On The Side
Have we made this point before? I dunno. However, we're getting really annoyed at record labels constantly sending out one track single promos. What's the point? For review purposes? We're not going to DJ them, we're not going to play them on a radio station. If you send out a gash CD it's probably best you hedge your bets and put a b-side on it. If it's a relatively new or unknown band you'd be well placed to include more material.
It's not even that we're too cheap here and are complaining that a promo means we're conned out of a free track. If we were that way inclined we'd just review the promo and save pennies but no, we here don't touch single track promos unless we absolutely have to and even then we try not to write full reviews of them cuz they don't warrent it. One track is not a full single. Just today we got the latest from LCD Soundsystem and Goose, from DFA and Skint respectively. Which means we're looking at DFA and Midfield General as being label bosses, surely they know the worth of good b-sides or, as is possibly the case, remixes. Yet here we are, none to be found. Only This Et Al's single of those that arrived today bothered to have a b-side. It's annoying is what it is. Pointless and annoying.
Thanks.
It's not even that we're too cheap here and are complaining that a promo means we're conned out of a free track. If we were that way inclined we'd just review the promo and save pennies but no, we here don't touch single track promos unless we absolutely have to and even then we try not to write full reviews of them cuz they don't warrent it. One track is not a full single. Just today we got the latest from LCD Soundsystem and Goose, from DFA and Skint respectively. Which means we're looking at DFA and Midfield General as being label bosses, surely they know the worth of good b-sides or, as is possibly the case, remixes. Yet here we are, none to be found. Only This Et Al's single of those that arrived today bothered to have a b-side. It's annoying is what it is. Pointless and annoying.
Thanks.