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 of depart your personal Pitchfork evaluation 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 personal rating to an album evaluation utilizing Pitchfork’s ranking system. This rating shall be proven subsequent to your remark and shall be aggregated with different readers to kind a “reader rating” alongside Pitchfork’s official rating. One album evaluation, our rating, your rating, adopted by some feedback.
We’re at present beta testing these options with 500 readers to guarantee that we construct the perfect feedback part and reader scoring system doable. After the beta check is full, we’ll be again with extra data and allow you to know precisely when this shall be out there.
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 type phrases with us via the years. We sit up for listening to from you quickly.