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For 1,712 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: 1,563 out of 1712
  2. Mixed: 131 out of 1712
  3. Negative: 18 out of 1712
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Lasers
    Lasers is more an indictment of the state of mainstream rap than anything. This is the absolute worst-case scenario of what can happen when commerce is placed above art, and in this instance it's especially offensive because Lupe is someone who doesn't need to bend over backward to be accessible.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Wounded Rhymes
    It's rare that an artist finds a voice in the unsaid. You could call her loss our gain.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    We're New Here
    Gone are the old voices of the city, the tales of the Wu-Tang and the sense that there is real struggle or strife. Instead it's a heterogeneous mix of international talent devoted less to teaching lessons or passing down wisdom as it is to making twenty-somethings dance.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Replicants
    There's a great EP's worth of material hiding within Replicants, and I wish it had stayed that way.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Port Entropy
    It's nice to see that Tokumaru has shaken what seemed like guilt about trying to make a playful world filled with as many toy-instruments as possible. It's unfortunate, however, that he has removed much of the emotional content that made his previous albums so rewarding on repeat listens.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The King of Limbs
    The material here is as strong as we've come to expect from this band, but its pleasures aren't nearly as surface-level as even Kid A's. The best way to judge The King of Limbs in the long run may simply be to hope someone spurs Radiohead on in this direction.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Cloud Nothings
    Cloud Nothings, the eponymous debut from the project of Dylan Baldi, is the work of another young mind who seems gifted beyond his years.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Underneath the Pine
    He remains an original, talented musician with his influences worn firmly on his sleeves; a contemporary proving that the past is still very much relevant.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    No Witch
    No Witch might not be a particularly ground-breaking album, but it is a significant leap forward for this band, and that's most definitely a step in the right direction.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Best of Gloucester County
    Knocking out fun little songs at home with old friends is all well and good, but it isn't hard to imagine a little more effort and sincerity resulting in something a bit more enduring.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    The Babies
    The Babies is a worthwhile enough diversion to make me genuinely excited for the next Vivian Girls record, and think that maybe Morby should stay in the spotlight and ask Woods to find a new bassist.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Ravedeath, 1972
    It makes its own statement, and it does so with the level of maturity and succinctness that we've come to expect from Hecker, an artist who has well earned his place as a leader amongst his peers.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Computers & Blues
    This may be a confused record, but it finds its place through a universal truth it manages to hit: so Skinner can't quite find his way in this world: who among us can?
    • 89 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    The Greatest Story Never Told
    It's too bad it couldn't find release on a major, but still a victory. Yet, that doesn't make this album, as Saigon once declared it, the best record of the last 20 years. It makes it a good one.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Violet Cries
    Let us hope this isn't a flash-in-the-pan success and that subsequent releases are just as good.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The People's Key
    The People's Key just doesn't have the emotional pull that others do.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Ritual
    Ritual is an enthralling album, highlighting a band flexing their musical muscles, trying to grow and add new sounds to their existing palette.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    The London Sessions
    Where there was honesty in the lyricism of "Losing My Edge" in 2002, there is now sonic honesty in the vivacious rock and roll that is the London Sessions.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 52 Critic Score
    Tao of the Dead
    It sounds reaching, like the band is lost and looking desperately for an audience and a voice. I hope they start looking somewhere else.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cape Dory
    Still, beneath all of her oohs and la la, is a dark-blue and starry expedition, a true passion for two musicians that really just permeates straight through the glittering guitars and infectious, harmonized choruses.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Gutter Rainbows
    Rainbows may well be the best thing Kweli has done since Quality.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics
    Arcade Dynamics still might not be for everyone, but singles like "Hamilton Road," "Art Vandelay," and "Killin' the Vibe" should not go unheard.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Zonoscope
    Sure Zonoscope is splattered with stumbled-upon gems, but a little more editing and maybe some more focused songwriting sessions could have really brought Zonoscope into focus.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Blue Songs
    The entire album seems either completely uninspired or absolutely rushed.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    The Big Roar
    The height of popularity for this music may have come in the first half of the last decade when bands like fellow British trios Feeder and Muse were at their peak, but music this enjoyable never becomes unpopular, especially when it's done this well.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Unlearn
    It is an unmistakably raw first album of ripe potential, and one of the more memorable releases of the early weeks of this year.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Zeroes QC
    Jace Lasek does an admirable job with the production, channelling a more nocturnal version of his own band's widescreen grandeur, whilst Suuns themselves evince a knack for memorable melodies without really producing anything in the way of actual hooks.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Broken Dreams Club
    Though he can be likened to a number of classic singers, some of the all-time greats might I add, his work is his own and ultimately original in its identity.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    James Blake
    He achieves a lot with a little. He never gives us filler. He continues to innovate. He has provided us with a great album, one that is a sure sign his velocity has not been slowed.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mantic
    Ask me what I think about it in a month and it may be one of my favorite albums of the year. For now, it is a strong debut that can prove difficult at times, but puts the singer on the map of future artists to watch.
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