Can we please stop pretending Joshua Minsoo Kim is a serious critic? I understand that people in the scene respect him because he interviews legendary avant-garde figures, but to me that's more of an indication of how desperate anyone outside of the mainstream is for exposure, and as such his popularity acts as an indictment of the entire music industry. In my head I always think of Kim as the "Anthony Fantano of experimental music", but at least Fantano seems to have an enthusiasm for the music he reviews, whereas Kim seems to want to reference the outer reaches of art only to have them act in the stead of the personality he so sorely lacks. If music criticism has a dead end, it's not the misinformed ramblings of the typical RYM user, it's the haphazard arrogance of JMK's Twitter feed.
