AllMusic's Scores

  • Music
For 17,165 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 Ram [Deluxe Edition]
Lowest review score: 20 Playing With Fire
Score distribution:
17165 music reviews
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Girl Friends isn't a great Dion album, but it's certainly a good one, and worth a spin for anyone who digs the Pride of the Bronx. He's still got it, and you can hear it on Girl Friends.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Some focus and editing would have really helped because there's a great album buried somewhere in here.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is a return to the epic 12-minute suites of releases like Truant and Rival Dealer, flashing back to some of the same samples and themes. Second side "Boy Sent from Above" is the more soul-searching of the two, with lonely vocals calling out from the fog of vinyl crackle and spray can shaking.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Letter to Yu's thoughtful sincerity seems far removed from the biting sarcasm of Pupul's acclaimed work with Charlotte Adigéry, but it's just as emotionally potent and artistically creative.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While at this point there's some unavoidable self-awareness to their craft, it does nothing to take away from the exhilarating fun and lawless excitement of the album.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Here everything feels like a copy of something that had already been done better by another band. In the end, there's little to no reason to pull this record out instead of Siamese Dream or Nothing's Shocking. Or the other three Meatbodies albums, which have all the oddball thrills and unique perspective Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom seems to have lost along the bumpy journey to completion.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Eternal Sunshine is Grande in peak form, a magical maturation that is elevated, resilient, and confidently restrained.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The ever-shifting tone of Speak to Me asks the listener to keep up with the Lage's quirks and mood swings, but the sum of its parts is quite dazzling.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    While Dabice and Mannequin Pussy might be worried that their destructive Dark Phoenix energy is too much to take, I Got Heaven is an album of apocalyptic rock & roll bliss.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Though she's never been a hesitant or unfocused artist, listening to Gordon come into her own on The Collective is a wonder, especially because she's not remaking herself to stay relevant -- it's the rest of the music and pop culture world finally catching up to her.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bleachers occasionally borders on indulgent, but its tangents and loose ends are part and parcel of Antonoff's process -- and part of what makes it such a complete self-portrait.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Her concentration on an especially brutal historical subject makes it one of her most bracing works, and it becomes more compelling and powerful with increased intention and awareness.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Visions is clear and light, its textures vividly articulated and its rhythms mellow and fluid. It's music that feels alive, inhaling and exhaling with a gentle insistence; it's never rushed, never clipped.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    There's no denying the sensibilities of Liam Gallagher & John Squire lie in 20th century guitar rock, but there's a freshness in how the duo's sensibilities intertwine that gives the record a warm, welcoming pulse.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A revelatory experience that's somehow been hidden within her all these years, Girl with No Face is a bold reclamation of artistic self from a thrilling pop auteur.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Yeat's creative drive is admirable, but unfortunately 2093 just doesn't live up to its lofty concept.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Scope Neglect is a disorienting, sometimes deceptive work, but it's thrilling in the way it dismantles genre tropes.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Focus on Nature is thoroughly pleasing and beautifully crafted, the sort of album Saloman's cult following will delight in while those new to his work will wonder where his somber joy has been all their lives.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While Kaiser Chiefs aren't starting many riots these days, these shiny tunes will keep the body bouncing and the spirits high.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Half Divorced is Pissed Jeans' chosen form of therapy for folks who really, REALLY don't like Mondays. Or most of the rest of the week.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    With Playing Favorites, Sheer Mag have made an excellent rock & roll album, and yes, sometimes that is all you need.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The appeal in this refurbished soft rock lies in the atmosphere and supple interplay, how the musicians twist melodic clichés without refuting their power, an execution that mirrors how Webster writes songs that feel slightly off-center: she delivers subtle surprises without neglecting basic pop pleasures.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The sturdiness of the craft and its faithfulness to Cast's body of work means Love Is the Call could indeed function as a handsome farewell, but it also suggests the band might have more plenty of road left ahead of them.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Grey's voice is sometimes treated in a way to further emphasize the urgent bulletin-like quality of the material, but otherwise, this crackles with spontaneity, and the band at times plays with nearly the same ferocity displayed on some of their 1980-1982 output.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Y’Y a singular meditation on ancestral history, environmental awareness and spiritual devotion, is wide ranging, complex, and in places, quite mysterious. It is also utterly compelling.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Wry, riveting, chaotic, and infectious throughout, Where's My Utopia? easily upstages what was an impressive debut.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The piece ["Interstellar"] is easily the album's lightest and most optimistic moment, as the rest can feel cold, ominous, and sometimes challenging. Still, the album's more mysterious aspects make it worth hearing.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shah's most exciting collection yet.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    "Get Numb to It!" is a late-arriving outright banger with headbanging drums, a soaring singalong chorus, and lyrics that include "do do, do do do" as well as an anthemic "No, it never gets better/It just gets twice as bad…So you better get numb to it/Get numb to it." The rest of WWBWWGFH is just as nihilistic, a potentially appealing trait given the global tenor of its time.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On Untame the Tiger, balance doesn't mean compromise; as Timony works her way through grief, she creates moving, memorable songs that fans of any point in her career can appreciate.