Sam’s recent Junior Senior review struck me as a really interesting piece of writing that touches on some issues that Stylus and other independent oriented sites (wait for it...) frequently struggle. In opposition to Rob Mitchum’s Pitchfork review and its concessionary tone of: “it’s fun, I don’t care, I’ll dance and I don’t have to think about the consequences any more”- (at the same time he spends a great deal of time framing it as a “I was one of you, I saw the light, you can now come over here and embrace this way of thinking…really…It’s OK!”), Sam grapples within the review on a nearly line by line basis maybe echoing the typical Pitchfork reader’s response. I think these reviews work in a very interesting way if read in tandem with one another and, oddly enough, in the end the conclusion is nearly the same as they get nearly the exact same rating by both writers.