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Brought to you by the music critics at Pitchfork, The Pitchfork Review is a show for music fans and obsessives who can’t wait to talk about the latest releases. Co-hosted by Pitchfork editor-in-chief Puja Patel and Reviews Editor Jeremy D. Larson, this podcast pulls back the curtain on our reviews and scores, dives deep into new music, and gives an expert guide to what’s exciting, what’s great, and what’s just plain terrible.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Pitchfork Review turns album criticism, music history, and artist conversation into lively arguments about how records work and why they endure.
The Pitchfork Review makes criticism sound like an active conversation rather than a verdict delivered from above. Pooja Patel, identified as Editor-in-Chief, and Reviews Director Jeremy D.
A too-quiet harp record and rain give you Brian Eno's route into ambient music.
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A quiet look at how Eno turned burnout, space, and chance into a new way of listening.
The Pitchfork Review treats Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports as more than a tidy origin story. Jeremy Larson and Grayson Haver Currin tie the record to burnout, a hospital stay, and a rainy-window listening moment, which gives the album a lived-in shape without…
A funny, emotional Boy Genius interview that centers collaboration and the making of The Record.
Boy Genius comes across as three writers who can make a line feel funny and emotional at the same time. Pooja Patel's conversation with Julian Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus stays with the making of The Record, while also tracing the way they support one another as…
A broad, conversational Pitchfork Review year-end wrap that covers 2023 and ends on a musical note.
Pitchfork Review closes out the year with a wide sweep across the trends, scandals, gossip, tech shifts, and industry changes that shaped 2023.
A lively year-end music roundtable that treats taste like a conversation, not a verdict.
The Pitchfork Review turns its year-end list into a loose, often sharp conversation about what 2023 sounded like once everyone had time to sit with it.
A reissue review that shows how Tim still feels alive through tension and change.
Pitchfork Review follows a year-end list and returns to The Replacements' Tim, first released in 1985, to argue that a classic can still feel immediate.
Chicago critics DeRogatis and Kot pair new-album reviews with deep dives into records like Rumours.
Billboard's Keith Caulfield and Katie Atkinson break down the week's Hot 100 and 200 charts.
Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson trace viral internet stories from Reddit threads to courtrooms.
Chris Black and Jason Stewart riff on fashion, food, and celebrity culture three times weekly.
Eno starts in motion, not theory.
Jeff Tweedy talks criticism, thick skin, and Wilco's long run.
Dolly Parton gets the shared spotlight here.
This Pitchfork Review encore brings back Pooja Patel’s March conversation with Boy Genius.
Jeremy Larson opens the final Pitchfork Review show of the year with Pooja Patel and Kat Zang.
Pooja Patel opens The Pitchfork Review by pointing to Pitchfork’s annual year-end list and setting up a discussion of the 50 best albums of 2023, or at least a chunk of them.
The Pitchfork Review spends this episode on The Replacements’ *Tim* and the new Let It Bleed reissue, which the show calls its highest-scored reissue of the year.
Pitchfork contributing writers Julián Escobedo-Shepard and Isabelia Herrera join Features Editor Ryan Domble to review Bad Bunny's fifth studio album 'Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana,' which received a 7.4 from the outlet — a full point below the Best New Music rating his previous album earned.
Pitchfork Editor-in-Chief Pooja Patel interviews Boygenius — Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus — about their full-length debut album The Record, which emerged from a period of pandemic isolation during which Bridgers reached out to her bandmates saying she needed 'to be close to my friends.' The three discuss their different writing processes: Baker composes quickly but agonizes over arrangement options, Dacus is an 'emails person' who rarely finishes collaborations in real time, and Bridgers wrote nothing between finishing Punisher and starting The Record.
Pitchfork Editor-in-Chief Pooja Patel interviews Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily about Love in Exile, their collaborative improvisation project, opening with a clip from the track To Remain, To Return.