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For 1,384 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 George Fest: A Night to Celebrate the Music of George Harrison [Live]
Lowest review score: 20 Collapse
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 950 out of 1384
  2. Mixed: 427 out of 1384
  3. Negative: 7 out of 1384
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lost Time
    Spend enough time with Lost Time and you’ll find yourself singing snatches of lyrics about the west coast tsunami (“I Love Seattle”) or misogynist trolls (“The Internet”) in the shower. And, weirdly, it’ll be fun.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Love Will Prevail
    On the group's third full-length Love Will Prevail, Ragon earns his rightful place alongside the works of the underground icons he flips for profit.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Honky Tonk
    Honky-Tonk is a Country Music album. No Alt required.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Live at Billy Bob's Texas
    Live at Billy Bob's Texas is proof enough that he's still living up to his rep as one of the original Outlaws of Country, sitting firmly beside Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wonderful, Glorious
    The tenth Eels studio LP simply presents E's strengths as a songwriter and performer.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Wild Peace
    One of the best records of the year.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The High Country
    True, The High Country doesn't allow for the giddiest of circumstance, but if it doesn't break your heart, it may just steal it instead.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gentle Spirit
    There are times when Wilson's meandering style emphasis on ambiance turns on a twilight sound.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Parker Millsap
    Backed by his acoustic guitar, a fiddle player, a bass and little else, Millsap’s record has a timelessness that will preserve it well years from now.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Cure for Loneliness
    Not as prolific as some of his peers, it’s easy to forget what a great musician Wolf is. Thankfully, this new one serves as a fresh reminder.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Meltdown
    If you like good tunes cranked up on pogo beats, you can hardly do better than Meltdown
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Algiers
    The music on this remarkable record creeps up on you, and subtleties abound; with Burns' vocals mic'd very close and much of the instrumental flourishes occurring deep in the mix, it's an intimate affair.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Komba
    Komba, the band's third album, ups the techno factor from 2008's Black Diamond, pushing Buraka's infectious kuduro-samba-house-rave hybrid into shinier, more modernistic directions.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Everyday Robots
    Albarn has just unveiled quite arguably the best album of his career--solo or otherwise--with Everyday Robots.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Be the Void
    There's not an obvious departure from their last few releases, but there doesn't need to be as the band has settled comfortably into their sound.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Possum in the Driveway
    As always, Mulcahy’s pastoral pop stirs up a delightful brew, both easily accessible and undeniably irrepressible all at the same time.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Real Hair [EP]
    Calling to mind everyone from Dinosaur Jr. to The Pixies, Boston indie noise rockers follow up last year’s great full length, Major Arcana, with the solid, but frustratingly short vinyl 12” EP Real Hair.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Paul Walker
    Paul Walker’s not for everyone but will at least get the 40-somethings to quit bitching about Green Day.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Let's Fly a Kite
    It captures an aura of domestic bliss through songs that are unfailingly effervescent and jazz infused to the max.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Modern Creation
    Modern Creation may not their best collections of songs--that honor is still held by 2012’s Enjoy the Company--but there’s still some damn fine tunes to be found here.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Family
    Family functions more like a sampler than as an in-depth insight into their collective prowess.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Freedom & Surrender
    What might have been a great album merely becomes a good one, due to fact that much needed variation is in such short supply.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Bronx (IV)
    This LA-based hardcore band turns out their most consistently solid set of songs yet; a dozen tracks of distorted guitars, machine gun drumming and throat-reddening vocals.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Night & Day
    [Williams] remains agile, mobile and hostile as the Sadies choogle, twang and vamp behind him.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Royal Headache
    Royal Headache's debut begins in a pounding, pummeling riff-based rampage, all double-timed guitar strumming and frantic one-two drumming. "Never Again," the lead off track, runs as fast and hard and ragged as any punk anthem, taking the corners with two wheels off the ground.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jackleg Devotional to the Heart
    Fondness for Jackleg only grows the more time you spend with it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lux
    With its relaxing, wordless waves of pastoral hums and harmonies, LUX rightfully earns its place amongst such classic works by one of the great masters of sonic exploration.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's Always Another Girl
    Hatfield more closely follows the model of her most popular work, with multi-tracked vocals and hooky arrangements to boost the pop quotient.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Bet on Sky
    The group's strongest, most challenging and most cohesive offering in years.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Red, Hot + Fela
    It is, obviously, a tribute to Fela’s lasting power and influence that so many different artists want to play his music, and not at all surprising that he was better at it than most of them. Still, no one wants to hear Fela’s fiery grooves diluted, slicked over, chilled out and made more commercially palatable.
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