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For 150 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Panic Prevention
Lowest review score: 40 The Brave And The Bold
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 117 out of 150
  2. Mixed: 33 out of 150
  3. Negative: 0 out of 150
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Panic Prevention
    Experimental yet poppy, awkward yet unforced, Panic Prevention is a minor masterpiece from a truly bar-raising new talent.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Ma Fleur
    It’s not just the recurrent meditations on mortality that makes Ma Fleur even more heart-rendingly beautiful than 2002’s Everyday, it’s also how The Cinematic Orchestra’s new album actually feels.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    From Here We Go Sublime
    This is one of those rare albums that makes you wonder how you ever got by without it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Excellent Italian Greyhound
    Excellent Italian Greyhound is vintage Shellac: stark, razorous and blackly comic, lurching into whatever time signature happens to possess drummer Tod Trainer.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Grinderman
    This is not a bunch of old blokes looking to recapture their youth; rather, Grinderman sounds like a freshly hewn and rudely vigorous chunk of leftfield rock.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    To Find Me Gone
    Though it still errs toward a languid late-60s template, Cabic’s songwriting is now crisp and effortlessly melodic.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Black And White Album
    Throughout, monster riffs abound. Perhaps this monochrome-clad cartoon combo are as great as singer Howlin’ Pelle always said they were.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
    Essential listening.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    In Rainbows
    In Rainbows really does present Radiohead at their most full-blooded and confident.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
    Much of Hissing Fauna… dances in the face of its depressing subject matter.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Kala
    M.I.A. and co-producers, including Switch, straddle more styles than you’d find in most music collections, let alone on the same disc.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sound Of Silver
    This is music that hits the head, heart and hips all at once.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Cease To Begin
    When Cease To Begin rocks out it's euphoric, but there's a mournfulness shadowing each of these insistent melodies that will have you crying even as you smile.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
    It’s exciting stuff, simple yet deadly effective.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Person Pitch
    An album as rich as it is strange.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
    it's great to hear Banhart playing outside of type, and the swagger and muscle occasionally at work suit him surprisingly well.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Comicopera
    The songs on Comicopera rate amongst his very best--emotionally complex, politically charged but never short of beautiful.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Release The Stars
    He’s an acquired taste, perhaps, but a distinctive and extraordinarily talented songwriter.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Beatific Visions
    As exciting as it is original-sounding.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shelter From The Ash
    A fine album for autumn.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This Is My Demo
    This will end up flying off the shelves for sure.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pieces Of The People We Love
    A less angular, more grown-up album - something that won’t rattle your nerves.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ys
    It’s to her great credit that Newsom (literally) plucks artistic triumph from the jaws of cloying whimsy.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For Hero: For Fool
    Bewildered newcomers will soon be entranced, old fans won't be disappointed.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Flying Club Cup
    The new album conjures something of Condon’s own imagination, more deftly-etched romantic fiction than dry travelogue, and is all the better for it.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mirrored
    While their sound might have progressed in an even more bizarre – if sadly less atmospheric – direction, it's still surprising, full of invention and totally unique.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cosmos
    Give it a bloody good stereo and your full attention.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Friend Opportunity
    Now every track is an intensely creative pop gem, like those brilliant pockets scattered throughout previous releases, refined and condensed.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Volta
    The result is less cohesive than Vespertine or Medulla but the fun’s in the exuberance, the jolting between musical styles.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    King For A Day
    Overblown orchestrations, searing choruses, a demonic self-help tape pastiche and odes to Tom Cruise’s private life are tempered by sparse melodic interludes and tender songs of souls battling against grim routine.
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