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For 3,071 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Major/Minor
Lowest review score: 0 Results May Vary
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,331 out of 3071
  2. Mixed: 695 out of 3071
  3. Negative: 45 out of 3071
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Option Paralysis
    Dissonant strings, clasical piano and eerie quiet spells infuse the album with a wird, roiling darkness that gets under your skin rather than filleting your skull. The result is more dramatic than any Dillinger release this decade--and more powerful because of it. [Apr 2010, p124]
    • Alternative Press
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    (a)spera
    Although short of a masterpiece, (a)spera is Mirah's most satisfying start-to-finish disc since her 2001 solo breakthrough. [Apr 2009, p.135]
    • Alternative Press
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Major/Minor
    It is as exciting and enthralling a listen as anything Thrice have ever created. [Oct 2011, p.105]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Sep 20, 2011
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    METZ
    These are tightly constructed songs that sledgehammer a jagged line between the Pixies' inventive pop clamor and the hazy beauty of another clever noise purveyor deserving of the all-caps treatment, HEALTH.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Mess We Made
    Lound insanity is sexy; quiet insanity is sexier. [Sep 2003, p.118]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Poses
    Although ever so slightly more modern in feel than his critically adored 1998 self-titled debut, Poses is still built upon Wainwright's mastery of highly composed, early-20th-century popular-song styles. [July 2001, p.86]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mermaid Avenue Vol. II
    Volume 2... is an equally resounding success.... [it] draws on darker material, and thus yields more aggressive vocals and frequent minor keys. [#146, p.86]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Watershed
    What Opeth do best is flat-out shred, and at its finest moments, Watershed howls like the unholy union of Queensryche, Yngwie Malmsteen and Morbid Angel. [Aug 2008, p.166]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Talon of the Hawk
    The Front Bottoms will soundtrack your life until it's like you've never been without them. [Jun 2013, p.96]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Jun 20, 2013
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Resistance: Rise of the Runaways
    Every aspect of The Resistance: Rise Of The Runaways coming across bigger, harder and just more than their full-length debut, 2012's The Fallout.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Coma Witch
    An impressive effort. [Nov 2014, p.98]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Oct 28, 2014
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Live at Brixton
    The British band's frothy, fun mix of samples from public domain educational films and their spunky electronic-infused art pop is taken to new heights on this live album. [Jan 2017, p.83]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Jan 10, 2017
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Graveyard Shift
    This record neatly marries the attitude and energy first heard on Creatures with the industrial beats and vocals they love, making this record the truest representation of the band to date.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Knife
    Ultimately, The Knife is proof he [John Feldmann] still has plenty left in his own songwriting tank. [Aug 2017, p.82]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Jul 21, 2017
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Phantom Anthem
    Sonically, there’s something incredibly otherworldy and fantastical rooted in Phantom Anthem, making the album translate like an epic poem rather than a collection of songs, both enticing for its cohesion and at times tedious in its redundancy.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Never Hungover Again
    Another ostensibly strong album in Joyce Manor's catalog, and one that hopefully doesn't go unfairly overshadowed as well.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crack The Skye
    The music is as ambitious as the plot, but more coherent. [May 2009, p.116]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
    Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper arrives as less of a sonic surprise, but his knack for buoyant hooks remains on electronic psychedelia's forefront. [Feb 2015, p.92]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Jan 6, 2015
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yellow & Green
    Most songs keep to a more humble pace, unfurling slowly and often with surprising beauty. [Aug 2012, p.86]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Jul 17, 2012
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    ...Like Clockwork
    Surrendering to its strange charms could be one of the smartest decisions you make this year. [Jul 2013, p.106]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted May 30, 2013
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Week That Was
    For what looks to be a one-off, it's remarkably fleshed out and intricate. [Oct 2008, p.151]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bright Yellow Bright Orange
    Recalls the band's earliest days. [Apr 2003, p.74]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Nothing Violates This Nature
    On Nothing Violates This Nature, the Boston hardcore mob demonstrate once and for all that they’re far more than the sum of their parts. It is also one of the angriest and most violent records you will encounter in 2013.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Curse Your Branches
    On paper this may sound bleak--and in many ways, Curse Your Branches is--but ultimately there's a level of solcae in Bazan's sadness that's remarkably reassuring and, stranger yet, satisfying. [Sep 2009, p.106]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stephen Malkmus
    Everything here is so enjoyable that it really doesn't matter that the man who helped give birth to the whole lo-fi movement has embraced a certain level of maturity. [March 2001, p.76]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dizzy Spells
    It's still hard to believe that a punk band formed more than 20 years ago are capable of releasing a new album that's both vital and worthy of the promise of their early material.... With Dizzy Spells, the quintet may have topped it all. [#155, p.83]
    • Alternative Press
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Demon Days
    The music is mostly an interesting hybrid of unlikely elements and naggingly catchy tunes. [Jul 2005, p.186]
    • Alternative Press
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    America
    America is an even blend of the oddball Deacon you know and the more refined, mature artist he's growing into. [Sep 2012, p.88]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Aug 17, 2012
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Harmonic
    They hold their own with the noisy, angular and often bluesy rock found on Harmonic. [Jun 2012, p.82]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Jul 27, 2012
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This Is How the Wind Shifts
    The end result is Silverstein's career-best work and one of the best albums of the year thus far. [Mar 2013, p.91]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted May 2, 2013
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