Well I'd say this backhanded comment is relatively fair, I do tend to dislike pitchfork. Their writing is typically spectacular, and often it masks the fact that they have no clue what they are talking about sometimes. The worst thing, in my opinion, is when they make comments directly about the skill of musicianship in a band, because in almost every case where I've seen them do that they entirely fail to be accurate. Metric, technically simple? They've obviously never tried to play a Metric song.
But as far as they go, I don't dislike them nearly as much as some of their readers. I've got friends that will seriously flip flop their stances on bands to the tune of what pitchfork's saying, and it's hard not to sometimes, with the quality of their writing. It takes a lot of willpower sometimes to say "this persuasive essay doesn't sway me".
