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For 1,772 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Art Angels
Lowest review score: 2 Rain In England
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,444 out of 1772
  2. Mixed: 270 out of 1772
  3. Negative: 58 out of 1772
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
    Let The Blind never pitches badly or throws up a truly terrible track to mack on and leaves me with the potentially duff argument that this record is really good at what it does, but what it does so exactingly reaches for breadthlessness that its under-ambition ends up under-cutting what made the songs pleasant and amenable in the first place.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Andorra
    As a Caribou album, this is mediocre. Not bad, but it's not much of a Caribou album anyway.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Myths Of The Near Future
    Myths of the Near Future is probably the most assured British debut since Franz Ferdinand’s self-titled.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Under A Billion Suns
    The problem isn’t the music, which is lively and varied, but the disconnect between the artistic intent and the artistic output.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hard Islands
    Hard Islands is hardly a wash, just frustratingly short of the sound statement Fake wanted to make.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Worldwide
    Worldwide‘s participatory highs are intense, if fleeting, and that cover would look amazing on a t-shirt.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Engineers
    Engineers is a promising if frequently innocuous first time out, with its excellent production and musicianship bogged down by weak-kneed songwriting and idiotic sequencing.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    S-M Backwards
    Where the compilation loses itself is in its exhaustive nature. An update to the sound of older songs (albeit not much older) seems appropriate enough given how important production was to the scream and sheen of their self-titled album.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Amok
    Amok is a palatable piece of 21st Century electronic pop that generally sounds complex without really being that complex at all. It’s as smooth a surface as Yorke has ever painted, without grain or contour. It seems designed to say little, to equivocate, to slither around the perimeter of our expectations.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Come Around Sundown
    Sundown is still considerably boring when compared to the likes of the Kings' first three albums. It's also too long, the back end sacked with faceless mid-tempo songs devoid of hooks that can't compare to the mini-epics up front.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nine Types of Light
    You leave Nine Kinds of Light completely unaltered, neither enlightened nor offended, simply having experienced a series of first-person statements: Adebimpe in his doorless (and not terribly interesting) tower of self.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dumb Luck
    Sadly, the only true victories on Dumb Luck are Tamborello's own title track and Oberst's "Breakfast in Bed."
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Further Adventures Of Lord Quas
    [The] drums generally sound weaker and lazier than anything [he's] done before, [the] songs lack strong structure and hooks, [and his] topical matter’s a bit one-tracked.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    B'lieve I'm Goin' Down
    While B’lieve I’m Goin’ Down, at least as far as its words are concerned, is more interesting than it appears on the first few spins, that’s not quite enough to make it a memorable listen.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Oddfellows
    It's the sound of all the band's weapons unceremoniously blunted.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Little Heart's Ease
    It's probably their most immediate and consistent record to date, tossing in a few decent melodies along the way in an attempt -- a failed one, I might add -- to enter the slightly less crowded lot of mediocre country-rock outfits.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Embracism
    If this album works, it’s because of moments like “Landslide”: those that cut through the density of an artist in flux, one susceptible to myriad influences, managerial grumblings, and producer cues, overeager to pass off his work as undeniably unique.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
    The terrible truth of this album hangs stupidly overhead--that it’s a yawner.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In Your Honor
    Lurking somewhere in its spotty 80+ minutes lies an excellent 40 minute album, one of the best the Foos have ever done. As is, though, with its heaps of filler, dated production and needless segregation of rockers from ballads, it may actually be their weakest.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    dios (malos)
    Where Dios felt structured, (relatively) focused, and clever, dios (malos) just is let to drift in a mess of under-developed songs, odes to drug abuse, and unfocused guitar strumming.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gutter Tactics
    Dälek have refined their work but their work has no reaching trajectory.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor offer a majestic, beautiful coda for a version of protest that is dated and unhelpful today. I missed having their music around, but I wonder whose eyes they're opening with a record that sounds like a document of yesterday's anger.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    La Cucaracha
    La Cucaracha is still a bit of a disappointment, short on memorable tunes and a bit muddier and more piecemeal than it should be.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    2
    2 seems to merely scratch the surface of what DeMarco can do; a record of what-ifs and wishes, 2 is only a partial glimpse of a guy we know too little about.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Favourite Worst Nightmare
    Favourite Worst Nightmare seems warped and contrived, bearing all the signs and watermarks of a band trying not to feel uncomfortable.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sweet Sister [EP]
    Here’s hoping Sweet Sister is the sound of a talented group shaking out some superficial songwriting ideas before getting down to it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Living With The Living
    Ted Leo again falls a few hands short of the definitive statement we insist on expecting.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Descended Like Vultures
    The production swamps. Too many waves of superfluities covering weak melodies and spearheading disappointing "new directions," too often sounding like the work of a far less interesting band.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Forever Hasn't Happened Yet
    An occasionally pretty but merely competent lite-alt-country, the kind you’d hear ordering a soy latte with a shot of hazelnut.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Faith in the Future
    Faith in the Future disappoints in its lackluster melodies and overall vibe. The highlights here are the more ambitious songs.
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