[tptacek]

Pitchfork was gone long before Conde. Back in 2011, they panned Childish Gambino's 4th release††, giving it a 16%†. Here's what Donald Glover had to say, 2 years before the Conde acquisition:

If I worked for Pitchfork, I wouldn't give myself a 9.0 either. They're a brand, they sell tickets to a show they put on every year. They're not going to give a 1.6 to someone who can be at their show and sell tickets. They're not the same publication that I grew up with anyway. It's changed, and that happens. Any good idea starts with a movement, becomes a business, and ends up a racket. And I'm not calling Pitchfork a racket, but they're a business.

† I'm not dignifying 0.0-10

†† I had called this his 4th album but this was his first LP

[drawfloat]

He also said he’d knock out Ian Cohen on sight if he saw him down LA Fitness after that review, man of many opinions lmao

[boomboomsubban]

A year or two I was browsing the Pitchfork "best songs of the 10's" and was rather confused that "This is America" wasn't on it. A long running feud explains it.

But eh, they're allowed to have "bad" opinions. Every critic I've remotely followed has strongly disagreed with me at times.

[tptacek]

It's not that they didn't like Childish Gambino (I don't either), but rather that the idea that Pitchfork had long since sold its soul for access was already floating out there in the air years before the Conde buyout.

On the other hand, "If you buy only one hip-hop album this year, I’m guessing it’ll be Camp." is a sick burn.

[defrost]

I circled back to the source, the italic stress on one

"If you buy only one hip-hop album this year, I’m guessing it’ll be Camp."

really sticks the landing.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16074-camp/

Meanwhile, antipodeanally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr3iI8gg2fo never made it to Pitchfork just NME https://www.nme.com/en_au/reviews/album/king-stingray-album-...