AllMusic's Scores
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For 17,255 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: 14,372 out of 17255
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Mixed: 2,861 out of 17255
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Negative: 22 out of 17255
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Weaver's songs still sound beamed in from distant galaxies, but here she seems to be coming to grips with the feeling that love and loss are more universal than she thought, even when happening on planets far from Earth.- AllMusic
- Posted Apr 4, 2024
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Exotic Birds of Prey sounds like it's broadcasting live from an unknown galaxy, giving us an idea of what music will sound like on other planets in the future while nodding knowingly to some of Earth's most exciting sounds of the past.- AllMusic
- Posted Apr 4, 2024
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A LA SALA is Khruangbin's most stripped-down effort since their debut, but it isn't threadbare, and fans of the group should find it worthwhile.- AllMusic
- Posted Apr 2, 2024
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Like Deacon before it, Grip suggests serpentwithfeet's confessions and declarations can take many forms, and its light, limber songs don't sacrifice any of his innovation or soul-baring.- AllMusic
- Posted Apr 2, 2024
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While Echo Dancing is uneven, the hits outnumber the misses by a margin that qualifies this as a successful experiment.- AllMusic
- Posted Apr 1, 2024
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Moves in the Field is more Philip Glass than John Cage (in fact, Glass' longtime engineer Dan Bora recorded and mixed the album), with Moran's thoughtful writing and restrained use of what could have been show-stopping technology creating an insulated world of understated, wintery elegance.- AllMusic
- Posted Apr 1, 2024
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The amount of courage and skill on display is massive and apart from a few times where he falls off the high wire -- mainly when the balance tips too far to the inward-looking lyrically or he strays too close to played out trap territory -- this reboot just might win the band some new fans, while shedding none who have stayed the course thus far.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 29, 2024
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Gary Clark Jr.'s catalog shows he has the talent, intelligence, and vision to make a grand scale musical statement out of any style he chooses, and JPEG RAW only reinforces that notion; he's been creating some of the boldest and most interesting guitar-based music of his time, and this is as exciting and rewarding as anyone could hope.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 29, 2024
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- Posted Mar 29, 2024
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Maybe Chastity Belt aren't always laughing and loving on this album, but the music is alive and eloquent, and this is a welcome return from an interesting, consistently rewarding quartet.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 29, 2024
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There are two expertly executed albums here, each highlighting just how this group has grown from being rascally jokesters to hardened, concerned members of society. As far as swan songs go, Heaven :x: Hell is a heartfelt goodbye to fans, an overly generous gift that aims to please the full spectrum of diehards and thank them for all their years of dedication.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 29, 2024
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While it won’t be able to please everyone, that’s not the point: this is an intensely personal statement about reclamation, belonging, and legacy, celebrating the past with hopes of changing the future. One can only hope Act III finds Bey going full rock.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 29, 2024
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On the whole, Interplay is interesting but inconsistent, landing more like a collection of ideas being fleshed out than a cohesive album experience. Ultimately, it's commendable that Ride continue to reach beyond their past, but the best moments of Interplay are the ones that remind the listener what made the band so unique to begin with.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 28, 2024
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The vibe is familiar but the sound is fresh and, better still, Evolution isn't ponderous: it's brisk and bright, keeping its focus squarely on the gifts that brought Crow into the Rock Hall.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 28, 2024
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The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow stands as one of his best late-career master works.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 27, 2024
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While arguably Sam Evian's strongest set of songs yet, he's nothing if not consistent, and Plunge sits well alongside project debut Premium (2016) while at the same time offering something a little "more so" thanks to a live-in-studio recording philosophy that shunned headphones and playback and kept overdubs to a minimum.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 25, 2024
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El Perro del Mar stares into chasms of being and nonbeing on Big Anonymous, calmly dictating back the horrors and revelations she sees in a steady voice.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 25, 2024
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This is an essential entry in Coltrane's catalog and a remarkable kick-off to Impulse's "Year of Alice."- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 22, 2024
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Even more than any music that came before it, this album highlights Rosali's unique voice, one that communicates full-hearted intensity without ever resorting to heavy-handedness or overstatement.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 22, 2024
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Whether it's the caressing connectedness of "Evening Mood" or the air of pensive devotion on "Who Brings Me," this emotional immediacy makes Something in the Room She Moves an exciting and affecting addition to Holter's body of work.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 22, 2024
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On Real Power, Gossip don't try too hard to recapture the past or fit in with the sound of the sound of the 2020s, and that's what makes it a dignified, down-to-earth return.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 22, 2024
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Skip the dogs, stick to the weird, raw, and experimental songs and Glasgow Eyes might be considered one of the band's best albums in a very long time. Add them back and it makes for a frustrating and exhilarating listening experience that's brutally honest, completely ridiculous, and in some ways it sums up everything good and bad about the Jesus and Mary Chain all on one slab of plastic.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 22, 2024
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When the final piano twinkles of the heartbreaking ballad "Última" close the first half, the album shifts to mixtape mode with the flood of additional hits that pack the back end, making Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran a great two-for-one set that is essentially a short new album and a de facto "Greatest Hits 2022-2024."- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 22, 2024
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For a band that often got lost in a hippie haze, this all-business approach pays off great dividends: it's easy to hear how the Robinsons are ideal collaborators, tempering each other's excesses and accentuating their shared love for the best of classic rock.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 21, 2024
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Some of the tracks on Three cover similar territory, but overall, the album is much more tightly focused than the abstract yet personal Sixteen Oceans.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 21, 2024
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Akoma represents another impressive step in Jlin's remarkable evolution as an artist.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 21, 2024
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Tigers Blood is the rarest of things: an album that feels familiar upon its surface and idiosyncratic in its details.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 21, 2024
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Bright Future is the type of no-filter album with enough variety and poignancy that each song is bound to be somebody's favorite.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 21, 2024
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Like the open-ended, amorphous production, the tunes all accentuate the record's general thrust of interior contentment. Musgraves, along with her regular collaborators Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk, do manage to capture and sustain this delicate sensibility, creating a record that's every bit as pretty and memorable as gentle afternoon rain.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 21, 2024
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ScHoolboy Q flexes just how easy his craft is for him throughout Blue Lips, switching his styles without blinking while telling some of his most difficult truths.- AllMusic
- Posted Mar 19, 2024
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