Local Groups Get Pitchforked

It’s a rare occasion when one of our local outfits appears on the influential Pitchforkmedia site, the maker or breaker of so many indie artists via dense, earnest, self-indulgent critical verbiage overloaded with adjectives and posted up alongside rationale-free ratings. Fortunately, our latest crew of homegrown outfits to face the ‘fork fared pretty well, especially considering a 9.0 is the highest score the site-zine-blog gives (see: the Field)

American Catastrophe, Excerpts from the Broken Bone Choir

“Excerpts is confusingly colorful, painted in various shades of gray and blood red.”

(Maybe if they’d used a less confusing color palette — fewer shades of blood red, perhaps — the reviewer would’ve given ’em a 6.7.)