Die, Pitchfork, Die!
Matthew Shaer of Slate.com takes a lengthy look at the nascent Pitchfork backlash:
Pitchfork needs to provoke to survive—a strategy that arguably extends to publishing verbose and unreadable writing. (Pitchfork’s founder Ryan) Schreiber has admitted that he trusts writers to “their own style and presentation,” but there’s not much that can excuse the writing in this 2004 review: “The epic ‘Visiting Friends’ gathers in faceless, mutated ghosts (i.e., oddly manipulated vocalizations from the duo) to hover over their dying fire in visage of nothing better than the tops of trees.”