A Note about The Reviews

Before we get too far into this thing, I'd like to take a minute to address the general idea behind the reviews here at Radio Free Future. Readers may notice a lack of negative reviews here. That's something that will likely continue, because we here at RFF believe that there's too many good records for us to spend time complaining about the bad ones. Schopenhauer wrote about a similar idea regarding books, but it applies just as well to records:

“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

At RFF, we don't want to fall victim to Sturgeon's law (which says that 90% of everything is crap). Most music sites know this is true, but keep on reviewing mediocre or downright bad albums, and then you end up with thousands of reviews ranked at a 6 out of 10. This is just content for content's sake, which is fine, but we want to tell you about what we think is excellent. Also, you won't find numerical rankings of albums here. Music is subjective, and an album that's barely a 5 to one person might be a perfect 10 to another. We try hard to write actual, thoughtful reviews for each record, but after that, we trust you to decide what you like.

There's no real method to what we review, it's really just whatever we think is good at the time. With that in mind, there are a couple different kinds of reviews that will end up being posted here. One is new releases that we like, so we can stay on top of good new music. Another is older records that strike us as particularly memorable or essential. Our culture is becoming increasingly ahistorical, and you never know when you're going to turn someone on to something they might have missed. We're also going to be a source for finding out about bands that you may never have heard of. We tend to pull pretty deeply from all kinds of different musical scenes, so hopefully you'll end up finding some new favorites here.

We're just getting started here at RFF, but we have a lot of good stuff on the way, so check back often or add us to your RSS feed with the link in the sidebar. Also, you can follow us on twitter to hear about new posts: @radiofreefuture.

Thanks for reading.

-Posted by TZARATHUSTRA