Music Review Sites

Anonymous · 2012-12-06T13:06:37-05:00

Which sites do you trust most that feature critical responses to albums? I've always thought AllMusic gets it right a lot of the time, but often tend to dismiss any emotional impact behind an album - instead looking at mostly just the actual song writing. That said I think they rate way to many albums 4 stars. Pitchfork annoy me - they give most albums very average ratings and then everything else either extremely high or extremely low, often favoring the sort of albums hipsters snort about all the time. They can be a little to full of themselves sometimes. I've yet to find a review site that's in sync with my views on the values of music.

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Toronto

Pitchfork is great for news, lists, and keeping up with trends.

In terms of actually reading/listening, Fantano generally has something insightful to say about whatever album I'm listening to at the time.

Consequence of Sound is good more times than not.

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Fantano is pretty great, and gives good critiques of albums.
Dead End Hip Hop is good - sometimes their video structure can be pretty unfocused, but they have some good reviews and provide some good social commentary.

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junodog4 Future Grumpy Old Man Profile
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I like Metacritic. It's a good place to start looking at reviews.

...and BEA hasn't steered me too far wrong.
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Pitchfork=Crap

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