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* Be clear with your conclusion - If it's a must hear album give it some direction. It's always nice to mention people of which music taste will love it or people of which genre will like it. You can try to compare it with some other album which has been already released which will give the readers an idea as to what they can expect.
* Be clear with your conclusion - If it's a must hear album give it some direction. It's always nice to mention people of which music taste will love it or people of which genre will like it. You can try to compare it with some other album which has been already released which will give the readers an idea as to what they can expect.


Last but not the least try to be '''honest''' while reviewing simply don't follow the trend. Review the album as to what you felt not what others felt. And try to follow active voice.
Last but not the least, try to be '''honest''' while reviewing simply don't follow the trend. Review the album as to what you felt not what others felt. And try to follow active voice.


==Common mistakes people do while writing reviews==
==Common mistakes people do while writing reviews==

Revision as of 12:49, 9 January 2017

General guidelines before writing a review

  • Read some good reviews!
    You can find lots of great reviews on CritiqueBrainz, or search the web.
  • Write in a comfortable voice.
    A good review probably won't sound like an academic paper, and probably won't sound like a youtube comment, but it should sound like you.
    Reviews don't need to be in English. If you're more comfortable in another language, go for it. Choose a language in which you can express your emotions/thoughts freely.

Writing a well formatted review

The editor in the review column follows Markdown so you can always beautify your review using the formatting styles because a well formatted article/review makes it readable and it becomes a little easy to understand what you have written. You can use the following link to learn markdown.

Writing the review

  • Listen the album from starting to end - Some listeners doesn't know that album is aligned in specific order so its better to listen the album thoroughly when you start reviewing the album.
  • Tell about how you felt after listening the album - Music is an emotive art. It's meant to move the listener. If you feel happy or sad, angry or calm, the emotion only matters that you pass it on. Readers will want to know about that before buying (or not!) a particular album.
  • You can tell about lyrics and the recording quality -
    Lyrics is what which makes a song/album meaningful. You can always right about how were the lyrics? Was it meaningful? Did it match the music?
    Recording quality matters a lot. If it's good it's good but if it's bad it will flop the whole album. It's always better to note these things and mention about it in your review.
  • Write about the strengths of the album, go easy on weaknesses - Can write about strengths which you loved or liked. Don't be too rude/harsh on weaknesses but you can mention what you disliked. These things strengthen your reviews.
  • Cover most of the songs in the album.
  • Be clear with your conclusion - If it's a must hear album give it some direction. It's always nice to mention people of which music taste will love it or people of which genre will like it. You can try to compare it with some other album which has been already released which will give the readers an idea as to what they can expect.

Last but not the least, try to be honest while reviewing simply don't follow the trend. Review the album as to what you felt not what others felt. And try to follow active voice.

Common mistakes people do while writing reviews

  • Writing long reviews that lack specific details.
  • Forgetting to check the factual information in the review after finishing the writing process.
  • No proofreading the review after finishing it.
  • Checkout for mistakes such as punctuation, typos, capitalization etc.
  • Writing in slangs - Try to write in proper English (or whatever language you prefer). It's better not to write reviews in slangs.

External links

You can read some reviews from these sites before writing your own :-

A few great review sites