“I DONT GIVE A FUCK”
“People are always going to rag on me and my music, but I believe in it and don’t give a f—,” he says. “Take my [recent] Pitchfork review for example, aside from an incredible lack of research and knowledge, it’s all a big joke. Had I made an album full of shorter tracks, the same reviewer would have asked for something else.”
Sultan might be unfazed by criticism, but he wishes music journalists weren’t so eager to tack the garage rock tag onto his latest batch of songs.
“I still love rock ‘n’ roll and garage and all of that, for sure, but I think this is easily something else,” he says. “People are lazy; I hardly think they actually listen [to my music]. The average knowledge of one of these f–king music dudes is like 1981 and up.”
God bless Mark for being the man.
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Side note: Sultan is a big hit at college radio. $ got an impressive #3 spot on the Chart Attack top 50 last week.
Kids Like You & Me (KLYAM) 
They’re never satisfied. You cannot cover everything. It’s too short, it’s too long, there’s too much social commentary, there’s no social commentary, the vocals are too raw, the vocals are too polished, it’s overproduced, it’s underproduced, it’s too experimental, it’s too derivative… I’ve seen cases where it’s obvious that the critic has a particular preference and they attack things that don’t adhere to that preference. The lack of basic fact checking was I think left that Pitchfork review wide open for criticism.