The Needle Drop

If you blinked during Porter Robinson‘s captivating Second Sky festival set over the weekend, you may have just missed the electronic music artist taking a tongue-in-cheek shot at one of Worlds’ biggest critics. Years later, music reviewer Anthony Fantano, theneedledrop on YouTube, is still taking some flak from fans for scoring Robinson’s debut album a contentious 5/10 back in 2014. In that fateful review, Fantano said he wasn’t a fan of Robinon’s stylistic reset at the time, indicating he much preferred the direction of his more EDM-centric prior EP, Spitfire. Fantano has seemingly come around to Robinson’s musical stylings in more recent times, even awarding Nurture an 8/10 earlier this year. However, that didn’t stop Robinson from digging ...