I sent one artist email and wrote a bit longer text. Not "review", not "analysis", just complimented the release and also mentioned about meaning of how it is related to me.
He mentioned I am the first one to send any reaction for this item that came out already years ago! I felt like what the hell?
These days when there is not that many zines that review things (compared to volume of stuff that could be reviewed), but also no blogs really. Social media, that COULD be that, most often isn't. Or you'd need to be part of specific platform to see posts. A lot of people preferring sending their friends, perhaps whatsup groupchat message about specific release. Therefore, even significant release disappears in cyber-silence.
Like I mentioned with merch topic, I am sure I have discussed this many times before, but maybe from different angle. There was reasons why SI zine stopped publishing reviews, but there are also reasons why some could be there in form or another. Reviews of www site, well, we'll see! This forum, most certainly active people dropping good reviews & playlist comments all the time. I think its good thing that forum is public, accessible via regular www, and you can find old posts pretty easy. Most people are not so obsessive that they'd go google "what people say about my work", but still feels odd that one would commit perhaps years of hard work on something (noise book for example) and then get no feedback whatsoever.
I used to send more direct email comments to artists, and should perhaps do more of that. Question being, do you ever send comments, compliments, "review", whatever feedback to labels or artists you liked? Are you expecting reply, or just sending it out.
And furthermore, did you get feedbacks? With a lot of introverted and odd characters out there, most often getting compliments can be like "uhh.. ehmm.. thanks.." and don't know what else to say. I recall those funny discussion on early WCN where they mention about punishers who start to take a lot more time that one has.
In genres that originally was largely about communication, it feels that such aspect has become smaller? Or become invisible to outside?
