We’re Testing Feedback and Reader Scores on Album Critiques

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 be capable to go away your individual Pitchfork evaluate for the very first time. We will’t wait to 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 evaluate utilizing Pitchfork’s score system. This rating will likely be proven subsequent to your remark and will likely be aggregated with different readers to type a “reader rating” alongside Pitchfork’s official rating. One album evaluate, our rating, your rating, adopted by some feedback.

We’re at the moment beta testing these options with 500 readers to make it possible for we construct the perfect feedback part and reader scoring system doable. After the beta take a look at is full, we’ll be again with extra info and allow you to know precisely when this will likely be accessible.

We’ll go away it there for now. Thanks a lot for studying our work, for partaking with and caring about music criticism, and for sharing your variety phrases with us by means of the years. We stay up for listening to from you quickly.