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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
    • 60 Critic Score
    Off Planet
    Packing so much in comes at the risk of a more diluted sound and an album which lacks a strong sense of cohesive unity. This is most apparent in the first two ‘planets’, where the result is a little muddled. When not biting off more than they can chew by integrating three entirely different featured artists within a five track part (see ‘Off Planet Part 1’), the album is a fresh and interesting take on experimental electronica.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Music Complete
    Sadly much of the rest of Music Complete is by-the-numbers New Order, and revisionary as opposed to revolutionary.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tunnel Blanket
    If that's not your bag, then this won't convert you, but if intrigue you have; then check it out.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Body Talk Pt 1
    The good tracks on 'Body Talk' are of such a high quality that it definitely makes it worthwhile to check this album out but you are soon left with a feeling that the subsequent releases in this series will cobble together one amazing album and one really bad one.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
    Since that reboot 12 years ago, they don’t really know what they want to be. So they try all things, and only succeed at some.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Plowing Into the Field of Love
    There are some surprising hooks amongst predominantly ugly arrangements, and its ambition is admirable, but Plowing… proves woefully lacking in coherency, and fails as its makers’ next evolution.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Health
    The lush arrangements highlight his sophistication as a songwriter--‘Impossible’ comes on like ABBA gone synthwave--if sometimes verging towards the saccharine with repeated exposure. Yet this latest collection finds C Duncan in rude health.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Beauty & Ruin
    Older, wiser, still rocking: Mould’s sounding as electric as ever.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Here
    Keys fails to emulate these peers and instead only succeeds in certain apt production choices and the partial development of her earlier sound. She becomes yet another voice unable to deliver its message.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ghost on Ghost
    A pleasant, occasionally saccharine listen.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hello Sadness
    The best moments remain the songs where the band moves as a unit, conjuring a sense of hope and elation, rather than falling back on tired, shouty punk cliches.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Coming Home
    ‘COMING HOME’ competently portrays love as part Afrodisiac, part pulse-racing chase, part languorous and lived-in sensation. ‘COMING HOME’ is also tangential to the live spectacle, and that’s okay.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    http://www.itstartshear.com
    Unfortunately, the resultant package is very cleverly constructed and yet maddeningly dull.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Melanie C
    We’d be looking at an even better record had it allowed the space required for her often unrecognised jaw-on-the-floor vocals, but as a whole Melanie C has drawn from a whirlwind year to make a jubilant album that understands where she is right now.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tinsel And Lights
    There's nothing here to write home about but it should make a nice stocking filler for Mum.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gossamer
    Guaranteed to make you cry sugar-coated tears or vomit Care Bears depending on your tastes.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Yours, Dreamily
    The whole album somewhat lacks the same energy, punch and pure magic that The Black Keys have.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    1989
    Swift’s vocals are triumphant, soaring, wild throughout--she is a fantastic singer, and 1989 does showcase her ability to attack a track of any style and claim it as her own, even if the ultimate results feel like a compromise had to be found to make the final cut.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Material Control
    Was it worth that wait? That’s open to debate, but it’s definitely not an album you listen to and wish they hadn’t bothered.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    One Deep River
    While the playing is never less than exceptional – displaying Mark Knopfler’s assured rhythmic sensibility, and his lyrical lead styles – the arrangements on ‘One Deep River’ can sometimes falter.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Isla
    With a sound centred around a tunable percussion instrument called a hang (think mellow steel drum), skittering jazz drums, saxophone and loops, the quartet, who live Monkees-like in a shared house in East London, serve up a fresh vision of jazz, drawing sounds from across the globe.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Before A Million Universes
    On occasions it’s a disappointing walk through ‘hardcore by numbers’ routines peppered in clever imagery and breakneck instrumentation.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Aa
    If imperfection is what Baauer was looking for, then he has succeeded; but that doesn’t resolve the disappointment with what could have been a brilliant album.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hang
    It’s overwhelming in its grandiosity, and though it has its virtues, Foxygen’s latest LP is best enjoyed as a bite-size hors d'oeuvre instead of a main course.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Komba
    Meh. It's alright, but I'm like... I'm like a bit bored, actually.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cellar Door
    They're still settling in at the start line, prescribing rose-tinted glasses that could very well divide listeners.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Do It Again
    There’s nothing inherently bad, but the whole venture feels akin to buying a Lamborghini and then driving it in a way that will maximise fuel efficiency.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    What Do You Think About the Car?
    For such a young talent, his lyrics are strong, but give him a few more years of life experience and they could be in a different league.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Desired Effect
    These 10 tracks continually buckle under the weight of Flowers' torrid lyrics, mind-numbing cliches, and woefully derivative song structures.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Arms Around a Vision
    It's a record which feels like a grower but never manages to click.
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