The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #123224   Message #2711452
Posted By: Jack Campin
29-Aug-09 - 08:58 AM
Thread Name: how can musical critics improve?
Subject: RE: how can musical critics improve?
I have not been enamoured of some previous review material of these musicians or this label.[..]
the label[recording company] is not the subject of the review


Sometimes it should be. If a label gets some aspect of its business consistently wrong it's the reviewer's job to say so. If anybody ever asked me to review an Air Mail Music CD, I could hardly avoid pointing out their invariably inadequate documentation, and if it was Kalan Muzik I'd have to point out their frequent unplayably buggered disk media; both of them have virtues that far outweigh these negatives. And sometimes a label that consistently releases trash comes up with a gem. In that case the reviewer needs to note the fact or else they're doing a disservice to the exception.

do not claim that your review ,has appeared in another magazine,when it has not.

And if you have an intractable obsession, seek psychiatric help.