AllMusic's Scores
- Music
For 17,238 reviews, this publication has graded:
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64% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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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: | The Marshall Mathers LP | |
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Lowest review score: | Graffiti |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 14,359 out of 17238
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Mixed: 2,857 out of 17238
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Negative: 22 out of 17238
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It isn't often that one finds an American artist with such a mastery of collage technique and a desire to incorporate traditional folk instruments and melodies.- AllMusic
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Once again Cee-Lo has recorded a peerless album, except this time he's recorded one that should connect, or at least deserves to.- AllMusic
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While this LP might seem like a present custom made for expectant deep-listening fans who have grown with the makers, it's plainly evident that Phonte and Pooh needed to make it for themselves. Like the return from their idolized A Tribe Called Quest, May the Lord Watch strengthens a legacy of an act crucial to hip-hop.- AllMusic
- Posted Sep 10, 2019
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Yet another emotional roller coaster, this is the Avalanches' longest one yet.- AllMusic
- Posted Dec 10, 2020
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Even though Punk might not be the pop explosion that Pink was, it's a well-rounded album that capitalizes on the band's imagination and capacity for experimentation while blending the sounds more organically. Plus, it's more fun than just about anything else going on in the late 2010s and that alone makes the record and the band worth checking out and falling (and staying madly) in love with.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 15, 2019
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Tour de force might be too weighty a term for an album so seemingly effortless, but from its unhurried flow to its wealth of songs, Far In is a glorious showcase for all the aspects of Helado Negro's music.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 25, 2021
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On All We Know, PVRIS take a crucial step on the right course toward finding their own trademark sound.- AllMusic
- Posted Aug 24, 2017
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Landes is ready and willing to create her own spin on classic country, winding up with a generous and clever gem.- AllMusic
- Posted Aug 30, 2018
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Even at its most bizarre and feral, Pick a Day to Die conveys a sense of positivity and excitement as the collective remains in the constant state of rediscovering themselves that they've made their life's work.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 11, 2021
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Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden's collision of styles, genres, and individual and group voices are not only welcome, but essential to the process of Roberts engendering dialogue, celebrating difference, and communicating emotions, psychologies, and cultures, all testifying to the import and cultural and artistic achievement of her evolving project.- AllMusic
- Posted Sep 29, 2023
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Madres deals with serious subject matter, but ultimately it's an abundantly thankful, joyous, and celebratory record.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 27, 2023
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The 18 songs on the album are all in the heavily layered, chamber-hardcore style established on Chemistry of Common Life, but Fucked Up is taking the idea to the furthest reaches, and somehow pulling it off.- AllMusic
- Posted Jun 6, 2011
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Tell Tale Signs feels like a new Bob Dylan record, not only for the astonishing freshness of the material, but also for the incredible sound quality and organic feeling of everything here.- AllMusic
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It's a near flawless collection of dreamy vibes, shifting moods, and movement, and stands easily as Granduciel's finest hour so far.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 17, 2014
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The creation of Blue Rev may have been beset with trial and tribulation but the result is a heavenly indie pop hit guaranteed to make their already besotted fans fall even more head over heels in love with the band.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 7, 2022
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The quality control isn't quite as tight. Some songs meander long after making their point. A greater position of the sequence, however, is filled with indestructible art that consoles, challenges, and invigorates with gospel, doo wop, highlife, psychedelicized garage rock, dub, and post-punk funk all filtered with uncommon aptitude through vintage outsider soul. Highlights are abundant.- AllMusic
- Posted Nov 17, 2020
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The style/substance balance is a difficult one to negotiate -- "Whip Cracker" transitions from upstart energy to Daft Punk-ery with minimal grace, while flecks of futuristic dance don't quite land on "I Don't See Colour" -- but for the large part, Owusu is a blessing to his genres, gifting them with his vivid personality and potent narrative threads.- AllMusic
- Posted Apr 29, 2021
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They know exactly what they're doing, and the risks they take result in a debut album that brings a fresh energy to post-punk that's equally challenging and rewarding.- AllMusic
- Posted Apr 2, 2021
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An utterly exhausting but consistently thrilling listen, L'Enfant Sauvage is arguably a career best which suggests Gojira have found their spiritual home.- AllMusic
- Posted Aug 21, 2012
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The anger and disillusionment on Algiers' debut were expressed through its raw, unhinged mix. Here, while their outlook is overall less tolerant, it's voiced with more atmospheric control.- AllMusic
- Posted Jun 22, 2017
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Another spectacular audio document of an enormously creative period for underground music.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 13, 2015
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Ayewa's poetry soars above the band, whose attack offers ancient-to-the-future sound narratives; they cross blues, free jazz, Caribbean grooves, and Afro-Latin folk with a universe of African rhythms. Open the Gates is a statement. It authoritatively signifies militant creativity as the only real language for expressing liberation and wisdom.- AllMusic
- Posted Dec 15, 2021
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Equally rich and effortless, Gold Record is especially satisfying for longtime fans as part of a bounty of great work from Callahan since his return, but there's plenty here to delight anyone who loves brilliant songwriting and down-to-earth performances.- AllMusic
- Posted Sep 4, 2020
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Delivering on the promise of her industry-shaking debut with confidence and grace, Happier Than Ever has the markings of a big career moment, one that signals artistic growth and hints at even more greatness to come.- AllMusic
- Posted Aug 3, 2021
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more thought-through and sounds more honed [than her 2018 mixtape Last Day Of Summer].- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 25, 2019
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All at Once is just as clever, impassioned, and purposeful as we've come to expect from this band, and it's a truly rewarding listen.- AllMusic
- Posted Feb 23, 2018
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Throughout these songs, Taylor's lyrics and the grain in his voice reveal that, whatever truths there are in these songs, they come from antiquity, and the land itself, which is an extension of the divine.- AllMusic
- Posted Apr 1, 2013
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His musical language has evolved into a sound that is not only ambitious, but instantly recognizable.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 6, 2014
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They stay true to the genre's penchant for loud/quiet/loud posturing, on-the-nose emotional cues, and strategically placed breakdowns throughout, but they do so while flexing some significant creative muscle.- AllMusic
- Posted Jul 7, 2016
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It's fair to say that Been Around out-performs her excellent debut, both in terms of composition and execution, making it a release well worth the wait.- AllMusic
- Posted Jan 21, 2020
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