I'm Jeremy Larson, the Review's director at Pitchfork, and this is the Pitchfork Review.

Now, this is chiefly a new music podcast, but we're going to be doing something a little different today, and I'm really

stoked about it.

A little background.

For almost every week for the last seven years, the review section has been running what we

call the Sunday Review, which is a long essay about an album from the distant or recent past.

And every Sunday, one of our writers dives deep into an artist and one of their most significant albums.

They go into the making of it, the historical context, the present context, fun anecdotes, personal revelations, the whole thing.

So for 2024, we're going to be adding a podcast component to a handful of Sunday reviews.

I'll be talking with writers and diving unfathomably

deep into the album in a conversation. And I couldn't think of a better writer to start with than

Grayson Curran, who just wrote about Brian Eno's 1978 album Ambient One Music for Airports,

a mythically important album that essentially coined the ambient genre.

Grayson has been writing for the site since 2006 and has through hikes three of the longest

trails in America, where he has still not yet been sponsored by his favorite food group,

Pop Darts. Grayson, welcome to the show.

Hi, Jeremy.

Thank you for that wonderful introduction.

I just want to say the number of trails is six.

Six.

And also, I know that Pop Tarts is now into sponsoring athletic events.

There's no free ads here on this Bitfork podcast.

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