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For 1,706 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 39% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Achtung Baby [Super Deluxe]
Lowest review score: 18 If Not Now, When?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,558 out of 1706
  2. Mixed: 130 out of 1706
  3. Negative: 18 out of 1706
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
    We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic delivers on the promise of Foxygen's previous material in almost every way possible, offering up full and complete songs filled with bright instrumentation and enough surprising songwriting turns to get lost in, but there's also a strong personality at its core bursting with a vibrancy that carries these songs beyond their specific musical waypoints and influences into a uniquely modern setting.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Centralia
    There's much beauty to be found here on the fifth Mountains LP, Centralia.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Elements of Light
    Elements of Light ultimately feels like a stop off between Black Noise and whatever Pantha Du Prince has waiting on the horizon.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Lysandre
    These three tracks ["A Broken Heart," "Lysandre," and "Everywhere You Knew"] function as everything Owens could have dreamed this first solo effort to be. But the rest of the album, which aims for similar points of emotional cohesiveness, but due to some ham-fisted instrumental choices, the message can become muddled.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Long.Live.A$AP
    Unsure whether he wanted to create a sunny, party album, gangstafest, or a record of cool pop vibes, Rocky seems to have tried to make them all, and with minor successes in all departments, he sacrifices something stronger.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Blood Oaths of the New Blues
    The album, with all of its imperfections and warmly textured moments, feels well-worn and comfortable-despite its often acerbic lyrical habits.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Grace/Confusion
    Ultimately, Grace/Confusion is a production best staged in the theatre of your mind.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Trilogy
    This kind of remaster campaign is normally reserved for albums that have had decades to sink into the national consciousness as is, introducing a shock-of-the-new, hearing-it-again-for-the-first-time element, and while the oldest of the Trilogy material has only been around for a year and a half or so, the differences in the new mixes can still be jarring.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Nocturne
    Nocturne proves that Tatum is firmly at the centre of the Wild Nothing universe, and around him orbits his dreams, influences and abilities, which seem to stretch out infinitely.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Other Worlds
    It manages to feel both too specific and not quite specific enough; while it sounds like her own personal sound world and collection of memories, the album lacks that relatable hook to draw the listener in.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Cut the World [Live]
    Cut the World is compelling enough to change the way we appreciate the world and its sad beauty. There's simply nothing that sounds quite like this.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Mars
    Although he's using sounds and influences from many of the musical hubs on the Earth, from Africa to America and plenty in between, with them he has created aural scenery that is so serene and heavenly that it couldn't possibly exist on our busy and frantic planet.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Ocean Roar
    Ocean Roar [is] a truly proper follow-up.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    At the Down-Turned Jagged Rim of the Sky
    This is life At the Down-turned Jagged Rim of the Sky, which isn't a devastatingly beautiful one, but it's still engaging in its own deep, personal way.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    Sushi
    Like Silica Gel, Sushi isn't a bad album; it's just disappointingly mediocre, and I expect better than that from the psychedelic underground's clown prince of Cool Runnings and backseat-of-grandma's-Oldsmobile Top-40 jams.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Jiaolong
    The impulsivity that he has carried with him for most of his career has come into full bloom on Jiaolong.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Tinsel And Lights
    Tinsel and Lights is at its best during its most Christmassy moments, which in the context of everything else, feels a little ironic, as Thorn sounds like she's trying to avoid the holiday for the most part.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Instrumental Tourist
    It's pleasant, unsurprisingly enough, in both its sonic direction and minimal production, but it lacks the sense of overwhelming purpose usually found on both artists' solo records.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Quarter Turns Over a Living Line
    With Quarter Turns Over A Living Line Raime fleshes out the promise of earlier work and delivers one 2012′s most compelling and listenable experimental records.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ancient Mars
    They start off well, though, with a trio of solid tracks.... The remaining tracks on the album are equally inoffensive, but they don't have the same half-minded unassuming appeal to help them glide along, and too often there's one too many head-in-your-hands cheesy lines thrown in.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Release
    Release definitely sees Pangaea staying ahead of the game, voyaging without hesitation into unchartered territories while keeping a foot in familiar UK bass strains.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    Bish Bosch
    The album is a widening and a deepening of the style we've come to expect of Walker – but it's also got elements of a brightening of that sound as well.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Come of Age
    There's nothing wrong with seeking to accomplish the same things your heroes did, but when a band tries only to imitate a few aspects–in this case, detached singing, jangly guitar interplay, and lyrics about teen angst–without offering many of the other aspects that made that band great–like clever storytelling and interesting perspectives--it's always going to fall short. Which Come Of Age does.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Animator
    Time and time again The Luyas set themselves up in a soft kraut-like groove and fail to progress the song into something different, allowing it to fizzle out after four or five minutes.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    House on the Hill
    What results is a more even effort, a more accomplished record, by all stretches of the imagination, but one that lacks a single truly brilliant track to elevate it above the legion of Brooklyn guitar bands.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Free Reign
    They've ironed out their eccentricities, and produced their silkiest and least combative record in the process.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Aimlessness
    Essentially, Aimlessness is a jovial affair that promises more in its first half than it can deliver in its second.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No Love Deep Web
    While No Love Deep Web is not the masterpiece The Money Store undeniably is, it still manages to be both a substantial step forward and, even more importantly, a work not easily forgotten.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Movement
    Though academic in its tone, and impenetrable at points due to it's uncompromising focus on experimentation, Movement looks inward, probing the possibility of humanity even through an album centered on electronic instrumentation
    • 75 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Lux
    Best to sit back and bask in the confident warmth of a job well done.
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