Blog: Idolator

Most critics have a love-hate relationship with album reviews. On the one hand, they're an absurdly limiting format, forcing you to find things to say about albums you don't care about, limiting your thoughts on albums you do care about, and requiring a bottom-line consumer reccomendation that might not really encapsulate your honest feelings. On the other hand, in these hard times for music scribes, record reviews are the one unique service we can provide that the public always seems to want. Which is why it seems crazy that Alernative Press was considering removing [...]