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For 1,706 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Wet Tennis
    This is frivolous music best enjoyed as such. The trick to Sofi Tukker’s success is not to take them too seriously, even when they do so themselves.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Forgiveness
    Girlpool have finally escaped the contours of twee indie rock with their fourth album. It’s not your typical evolution; this record has always existed for Girlpool — they just had to begin to find themselves first. Forgiveness is a riveting glimpse into that ongoing process.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Giving the World Away
    These 12 songs are denser in their instrumentation and production than Hatchie’s previous work. ... Regardless, the album is still imbued with Pilbeam’s established touches of enchantment and sensitivity.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    I Dont Know Who Needs to Hear This...
    Like all the best songwriters, Tomberlin doesn’t act like she has the answers to the big questions, but knows that simply by being inquisitive she will eventually figure out her own truths, and she’s passing that wisdom along with this record.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    LP.8
    The record is about opposition: it haunts but soothes, it repels while drawing you in. As you listen, this unbridled exploration of sound will become part of your own dialectic subconscious rather than a soundtrack on your dancefloor. You have to listen.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Everything Was Beautiful
    Nothing here quite reaches the fizzy highs of something like “Come Together” or “Hey Jane”, and he can’t quite recapture the slow, sad, and syrupy balladry of past tracks like “Broken Heart”. But he can still kick up quite a storm when he wants to, and though perhaps a bit too streamlined for some fans, this is another fine album in Pierce’s and Spiritualized’s repertoire.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    It's Almost Dry
    Despite being almost twice the length, It’s Almost Dry very much adheres to the wisdom of its predecessor: there isn’t an ounce of fat on the lean, mean machine that is the album, with every second aimed with a precise, sinister purpose.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Cry Mfer
    Every song on this record is carefully crafted, and the way they’ve perfectly balanced the intimate bedroom atmosphere with the crystalline sheen of modern mainstream has created a set of unmissable pop pearls.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Skinty Fia
    With Skinty Fia, Fontaines, D.C. continue to position themselves as one of the more emotionally broad-banded and nuanced acts to emerge from the latest post-punk wave. Soundscapes are evocatively sculpted and frequently galvanic, melodies and lyrics consistently enrolling.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Aethiopes
    The album’s overwhelming atmosphere invites you to pore over the tracks, to take in each detail the light reaches, then comb over them again for everything you’ve missed.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Tilt
    Tilt is the music they are dragging you onto the dancefloor for, and with most of these songs playing over the speakers, you’ll happily join them.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Confident Music for Confident People
    Tilt is the music they are dragging you onto the dancefloor for, and with most of these songs playing over the speakers, you’ll happily join them.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Serpentina
    While it may prove inconsistent to some, the experimentation and exploration ensures the album remains exciting, as you never know what’s arriving next. If the intention of this album was to show a rebirth, it succeeds, as Banks seems reinvigorated and ready to fearlessly conquer the demons that dare cross her path.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Together
    This is music for the mercurial bunch in need of a break from their own chaotic lives, who need to experience someone else’s even if it’s momentarily. It’s something the genre was intended for, and bands like Duster will continue to provide it for years to come.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    (Watch My Moves)
    We have heard many albums about the pandemic and life within it, but this is more about about life after it; how to pick up the pieces of the lives we had before it and transform them into this new life that just relentlessly goes on. Vile’s music is attuned to the unrelenting progression of life.
    • 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
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ramona Park Broke My Heart
    His voice is consistently stroking it throughout the 16 tracks, ensuring it’s one of his most revealing bodies of work to date. A true and honest portrait of a complex human being.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    You Belong There
    All the arrangements feel organic and overflow from track to track. Rossen’s crafted a purposeful exploitation of his emotions as always, but this time it’s fully under his control.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    Bronco
    There’s so much talent and story hidden behind the mask, but this album isn’t Orville Peck at his truest.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    The Line Is a Curve
    Its fragmented nature is tied to its accessibility; each track stands alone on its own merits, albeit at the expense of the record as a whole. The more oblique lyricism allows for the possibility of wider interpretations here, where previously they have felt out of reach.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wet Leg
    In many ways, it’s Wet Leg’s small imperfections that make it the perfect debut – an impressive, tantalising exploration of their core talents that leaves just enough room for improvement.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Unlimited Love
    It’s far from a miserable affair, it certainly passes the time, it’s just hard to imagine how so much talent in a room didn’t arrive with something that didn’t feel so staid.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Running with the Hurricane
    Their punk spirit is still there, but has been buried a little under the weight of heartfelt emotion, bolstered instrumentation and sugary harmonies – all of which work beautifully for these songs. Camp Cope have made an album for themselves, to bring some unity through honesty and self-expression. They can certainly be proud of that.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Past Life Regression
    Past Life Regression doesn’t craft any new formulas for Papercuts, but it’s still consistent with what people have come to expect from the band.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Recordings From the Aland Islands
    At its most transfixing, Recordings From the Åland Islands sounds like music that might naturally arise from the landscape itself. Tranquil, bleary, and languid; ambient and gorgeous, but full of detail that makes the experience feel personal to Chiu and Honer.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Warm Chris
    The fragmentation of characters, the dislocation and purposefully disruptive sense of a core musical identity on Warm Chris make this a collection of disparate songs rather than a body of work – for some this will be a boon, for others problematic.
    • 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
    • 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.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Reborn
    Reborn often feels like traveling simultaneously to the past and the future in a larger-than-life overwhelmingness similar to watching a film in IMAX. It’s this complete immersion that wraps the record as a whole, rendering it as exciting as the newest sequel of your favourite superhero series.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sonancy
    This black abyss that Loop created is vast and infinite, and yes, even monotonous at times, but Hampson is shooting for the moon on Sonancy. He understands that it takes a rocket ship to get there – and those take time to build.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Melt My Eyez See Your Future
    With this album, Curry wants to let the world know who he is and what he stands for, and the music is all the better for it.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Diaspora Problems
    An essential and enlivening record from start to finish.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Present Tense
    As an experiment, the album hints at expansion but it feels restrained, afraid to really push hard. Even still, Present Tense has a little something for everyone and is a perfect launching pad for the next one.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In/Out/In
    The tracks are still unmistakably Sonic Youth, but in a period where each album had a particular feel and tone, these tracks feel too disjointed to sit together too well.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Only Love From Now On
    Even with guests and layers stripped away, she can still construct ambient moments that stick in your head.
    • 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.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Motomami
    With a little help from an impressive array of collaborators and producers that include heavyweights like Pharrell Williams, El Guincho and Frank Dukes, Rosalía takes clear and complete control of her voice by getting her ideas across without being too caught up in them.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Long Road North
    The album’s strength is in its sheer breadth, its teleological scope, its grandeur without pretence.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Crash
    Despite its minor detours, Crash is one of Charli’s better albums even if it will likely garner a polarizing reaction. She’s fully dedicated though, and it’s a testament to her commitment to crafting the big ‘sellout’ pop album, which she mostly nails.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Frank
    For a bunch of old tracks, then, Frank sits together quite nicely.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tana Talk 4
    Tana Talk 4 shows Benny the Butcher’s improving his rhymes, but doesn’t offer any more profound insight into the man behind the microphone – even as we return to where it all started.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Broken Equipment
    Instrumentally the record feels like a flash in the pan; the first few bites are crunchy and moreish, but it does become a little dry after a while. At times this doesn’t matter because the lyrics hold you, but then again that’s like having half a slice of pizza; good, but not quite satiating.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    SKIN
    Ho99o9 vividly express the anarchic impulse, conjuring the despair and volatility inherent to our postlapsarian age.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Classic Objects
    In its many guises, Classic Objects is that light, a profound statement from an artist bound by no traditions, and it is offered freely to those searching for all the questions they’ve yet to ask.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Topical Dancer
    Topical Dancer is a record for literally anyone. It’s a tool as much as it is an escape hatch. Play this album for your grandparents, your parents, your children, your children’s children, and children yet to be born. For it’s a spiritual palette cleanser as much as it is a physical one.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    PAINLESS
    Whether her words come from personal experience or not, Yanya’s able to swell with empathy in ways few current songwriters can convey. It’s audible how she places herself within the circumstances of a song, maybe to feel herself, but in doing so she connects with her audience on a different level.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Squeeze
    On the canyoning, Weyes Blood-sounding brooder “Not A Love Song”, she seems to find peace within her place in a corrupted world, realising the illusion that its violence inherent can be captured or neutered. Squeeze opts to bathe and contort in it with visceral theatricality.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Digital Roses Don't Die
    Digital Roses Don’t Die is a subtle, occasionally lightweight, jaunt through the realms of K.R.I.T.’s affections and motivations.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars
    While much of Lindeman’s recent work spotlights her knack for lush arrangements and declarative statements, How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars accentuates her nuanced artistry, including her gift for vocal and sonic restraint and lyrical precision.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Limbs
    Limbs is an arresting portrait of that mental state, one which is equal parts hopeful and harrowing. While each element has been particularly, even painfully, placed to present a certain image and mindset, there’s plenty of space left on the canvas to project one’s own thoughts and feelings, which is exactly the kind of engagement that an artist like Forsyth hopes to garner.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    The Tipping Point
    Anthemic, emotional, powerful – The Tipping Point is a very good record.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Angel in Realtime
    Outwardly, Gang of Youths’ third album is one about grief – specifically the grief stemming from the death of Le’aupepe’s father. But more than that, it’s a moving and deeply personal exploration of the innate flaws of the human condition; of failing the ones you love despite your best intentions, and of falling apart and beginning the slow and painful process of piecing yourself back together again afterwards.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    God Don't Make Mistakes
    God Don’t Make Mistakes is a complete body of work, Conway’s best to date, and one of the best rap albums to come out in 2022.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    caroline
    This band are making aural marvels that are sporadic, reactive, and organic — disguised inexactness that will have listeners frozen in an undeveloped state, merely connecting on an emotional level that can hardly be rationalized.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    LIFE ON EARTH
    On Life On Earth, marginalized voices are amplified and given credence. Segarra is the kind of potent lyricist who can flesh out characters and scenes with just one or two lines, paint entire panoramic worlds within the succinct space of a song.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Small World
    Metronomy’s Small World shows us exactly what it’s like to take it easy but still deliver have a rewarding experience.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Prey//IV
    PREY//IV sounds like Crystal Castles, but it isn’t a copy of their three albums. This is how they would have progressed, taking influence from FKA twigs and Arca amongst others.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Heterosexuality
    The production by Hollow Comet is bright and clean, and the instrumentation is tasteful — almost too tasteful, sometimes verging on a lighters-in-the-air radio pop sensibility. ... Regardless, Shamir has delivered arguably his finest album yet, by engaging with his pain and his curiosities about life, and giving us the privilege of bearing witness to it.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Once Twice Melody
    By the time Once Twice Melody reaches its closing moments, it sounds like the band are taking a well-earned victory lap in a career full of wins.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    B Flat A
    While B FLAT A is unflinching in depicting stark realism, it also proves to be decisively light-hearted and generous in its unburdening from the absolute strife it inspired. What a thrilling, refreshing band.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    The Kick
    This is a worthy comeback for the singer that is fun, catchy, bright and ultimately another addition to the canon of necessary, escapist music we need to forget the world’s impending descent into madness.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Lucifer on the Sofa
    There are bright spots on Spoon’s 10th album, which indicate that Daniel’s bargain with Lucifer can still inspire him and his band to deliver the goods. It’s just that for now, it appears to be only a strong EP’s worth.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 64 Critic Score
    The Dream
    The Dream doesn’t feel like a failed attempt at reaching new heights of popularity. It feels like a lot at once, but in a way that makes one want to give it another shot.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Visitor
    Empath’s Visitor is the stunning follow-up most young bands only dream of creating.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Tongues
    She will turn heads with Tongues, and we would all do well to listen intently.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
    It’ll be hard to outdo this 20-track masterpiece, but at this point it’s impossible to bet against them.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    IRE
    There’s a constant fluidity, a continuum of becoming throughout IRE, and the band stubbornly, almost gleefully, refuse to return earthbound.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Glitch Princess
    Glitch Princess is consistently inventive, disturbing, and timely.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tissues
    This is pure sonic poetry, a titillating psychological adventure that takes patience and perseverance to appreciate. Let this album wipe away your memory for a bit. Indulge.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Pompeii
    Pompeii truly feels like a gesamtkunst rather than a collection of separate songs. The album reaffirms what makes Le Bon’s music such a useful prism to process thoughts and feelings that feel too immense to articulate within traditional means.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Time Skiffs
    It’s a great American psychedelic record that retains an outsider perspective. And in that, a decade of ambitious exploration has finally paid off.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    See Through You
    After numerous lineup changes, this album feels like Ackerman’s hitting of reset button has finally worked, and the project is continuing down the intriguing path started last year resulting in a hell of a comeback album.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    Ants From Up There
    This overall reduction in the reliance on guitar riffs allows for greater flexibility of sound, and as such BCNR wring out more staggering peaks of emotion from Wood’s lovelorn words.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Dissolution Wave
    The whole is not as majestic as its parts, including the often very evocative lyrics. But on the record there is little left of those initial spiritual ideas itself, and the creative drive of the opening salvo won’t carry onto the second half. And that is a shame, as the album’s individual highs suggest greatness.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Laurel Hell
    Despite Laurel Hell‘s unevenness, Mitski’s persistent vulnerability makes her music inherently beautiful and honest, reminding us all of how primal and painful the experience of being human is.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Runner [Original Soundtrack]
    In The Runner, Boy Harsher deliver variety for new listeners and for devoted fans, something new so they can continue to experience the band live but safe behind the big screen.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Aboogi
    The music feels traditional, yet modern and accessible.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Three Dimensions Deep
    Her pen excels in etching out the intricate wonders of the emotional spectrum in a way that shows an advanced progression of both musical and emotional maturation. Three Dimensions Deep is a wonder, and I’m sure we’ll be pointing to this album when we look back to what point the world knew Mark was a star.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Covers
    Though the nature of Covers makes it slightly scattershot, and nothing quite hits the heights of some of her past covers, it is decidedly more engaging and diverse than her last album, the lowkey-to-the-point-of-disappearing Wanderer.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    The Overload
    The Overload has enough interesting touchstones, but unfortunately, how Yard Act aim to utilize them within their songwriting MO is still a bit of a jumble. Many of the sounds and textures don’t really add much expressive gusto to Smith’s thespian qualities, and I feel the group can cover a lot of ground here on upcoming releases.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Night Call
    While it’s not breaking any new ground or causing any philosophical contemplation, it’s highly doubtful that the album is trying to be more than what it exactly is: a collection of songs about dancing your way out of the complications and snares that so often accompany love.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    W
    W becomes more than just ‘another’ Boris album. Like other albums that capture the sublime – be it Kid A, Loveless, Eskimo or On Land – it conjures a sense of presence that is somewhat alien, slightly haunted, certainly physical. It toys with ideas of memories we associate with certain sounds and atmospheres, how our emotions can be formed through sensory experience and time becomes illusory.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    From A Birds Eye View
    From A Birds Eye View ups the stakes in every imaginable way from his rookie outing, The Lost Boy. Still, it lacks a true it-factor, suffering from questionable songs and moments. Luckily, the emcee’s ever-growing ambitions as an artist are put on full display here—even if they haven’t been fully realized quite yet.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Storm Queen
    On Storm Queen she’s an actor given complete creative freedom with a classic text; the voice of an avenging angel; a ballet dancer performing with a sharpened sabre in hand. Summoning thunderclouds and hurricanes with her inflections and rippling vocal cords, she is the Storm Queen through and through.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Caprisongs [Mixtape]
    The diversity of styles on CAPRISONGS would likely end up a disjointed mess in any other hands, but with twigs (and her stacked team) on hand, it all sews together brilliantly. It bounces back and forth from outwardly confident to more stately anthems of self-love, and even songs that might seem throwaway in isolation are key in sequence.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Sick!
    SICK! is a pure rap album, as only Earl Sweatshirt could deliver.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dawn FM
    Admittedly, The Weeknd is light years away from the sounds of Trilogy and a lot closer to the sounds of After Hours and Starboy, but one thing is for sure: this album is much closer to excellence than his last offerings.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    Magic
    Some bits here are the starkest and most direct compositions of the producer’s career to date, and that’s more than saying something. Suffice to say, as corny as it may be to declare, the project is perfectly named, Magic, because it provides just that.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Antidawn [EP]
    Antidawn is alive, and it expresses itself in those short bursts of iconic moments that shine something back.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Leftovers
    Leftovers may not offer that something she was after, but it’s an undeniably pleasing document of how a surrounding life of family, friends, and personal encounters is perhaps the thing that is real. Only time can turn them into something else.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Luminous Rot
    Nadja have often been a band who have played with aural textures, with the light and shade of sound, and have the rare ability to allow the listener to lose track of time as they fall into the music. Luminous Rot is no different and is up there with their best work.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Half God
    Where Wiki’s last album Oofie jumped around in styles with different beatmakers, Half God feels like one complete vision. With the marriage of a producer on a hot streak and a rapper who sounds revitalized, it’s a welcome addition to both artists’ catalogs.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    New Decade
    New Decade comes across as bleak, but it’s deliberately restrained; its meditations cut through the real sentiments of our confusing years with the sincerity of a haiku. Especially amidst isolation and the uncertainties of modernity, we are reminded of the power of self-expression.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Rhinestones
    Rhinestones might not make it on most publications’ year end lists, but it is the sort of record that will be cherished and rediscovered by those who need it for many years. It’s the kind of music that, when you meet somebody for the first time and they share their appreciation for it, could signify a kindred soul.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Barn
    Barn is a really solid Crazy Horse record, definitely in the upper third of Neil’s output over the last decade or two. There’s a lot of joy and atmosphere in the set, and while some of the tracks here might be a bit too typical of their genre tropes or Neil’s past, they also bring with them a timeless, warm sense of identity and perspective totally unique in the current music world.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Megabear
    ME REX have taken a leap and tried something fresh, and depending on how much the thought of an album with instructions thrills or annoys you, you’ll get varying degrees of enjoyment from it. Equally though, that’s kind of the point.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Formula of Love: O+T=<3
    There’s an irresistible eclecticism on display, with each and every track serving as a unique adventure into some different corner.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Observatory
    Observatory is ultimately not the Wrens record we all wanted, but it’s what we have and it’s better than it has any right to be given all the turmoil of its conception.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Voyage
    Benny’s production work at times does a disservice to the material but, for the most part, Voyage is a welcome addition to the ABBA canon.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Unity
    By cause and effect, the music submissively ambles between full-on 80s throwback mode and stylish juxtapositions of different sensibilities, sometimes frustratingly so for those inclined to want to feel or hear something new. More often than not, The KVB are simply great at reconfiguring their core influences in fresh ways instead of blowing it up into an all-out pastiche, which isn’t an easy thing to do when your music summons such a specific set of atmospherics.
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