Record Club is a new social cataloging platform for music listeners, built explicitly in the mold of Letterboxd. It lets users rate and review albums, log listening history, follow friends, and track trending records across the community.
The closest existing competitor is Rate Your Music, but that site prioritizes dense, long-form critical reviews over casual social tracking. Record Club strips that back to a clean, modern interface focused on habits and connections, the same formula that made Letterboxd a default for film culture.
The full article is worth reading for the feature breakdown and how Record Club handles the specific UX problems that have kept music from getting its own social layer. Whether it can build the critical mass Letterboxd achieved is the open question.
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