What does perfection mean to you? What if you knew someone ELSE called something “perfect”? That’s what we wanted to find out on this episode of CrossFade, so we looked at two of the dozen albums that have received a perfect 10 score from Pitchfork, the music publication everybody famously agrees with and enjoys without reservation.

Wilco’s breakthrough “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” and Amon Tobin’s breakthrough “Bricolage” are pretty different (that’s CrossFade babyyyy), but our discussion bridges them both: How does seeing that big 10 make you think differently about the music you listen to? How much does that matter in the age of influencers, when every opinion can be validated by someone, somewhere on the internet? It’s a pretty complex question!

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Our theme song is “The Lights” by Maps Of Norway from their 2008 record, Die Off Songbird: https://open.spotify.com/album/7tNrjnRB1f1oQizkkAePrI

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Timestamps

0:00 - Nitpicking Two of Pitchfork's Perfect 10s

0:59 - Wilco - "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"

4:42 - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

10:53 - Heavy Metal Drummer

13:44 - Jesus, Etc.

17:11 - Kamera

20:07 - War On War

23:29 - Ashes of American Flags

25:14 - What does a Pitchfork perfect 10 really mean?

36:25 - Amon Tobin - "Bricolage"

37:31 - Stoney Street

39:53 - Chomp Samba

43:34 - El Cargo from Amon Tobin's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory soundtrack

46:00 - Yasawas

49:48 - One Day In My Garden

53:49 - Wires & Snakes