Pitchfork’s year-end blurb for Source Tags & Codes and the review of its follow-up, 2005’s Worlds Apart, both began by asking whether they had made a mistake.Įighteen years later, LeMay had come to a decision. If I’m to believe the datelines, this interview ran one day after the review was published. Matt LeMay, the author of Pitchfork’s 10.0 review of Source Tags & Codes, interviewed …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead in 2002 and already had his doubts: “We’ve been getting a lot of shit from people saying that, because it’s ‘only rock music,’ and because ‘it’s been done before,’ it cannot qualify as an essential record.” Drummer Jason Reece and drummer/guitarist/vocalist Conrad Keely mostly agreed with him and proceeded to lick shots at guitar bands who weren’t considered to be only rock music - such as Tortoise and, if I’ve interpreted their disdain for “blurry photographs and san serif fonts” correctly, Interpol. Rather, it’s a question of whether any rock record could be perfect. The question has never been whether Source Tags & Codes is a perfect album.
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