Simon Reynolds's Notes on the noughties: The musically fragmented decade

There was such a wide range of quality music made in the noughties that it is hard for critics to agree on which albums had the most impactI was looking at Pitchfork's Top 200 Albums of the 2000s. And I noticed something strange about the top 10. Now obviously there's a limit to what you can read into a critics' poll. Then again, Pitchfork is one of the few institutions that could honestly be said to be influential, in terms of what it covers and the judgments it makes. Pitchfork both leads and...

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