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For 3,873 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Dead Man's Pop [Box Set]
Lowest review score: 10 Wake Up!
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,243 out of 3873
  2. Mixed: 601 out of 3873
  3. Negative: 29 out of 3873
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Meteorites
    Meteorites is the sound of a once-great band bursting into flames on re-entry.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Beauty & Ruin
    Older, wiser, still rocking: Mould’s sounding as electric as ever.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Reality Testing
    There’s a lack of precision, with a flabby middle section finding ‘Begin To Begin’, for example, looping aimlessly. Yet when it hits home, Reality Testing more than justifies Lone’s tag as one of the most flexible, dextrous producers in the game.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    In the Lonely Hour
    Apart from perhaps three exceptions, most of these tracks get lost in their own elegant, introspective and lovelorn swirl of tedious easy listening.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Luck
    Although the material demonstrates Vek’s undoubted talent, Luck can’t quite match our hopes--or, indeed, the quality of its predecessors.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unplugged 1991 & 2001: The Complete Sessions
    Hardly essential, then, but Unplugged is a fans-pleasing release that serves as a reminder that songs with great longevity needn’t always be played loudly.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    III
    With an energy and ambience that ebbs and flows in waves rather than exploding in peaks and crescendos, this is edgy, kaleidoscopic lounge music for the Digital Age.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ghost Stories
    Separation is writ large across the themes of Ghost Stories--and knowing what came next in Martin’s personal life, perhaps that was always to be expected. What’s not is just how lifeless so much of this material is, how instantly forgettable these songs are.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    May You Marry Rich
    Where previous Colourmusic albums were spiky, unpredictable things, this set often feels content just to wallow in an amorphous sonic soup.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Artificial Sweeteners
    We’re submitting this one for further clinical studies.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    American Interior
    A work of typically broad imagination, not everything on American Interior fully clicks into place. Yet when it does, there’s more than enough to suggest that Rhys need not cease his eternal voyaging.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Luminous
    Across its 10 tracks, the album focuses more on the complete experience than unexpected instances of sidestepping intrigue.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    9 Dead Alive
    9 Dead Alive demonstrates amazing talent, then--but the ideas and theme, as a whole, are a bit samey.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sheezus
    While it has it moments, Sheezus is largely devoid of Allen’s pragmatic charm of 10 years ago.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Haul Away!
    At times her deliberate vocal style disconnects the listener, and one hopes as Green’s career progresses, she trades in the allegories for something a bit more emotionally inclusive.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Shrink Dust
    The album’s lacking that one standout moment to make it a truly transformative experience. Still, the scope and ambition are to be applauded, and it’s a treat to take a voyage around his mind and beyond.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Indie Cindy
    There are Pixies fans that would have preferred another ‘Doolittle’ instead, but Indie Cindy isn’t bad, not bad at all.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's Alive
    Throwaway fun, for sure, but throwaway all the same.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Built on Glass
    There are enough moments of musical eclecticism here to suggest that Built On Glass is his solid starting point, rather than a definitive statement.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Darlings
    Darlings is a concrete mixer full of ideas, although it’s tricky to pinpoint if Drew’s actually laid the foundations of a decent record.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In Each and Every One
    It’s a jarring listen from start to finish, but worth sifting.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Himalayan
    The first half of the LP is phenomenal.... Despite some scorching vocal interplay, there’s a noticeable drop in quality on later tracks.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Education, Education, Education & War
    Kaiser Chiefs fall further into the abyss of bands that have little new to offer in a current musical climate where progression is more closely measured than ever.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Night Time, My Time
    This is cheap theatrics masquerading as inspired art.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Singles
    Herring’s growling vocals prevent proceedings from becoming too gloopy or nostalgic, and make Singles a new-wave treasure.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    World of Joy
    World Of Joy, ultimately, is impounded by its own musical influences.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Teeth Dreams
    Teeth Dreams is the New Yorkers’ burliest record to date, less feel-good and chorus-driven than previous efforts, but there’s still much to love
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mirrors the Sky
    There’s quiet beauty here.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Forcefield
    For all its lack of idiosyncrasies, however, there’s a credibly unashamed attitude to creating perfectly fine pop songs.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Neontwang
    Too much of Neontwang feels slight, as if the band is still beset by identity issues, still confused by the prospect of what they could be. The transition, then, is still under way. When it works, Neontwang is a worthy return, the sound of a band taking risks in ways their detractors could never fathom.
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