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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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    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Proof
    If anything, 'Proof' provides context to K-pop’s infiltration into the Western industry and gives reasoning to BTS’ dominance.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Call Me If You Get Lost
    This is a record that showcases Tyler, the Creator’s continued refusal to be caged in by any set sound or genre, with references to his earlier style alongside tracks that sound completely new. Defying expectations, Tyler, the Creator continues to rise.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
    Half of the time Barnett, sounds like she isn't even trying, shrugging out moments of brilliance with ease and nonchalance. Whether she sits and thinks or sits and does nothing, it would appear the results are still golden.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Run the Jewels 3
    By the time the more politically minded triptych of ‘Don’t Get Captured’, ‘Thieves!’ and ‘2100’ roll round you’ve almost forgotten just what El and Mike are capable of when they drag their eyes away from their own navels. Thankfully there’s enough gold at hand to excuse Run The Jewels for getting a little bit carried away with their own runaway success.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Persona
    Cinematic in scope and delicately constructed, the album grows from warm, organic techno (‘Persona’) through ambient electronica (‘Dreamer’s Wake’) to the insistent synths, drums and drones of ‘Hidden’. Lovely stuff.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heaven to a Tortured Mind
    It’s so heart-rending you could keep yourself wrapped inside its comfort for hours and not come out. To all those troubled minds and torn hearts clinging to the past, this is utterly heavenly.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Alfredo
    ‘Alfredo’ excels on every front, a record that fuses a thirst for fresh innovation with a depth of love for hip-hop and rap music that is almost unparalleled. Pretty much an instant classic, it’s the sound of Freddie Gibbs finally bursting free, working with tour de force production to surge past expectations and claim his place at the absolute pinnacle.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Big Time
    'Big Time' is a focused record that contains stunning examples of vulnerability, almost too exposed to watch. Her ability to shed layers artistically and emotionally, over and over, leaves you excited to see where her next destination may be.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What Now
    While it may be hard to place genre-wise, it’s not hard to see its quality and sense of ambition.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Only God Was Above Us
    ‘Only God Is Above Us’ is an elegant summation of the band’s journey and strengths – of joy, sincerity and a feeling of believing in and offering calm amongst the chaos.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Designer
    Designer is a striking return, pursuing solitary aesthetic goals in a fashion both unrelenting and admirable. It perhaps lacks a little of the indefinable magic that made 2017’s ‘Party’ such a gripping experience, but in its ability to conjure bold, riveting songwriting it underlines Aldous Harding’s position as a truly remarkable artist.
    • 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.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Letter to You
    As a whole, ‘Letter To You’ is a wonderfully warm experience, perhaps Springsteen’s most human for some time.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Jubilee
    ‘Jubilee’ sees Zauner fully unshackled for the first time, keeping the emotive core of her songwriting and marrying it with boundless energy and ambition. It’s truly a triumph.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nine
    Masterful in its softness of touch, Sault know when to apply and relieve pressure; at moments it can be intense, yet others are bathed in a beatific R&B halo.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    From Kinshasa
    While familair touchstones remain in place, they are thouroughly eroded and inverted by Doctor L's production adding subtle,a dn not so subtle, layers of noise and distortion along with a throbbing bass presense and post punk reverb.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Lonerism
    Hypno-grooving at its best.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    King's Disease III
    A fantastically consistent, perpetually illuminating full-length, it shows Nas to retain a hunger, and sheer fire that so many of his peers have lost. Recalling former glories while remaining fixed on the future, ‘The King’s Disease III’ underlines the rapper’s current creative streak.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jaime
    ‘Jaime’ is arguably Howard’s most important work to date spiritually, let alone critically. Named in memoriam of the beloved sister she lost to cancer when both were in their teens, the album is a sonic sucking of the poison from the wounds of life, and the regeneration of the artist thereafter.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bandana
    Madlib continues to provide the backing that allows Freddie Gibbs to shine, choosing to predominantly stick to slower, authentically instrumental led soundscapes across the LP.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Radio Static High
    This is Hey Colossus' best LP yet--by some distance.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Congo Funk! Sound Madness from the Shores of the Mighty Congo River (Kinshasa/Brazzaville 1969-1982)
    Analog Africa has created a compilation that’s less esoteric than some previous releases and more focused feeling. It’s a fascinating time capsule into not only the artists and studios of the time but the cities themselves and the Congolese spirit as a whole—another must-buy for those who get a kick of uncovering long-lost musical treasures.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Orquídeas
    Whilst it might not be as immediately stunning as the mix of luscious synth pop and alternate universe James Bond themes on that album [Red Moon In Venus], she still shines on this record, code-switching between English and Romance and beat-switching between sultry R&B and sunny Latin party pop.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Joy As an Act of Resistance
    Despite the visceral joy and catchy melodies of the music; it's Joseph Talbot’s lyrics that are the main event. Part social commentary, stand-up routine and motivational quotes lyrics.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Art Angels
    Art Angels is boundary pushing, it’s listenable and it’s Boucher’s most ambitious and most consistent work to date.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dawn FM
    Whilst it lacks the character and vivacity of its predecessor, ‘Dawn FM’ develops the latest reinvention of the Weeknd with its dramatic instrumentation and refreshed view of the world.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [Deluxe Edition]
    An exhausting and thoroughly absorbing set.... It is a record that everybody should own. Meticulous, majestic, momentous.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Past Is Still Alive
    Nestled amongst some of her most nuanced and carefully placed moments of Americana and joined by a host of backing singers and musicians from Connor Oberst to Hand Habits‘ Meg Duffy, Segarra manages to take solace in the fact that while we are victims of our formative years, there is always scope to heal.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
    They’ve come out the other end with a truly talismanic record that will live long in the memory for any who experience it.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Negative Capability
    These songs may be scorched with an unavoidable yearning quality, but they find her standing at a new creative peak: ‘The Gypsy Faerie Queen’, co-written with Nick Cave, might rank among the best songs either have written, while ‘Born To Live’, her piano-led paean to departed lifelong friend Anita Pallenberg, speaks of our corporeal impermanence with a calm but unswervingly frank honesty.
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