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For 3,871 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: 3,241 out of 3871
  2. Mixed: 601 out of 3871
  3. Negative: 29 out of 3871
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Super Snooper
    Snõõper have succeeded in creating an album that celebrates the joy of live music, while not sacrificing any of their energy, originality or fun in the process.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Weather
    Tycho never loses sight of what he is known for: the skillful mastery of crafting brilliant ambient soundscapes from bare computer programs. And believe it or not, his sound here is that much more captivating.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Memento Mori
    Fans of Depeche Mode can be happy to receive the band’s best offering of this century (though don’t get it twisted, ‘Playing The Angel’ is still a great record) but it’s unlikely they’ll change the minds of non-listeners, as foolish as such people are. The same ground is tread here, just in new shoes.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All the Time
    A radiant and eminently danceable album, it’s a necessary salve to put on this year.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Escape 2 Mars
    It’s great fun, and clearly a Bay Area attempt at the big league. Like hip-hop used to sound. Praise be.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Noise
    2009 has seen the emergence and critical success of other techno-pop bands, including The xx and Fever Ray, and Pantha du Prince plays into exactly this sort of intelligent, thoughtful, and in many ways uplifting music.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nothing's Real
    Sonically and lyrically, Shura is at her most urgent and incisive.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forevher
    This album is purposely ambiguous. By omitting such boundaries, it offers a storyline recognisable to everyone. Love is universal!
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Intra-I
    With ‘The Spiral’ acting as a key moment, a fusion of individual voice and collective endeavour, it’s clear that his journey has only just started.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Adrian Younge Presents: Twelve Reasons to Die II
    The focus from all concerned makes the convincingly grisly fiction a lot of fun.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gimme Some Truth: The Ultimate Mixes [Box Set]
    This open-ended offering brilliantly entices you to extrapolate meaning from it, to attach it to a time and space before letting it fully unfurl.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Exotico
    There are no bounds. ‘Exotico’ let’s go of control, so remarkable things can happen. It’s the closest Temples have been to releasing a masterpiece, and that’s saying something.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love Songs, Pt. 2
    Romare sets out to bring in elements of his distinct sound from across his career always combining it with something fresh and invigorating. The fact that all of these elements come together into such an approachable and restrained album is quite impressive.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heart Under
    A striking, fantastically original work, this is an album that taps into animalistic emotion.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
    One of the songwriter’s most overtly gorgeous works, it finds Panda Bear easing into new ground while maintaining his near effortless melodic touch.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crazymad for Me
    Expectations for CMAT’s second album were sky-high, but she’s managed to reach new musical heights with ease and style. ‘Crazymad, For Me’ is another smash hit from a showstopper vocalist that really puts the fun back in pop music.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Animal Joy
    As You As You Were already feels like a festival anthem in waiting. Stunningly good music.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fire Like This
    Taught and lean, bold and mean, Blood Red Shoes are fighting fit and Fire Like This might just be their knock-out punch.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When I Have Fears
    The Murder Capital offer authenticity, honesty and truth aplenty, it has already become difficult, if not impossible, to imagine a vibrant music scene without them and there is a sense that this album is only the beginning of their compulsive journey.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Music, Trial and Trauma: A Drill Story
    Life is about growth, and with this bold, brave project Loski matures as both an artist and a man.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Soul Music
    Woolford fends off critics of unoriginality by contributing to/completing bass music’s circle of life. Good tidings of Thunder and Joy.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Minus
    Seven deeply moving songs teetering deliciously on the brink of collapse. It was a long time in the making, but now, at the age of 27, Minus feels alarmingly close to the album Blumberg was always supposed to write.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Welfare Jazz
    Viagra Boys have a deep well of emotional intelligence hidden underneath their aggressively ignorant façade.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Merrie Land
    Albarn on Britain is a proven formula, but Simonon, Allen and Simon Tong combine to craft curious twenty-first century folk about curious twenty-first century folk.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fine Line
    There is a ‘fine line’ between plain pop music and good pop music that’s interesting to listen to. On this album, Harry Styles definitely falls into the latter category.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Self Hell
    There’s an unpredictable feeling to the way a lot of the songs unfurl and from a purely musical standpoint, they’ve never sounded more confident or finely tuned as a unit.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Ascension
    There’s a stunning candour to the lyrics, though it gets a little stodgy in the mid-section and, at 80+ minutes, is a little more verbiage than the typical album. Yet we’re dealing with an untypical songwriter, and the last two tracks are among the best he’s ever written.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Watching Movies with the Sound Off
    These sounds are heavier and Miller flows naturally in this element.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Magdalene
    Almost every track on ‘Magdalene’ is built upwards from a simple piano line, hammering home the impression of someone delicately yet decisively knitting themselves back together after coming undone.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fearless (Taylor's Version)
    All the changes made to beloved tracks like ‘You Belong With Me’ and ‘Love Story’, simply make them shinier. Throughout the whole album, banjos are crisper, guitars are fuller, drums are heavier, and Taylor’s strong 31-year-old voice leads the music. Clearly taking care to not step over her 19-year-old self, all the changes feel totally natural, like they should’ve been that way to start with.
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