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For 3,850 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: 3,221 out of 3850
  2. Mixed: 600 out of 3850
  3. Negative: 29 out of 3850
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Charlie
    In spite of much of ‘CHARLIE’ missing complexity or a distinctive flair, the album remains punchy and bright and what Puth lacks in poetry, he makes up for with glimpses of pure pop excellence.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rainbow
    Rainbow is a muddled hotch-potch that offers little beyond the fact it heralds her return. It's great to have Kesha back--it really is--but let's hope the quality improves in future.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tangerine Reef
    This might not be as immediate and catchy as previous Animal Collective releases, possibly due to Panda Bear’s absence, but its one of their most transfixing and beguiling.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    None of Us Are Getting out of This Life Alive
    The full length return of The Streets, it offers Mike Skinner at his most vivid and most forgettable, offering moments of illumination before retreating into darkness.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    History of Modern
    While songs 'Bondage Of Fate', 'If You Want It' and 'Sometimes' present a classic vibe, standalone track 'Pulse' is equally akin to the electronic sound of today. Nice touch.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    No More Idols
    It's alright and will shift units: boundaries will rest easy however.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Madame X
    Madame X isn’t just an album (if it is that at all) – it’s an opera, or a comedy of errors. It’ll make you feel confusion, frustration, happiness and maybe joy, but it will definitely make you feel.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nova
    RL Grime seemingly wants to keep everyone happy and while that approach will almost certainly find success in the clubs or the fields of Coachella it often hinders rather than helps his studio efforts.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Three/Three
    The Doom-helmed ‘Lil Mufukuz’ and Phat Kat’s ‘Bubble Up’ show the Dabrye-plus-MC chemistry at its best, but if there was ever a criticism of the previous entries in this trilogy, it was that Dabrye struggled when it came to trimming the tracklist. ... The same is unfortunately the case here too.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    JOSE
    When it punches hard, ‘Jose’ doesn’t miss. ... Yet ‘Jose’ – like Drake and Kanye’s efforts, previously – is led down by quality control. The creativity is undiminished, but it struggles under the weight of its 24 track span – clocking in at more than hour, the record at times tries the patience.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Watch Me Dance
    A mixed bag that's perhaps polluted with Toddla's inevitable fame and fortune.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
    There's a lot of slightly tedious ambient wallpaper. Sure, it works to unite an otherwise diverse set of songs, but you can't help but think there's a much better play list waiting to be whittled down.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Always Inside Your Head
    Always Inside Your Head is often a frustrating album, peppered with sparks of genius and disappointing dead-ends. Ultimately, though, it’s another example of an artist constantly – restlessly, you might say – developing.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sukierae
    Clocking in at almost 72 minutes, Sukierae is a bloated, if lulling, listen.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Monomania
    As unconventional in approach as ever, the set extrapolates from their previous ventures and results in a confident and competent continuation of established qualities.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    AIM
    AIM may be not the magnum opus that Mathangi Arulpragasam is capable of, but the music world would be a good deal less colourful and quirky without her in it.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Supermigration
    For all of John Kowalski and Rian Trench’s accomplished textures and impressive ’80s sci-fi sheen, it’s these [songs "Happiness Is A Warm Spacestation" and "A Sky Darkly"] simmering, slow burning heavyweights that give Supermigration the thunder it needs.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Marble Skies
    In its entirety Marble Skies is a mixed bag that showcases the multitude of genres Django Django can draw upon, but it lacks cohesion.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
    I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone sees the Seattle group recede deeper into their comfort zone with a batch of tracks that are lukewarm at best.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Season High
    Season High is a pleasant ride--a breezy escapade through dreamlands and ultraviolet meadows. It’s a sometimes sickly-sweet concoction that’ll leave you once or twice with the feeling of overindulgence.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    reputation
    Swift’s unencumbered analysis of the tectonic shifts within her personal and public life are equal parts razor sharp and self-indulgent. But as a pop album, Reputation is never revolutionary, the adrenalin rush heady but ultimately short-lived.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Supervision
    As an exercise in reclaiming control, in setting out her stall, it is a definite success, a hand-made pop exercise in an era dominated by algorithmic marketing plans. As a listening experience, though, it’s somewhat limited and frustratingly repetitive, ultimately paling next to La Roux’s previous heights.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD
    The world of hip-hop and rap is changing and, while Future’s pattern works well, it becomes slightly repetitive with every listen.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Paracosm
    Loose vocals meander through the whirling haze, the album more suited to intimate, personal listening rather than gatherings in the sun.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Jump Rope Gazers
    It’s an album that Beths fans will doubtless like very much, and it offers a strong mission statement to the future that this is a band hungry to expand and determined to explore the hitherto untrodden ground. It’s just a shame that, on this project alone, they’ve not delivered anything of career-defining merit.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pinewood Smile
    It’s just sad to hear the spark of reinvention that ignited their last powder keg of an album confined to a handful of tracks on a largely mediocre album. They can do better. They have done better. They will do better again.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler
    YACHT have consciously positioned themselves as intelligent conceptualists, not wanting to adhere to what's expected of them, and that makes for an interesting amalgam of deep themes set to brazenly outlandish pop styles.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Speak Your Mind
    The highlights on this project are the glimpses of musical experimentation, but unfortunately the album doesn’t have enough of these to really shine.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Metal Galaxy
    While the album is as subtle as a brick to the face, there is an impressive mix of styles represented on the band’s third outing, making this their most versatile listen.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blockbusta
    With a 19-track span and a colossal guest cast, not everything on ‘BLOCKBUSTA’ lands. There’s a feeling sometimes that these collaborations were done separately and then spliced together, with some moments lacking cohesion, or a sense of chemistry. ‘HOMAGE’ with Kodak Black feels flat, for example, while the record’s eclecticism prevents ‘BLOCKBUSTA’ from truly coalescing. That said, there are moments of real bravery.
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