Since Pitchfork began publishing album evaluations almost 30 years in the past, two issues have remained fixed: no feedback part, and no second opinion. That’s about to alter.
Coming in 2026, as Pitchfork celebrates its thirtieth anniversary, we’re lastly planning so as to add a feedback part to all of our album evaluations. That’s over 30,000 items of music criticism on which you’ll have the ability to depart your individual Pitchfork assessment for the very first time. We will’t wait on your takes to be on our web site.
Along with commenting, additionally, you will have the chance so as to add your individual rating to an album assessment utilizing Pitchfork’s ranking system. This rating can be proven subsequent to your remark and can be aggregated with different readers to type a “reader rating” alongside Pitchfork’s official rating. One album assessment, our rating, your rating, adopted by some feedback.
We’re at present beta testing these options with 500 readers to ensure that we construct the most effective feedback part and reader scoring system doable. After the beta check is full, we’ll be again with extra info and allow you to know precisely when this can be obtainable.
We’ll depart it there for now. Thanks a lot for studying our work, for participating with and caring about music criticism, and for sharing your sort phrases with us by way of the years. We sit up for listening to from you quickly.
