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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
    • 77 Critic Score
    Parallax
    As his catalogue continues to accumulate faster than just about every other artist out there, you can feel him growing more confident in himself and the ideas he bases his music on. Parallax can't help but feel like a win for this cause because it symbolizes growth more than out-and-out excellence.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania
    With The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania, Jurado has released another moving and memorable album, gaining further traction in what might be considered the third phase of his career.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Doomin' Sun
    This album embraces you like your favorite seat, preserving your outline intimately in its fabric.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    I Know I'm Funny Haha
    While the album doesn’t colour outside the lines as much as previous efforts (though the chuggy, restrained grunge wash on “Cheers” is a welcome outwards venture), that’s no bad moment here.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    The Magic Place
    Is she singing lyrics? Hard to say. But these songs are unquestionably emotive, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were actually prayers.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH
    The band’s shape-shifting compositions create a forward momentum well suited to a journey through different levels of Hell on Earth.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Sink Into Me
    Sink into Me is possibly superior song-wise to Home for Now and at least equally cogent in terms of vocal performances. Going forward, however, Babeheaven might consider combining the matured skills of their latest work with the less self-conscious and more rangy aesthetic inherent to Home for Now.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Struggler
    While Smiling spreaded itself thin at times, Owusu sounds more settled on Struggler and contorts his voice less.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Reason in Decline
    It’s a new Loaf album, with varied rock gems that will fit snugly into live setlists and even get those old fans to sing along. It’s one of those rare reunion albums that satisfies a need, even if it doesn’t land as hard as some may have hoped.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Muna
    MUNA is the best soundtrack one can find for the next few months. Seemingly destined to join the canon of pop’s great cult-classics (Carly Rae Jepsen’s Emotion, Robyn’s Body Talk, among them), it’s an album whose legacy should last much longer.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I'm Your Empress Of
    A bold and entrancing set of songs, it’s hard not to see what a big leap forward she took on this album.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Slave Ambient
    Hopefully Slave Ambient will do for The War On Drugs what Smoke Ring For My Halo did for Kurt Vile and place Adam Granduciel as one of the musicians with serious talent and songwriting acumen in modern indie rock.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Drunk Tank Pink
    At best, this sophomore project suggests a band pushing itself in every direction and through every crevice of the genre to see what fits them and their messaging most effectively.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Girl With Fish
    Squeezing 11 songs into 26 minutes is no easy task but somehow Feeble Little Horse manage to give each gem a personality and identity.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Burden of Proof
    It’s a busy record for sure, but it makes for an exhilarating listen front to back. At less than 40 minutes, it’s also one of the most compact rap albums of the year, running more like a singer-songwriter level of conciseness and less of an over-zealous rapper.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Quaranta
    Quaranta is an incredibly brave work of art. It eludes navel gazing and the self-flagellation that comes with substance abuse. It is varied enough to provide entertainment, but never submits to commodification.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Overgrown
    While James Blake felt aloof, even ahuman, Overgrown is packed with feeling, and releases it with the smallest of gestures.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Silence Yourself
    Since Savages have cultivated such a politicized aesthetic, it’s hard to divorce the concept behind the art from the art itself, but Silence Yourself delivers if you are willing to submit to its unflinching authority.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Past Life Martyred Saints
    From epic opener "The Grey Ship," to the equally epic closing track "Red Star," Past Life Martyred Saints is an album that captivates, provokes, and pleases.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Engine of Hell
    Engine of Hell underscores her gifts as a songwriter and for minimalistic arrangement, also illustrating her talent for unadorned performance.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Preacher's Daughter
    With more questions raised than answered, Cain’s unusually ambitious and fully-realised debut somehow leaves listeners craving more in spite of its wonderful, exhausting, 75 minute runtime.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Ultimate Success Today
    On Ultimate Success Today, Protomartyr have made essential jams for a genre that’s been passed around dozens of times over. It’s nice to know that, five albums deep, the band haven’t lost any ferocity, and that they continue to be a mouthpiece for so many feelings we all share.
    • 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.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Impossible Spaces
    It's a spatial and musical theme across the whole of Impossible Spaces and it's perhaps the record's most deserving triumph.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    The Whaler
    the whaler will make you furious; it will make you feel and assuredly interrogate your own heart. That’s emo music, and it is most definitely Home Is Where.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    What Happened to the Beach?
    What we do know is that What Happened to the Beach? is a musical ride. While it does not hand out aces on all fronts, it remarkably returns to classically flamboyant roots that urge the importance of enjoying life.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    Wakin on a Pretty Daze
    With any luck, Wakin On A Pretty Daze will go down as a document to the workman he really is.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Asphalt Meadows
    Overall, Asphalt Meadows is a fine record from a band so deep into their career they really have nothing left to prove — except, it seems, to themselves.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Smoke Ring for My Halo
    Though it may seem like Vile tends to waver on just how he wants to be perceived, the lack of commitment is nothing if not intensely deliberate.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Bad Vibes
    As the record unravels those far-reaching human touches, supported by the more grounded electronic elements, become the emotional sticking point with a surprising amount of staying power.
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