Music rating website Pitchfork.com released its review for the new Hurricane Irene today, and the results are not pretty:
“After experiencing Irene last week at a small, exclusive, invitation-only yet packed club in the Bahamas,” wrote vice-editor Snobias Snobbington, “I was eagerly awaiting her performance in the Big Apple. Everyone was hyping her up – even Mayor Bloomberg! Needless to say, I was thoroughly disappointed.”
Snobbington went on to contrast the Bahamas gig with Irene’s NYC gig:
“The sound, tone, and compositional structure of Irene in the Bahamas was like nothing I had ever heard. She literally tore the roof off while people tried to escape the island crying for the safety of their lives. Not even Arcade Collective is capable of a gig like THAT! Now maybe its true what they say, that NYC crowds are tough crowds to please, but every last bit of Irene’s gusto seems to have disappeared somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle before she arrived in Brooklyn to play at a club that I’m bored of already because I’ve been there so many times. If in the Bahamas Irene’s performance was like the rapid-fire of an anti-aircraft machine gun, then in NYC she was shooting blanks out of a plastic water gun that she picked up at a Duane-Reade for a dollar.”
Snobbington continued by comparing Irene with her biggest influence (according to her myspace page), Hurricane Katrina:
“Back in ’05, no one saw Katrina coming. I mean, I remember talking to Beard Beardsley from the band Penis Be Real about his trust fund when the topic of Katrina’s early gigs came up. We both agreed that she was pretty boring to watch and could use some better reverb on her drum machine. But once she played her cover of the Led Zeppelin song “When the Levee Breaks” at that gig in New Orleans, I mean…man!…you KNOW what happened! The rest is history! Katrina was no hype, all substance. Irene was all hype, no substance. Its funny how the biz* works like that sometimes. And I would know, because I know the biz better than anyone else, especially you who are reading this.”
Snobbington concluded his review by giving Hurricane Irene a 3.4/10.0 rating.
*the music business
