Record Club is trying to be Letterboxd for music nerds

There isn’t really a solid equivalent to Goodreads or Letterboxd for music lovers, but Record Club aims to change that. Yes, we have Rate Your Music, but its interface is cluttered and it seems more geared toward longer reviews than cataloging your listening habits and connecting with other fans. Record Club is clean and modern, with a simplified interface quite similar to Letterboxd.

The basic features you would expect from such a site are all there. You can rate and review recordings or mark them as listened to. You can also see what your friends are listening to and see which albums are trending with other users. There’s a place on your profile to list your five favorite albums, as well as five records you have on heavy rotation. You can also create custom lists (ranked or unranked) and share them, which is handy for tracking your best albums of the year or hosting genre-specific crash courses. You can also add recordings to your queue so you can keep track of albums you want to listen to, but haven’t yet checked out. (I’ll probably use it extensively.)

You can follow your favorite artists as well as entire record labels. This makes it easy to stay up to date with new artists on labels like 4AD, AD 93, Fire Talk, and Warp. Record Club pulls all its data from the open source music encyclopedia MusicBrainz. If you sign up, follow me and see what I’m spinning this week.