Pitchfork’s Latest Skewed Review Is For The Birds

Brian Raftery | June 14, 2007 4:20 am
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We don’t normally dissect individual Pitchfork record reviews, because such a practice would get unnecessarily nitpicky after a while, and it would require us to actually read Pitchfork record reviews. But we were slightly dumbfounded by this weirdly out-of-whack 4.4 review of Pelican’s City Of Echoes, which is essentially an 800-word referendum on how much the drummer allegedly sucks, and how said suckiness bungled what is otherwise “the best Pelican album yet.” What? We understand the main critical points here (which, by the way, we don’t really agree with), but to base an entire grade on one band member’s performance seems unfair, and the review reads more like an act of finger-wagging showmanship than an honest critical evaluation. Read it and let us know if we’re crazy. Or at least crazier than usual:

Pelican: City of Echoes: Pitchfork Record Review [Pitchfork]