Know Your Enemy

"As we approach the bottom of your first paragraph you refer to the 'corporate slick production on future of the left's third album' - a question, my dear friend - would this be the kind of corporate slickness you get through recording an album in 16 days (using the same methods as ever) over a six month period in studio downtime and friend-financed to the tune of £2,000 (whilst we work in temporary jobs and with credit, when available, to support our habit) or instead the kind of corporate-slickness (since, as tone indicates, we’re using the term pejoratively) a person could get from writing for a site which has run the adverts of a variety of corporations, big and small, for many years? I may not be wearing my eyeglasses at this particular moment, but I can definitely see a lovely shiny one sitting atop your review at this very moment. Oh … it has moving pictorials and everything – quite lovely!"

Andy Falkous of Future Of The Left commits the sin of being sufficiently riled by a negative review (on Pitchfork) to respond, but does so with such force and style that you've got to let him off.

(Thanks to Niall for the link.)