Beyoncé’s Renaissance or Outkast’s Aquemini? Animal Collective’s Merriweather Submit Pavilion or Interpol’s Activate the Vibrant 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 most recent set of album matchups, the place you’ll be able to forged your votes. On the finish of every spherical, we’ll put up the up to date winners bracket. As for a way we selected the rivals, we included each one in every of our Album of the 12 months picks since our founding in 1996—plus 4 extra albums that made the highest three in our best-of-the-decade lists from the Nineteen 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 stated, “The gloves are off…”
It’s also possible to discover a printable model of the Finest Albums Bracket right here.
