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For 17,255 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 31% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 The Marshall Mathers LP
Lowest review score: 20 Graffiti
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14,372 out of 17255
  2. Mixed: 2,861 out of 17255
  3. Negative: 22 out of 17255
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    1972
    If you say you've heard a better adult pop record this year, you are lying.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Once We Were Trees
    The SoCal indie cowboys deliver an album completely displaying musical, songwriting, and repertory growth from their critically acclaimed self-titled debut.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    High Dive
    McKee's High Dive is simply an awe-inspiring album and easily her finest recorded moment.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Mad for Sadness
    Malcolm Middleton's moody musical constructions -- sometimes punchy, sometimes hallucinatory and somnolent -- positively glisten in the live setting, and serve due notice that the most important trait of the band is its sound.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sea Change
    What's startling about Sea Change is how it brings everything that's run beneath the surface of Beck's music to the forefront, as he's unafraid to not just reveal emotions, but to elliptically examine them in this wonderfully melancholy song cycle.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Underneath
    They sound more natural than they ever have on record, and Brian Vander Ark and Donny Brown respond by their best set of songs.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Shine
    Here, everything is balanced; the scope is small, close, and textured by pedal steel guitars, very organic percussion, and Lanois' voice way up front.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Brainwashed
    Brainwashed isn't just a success, it's one of the finest records Harrison ever made.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Don't Give Up On Me
    Don't Give Up on Me leaves no doubt that Solomon Burke is still one of the finest voices of his time, and anyone who has ever been moved by the power of soul music needs to hear this album.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Home
    This is a pure country album, loaded with fiddles, acoustic guitars, and close harmonies, but retaining the Chicks' signature flair, sense of humor, and personality.... An instant classic.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    #1
    Remarkably varied, lush, and fascinating from start to finish, #1 is a great album.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Out From Out Where
    The focus on a single mood occasionally threatens to lead only to a creative dead-end, but Out from Out Where arguably betters its successors by coming together as a single work.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Songs In Red And Gray
    Her calm, hushed, clear singing only emphasizes the emotional torment the songs trace. The result is an album on a par with her best work.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Silver Lake
    While Silver Lake sounds like a Vic Chesnutt album through and through, it's also a better than average introduction to the man's work.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    We Are Your Friends
    A truly twisted masterpiece that offers new rewards with each new listen.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Easy Listening
    Other records from 2003 have been more innovative and certainly heavier, but Easy Listening is so golden, so upbeat and so perfectly right out of the Midwest's sleeper hotbed of rock that it simply sounds bigger than life.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Amore del Tropico
    The concept is brilliant and musically the Black Heart Procession have never sounded better.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Girls Can Tell
    Spoon's most mature, accomplished work to date and a fine balance of fire and polish.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dust
    The album's subtle build from bleak electronica to ethereal alternative rock is a stunning accomplishment; his productions haven't maintained this kind of flow since the first Soul Assassins disc.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Mwng
    Smart, melodic, catchy songs that not only have strong, wonderful structures, but are graced with inventive, clever arrangements.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Yours, Mine & Ours
    Yours, Mine & Ours is a truly grand record, another in the string of classic releases by Joe Pernice.... The kind of record fans of intelligent pop music played with real emotion should purchase. Immediately.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Canto
    Offers up one superb song after another.... Even if you don't consider yourself to be much a Latin music fan, do yourself a favor and check out Canto.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dilate
    Dilate proves that the members of Bardo Pond keep finding ways to reinvent their sound, surpassing themselves each time they do.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    1st Born Second
    A truly passionate and expressive collection of songs that will live long in the memories of all who listen to it.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Mass Romantic
    It's an album that reveals its charms through repeat listens, and makes a listener wonder how the band can master so many different musical styles via so many vocalists while still maintaining a fiercely cohesive sound.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Equilibrium
    Shipp, whose restless vision is never clouded by grandiosity or pretense, has become the most important pianist on the scene today. Equilibrium is soul music for the mind.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Eternal Youth
    On Eternal Youth, Future Bible Heroes erase any idea of the band being a side-project and work together as a trio striving for the same artistic goals. In doing so, they may have created their masterpiece.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Your Majesty
    A diverse, accomplished album that manages to be unabashedly emotional, playful, and ambitious all at the same time.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Cold House
    Takes the scattered clicks and beats of Autechre and combines it with the tunefulness of Spiritualized.... Very rewarding.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Friends of Rachel Worth
    Poetic, languid, spoken/sung vocals similar to Lou Reed weave between lovely melodies whose appeal is evident usually after repeated listenings.... Its highlights recall the past glories of this commercially overlooked band, and adds a handful of keepers to their best work.
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