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For 1,901 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 West Bank Songs 1978-1983: A Best Of
Lowest review score: 20 One More Light
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,590 out of 1901
  2. Mixed: 300 out of 1901
  3. Negative: 11 out of 1901
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Night Creeper
    Fourth album The Night Creeper is their most convincing statement yet, a buzzing set of doomy psych-rock songs with great hooks and punishing riffs.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Colorado
    No longer on the run, Mother Nature is instead "pushing Earth in a baby carriage." This recurring theme in Young's work is echoed in the equally powerful yelp of Shut It Down and the altogether more downtempo Green Is Blue. [Nov 2019, p.80]
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Song of Love & Revolution
    You couldn’t call it ravishing (although the way the guitars trickle and scratch over sepulchral bass on Come Bring Your Love before exploding in distortion certainly is). It is, however, an unbidden delight: hypnotic, breathtaking and quite, quite beautiful.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When You See Yourself
    When You See Yourself is their most clued-in record in a decade. [Apr 2021, p.88]
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Man and Myth
    It's not easy or cheery, but it's loaded with old gold. [Oct 2013, p.85]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 23, 2013
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If Anything
    They manage to skillfully maintain the the same semblance of being perennially on the verge of collapsing in a heap of broken guitar strings, trashed drum kit and feedback, while retaining the visceral gut-punch of the tightest, heaviest metal badasses. [Jul 2014, p.95]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 18, 2014
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dirty Pictures, Pt. 1
    Louche rumbles such as Death And Destruction echo the furious rockabilly assault of a Jim Jones, without the obligatory quiff or preacher schtick, but that doesn’t stop leader Adam Weiner sing smouldering piano ballads such as Forever and Montreal.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This Is Why
    Paramore have successfully remoulded the cornerstones of their music not only for the new times we find ourselves in, but also for a personal evolution, and maturity evident across This Is Why. [Mar 2023, p.76]
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What the World Needs Now
    What The World Needs Now... continues where 2012’s This Is PiL left off.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Space Force
    Rundgren is possibly the only musician for whom a lack of any thematic coherency across a record doesn’t result in total disaster. It works - don’t ask me how.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Light for Attracting Attention
    A handful sprawl and meander a little because, hey, who would dare edit two revered avant-rock overlords? But otherwise quality levels are reliably high. ... This is the best Radiohead album in over a decade.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Different Every Time
    Always engaging, occasionally magical. [Jan 2015, p.129]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 16, 2014
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dead Magic
    von Haysswolff achieves a new drone nirvana with her unique mix of soprano wail and minimalist-but-grand gothic church organ. [May 2018, p.91]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 6, 2018
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Imitations
    The vibe remains constant and satisfying. [Oct 2013, p.86]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 23, 2013
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Now and Then [Single]
    Now And Then, the last Beatles song has finally arrived, and it’s more than worth the wait.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Closure/Continuation
    An elegant and accomplished treasure from experts in their field. [Jul 2022, p.80]
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beauty & Ruin
    It charts its course with verve and accessibility, offering a masterclass in powerfully economic guitar rock. [Jul 2014, p.97]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 18, 2014
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All That Reckoning
    This is a strange kind of beauty. [Summer 2018, p.88]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jul 9, 2018
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sonic Highways
    Even dislocated from the TV show, Sonic Highways remains among the most concise and powerful Foo albums yet. [Dec 2014, p.102]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 16, 2014
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Interzone
    Eight short, sharp shocks in 30 minutes provide a perfect stun-blast soundtrack for today’s shattered society.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rammstein
    Lacks the energy of old Rammstein, but makes up for it in controlled tensions and excellent material. [Summer 2019, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 26, 2019
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lightning Show Us Your Stuff
    What is great about this album is that it conveys a feeling of lethargy, tiredness, the onset of old age, while never sounding tired, lethargic or clapped out. [Dec 2020, p.80]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Nov 18, 2020
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Joni Mitchell at Newport [Live]
    An album packed with absolute love and admiration that is moving and inspiring in the extreme. [Aug 2023, p.79]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jul 27, 2023
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Deep States
    Even if their calculated brand of mullet-haired kitchen-sink amateurism occasionally feels like unshaven drunken shambling, TFS are consistently inventive, thrillingly unpredictable and steeped in deadpan Australian humour. [Sep 2021, p.78]
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Master Volume
    A clever way with melodies over and above what they achieved on debut Higher Power, and lyrically there's more than welcome cheeky sense of irony. [Sep 2018, p.93]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Sep 13, 2018
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Desire Path
    Triumphal stuff. [Oct 2019, p.91]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 4, 2019
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wasteland: What Ails Our People Is Clear
    Wasteland's conceptual breadth, depth and complexity may challenge convention but offers rich rewards. [Feb 2021, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jan 12, 2021
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Live
    It's the glowering six-minute stormcloud of Numb that steals the show here. [Dec 2014, p.103]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 16, 2014
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Blue Hour
    The Blue Hour is shot through with Suede's trademark gritty-yet-gracious melodies looped around the throats of outsider escape anthems. [Sep 2018, p.90]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Aug 30, 2018
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sailors' Tales 1970-1972 [Box Set]
    The rehearsal tapes (appended as ‘Bonus Discs’ for some reason) are a raucous mesh of noise and then stabs of brilliant invention that cut through like a radio signal coming out of white noise. The unpublished photographs, nuanced liner notes and, deliciously, a download code for yet another concert (Hyde Park, 1971) not only reaffirm Fripp’s tenacity to keep creating and doing things in his own way, but to also frame those moments, hold them forever and see them sparkling in the light.
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