Will Pinfold

Will Pinfold’s album reviews that count toward B-Side Breakdowns: 8 reviews, going back to 2022, each next to the album’s Breakdown.

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What they review

  • Metal & Punk 57%
  • Indie & Alternative 43%

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Their favorites

  1. PJ HarveyLet England Shake 90 Spectrum Culture
  2. EnslavedMið 88 Spectrum Culture
  3. Manic Street PreachersCritical Thinking 79 Spectrum Culture
  4. Bruce DickinsonThe Mandrake Project 79 Spectrum Culture
  5. Brock DavisNothing Lasts Forever 76 Spectrum Culture

A-Sides they reviewed

1 album that earned an A-Side, the critics’ top tier; they scored 1 of them 75 or higher.

Every review

Outlet
EnslavedMið“Enslaved’s 17th album Mið doesn’t fall firmly under the banner of any genre the band loosely belongs to, including black metal, Viking/pagan folk metal, progressive metal, but instead incorporates aspects…”Spectrum Culture88 88/10080Oct 30, 2026
MorrisseyMake-Up Is a Lie“It’s not quite great enough to make you overlook your qualms, but it is good enough to make you sad all over again about the Morrissey you thought you knew.”Spectrum Culture73 73/10064Mar 9, 2026
Rotting ChristAealo“Aealo is one of the great folk/pagan black metal albums of the 2010s and while this re-recorded version has its own virtues it’s arguable whether it really improves on what…”Spectrum Culture70 70/10075Jan 23, 2026
BabymetalMetal Forth“There’s nothing wrong with Metal Forth that wasn’t already wrong with other Babymetal albums, but the brutal truth seems to be that Babymetal is a concept that was designed to…”Spectrum Culture50 50/10073Sep 16, 2025
Manic Street PreachersCritical Thinking“As with so much of the Manics’ best work, it’s an album that’s easy to listen to, but that lingers uneasily in the mind; as it should.”Spectrum Culture79 79/100782025
Bruce DickinsonThe Mandrake Project“Bruce Dickinson’s seventh solo album features some of his best work to date but forms an overpowering and slightly claustrophobic whole.”Spectrum Culture79 79/100782024
Brock DavisNothing Lasts Forever“A beautiful, consoling, wistfully positive record that shows the band firmly ensconced in their silky-smooth niche; lovely but a little sedate for some tastes.”Spectrum Culture76 76/100832023
PJ HarveyLet England Shake“A decade on, Let England Shake stands as one of PJ Harvey’s finest and most perfectly realized albums.”Spectrum Culture90 90/100912022

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