Some programmer at the University of Chicago undertook a project to parse and analyze the reviews on Pitchfork, he called it Pitchformula, and it was good.

I'll admit I didn't get all that much of the project's abstract, but I understood enough to realize it's a perfectly brilliant shit take on the preposterously pretentious site. And after a little further consideration, it's clear to me that no person could have executed so perfect a comment on Pitchfork other than a database engineer. Such a person is the ying to the Pitchfork writers' yang. Like a chemist working for Coke to a sommelier.

Somewhere, a pale 24-year-old man in threadbare "Make Mine Vinyl" t-shirt is scratching out his eyes while Nick Drake rareties play quietly on the turntable.

Via TTBBBE

Analogcabin @ 6:57 AM
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