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Pitchfork API: Get album review

Finds Pitchfork's newest review that matches an album title and artist, and returns the review's rating and details.

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Inputs

Values from the run on Oct 27, 2026, shown under Output.

Album, requiredalbum

Album title, for example Blonde.

To Pimp a Butterfly

Artist, requiredartist

Recording artist, for example Frank Ocean.

Kendrick Lamar

Output

From a run on Oct 27, 2026.
{  "album": "To Pimp a Butterfly",  "score": 9.3,  "artist": "Kendrick Lamar",  "genres": [    "Rap"  ],  "summary": "The dense and complex follow-up to Good Kid, M.A.A.D City is wry, theatrical, chaotic, ironic, and mournful, often all at once.",  "reviewer": "Craig Jenkins",  "review_date": "2015-03-19",  "review_link": "https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20390-to-pimp-a-butterfly/",  "record_label": "Top Dawg Entertainment / Aftermath / Interscope",  "release_year": 2015,  "best_new_music": true,  "cover_image_link": "https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/6616994dee648e2629d84122/master/w_1024,c_limit/Kendrick-Lamar-To-Pimp-a-Butterfly.jpg"}
Price
1 credit per completed run (1¢ with pay as you go); failed runs are free.
Method
pitchfork.com/get_album_review
Returns
album, artist, score, best new music, reviewer, date, genres, label, year, summary, cover, link

Use it from your agent

Give your agent this line. It reads SKILL.md, gets a Fous API key and connects the Fous MCP server. Its run then takes the method pitchfork.com/get_album_review with the inputs above.

Ask your agent

  • What score did the album Blonde by Frank Ocean get in its latest review?
  • Can you find the most recent review of Good Kid, M.A.A.D City by Kendrick Lamar and tell me the rating?
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  • I want a summary and the link to the newest write-up of To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar on pitchfork.com.
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