing the latest from Adult. as a transition "from cyborg post-punk to cheerleader pogo goth." You know you've been reading (and probably writing) snobby rock crit for far too long when you see phrases like that and nod, like, "yeah, totally." Gimme trouble -- and a post-rock cellphone-ditty twee punk comp -- indeed.

P.S. -- The Fork gave the record an 8.0, which fits the site's now classic pattern of giving high marks to vaguely freaky, experimental and totally unlistenable albums for being audaciously different, if not especially good. Protest about rewarding originality all you want, but in ten years not even the band members are going to be listening to this dumbass march-to-my-Atari hipster bullshit (and this is coming from someone who really likes every single Joan of Arc release).