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For 1,711 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: 1,562 out of 1711
  2. Mixed: 131 out of 1711
  3. Negative: 18 out of 1711
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Everybody Can't Go
    To his credit, he once again proves why he’s esteemed at the former via the blunt insights of “TMVTL”, but the “run that verse back” Benny is all but absent on Everybody Can’t Go. Once more, there’s nothing necessarily wrong with that, but he doesn’t seem sure how to replace that energy with conviction. Even The Alchemist gets dragged down by the pursuit of safe material.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Sun Racket
    It’s a stunning and properly weird ending to a weird album, and though it may be one of their most succinct albums, Sun Racket still showcases what the Muses are up to so long into their career, and why they should keep doing exactly what they’re doing.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My 21st Century Blues
    This is far from a “safe” debut – her authenticity, vulnerability and innate ability to scribe the gory innards of her consciousness on to paper are entirely unique and intimately personal. It is not always the easiest listen and that is precisely the point.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    America
    America is an album in two halves, once again separate but together, a side of individual tracks and a four-song suite that inform each other even as they generate tension by nature of their disparity.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    A Softer Focus
    It is the soundtrack to rousay’s year of insularity, isolation, and adaptation, and harmonises beautifully with anyone who’s undergone similar feelings of repression and growth during this period.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Animal
    Animal is a beast worthy of its own spotlight and attentions. The genre-crossing is much less surface level, as the duo creates grander and grander platforms for Marling’s commanding voice. The whole thing is far more theatrical, full of slow building ballads and cresting climaxes.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    I Don't Know
    Overall, I Don’t Know is a formidable leap forward for bdrmm and needs to be seen as one body of work that veers this way and that, but always with a purposeful forward motion.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Clash Battle Guilt Pride
    Album pacing, songcraft and the all-important killer chorus--all of these aspects have been considerably improved on since last time out.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Theatre Is Evil
    The album is all about big and big is what you get.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    Immunity
    All in all, Hopkins’ roadmap is splendidly plotted, taking the right amount of time to deliver you to your destination and showing you the detours you didn’t even know you wanted to see.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Radical Romantics
    Radical Romantics offers enough detail, emotion, and vigour to tide us over until the next inevitable shapeshifting moment.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Arkhon
    As a whole, Arkhon is a distinct statement. Even Danilova’s uneven work manages to be intriguing.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Field of Reeds
    Pinned up and thoroughly artistic, Field of Reeds is affecting, but it’s also hard to get genuinely excited about.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Anime, Trauma and Divorce
    Anime, Trauma and Divorce is a self-help rap record that manages to be heart-breaking and humorous at the same time, and never takes its audience for granted, which is a rare find in any medium.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Limbo
    They're not quite catchy, not quite infectious, but they're hooky enough to get your head nodding.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Take the Cake
    At times, take the cake feels like it’s at an ennui crossroads, trying to define listlessness while side-stepping its intentions. But how many artists have we seen hover around an emotional bullseye on their first album only to hit it on their next go-round? Even if take the cake doesn’t show PACKS’ full potential, it still gives us much to look forward to.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chloe and the Next 20th Century
    With Erickson’s arrangements augmenting his tales at every beat, they become immersive emotional explorations. Not every entry is gripping, and their mileage will depend on how much time you’re willing to settle in and let them wash over you, but overall it’s an impressively graceful skip into a new era for the songwriter.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Sketchy.
    sketchy. may not be their out-and-out best work, but it’s proof that they still have the guts and the songwriting ability — as well as their ever-present, obvious earnestness and candor — to do what endeared their work to so many in the first place.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Labyrinthitis
    Labyrinthitis is Bejar’s best work since Kaputt. At this point, Bejar has several classics under his belt, so there’s no desperation here to create another one, but he manages to do it with ease.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Echoes of Silence
    One of the more vocal complaints about The Weeknd's second mixtape was its lack of immediacy, which Echoes of Silence certainly outgrows.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    The Car
    If The Car is any automobile in particular, it’s a Ferrari or Lamborghini; you might watch it pass for a moment, admiring its sleek curves, shimmering façade and purring engine, but you won’t care much about the driver – and once it’s out of view, it probably won’t be long before it fades from memory.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Versions of Modern Performance
    They’ve delivered a certain-to-be-beloved debut – one that separates itself from its peers.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Infinite Granite
    Infinite Granite feels less like an abandonment, and more like a new era – a rebirth that fans can either jump on or off for.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Everything Is Alive
    Hard to categorise, and impossible to assess immediately, like all of Slowdive, everything is alive will ever blossom with time.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Doris
    Many of the best rap records are monochromatically single-minded, but then the other half, embrace contradictions as a weapon, rage hiding insecurities, heartless satire shielding weakness, such as Earl’s hero, early period Slim Shady.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Cool It Down
    One of their boldest statements yet — Cool It Down has everything one would need in a rock record in this day and age, and it’s the most complete version of the band we’ve ever received.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Tongues
    She will turn heads with Tongues, and we would all do well to listen intently.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gifted
    Each track finds her motivation intact, with almost no trace of despair that isn’t equally met with perseverance. While it finds the singer consistently laid back, Gifted pushes forward constantly – displaying its creator’s unique resolve.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Gaslighter
    This is certainly the poppiest the band has ever sounded, and the album has a handful of trite or overly-cheesy moments, but these are easy to overlook when it all sounds this good, and when so many of Maines’ lyrics are this precise and honest.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Play With Fire
    Raging with a steady purr, Play With Fire might be an obvious follow-up to their 2017 debut—but that doesn’t mean it’s any less powerful or interesting. The LP sees L.A. Witch solidifying their status as the cursed love children of Black Sabbath and The Shangri-Las.
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