ear to the ground
The reign of Pitchfork in contemporary music criticism has come under scrutiny for what has been widely perceived as a snarky tone in the writing, a stylistic snideness that is not only pervasive throughout the site (captions that wink to insiders, subtitles delivering an elbow to the ribs), but that is uniformly maintained by each individual reviewer. The number of writers that regularly appear on the site is a matter of indifference, since their unison voices make it virtually impossible to guess the author of a given review…
3 years ago