"Pitchfork has been publishing album reviews almost every day for 30 years. Each one has a score on a 0.0 to 10 scale, and underneath is a thoughtful consideration of the album from one of our writers. This simple format has always been the foundation of our site. We practice this obsessive ritual of publishing daily album reviews because we love music and want to deepen our readers' relationship to the artform. And since the beginning, Pitchfork's highly opinionated and carefully argued reviews have kick-started online conversations elsewhere on the internet: listservs, message boards, and later, social media."
"Starting today, there is a new Pitchfork subscription that costs $5 a month, which allows readers to score albums themselves, comment on our reviews, and be in dialogue with our critics and each other. (Can't decide if an album is a 6.8 or a 7.2? Read our new Scoring Guidelines here.) Once a review has more than five scores, the aggregate reader score will appear beneath Pitchfork's score on the review. We still believe in the authority and, to be honest, the primacy of Pitchfork's taste-but we want to publish our readers' taste and opinions, too."
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Pitchfork has published album reviews almost daily for 30 years, each featuring a 0.0–10 score and a writer’s consideration. A new $5-per-month subscription enables readers to score albums, comment on reviews, view reader score aggregates after five ratings, and access the full archive of over 30,000 reviews. The site provides Scoring Guidelines to help readers choose precise decimal ratings. Comments will be moderated under new Community Guidelines. News, Features, and Columns remain free, and non-subscribers can read four free reviews monthly. The change aims to surface readers’ tastes alongside Pitchfork’s authority and foster social engagement around music.
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