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Music nerds who were Very Online™ some 20-odd years ago might recall the strange diss battle between deliberately elitist review outlet Pitchfork and an obscure band called Joan of Arc.

In fact, Joan of Arc and lead singer Tim Kinsella were mostly known for the scathing reviews they drew from every publication that bothered paying attention to them. As they should have been; there was nothing exceptional about them except for the bizarre, tuneless, talent-unimpeded, deliberately painful art-rock that was their calling card.

Another outlet, not wrongly, described the group’s 2000 release “The Gap” as “one of the most unlistenable albums in existence.” (I’ve heard it — once — and you can safely remove two words, “one” and “of,” from that sentence, along with making the noun “albums” singular.)

I was reminded this week of Pitchfork’s notorious review of Joan of Arc’s 2001 anti-masterpiece “How Can Any Thing So Little Be Any More.” In particular, reviewer Brent DiCrescenzo took issue with the group’s “inconceivably horrendous lyrics,” including the couplet “Jesus really was so / g*****n pretentious.”

“Kinsella sounds jealous,” DiCrescenzo quipped.

That, of course, was a joke about the scale of the band’s pretensions, which were not........

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