Totally agree. Great music writing has always pulsed with personality and been alive to irony and wit. Pitchfork is just so joyless. As another comment notes however, Alphonse Pierre seems to have found a way of sneaking amusing prose under the humour detector.
A long-time p4k reader here lol. I like Meaghan Garvey's reviews a lot. Sadly they no longer write for the site. Alphonse Pierre always has witty takes on the current rap in his column. Paul A. Thompson writes sharp reviews for which I keep a lookout. They are some of the people that I can think of on top of my head that really shine through the p4k corporate complex as distinctive writers.
The other issue I have is that, like seemingly all critics aggregated on Metacritic, every album is rated as around 7 or better. Good is the enemy of Great.
Totally agree. Great music writing has always pulsed with personality and been alive to irony and wit. Pitchfork is just so joyless. As another comment notes however, Alphonse Pierre seems to have found a way of sneaking amusing prose under the humour detector.
A long-time p4k reader here lol. I like Meaghan Garvey's reviews a lot. Sadly they no longer write for the site. Alphonse Pierre always has witty takes on the current rap in his column. Paul A. Thompson writes sharp reviews for which I keep a lookout. They are some of the people that I can think of on top of my head that really shine through the p4k corporate complex as distinctive writers.
Spot on, my feelings exactly.
The other issue I have is that, like seemingly all critics aggregated on Metacritic, every album is rated as around 7 or better. Good is the enemy of Great.
I agree. I can't think of one article that I have read on the site that has provided the motivation to seek out an artist's work in more depth.