In addition to commenting, you will also have the opportunity to add your own score to an album review using Pitchfork’s rating system. This score will be shown next to your comment and will be aggregated with other readers to form a “reader score” alongside Pitchfork’s official score. One album review, our score, your score, followed by some comments.

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