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class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></asi></hear></div><div data-attribute-verso-pattern="article-body" class="ArticlePageContentBackGround-cNiFNN kJkLmH article-body__ntent"><div class="ArticlePageChunksContent-etcMtP bwyLBj"><div data-ttid="ArticlePageChunks" class="ArticlePageChunks-fLyCVG eSsnKa"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>This year, Pchfork celebrat 25 years of publishg. But even now, after award-wng vio documentari and dynamic ver stori and ftivals staged across two ntents, the sence of Pchfork—and the first thg that to md for many when they thk of our publitn—is the rerd review. It’s partly bee Pchfork has remaed so mted to the ia of the album as a plete mil statement. But let’s face : ’s mostly bee of the srg system. That 101-pot sle, om 0.0 to 10.0, remas unique to our publitn, an admtedly absurd and subjective metric that acts as the se’s llg rd. Beyond the cimal pots, though, Pchfork’s reviews sectn has evolved to a glossary of cricism that shows wrers who are passnate about disvery, taste, and munitg why, exactly, a piece of mic is worth your attentn.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>The reviews sectn has published over 28,000 reviews sce first began. Below, we’ve unearthed a handful that shaped Pchfork, ocsnally fluenced the nversatn around mic and, here and there, even mic self (though ultimately, that is for others to ci.) We highlight band-breakg and genre-specific reviews, early Bt New Mics, and some of the unfettable and downright goofy moments that reflected the se’s evolvg edorial sensibili.</p><p>About that last pot: Sce Pchfork has been publishg for so long, ’s easy to fet jt how humble s begngs were, and how the norms of s early perd differed om those of the prent day. Pchfork was found by Ryan Schreiber his suburban Mneapolis bedroom, and emerged om ze culture and the strint language of the rock prs and alternative newspapers. It took a while for Pchfork to tch up to the wrers and edors who were several steps ahead alt media, those who realized how much work need to be done to make the mic prs aware of s bias and prejudic. For a large swath of time, the se was n mostly by middle-class whe guys their 20s and 30s, and a cent chunk of the taste and wrg reflected that limed perspective.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p>We mentn this not to disavow the work created durg the se’s eewheelg early years, which was often cisive and entertag and which remas an sential part of Pchfork’s inty. But there’s no qutn that Pchfork has grown and changed—we thk for the better. Nowadays, Pchfork’s wrers, edors, and ntributors take the se’s missn to unver and explore ccial mic wherever we fd more serly while knowg that good, cril nversatn is at s bt when ’s fun, too. We expect that the longtime rears will have noticed that steady evolutn, both voice and spe. </p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="fbyypa"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>So now, on the ocsn of the lnch of our new <a href=">Reviews Explorer tool</a>, here is a history of Pchfork’s reviews sectn told through 38 pivotal piec.</p><hr/><h2>THE FIRST REVIEW</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Adapter and Plug" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">The Amps, <em>Pacer</em></a> (1996)</div><p>The mic se Ryan Schreiber started went through a uple of different nam and began as a monthly publitn—new ntent me sporadilly for the first of uple years—but when daily updat began, reviews were ccial. Wh featur and lumns you need pch and origal photos, and the piec uld be long and require more edg than one person workg part-time uld manage. Reviews were short and need only album art.</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="vt7i6j"></div></div><p>“I always planned for Pchfork to be centered on reviews,” Schreiber told over the phone April 2021. "I was already an obssive nsumer of rerd reviews. I jt loved the bat, the nversatn about mic, even if was a one-way nversatn. I knew I wasn’t a good wrer, and I had no pretens about that, but my perspective was, I have strong nvictns about mic, I re about immensely, and I’m jt gog to wre like I talk.” That reviews would have sr was a given. “I liked when there was a sre wh the review, bee would kd of serve as an entry pot,” he says. “But I also thought that if the se was gog to be a daily, then was gog to need a wir rangg srg system.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>The first review to go live, wrten by Schreiber, was for <em>Pacer</em>, the lone album by the Amps, a si project fo<em>r</em> Kim Deal while the Breers were on hiat. It was a hotly tipped rerd at the time bee her primary group’s last LP, <em>Last Splash</em>, had been such a phenomenon. <em>Pacer</em> received an 8.2, though ially that ratg would have appeared as 82%—for a while, sr were prented as percentag rather than the numeral-and-tenth sle we all know and love. (We listened recently, and ’s still the 8s, easily.) The piece is 132 words long. From this pot forward, the Pchfork review was officially a thg.</p><hr/><h2>THE FIRST 10</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Plastic Wrap" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">12 Rods, <em>Gay?</em></a> (1996)</div><p>The first two 10.0 ratgs Pchfork history happened close succsn, and they were both by Mneapolis bands. <em>Gay?</em> by style-hoppg outf 12 Rods, wrten by Jason Joseph (for a time, Ryan and Jason wrote almost all the ntent on the se), me first, followed by <a href=">Walt Mk’s <em>El Producto</em></a>. Both rerds me out January 1996. Joseph brought 12 Rods to Schreiber. “He lived Mneapolis, and I was still the suburbs,” Schreiber says. “He was olr, gog to shows every night and wrg reviews for a lol paper lled <em>The Squealer</em>. Jason had seen 12 Rods live and was blown away, and he bought the CD of <em>Gay?</em> at their merch table and ma me a py. We both went crazy for .” But there was very ltle thought or discsn about givg an album a perfect sre or plantg a flag by champng a lol band. “It never me up. We didn’t have any rears, one, and two, the ter was jt so new, the dividg le between lol and global wasn’t really prent." But Schreiber still listens to that first 10.0. “To me, holds up,” he says. “The sre obvly throws expectatns way out of whack, and the tle is unfortunate. But as a six-song EP om an emergg band, ’s pretty exceptnal.”</p><hr/><h2>A SURPRISE 0.0</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Advertisement Poster Brochure Paper Flyer Graphics and Art" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Sonic Youth, <em>NYC Ghosts & Flowers</em></a> (2000)</div><p>Sonic Youth’s 2000 album <em>NYC Ghosts & Flowers</em> wasn’t the first 0.0 Pchfork history, nor was the most notor—that’s probably a tie between <a href=">Liz Phair’s 2003 self-tled LP</a> and <a href=">Travis Morrison’s 2004 solo but, <em>Travistan</em></a>. But me when the se’s rearship was growg and was notable part bee went agast the cril gra. <em>Rollg Stone</em> gave <em>NYC Ghosts</em> 3.5 stars, <em>SPIN</em> gave an 8 out of 10, and at the <em>Village Voice</em>, Robert Christg gave an A. Pchfork’s Brent DiCrcenzo didn’t jt thk was overrated—he thought was downright horrible. And he attacked the rerd like only a disappoted superfan n. “It tak a giant to fall and make this big of a splash,” he wrote. “Home movi may be sloppy, but tanic disasters like <em>Hudson Hawk</em> and <em>Bonfire of the Vani</em> go down history when even the dam of skill, better judgment, and experience fails to stymie the flood of bile.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="ov8r2"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>You might thk givg a sthg review to one of the fg unrground rock bands of the era, a group whose very existence formed a rnerstone of the mic scene Pchfork was documentg, would be the product of a great al of liberatn. But you would be wrong. Neher Schreiber nor DiCrcenzo remember discsg the ratg at all. Schreiber is pretty sure he hadn’t even heard the album when the review ran. “We liked to do thgs that generated attentn, but nothg about was unual,” he says. “I remember batg some sr wh wrers—Jam Wisdom wantg to give <a href=">Save Ferris a 9.5</a>, for example—but not this one.”</p><p>DiCrcenzo eventually me around on the rerd and even grew to love . In 2013, he <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wrote a mea culpa</a> when he was the mic edor of <em>Time Out Chigo</em>. “I listened to that rerd two weeks ago, ’s probably one of the Sonic Youth albums that I’ve listened to the most at this pot,” he said when we ught up wh him recently. To him, the ratg grew out of rentg the New York-ns of the album. “To , there was fely a chip on our shoulrs, beg om Chigo.”</p><hr/><h2>A SHOOTING STAR</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Outdoors" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Radhead, <em>Kid A</em></a> (2000)</div><p>Cometh the hour, eth the man who had never even seen a shootg star before. Brent DiCrcenzo wrote an enthiastic and florid 10.0 review of a very nsequential album om a very nsequential band—and the afterglow lgers to this day. People passed the review around the ter toutg s rare perfect sre and s acpanyg say that was as heartfelt as was bizarre. For many, put Pchfork on the map as a se that was dog somethg... different. Breakg away om the stylized snark of ze wrg and direct opposn to the lean reviews published magaz, DiCrcenzo’s paean to <em>Kid A</em> reflected a kd of earntns and purple-hued prose the se would e to knowgly embrace. (An early b of Pchfork merch was a t-shirt wh a wizard’s p on , a reference to a bemg le om the review: “...perfect as a wizard’s p”).</p><p>“I wanted my reviews to make the rear feel [how] the rerd ma me feel,” DiCrcenzo told <em>Billboard</em> a <a href=">retrospective terview</a>. “If the rerd ma me lgh, I’d try to make the dience lgh. If the album ma me emo, I would go heart-on-screen. <em>Kid A</em> immediately awed and exced me and ma me want to gh about .” Sce then the review has taken on a life of s own as a ttament to how wrg about mic n really be like dancg about archecture. It remas a shaggy but lovg artifact of a first-person say that tri to put to words the size and spe of a geologic shift mic.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa gcRAJf body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn iWbVYN" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Text and Face" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="(1)" srcSet="(1) 120w, (1) 240w, (1) 320w, (1) 640w, (1) 960w, (1) 1280w, (1) 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><hr/><h2>AN APRIL FOOL’S JOKE GONE AWRY</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="The History of Pchforks Reviews Sectn 38 Important Reviews" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Kylie Mogue, <em>Fever</em></a> (2002)</div><p>Rears loadg Pchfork on April 1, 2002, found a note om the edor a banner at the top of the page. Its precise ntent has been lost to history, but acrdg to Schreiber, said somethg about how Pchfork had been acquired by a rporatn and the se’s foc would shift. “A lot of what Pchfork was tryg to do then was to get noticed, however we uld,” he says. “Any day that we have a lot of traffic for any reason is a good day. And the se fely had a b of a practil joker streak,” he says.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="rvy7xe"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>So the lead review that day was Kylie Mogue's new album <em>Fever</em>, wrten by Domique Leone, a prolific ntributor to the se the early 2000s whose primary beat was left-field and experimental mic. The ia, which turned out to be half-baked, was that <em>Fever</em> was a <em>pop</em> album, the kd of thg the die-steeped Pchfork wouldn't touch unls was to pan . But Dom, who listened to plenty of pop alongsi Boredoms si projects and rerds by the French progrsive rock band Magma, thought was a cent rerd and wrote a straightforward evaluatn. “There was a lot of that happeng on Pchfork back those days, where there was jt some mic that would jt eher never get wrten about or if was, was gog to be negative,” he tells . “I wouldn’t say I was a Kylie Mogue fan, specifilly. But I listened to everythg, and I thought I’d jt approach as another album.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>So though April Fool’s 2002 didn’t e close to landg as a joke, marked a kd of turng pot for the Pchfork review sectn. The days, most who were there remember the post-lennial moment as an unually powerful one for pop and rap. Schreiber and many Pchfork ntributors felt that pull; a year later, Pchfork's Bt Songs of 2003 list was topped by Outkast, Beyoncé, and Jt Timberlake.</p><hr/><h2>THE “PITCHFORK EFFECT”</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Mil Instment Mician Human Person Leisure Activi Guar Crowd and Mic Band" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Broken Social Scene, <em>You Fot</em> <em>It People</em></a> (2003)</div><p>The meetg between Broken Social Scene and Pchfork was pure kismet. The Toronto group’s 2001 but album, <em>Feel Good Lost</em>, nsisted mostly of post-rock stmentals by foundg members Kev Drew and Brendan Canng. For the follow-up, <em>You Fot It People</em>, the lp expand to an 11-person llective (cludg members of Feist, Metric, and Stars), and the group’s swellg atmospher hung om sturdy rock hooks. Released Canada October 2002, the album had yet to arrive Stati when Pchfork’s Bt New Mic review ran the followg Febary.</p><p>The piece, by Schreiber, which begs by scribg a New Year’s rolutn to slog through a pile of promo CDs, reads today as an argument for the up-and-g band and webse alike, breathlsly champng <em>You Fot It In People</em> as the type of diamond the rough that only a tsted tastemaker n discern: “both challengg, forward-thkg mic <em>and</em> straight-up accsibily.” Packed U.S. shows and a short-lived major label al followed, and BSS’s anotment me to exemplify a <a href=">“Pchfork effect”</a> that uld help lnch serendipoly placed bands like Art Bt or Clap Your Hands Say Yeah om relative obscury. “Everythg aligned,” says Drew, who didn’t own a puter and had to go to a neighbor’s hoe so he uld read the review. “I’ve done a lot of terviews over the past 18 years about this very thg and beg lled Pchfork darlgs and all that. It only helped.” Canng adds, “It changed our liv, sentially.”</p><hr/><h2>THE BEGINNINGS OF “BEST NEW MUSIC”</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Art and Patg" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Deerhoof, <em>Apple O’</em></a> (2003)</div><p>In sprg 2003, Schreiber was thkg about how to make a nng list of the strongt recent albums available for Pchfork’s rears. It had been a big year for pennt mic and for the se—the Broken Social Scene review om Febary beg the most proment example—and sce the search functn was limed, ma sense to assemble the most ccial albums on a dited page.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="hmf1v"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>“An advantage that Pchfork had over prt was we uld do a bt-of-the-year list real time” he says. Inspiratn me part om <em>The</em> <em>Pengu Gui to Jazz</em>, which clud star gras for rerds and marked some wh a “crown” to dite an sential release of special mer. The Bt New Mic sectn lnched late March 2003, but would be a few years before the signatn showed up on dividual pag alongsi the sre. Deerhoof’s <em>Apple O’</em>, which received an 8.3 very near when the BNM sectn began, was among the first albums to land on the list when went live (releas gog back to January 2003 were add retroactively). An edor’s note scribed the page as “a selective offerg of the rerds I thk are most likely to appeal to virtually everyone who reads this se.”</p><hr/><h2>A DELAYED DANCE-PUNK PARAGON</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Human Person Advertisement and Poster" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">The Rapture, <em>Echo</em></a> (2003)</div><p>New York band the Rapture perfected their yowlg bo of post-punk tumult and dis propulsn when they teamed up wh productn duo the DFA for March 2002’s “Hoe of Jealo Lovers,” a sweaty wbell banger that famoly tght die kids to dance aga. Dance-punk spread wh albums such as Liars’ <em>They Threw Us All a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top</em> and Out Hud’s <em>S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D.</em>, as well as sgl like !!!’s “Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A Te Story)”; a siarly movement-iendly style, the glammed-up synth-pop smasbord dubbed electroclash, also blew up around the same time, epomized New York by the duo Fischerspooner and their throbbg “Emerge.” But the Rapture’s but full-length, <em>Echo</em>, didn’t h file-sharg servic for more than a year, and rerd-store shelv for months after that.</p><p>Fally, September 2003—a day after <em>Echo</em>’ UK release but more than a month ahead of s official U.S. arrival—Pchfork’s Bt New Mic review, by Schreiber, cemented the album as a dance-punk paragon. “When that rerd review me out, killed me a great way,” says the Rapture sger/guarist Le Jenner. “It was like I’d already reached the top and now there was nothg to do. I had to shift goal posts.” <em>Echo</em> topped Pchfork’s list of the Top 50 Albums of 2003, and the ia of mixg punk’s urgency wh dance beats went on to domate the ensug and beyond, most notably through DFA -founr Jam Murphy’s LCD Soundsystem project, but also through a UK rave revival, Amerin dubstep, and the mercial EDM boom.</p><hr/><h2>FOLK MUSIC FREAKS OUT</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Text Calligraphy Handwrg Drawg Art Doodle and Rug" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Var Artists, <em>Goln Appl of the Sun</em></a> (2004)</div><p>In 2004, a number of tertg artists were makg scffy psychelic mic wh atic stments. The sound me to be lled eak folk, and the album that first fed was the <em>Goln Appl of the Sun</em> pilatn. Featurg ntributns om Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart (who curated the set for now-funct prt publitn “Arthur”), Vashti Bunyan, and more, the p crystallized a post-Y2K, post-9/11 moment when stic reigned supreme. Brandon Stosuy, later an edor at Pchfork, wrote the review, and a recent phone ll he rells both the quick turnaround of the piece— was assigned at the last mute, and he download the mp3s one-by-one while wrg—and that remd him of an earlier, more experimental moment pennt mic. “It sound like somethg I might have read about z like <em>Bananafish</em> or <em>Chemil Imbalance</em>,” he says now. “It had that acidy for me, an openns to experimentatn.” Alongsi dance-punk and emergg stras of what me to be lled blog rock, the wooly folk of artists on <em>Goln Appl</em> helped fe the sound of mid-ghts die.</p><hr/><h2>INDIE ROCK GETS EARNEST</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Tattoo Sk Art Drawg and Doodle" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Ar Fire, <em>Funeral</em></a> (2004)</div><p>How did we get here? One of the trends early-2000s guar mic most acclaimed by prt alternative-mic magaz was the garage-rock revival, nomally spearhead by the Whe Strip and the Strok and soon spanng the globe thanks to such bands as the V, the Hiv, and the Caars. Meanwhile, Montreal, the Canadians and Amerins of Ar Fire were amassg a voted followg wh an approach that was more earnt, ls New York-centric, more keepg wh classic ’90s die rock like Ntral Milk Hotel.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="j7dxtd"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>Two days before the formal release of Ar Fire’s but album, <em>Funeral</em>, Pchfork ran a Bt New Mic review by David Moore that beme, after the <em>Kid A</em> review, perhaps the se’s bt-known rave. Openg wh a qutn prevly posed by the Talkg Heads, the review tablished Ar Fire as earnt, emotnally exprsive avatars for olr lennials, stgglg to rencile the nocence and grandsy of children’s lerature wh the tragedi of 9/11 and the War on Terror. Wh the <em>Funeral</em> review, glockenspiel beme an stment associated wh fist-pumpg, Ar Fire beme rock’s new artistic standard bearers, and a posive Pchfork wre-up beme somethg that uld speak not only to the state of die rock, or the mic dtry, but—for 900-ish soarg words, anyway—the anxieti of a generatn.</p><hr/><h2>OUR SHORTEST REVIEW</h2><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Jet, <em>She On</em></a> (2004)</div><figure data-ttid="IameEmbed" class="IameEmbedWrapper-sc-dRedg hZiq iame-embed"><div data-ttid="IameEmbedContaer" class="IameEmbedContaer-hptgUZ kHuUWr"><div class="IameEmbedAspectRatWrapper-hFVJps kaOLzO"><iame class="IameEmbedContent-cMdiev csnuAY IameEmbedContent lazyload" height="150" width="200" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-popups allow-same-orig" tle="Embedd Frame" data-src=" allow="toplay *; encrypted-media *; clipboard-wre; toplay; fullscreen; picture--picture"></iame></div></div></figure><hr/><h2>AN ALBUM AS GOOD AS THE MIXTAPES</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Pha T Human Person Clothg Apparel Oven and Appliance" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Clipse, <em>Hell Hath No Fury</em></a> (2006)</div><p>After breakg out 2002 wh their but sgle “Grd’,” Virgia rap duo Clipse found themselv stuck major-label purgatory, unable to grab the attentn of their rporate overlords. So they got creative. In 2005, wh their send album layed, Pha-T and Malice released a pair of unrground mixtap, <em>We Got It 4 Cheap Vol. 1</em> and <em>2</em>, where they laced vic dg-alg raps over the hottt beats of the moment, one-uppg the lik of Game, Ludacris, and Common on their own tracks. <em>Vol. 2</em> received a sre of 8.8 and land at No. 15 on Pchfork’s Bt Albums of 2005 list, and the se votedly vered every leaked Clipse track and sgle leadg up to the November 2006 release of <em>Hell Hath No Fury</em>. It was worth the wa. Marked by bulgg productn urty of the Neptun, the album offered a space-age sp on the plex them and wordplay of ’90s ke-rap tans like Biggie and Jay-Z.</p><hr/><h2>THE SITE GETS SPOOFED</h2><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">“Pchfork Giv Mic 6.8”</a> (2007)</div><p>By the mid-’00s, Pchfork had fally reached s “Weird Al” phase: famo enough to spire parody. In 2004, Sub Pop hosted <a href=">a fake Pchfork homepage</a> on s webse; 2005, David Cross wrote his own mock Pchfork reviews… <a href=">for Pchfork</a>. <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Nick Kroll played Ryan Schreiber on <em>Human Giant</em></a> 2006 and <a href=">Fred Armisen played him on <em>Portlandia</em></a> 2012. But the greatt Pchfork imatn of all time is hands down <a href=">this 2007 Onn article</a>, a masterpiece of satire featurg zgers like “Mic is weighed down by a few too many mid-tempo tun, most notably ‘Liebträume No. 3 In A-Flat’ by Franz Liszt and ‘Closg Time’ by ’90s alt-rock group Semisonic,” and “In the end, though mic n be brilliant at tim, the whole medium off as rivative of Pavement.” For years, a amed py of the Onn article hung the bathroom of Pchfork’s Chigo office. And jt to set the rerd straight: 6.8 is <em>not</em> a bad sre!</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa gcRAJf body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn iWbVYN" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Text Face Word and Alphabet" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="(2)" srcSet="(2) 120w, (2) 240w, (2) 320w, (2) 640w, (2) 960w, (2) 1280w, (2) 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><hr/><h2>INDIE’S MAINSTREAM MOMENT</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Human Person Lamp and Chanlier" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Vampire Weekend, <em>Vampire Weekend</em></a> (2008)</div><p>Vampire Weekend me along when pennt mic was htg new mercial heights, and the borrs between die rock and the mastream were begng to blur. At the same time, Pchfork was gag rears and gog through s own evolutn—toward a more profsnal style that went beyond tastemakg while nsirg ias around inty and class. Wh their preppy style, sly mentary on wealth, and referential lyrics, Vampire Weekend offered plenty of tails for a cric to tease out. Pchfork wrer Nsuh Abebe did jt that his review of their self-tled but, breakg down the band’s clever charms while makg astute observatns like, “There’s nothg more moneyed than havg the luxury to fd money tacky.”</p><hr/><h2>SORRY!</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Human Person Clothg Apparel and Text" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Black Kids, <em>Partie Trmatic</em></a> (2008)</div><p>In October 2007, a Jacksonville band lled Black Kids posted to MySpace a four-song EP lled <em>Wizard of Ahhhs</em>. In the wang days of the blog-rock era, die rock fans uldn’t get enough exuberance, and Black Kids, onted by sger and guarist Reggie Youngblood, had exuberance to spare. Youngblood sang wh an enthed yelp that sound a b like Robert Smh, the group’s ra-ra background chants brought to md the Go! Team, and the songs foced on fleetg csh and lastg heartache wh knowg humor. Later that month, New York Cy, the CMJ Mic Marathon would kick off, and Pchfork was not alone s excement for this new band. The now-mature onle hype mache, functng whout the limg fluence of a social media backlash, was good at makg a new artist seem like an enormo al very quickly.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="tsf58"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>By early 2008, Black Kids had signed wh Columbia and hired Bernard Butler, formerly of Sue, to produce their but album. When their but album <em>Partie Trmatic</em> fally arrived July, there was plenty of praise to go around. But edors at Pchfork heard differently. Instead of text, the review nsisted only of a photo of two pugs owned by Pchfork Print Chris Kaskie. On the image was a sgle word: “Sorry!”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-3 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>“It was an apology to the rearship,” Schreiber says. “We were sayg we were mistaken about this band, we fucked up.” He now scrib the review as “arrogant,” part bee there was a groundswell of enthiasm for Black Kids among other publitns. Regardls, was a nfg gture that possibly served as a turng pot for the sectn, and “stunt reviews” would bee equent. “I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyiend How to Dance wh You” still l, however.</p><hr/><h2>THE OFFICE MOVES TO NEW YORK</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="The History of Pchforks Reviews Sectn 38 Important Reviews" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Vivian Girls, <em>Vivian Girls</em></a> (2008)</div><p>Pchfork opened s first New York office 2007 and was only natural that the se started verg the lol scene more tently. Luckily, the do--yourself spac around Greenpot turned out to be fertile ground for die rock. One of the most buzzed-about and oddly divisive Brooklyn die bands of this place and time was Vivian Girls, the tr of sger-guarist Cassie Ramone, bassist Katy Goodman, and dmmer Ali Koehler. The Phil Spector-via-Slumberland Rerds noise-pop of Vivian Girls’ self-tled but album sold out a limed n upon s ial release sprg 2008, feedg the enzy of opns on the era’s many mic blogs. In June, Pchfork’s own now-funct Forkst blog gave s <a href=">On Repeat</a> distctn to <em>Vivian Girls</em>’ harmony-drenched, ass-kickg “Tell the World.”</p><p>When the album received a wir reissue later that year, Pchfork’s Bt New Mic review, by Amy Granz, told the world what crowds North Brooklyn unrground rock venu had known all along. Vivian Girls have broken up and rned, releasg three more albums pl assorted si projects along the way, and their cult fluence is now unniable.</p><hr/><h2>WHEN THE WEIRDOS WENT POP</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Pattern" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Animal Collective, <em>Merriweather Post Paviln</em></a> (2009)</div><p>Animal Collective had been on a steady upward trajectory sce the release of their fifth album, <em>Sung Tongs</em>, 2004. The band started as a eply weird and experimental noise-folk outf, but wh each rerd their songs were gettg tchier and more accsible, if still pretty odd the grand scheme. They were playg larger rooms on tours followg <em>Feels</em> and <em>Strawberry Jam,</em> and Panda Bear’s solo album <em>Person Pch</em> topped Pchfork’s list of The 50 Bt Albums of 2007 after receivg a 9.4. Addg to the groundswell of tert, Animal Collective typilly played songs om their upg albums live, and receptn of unreleased tracks “My Girls” and “Brother Sport” was rapturo when tap of the shows were trad onle. So throughout 2008 anticipatn for the group’s eighth LP, <em>Merriweather Post Paviln</em>, was immense, reachg a peak when a French rad DJ played “Brother Sport,” which was subsequently leaked. (Anti-piracy anizatn Web Sheriff traced the leak to Grizzly Bear’s blog and Ed Droste subsequently issued an apology/explanatn—that’s the kd of goofy thg that ed to happen those days).</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="4f7"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>The Pchfork review by Mark Richardson that went up at 1 a.m. CST the day before the rerd’s January 6, 2009 release nfirmed <em>MPP</em> livered everythg those who followed the drama uld have hoped for, wh brilliant and ultra-tchy songs that kept Animal Collective’s warm psychelic glow. The album served as a culmatn of the and of an era, a time when you never knew what strange sounds might bubble up om the pennt unrground.</p><hr/><h2>THE YEAR OF CHILLWAVE</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Art Morn Art and Graphics" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Neon Indian, <em>Psychic Chasms</em></a> (2009)</div><p>Somethg was happeng 2009, and everybody had a silly name for . From artists sttered across Ameri, songs started poppg up on mic blogs and nascent social media that were simple, tchy, ated lo-fi haze, and often lyrilly themed around summer. This mic wasn’t always drenched synths—as evinced by rerds om early practners Bt Coast and Pure X—but when was, the effect uld be like ’80s ksch through the smeared lens of an early-morng dream. Blurry or not, many of the rerdgs had an pable emotnal pull, and September, Pchfork nfirmed as much wh an 8.0 review of Washed Out’s <em>Life of Leisure</em> EP (which clud the future <em>Portlandia</em> theme song, the also BNM-stamped “Feel It All Around”). By then, the term “chillwave” was circulatn for this kd of mic, but so were plenty of other neologisms, and all felt like a b of a lark.</p><p>When Texas-based, Mexin-born artist Alan Palomo, formerly of the projects Ghosthtler and VEGA, unleashed Neon Indian’s but album, <em>Psychic Chasms</em>, September, the summer of chillwave got s full-fledged album-length statement. Surreal sgalongs like “Deadbeat Summer” and “Should’ve Taken Acid Wh You” enpsulated the slacker spirual longg (this guy even unrachieved at <em>dog dgs</em>!) that seemed to be the air that year. Toro y Moi’s <em>Csers of This</em> early 2010 round out this very-onle genre wh nods toward the exprsive hip-hop beats of late producer J Dilla. In hdsight, chillwave may have been the sound of early, ialistic ter culture stavg off a panic attack jt long enough to enjoy one last season the sun.</p><hr/><h2>THE SWEDISH INVASION</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Advertisement and Poster" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Robyn, <em>Body Talk</em></a> (2010)</div><p>Pchfork had long ma some effort to ver mic om beyond North Ameri and the UK, but by the mid-’00s, acts such as Love Is All, Jens Lekman, and “Young Folks”-whistlg Peter Bjorn & John had brought Swen as close to the Amerin die zegeist as Brpop might have seemed a earlier. Pchfork’s disda for Eurodance was long gone, too: Norway’s Annie topped our Top 50 Sgl of 2004 list wh her club-thumpg “Heartbeat.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="b1znvb"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>Robyn’s return 2010, over three EPs culmatg her fifth album, <em>Body Talk</em>, was a long-awaed victory celebratn om an unrappreciated pop novator. Marc Hogan’s review of <em>Body Talk</em> acknowledged Robyn’s mastery of a type of pop that borrowed om the die world and sound big and mastream but was, for a time at least, more of a cult phenomenon.</p><hr/><h2>KANYE GOES SUPERNOVA</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Human Person Dance Ballet Ballera and Leisure Activi" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Kanye Wt, <em>My Betiful Dark Twisted Fantasy</em></a> (2010)</div><p>In 2010, no one else was as amb, as ridiculo, as <em>md-blowgly extra</em> ( a good way!) as Kanye Wt. After beg shunned by much of pole society followg his famo Taylor Swift stage crash at the 2009 VMAs, the backpack rapper turned arena star turned Auto-Tune futurist had a lot of love to w back wh his fifth album. So he bundled the bt aspects of his prev work, wrapped all up a sumptuo, star-studd package, and lled <em>My Betiful Dark Twisted Fantasy</em>.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-4 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>Leadg up to the rerd, Kanye borrowed om his iend and llaborator Lil Wayne’s playbook by releasg a strg of songs for ee onle, buildg up plenty of goodwill the procs. (Three of those—future album pillars “POWER,” “Monster,” and “Runaway”—were quickly named Bt New Track.) He also harnsed the excement of social media a time when social media was somethg that people were actually exced about, unleashg unfettable tweets that were as excsive as they were nrotic, such as the all-time classic, “I hate when I’m on a flight and I wake up next to a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be rponsible for this water bottle.”</p><p>It all culmated a rerd and a moment that somehow blew past the overwhelmg hype. In a review by Ryan Dombal, Pchfork award the album an extremely rare 10.0 the day of s November release, as beme the first new album to h that pnacle sce Wil’s <em>Yankee Hotel Foxtrot</em> 2002. Ecstatic fans and perplexed haters had plenty of thoughts, nspiracy theori, and piyune grip about the sre (“really pchfork? a 10 for kanye? sure the album may rock, but he is a sta. and stas should not be put on such a pestal,” went one), and thanks to Twter, they had a new place to put <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">every</a> <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">last</a> <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">word</a>.</p><hr/><h2>FRANK’S FIRST CLASSIC</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="The History of Pchforks Reviews Sectn 38 Important Reviews" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Frank Ocean, <em>Channel Orange</em></a> (2012)</div><p>Not only was Frank Ocean’s major-label but the first pstone on Odd Future’s rise to the mastream, but remas one of the bt buts of this century. When Frank released the rerd one week earlier than planned, there was a shock of munal excement. It was as if everyone on Twter, msage boards, and text msag was realizg unison that this was whout qutn an album sted for the pantheon of mic. It was important to regnize Frank’s outsized ntributn to pop, R&B, and rap, and Ryan Dombal did so a review he turned around about 48 hours. It clud nnectg songs like “Thk Bout You” to Frank Ocean’s <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">now famo Tumblr note</a>, where he opened up about his sexualy, pturg, sence, his fluidy. Everythg about Frank felt as if was shg forward time at an credible pace. This review wanted to pture that blur of a feelg, of an artist claimg somethg brand new for himself.</p><hr/><h2>CYBERPUNK 2012</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Doodle Art Human Person Drawg Advertisement and Poster" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Grim, <em>Visns</em></a> (2012)</div><p>When her third album was released 2012, Claire Boucher stood wh one platform boot the unrground and another the mastream. At the time, <em>Visns</em>’ <a href=">post-everythg digal maximalism</a> served as a lk between the die-approved electro-pop of the lik of Robyn and Lykke Li and the Tumblr-era avant experimentatns of, say, Oneohtrix Pot Never or Crystal Castl. (The album would go on to help lay the groundwork for the next generatn of hyperpop bedroom producers.) And Grim’ cyberpunk fashn and ntroversy-urtg social media prence acted as a bridge between <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Gorilla Vs. Bear</a> and the <a href=">MTV VMAs red rpet</a>. But the biggt impact that she would have on the that followed would be her maniftatn of a future which beg Extremely Onle would be elevated to a way of life.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="mdflf"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>Ldsay Zoladz’s review of <em>Visns</em> is shockgly prcient: “As a child I feared the day the world would be taken over by robots; the days I am seized by a much more potent fear that I am beg one,” begs. Ne years later, Claire Boucher is jokgly-not-jokgly planng to <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">implant chips to her cerebral rtex</a>, and has a child wh <a href=">a man actively workg to make that science fictn a realy</a>. “Have you ever ught yourself tryg to open a new tab your bra?” Zoladz asked her review, and who among don’t know the feelg.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa gcRAJf body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn iWbVYN" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Text and Face" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="(1)" srcSet="(1) 120w, (1) 240w, (1) 320w, (1) 640w, (1) 960w, (1) 1280w, (1) 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><hr/><h2>REVISITING THE DISCOGRAPHY</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Human Person Transportatn Vehicle Automobile and Car" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Sleater-Kney, <em>Start Together</em></a> (2014)</div><p>Sleater-Kney were on hiat om 2006 to 2014. But their mic—the ictn of Cor Tucker and Carrie Brownste’s ecstatilly overlappg voic tapulted by Ja Weiss’ inic swoop—never stopped reachg those of who need to hear that “culture is what we make ,” not jt what we’re sold. So when the Portland tr returned wh this reer-spanng box set, which clud a rnn-announcg 7'' sgle, they were met wh a whole new generatn of fans who had had their souls rearranged by a band they’d maybe never seen play. The <em>Start Together</em> box me at a time when culture general was aga beg a more femist place. Jenn Pelly’s retrospective say posned classic songs like “One More Hour,” “I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone,” and “Enterta” to a rock-historil ntuum while tracg how Sleater-Kney envisned a talog “om the iologil punch of third-wave femism to their post-rt grrrl classic rock revisnism.” As wh many reer-spanng overviews that would follow, the piece chronicled not jt a band’s past but what they mean to here and now.</p><hr/><h2>A NEW SOUND FROM ELECTRONIC MUSIC’S MARGINS</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="The History of Pchforks Reviews Sectn 38 Important Reviews" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Ar, <em>Xen</em></a> (2014)</div><p>Venezuelan-born Alejandra Ghersi materialized seemgly out of nowhere 2012 wh <em>Stretch 1</em> and <em>Stretch 2</em>, a pair of md-bogglg EPs that sound ltle like any other electronic mic of the era. In place of the purposeful rhythms and forceful low end of club mic or UK bass, Ar’s mic was oozg and unstable, a lysergic morass of sticky synths and mangled voic. Released on the ultra-unrground UNO NYC label, those rerds didn’t ially travel far beyond the avant-club scene, but they neverthels had an outsized impact: Before long, Ar was producg tracks for a still-unknown FKA twigs, ntributg beats to Kanye’s <em>Yeez</em>, and -producg Björk’s <em>Utopia</em>. Pchfork began reportg 2013 wh the release of <a href="><em>&&&&&</em></a>, a mixtape stretchg the artist’s nascent athetic to even more extreme forms, and shortly thereafter prented Ar wh then-llaborator Jse Kanda a <a href=">multimedia performance at MoMA PS1</a>.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="e7c3k"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>Then, 2014, Ar released her but album, <a href="><em>Xen</em></a>. It was a shoo- for Bt New Mic. “It’s been a while sce felt like there was anythg really, tegorilly <em>new</em> popular mic,” wrote Philip Sherburne. <em>Xen</em>’s newns, on the other hand, was self-apparent. Zig-zaggg between shudrg beats and ambient terlus, the album’s arrangements broke om standard genre nventns; s short, meanrg tracks sound almost modular nature, as though the album were meant to be played on shuffle, s nstuent parts fely rearrangeable. But the album’s most radil aspects manifted at the level of pure texture. By turns jagged and gelato, Ar’s perpetually shape-shiftg timbr suggted a new bmorphic ontier, an eerie new marriage of flh and technology where body horror (as reprented Kanda’s ver art for the album) beme bety, and vice versa. In 2014, Ar’s <em>Xen</em> was the most notable entry yet a growg non of experimental mic that phed beyond the lims of genre and, some s, genr. (Though Ghersi still publicly intified as male at the time, the album’s tular character was meant to reprent a nonbary alter ego.) This new futurism, eply rooted LGBTQIA+ muni, would e to radilly rhape the next seven years of popular culture.</p><hr/><h2>A LONG-AWAITED SURPRISE</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Human Person Advertisement and Poster" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">D’Angelo / The Vanguard, <em>Black Msiah</em></a> (2014)</div><p>By 2014, spe years of mors and a few leaked snippets, seemed as though D’Angelo might never release a follow-up to his stone classic 2000 album <em>Voodoo</em>. But on December 12 he dropped a bomb: his new album, Black Msiah, was g three days later. It was a year to the day after the release of <em>Beyoncé</em>, and the mic prs was still adaptg to the surprise drop that need to be absorbed and procsed rerd time.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-5 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>In a statement around the release of <em>Black Msiah</em>, D’Angelo said that the unrt that followed the ath of Michael Brown at the hands of the Fergon police had spired him to fish the album. In his review, Craig Jenks wrote, “He may have taken well over a to show face aga, but turns out D'Angelo is right on time.”</p><hr/><h2>A MASTERPIECE FROM A MODERN GENIUS</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Advertisement Poster Human Person Kwame Kilpatrick Text Brochure Paper and Flyer" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Kendrick Lamar, <em>To Pimp a Butterfly</em></a> (2015)</div><p>Before he rerd a note of his 2015 landmark <em>To Pimp A Butterfly</em>, Kendrick Lamar had already been anoted rap's savr. His 2012 major-label but, <em>good kid, m.A.A.d cy</em>, was stantly hailed as a classic of morn rap storytellg, rackg up six Grammy nomatns and butg at No. 1 on the Hip-Hop/R&B Chart and No. 2 on the <em>Billboard 200</em>. It was the kd of succs that begs and ends reers the same moment, and the stak for his follow-up felt periloly high. After visg Ai 2014, Lamar scrapped two or three albums’ worth of material and reced a crew of jazz micians that were begng to emerge om L.A.'s btlg beat scene—Thunrt, Flyg Lot, Robert Glasper, Terrace Mart, Kamasi Washgton. The sound that emerged was fluenced as much by Donald Byrd and Mil Davis as Sly Stone, and was a stark parture om the warm, liquid ton and rattlg programmed dms of <em>GKMC</em>. The radil posivy of the first sgle, “Who’s That Lady”-samplg “i,” was quickly plited by the ragg “The Blacker The Berry,” which channeled 2Pac’s fire and whose tle relled “Keep Ya Head Up,” and the anthemic “Alright,” which Lamar performed atop a vandalized p r on that year’s BET Awards to the predictable brayg of nservative punds. By the time the album was released, speculatn was at a fever pch, and wrg or edg a review of felt like tryg to get arms around a tidal wave.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa gcRAJf body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn iWbVYN" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Text and Face" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="(2)" srcSet="(2) 120w, (2) 240w, (2) 320w, (2) 640w, (2) 960w, (2) 1280w, (2) 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><hr/><h2>MODERN JAZZ CROSSES OVER</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Kamasi Washgton Human Person Universe Space Astronomy Outer Space Leisure Activi and Hair" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Kamasi Washgton, <em>The Epic</em></a> (2015)</div><p>Two months after the release of <em>To Pimp a Butterfly</em>, a gargantuan 3xLP album om one of that album’s llaborators hered a new era of jazz. Saxophonist Kamasi Washgton’s work was steeped the sounds of the 1960s and early ’70s, when new age spirual ncerns bumped agast Black power statements. While <em>The Epic</em> helped elevate those the Los Angel-based scene Washgton and his band had grown om, cludg Thunrt and Cameron Grav, also, a different way, opened the ey and ears of listeners who didn’t follow jazz closely, takg the mic of the past and resigng for the polil realy of the prent. In the wake of <em>The Epic</em>, existg unrground scen like those Chigo (Angel Bat Dawid, Black Monument Ensemble) and London (Sons of Kemet, Nubya Garcia) found receptive dienc om outsi the jazz world. In his review, Seth Colter Walls lled <em>The Epic</em> “a generatnal terventn—an tnal tool that wins the fn of styl that fall unr ‘jazz classicism.’”</p><hr/><h2>POPE GETS PANNED</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Pope Francis Human Person and Pope" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Pope Francis, <em>Wake Up!</em></a> (2015)</div><p>What were we dog reviewg the Pope? Well, sometim an opportuny aris that is too fun to pass up. Y, this was an unual review, but His Hols Pope Francis (@Pontifex on Twter) is an unual Pope. By the time this strange project was released, Pope Francis had nmned climate change and gone viral multiple tim—after our review (but not bee of ), he would ll the Inter “a gift om god.” Pchfork don't often dulge novelty sr, but this se, the ia, born of an edorial meetg, was worth the lgh while sisteppg the qutn,  “how do you rate the Pope?” As wrer Jia Tolento put , the bety of the album is simply that exists.</p><hr/><h2>A PARAGRAPH DISAPPEARS COMPLETELY</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Outdoors Mounta Nature Art and Patg" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Radhead, <em>A Moon Shaped Pool</em></a> (2016)</div><p>There was an edg error when this review was ially published that happened through some batn of a new CMS and old-school distractn, and the openg paragraph of the review was advertently cut at the last mute, for no reason other than a failed py and paste. The review went live and had been viewed hundreds of thoands of tim before the wrer Jayson Greene or the edor—who cintally is no longer at Pchfork, but not bee of anythg to do wh this review—noticed. Sce worked okay as was, and had been seen by so many, we left . But now we prent the missg paragraph, part to assuage the guilt of the edor who ma this mistake (and who may or may not have wrten this blurb) but mostly bee ’s more betiful wrg on this awome rerd om Greene:</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="7u3yx"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><blockquote class="BlockquoteEmbedWrapper-sc-SdiGL exEIep blockquote-embed"><div class="BlockquoteEmbedContent-RbGs fJXcFF blockquote-embed__ntent"><p>There is an 800-year-old Zen Buddhist teachg that you n fd on jt about any lowly spiratnal-quote aggregator: Enlightenment, when , is like the moon reflected water; the moon appears the water but do not get wet, and the water is undisturbed by the moon. The sentiment is as ep as gets—sentially, the meang of life—but the quote has taken on a stched-pillow afterlife, gted and rporated to self-help tracts advertisg mdfulns and livg a “more thentic” existence.</p></div></blockquote><hr/><h2>THE FIRST SUNDAY REVIEW</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Hair Human Person Clothg Apparel and Costume" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Kate Bh, <em>Hounds of Love</em></a> (2016)</div><p>For almost 20 years, the only way to discs old albums on Pchfork was to do so if they were beg reissued. It was a great way to talk about not jt the mic self, but the packagg and all the bon material that me bundled wh . Reviews of reissu were part album review, part nsumer gui for the pre-streamg age: Is the umpteenth reissue of Mil Davis’ <em>Kd of Blue</em> worth your time and money? (<a href=">Not really</a>.) We wanted a ls limg way to talk about olr rerds, so 2016, we stuted the Sunday Review, a weekly say about any album not our archiv regardls of whether was beg reissued or havg an anniversary. What began wh Barry Walters’ review of Kate Bh’s 1985 masterpiece <em>Hounds of Love</em> has bee an <a href=">archive of over 200</a> such piec.</p><hr/><h2>A PREVIEW OF POP’S POSSIBLE FUTURE</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Clothg Apparel Human Person Eveng Drs Gown Robe Fashn and Hair" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Charli XCX, <em>Pop 2</em></a> (2017)</div><p>In s synthetic yet seemgly natural blend of chart pop, hip-hop, and electronic mic, s humor and emotnal honty, and s acknowledgement of the endls generative potential of digal culture, <em>Pop 2</em> marked a waypot for the emergent genre of hyperpop on the path to mastream mil nscns. Charli XCX had released mixtap before <em>Pop 2</em>, but none that reprented such a turng pot. Havg worked wh SOPHIE on the prev year’s <em>Vroom Vroom</em> EP, she was already attuned to the priste, hyperactive sound of PC Mic—but though was created wh producer A. G. Cook, <em>Pop 2</em> is different. Its songs have ls clatter and more btersweet emotn; even when the vols are garbled or the beat glch, the feelg is human. Charli’s digal love songs look to the future but are relatable the prent. “There’s somethg a b msy about the whole thg,” Meaghan Garvey wrote her review, “a sense of humany, beamg plaly om s hyper-synthetic surroundgs, that feels like a revelatn.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa gcRAJf body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn iWbVYN" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Text and Face" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="(2)" srcSet="(2) 120w, (2) 240w, (2) 320w, (2) 640w, (2) 960w, (2) 1280w, (2) 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><hr/><h2>A REGGAETON STAR GOES GLOBAL</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="The History of Pchforks Reviews Sectn 38 Important Reviews" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">J Balv, <em>Vibras</em></a> (2018)</div><p>By the sprg of 2018, J Balv had already shown that his meticulo, lculated signs for global pop stardom were succeedg. He’d appeared on tracks and remix wh Pharrell, Jt Bieber, and Ariana Gran; nabbed his first No. 1 h via his feature on Cardi B’s “I Like It;” secured 1 billn YouTube views for his song “Mi Gente;” and performed on the Coachella mastage, beg the first reggaeton artist to do so, wh Beyoncé.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="9w0agi"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>As the aclas piled up, Balv released <em>Vibras</em>, his third stud album. The narrative surroundg the Colombian star was that he was re-troducg reggaeton to the Anglo mic dtry, which had largely neglected the movement sce the mid-2000s spe s massive populary outsi of the U.S. <em>Vibras</em> marked a moment of affirmatn of reggaeton’s global fluence—but Balv, ever the bsman, subverted that expectatn too, creatg a project that fluidly disassembled Ao-diasporic genr like dancehall, Aobeats, hip-hop, R&B, and mbow, even re-envisng elements of flamen. The album was not only a sign of the transformatn of reggaeton’s sonic tradns, also monstrated Balv’s sire to transcend the genre the first place (notably, crics like our own Matthew Ismael Ruiz observed that the pop reimagg of reggaeton implied whewashg and dilutn for mastream dienc). Latx artists had long been overlooked by Pchfork and this album’s appearance on the se was an early marker of jt how much brilliant mic had been missg.</p><hr/><h2>AN ALBUM IN 15 MINUTES</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="The History of Pchforks Reviews Sectn 38 Important Reviews" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Tierra Whack, <em>Whack World</em></a> (2018)</div><p>In 1996, everyone knew what an album was; by 2018, people weren’t so sure. <em>Whack World</em>, the but om visnary rapper and multimedia artist Tierra Whack, featured 15 songs 15 mut, each wh s own eye-poppg mic vio. Where the visual album was not entirely new, <em>Whack World</em> was a rare, surprisg  statement that felt plete spe and bee of s purposeful brevy. As Briana Younger not her review, “Where others stretch small ias and repetn, thng them out for easy absorptn, Whack the time nstrat to make her big ias seem larger than the space they’re allotted.” It was a showse of efficiency and style, and we’ve been eagerly wag for her next release ever sce.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa gcRAJf body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn iWbVYN" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Word Text Face and Alphabet" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="(2)" srcSet="(2) 120w, (2) 240w, (2) 320w, (2) 640w, (2) 960w, (2) 1280w, (2) 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><hr/><h2>A GLITCH IN THE ALGORITHM</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Nature Outdoors Astronomy Universe Space Outer Space Advertisement and Poster" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Greta Van Fleet, <em>Anthem of a Peaceful Army</em></a> (2018)</div><p>It n be difficult to pture jt how bad an album n be whout g a vio of a monkey uratg to s own mouth. Neverthels, we've ntued to try to fd ways to highlight the lows of morn mic to make the highs all the more meangful. The retro rock of Greta Van Fleet’s <em>Anthem of the Peaceful Army</em> prented wh some pretty historil nadirs mic, lyrics, productn, athetic, listenabily, cultural relevance, artistic visn, and jt the general vibe of the thg. Pchfork Reviews Edor Jeremy D. Larson found s slavish votn to the trop of ‘70s hard rock not only effectual, but tied to a broar scheme to juice the algorhm on streamg servic by soundg so siar to the massively popular bands of yteryear.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa gcRAJf body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn iWbVYN" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Text" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="(2)" srcSet="(2) 120w, (2) 240w, (2) 320w, (2) 640w, (2) 960w, (2) 1280w, (2) 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><hr/><h2>A LEAK BECOMES OFFICIAL</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Jai Pl Ftival Human Crowd Person Advertisement Collage Poster Clothg and Apparel" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Jai Pl, <em>Leak 04-13 (Ba On)</em></a> (2019)</div><p>Leaks are somethg we always have to al wh behd the scen. There’s no dified ethics when to wrg about or reportg on a leak of an album, but when a selectn of Jai Pl’s mic first appeared on a Bandmp page 2014, was paralyzg: Here is one of our favore artists of the ’10s, whose but on XL we were wag for. And here was this stolen, illegal selectn of songs whose release Jai Pl had no creative ntrol over. When Jai Pl officially issued this versn of the album 2019, he clud a note sayg the pirated versn “may have e om a burned CD that got misplaced.” It was an unprecented moment, a re-release of an album that was never gog to be an album the first place, but had harned to a bootleg cult classic the span of five years. <em>Leak 04-13</em> (<em>Ba On)</em> is an anomaly, and as Ryan Dombal put the review, “a ttament to boundls, unrealized promise.”</p><hr/><h2>THE CRITICAL DISCOURSE</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="The History of Pchforks Reviews Sectn 38 Important Reviews" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Lizzo, <em>Cuz I Love You</em></a> (2019)</div><p>It may not seem novel now, but when Pchfork began, was one of the first mic webs whout a ment sectn. Instead of postg a lightful bon mot below the review, rears would gather on msage boards like Hipn and ILX to offer their own thoughts, ope about a wrer’s pot of view, and generally air any number of grievanc. Over the years, the ment sectn slowly gravated towards social media, where both longtime rears and fans of artists celebrated or criqued reviews. After Rawiya Kameir wrote a warm but skeptil review of Lizzo’s 2019 album <em>Cuz I Love You</em>, beme a flashpot for a nversatn about how artists rpond to the discsn of their work. Lizzo rpond to the review, her fans rpond, and <a href="><em>The Atlantic</em></a> rpond to Lizzo and her fans. It was an unexpected dg on Lizzo who was skyrocketg populary, but Kameir’s thoughtful and rigoro say about “empowerment-re” created a more nuanced portra of the pop star. As importantly, prompted a nversatn about morn day mic cricism.</p><hr/><h2>TAYLOR SWIFT DAY</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Face Human and Person" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Taylor Swift, <em>Red</em></a> (2019)</div><p>Once upon a time, Pchfork’s edors assumed you would simply go somewhere else to read about Taylor Swift. The first of her albums to be reviewed was <em>reputatn</em>, 2017, but as the se’s purview broaned, the lack of verage creasgly felt like lack of ntext. So Augt 2019, ahead of the release of Swift’s seventh album, <em>Lover</em>—and before <a href=">drama wh Soter Brn</a> turned her back talog to a hotly ntted subject—Pchfork celebrated Taylor Swift Day: fillg the gaps wh new reviews of Swift’s first five rerds, perhaps none as beloved as <em>Red</em>. It marked Swift’s ascensn om untry star to pop supernova, and had been reviewed at the time of s origal release, s sre of 9.0 would have earned a Bt New Mic (like all those much oler die rerds).</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="v0f8"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>A retrospective review is a special assignment: When an album has been out for years, ’s up to the wrer to weigh received knowledge agast their own judgement, and to hopefully fd somethg new the balance. Brad Nelson’s luxur medatn on <em>Red</em> ptur the 22-year-old Swift her moment of transn, unfoldg the ways which the passg of time chang our perspective, revealg new nuance old memori.</p><hr/><h2>A PANDEMIC 10</h2><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Advertisement Poster Brochure Paper Flyer Human and Person" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><a href=">Fna Apple, <em>Fetch the Bolt Cutters</em></a> (2020)</div><p>Near the begng of a global panmic that had the world on lockdown, Fna Apple released an album that sound like a woman ready to break ee. It was right there the tle, the sound of her clatterg around her hoe wh her iends, dogs, and llaborators, the ocsnal rerdg shaggs and slip-ups that ma to the fal cut. Origally tend for release the fall of 2020, Fna dropped the album sprg thkg might be eful to those who were prer or ls than ial quarante habats; uld help exorcise the tenrns, tratn, and strength of a person unpackg their personal trmas while regnizg others. </p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-6 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>Usually the staff of Pchfork would have an office listeng ssn of a major album, but the ndns meant that an early advance was stead refully shared between edors and the review wrer, Jenn Pelly. The rponse was immediate—<em>Fetch the Bolt Cutters</em> was an stant classic to everyone who heard , a wild and smic journey of female rilience wh unparalleled songwrg and range. It marked an evolutn and triumph Fna’s reer, while feelg universally revelatory and equally ronant to this particular moment time. And so me about Pchfork’s newt real-time 10, the first sce Kanye’s <em>My Betiful Dark Twisted Fantasy</em> a before, and the first real-time 10 to be given to a female artist the history of the publitn. In an terview wh <em>The New Yorker</em> a few months later, Fna scribed when her close iend Zelda woke her up on the night of <em>Fetch the Bolt Cutters’</em> release to tell her about the review. “You’re done,” Zelda told her. “It’s good. You got a 10 om Pchfork.” Fna thought she was jokg.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 PaywallInleBarrierWhWrapperGrid-fyrGfS jyGBoi"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="body body__le-barrier article__body article__body--grid-margs"><div class="ntaer ntaer--body"><div class="ntaer--body-ner"><asi class="PaywallInleBarrierWrapper-iBnuqk lfXXa-D" data-ttid="PaywallInleBarrierWrapper"><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--paywall-le-barrier" role="prentatn" aria-live="pole" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--paywall-le-barrier"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></asi></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ContentWrapperGrid-fvkmBv jfHKjr"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="body body__ntaer"><div class="ntaer 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data-recirc-id="em-hed-2" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ lfbrty summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Sigur Rós Lnch “Film Experiment” Wh New “8” Vio</div></div></div></a><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY jCKKIz summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH CViXj byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd gebkj gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Jazz 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class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Jsie Ware and Róisín Murphy Jo Forc for “Freak Me Now”" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX irmJOI bric SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">News</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM kHqDAk summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ lfbrty summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Jsie Ware and Róisín Murphy Jo Forc for “Freak Me Now”</div></div></div></a><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY jCKKIz summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH CViXj byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd gebkj gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Jazz Monroe</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm XIzKh ad ad--read-more"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--read-more" 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