Beyoncé’s Renaissance or Outkast’s Aquemini? Animal Collective’s Merriweather Submit Pavilion or Interpol’s Activate the Brilliant Lights? Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. or Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell!? Sure, we all know, music isn’t a contest, however in honor of Pitchfork’s thirtieth anniversary, we’re throwing a small one only for enjoyable. Over the following few weeks, 32 of our favourite albums will go face to face—and also you’ll assist us determine the winner.
Right here’s the way it works: Every week, our Instagram tales will present the newest set of album matchups, the place you’ll be able to solid your votes. On the finish of every spherical, we’ll publish the up to date winners bracket. As for the way we selected the rivals, we included each considered one of our Album of the Yr picks since our founding in 1996—plus 4 extra albums that made the highest three in our best-of-the-decade lists from the Nineties, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s.
Head over to our Instagram web page now to get began. As bracket problem nominee Ezra Koenig as soon as mentioned, “The gloves are off…”
You can even discover a printable model of the Greatest Albums Bracket right here.
