Publication End Of The Year Lists 2016 • Page 29

Wildhoney and Mercury Girls made us a year-end mix (listen)

lots of great DC/baltimore/philly bands (and more) on here

 

Hmm

 

Honestly knowing pitchfork my first instinct with those kinds of things is stupidity but that is particularly egregious

 

She has a point

 

I agree. I mean some of the point will be moot if she's in their overall top 10 and just couldn't fit her in a genre but it is odd

If she's not high then there's a major major issue and fuck pitchfork even more

 

Well like she said the tag on the album review is r&b/pop and experimental. No reason not to make one or the other genre list

 

Whoa. Agree that at this point it wouldn't be surprising if stupidity was to blame,but still. This is a relatively big thing

 

Pitchfork is dumb. It will probably be top 15 no matter what at the least. It is still dumb she wasn't in the top of the genre lists and their scoring slant towards men.

 

That's pretty ridiculous, as well as the point that no female records at all got 9/10 except herself

 

Not like they give out that many to begin with, though seems like it might've been more than usual this year (7)

 

Also when conde naste took over wasn't their statement like we're trying to tap into the young male demographic or some nonsense like that

 

Wasn't that always their market

 

how often do they 10/10

 

They've had like...two maybe since I started paying attention to music (of new records that is). I know MBDTF was, feel like there was one more since.

 

http://m.albumoftheyear.org/ratings/1-pitchfork-highest-rated/all/1


Vast majority are reissues

 

Very interesting, thanks

 

The Bandcamp list is one of the most interesting and diverse selections of music this year. Definitely one of the most exciting platforms for music rn

The Best Albums of 2016: #100 – 81

 

Anohni deleted that post, and I can't find anything else about it which makes me hmm even more

 

drone bomb me #6 song of the year fwiw

 

The 100 Best Songs of 2016 | Pitchfork

 

as if their album list wasnt easy enough to predict

 

That Rihanna writeup is pretty bad

 

It would be weirder if there were lots of surprises in there, they've been writing about these artists and songs for a year for a reason

 

lots of good songs on there.
really interesting how hip hop dominated this list is this year, not surprising but just interesting to see the transitions in the site content. of course the biggest stars of the year were all hip hop (at least tangentially), so again, not that surprising.

 

Dope as hell to see Pinegrove on there.
The choices from Coloring Book are a bit odd.
I don't think "Girls" by Joey Purp is very good either, he has much better songs on the tape.
Really cool to see Blood Orange that high up
"Ivy" is my favorite track of Blonde but idk if it's one of my favorite songs of the year.
Still not fully on the Angel Olsen bandwagon. Need to give it another another go.