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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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Guilty Rainbow
    There is little else more gratifying in being a fan of music than watching a musician, with every successive album, build upon his or her potential in such an exquisite, dedicated way that everything about their music is now a magnificent improvement over what came before. Roommate's third album is all that.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Evil Urges
    Evil Urges furthers the reveal with confident and imaginative strides, now with 100% less burning kitten jokes.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    All Eternals Deck
    All Eternals Deck, the band's first album for North Carolina superindie Merge, effectively picks up from where the apocalyptic finale of The Life of the World To Come (2009) left off.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Teenager
    All in all, Teenager stands as both a distillation of the band’s strengths and an impressive step forward, and perhaps more importantly, an irony-free, immensely relatable look at the heady emotional extremes of youth.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Life Of The World To Come
    Regardless of his collaborators or how he chooses to approach his songs, The Life of the World to Come is further proof of Darnielle's ability, evident since long before he traded a boombox for a studio, to imbue his imagery, his sentiments, and his many characters with astounding weight and power.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Before The Dawn Heals Us
    M83’s latest, given careful attention, is a rather impressive and blissful experience.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
    Hissing Fauna might be Barnes’ finest work yet, an opus built entirely of sugar.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Further Complications
    It’s his most focused album in over a decade, and ought to absolutely kill onstage.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Harps And Angels
    Newman’s work here demands high praise, especially with his resume.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Plastic Beach
    Find, here, Gorillaz’ third record, some sort of masterpiece within the band’s canon, and undoubtedly the best chillwave record ever recorded.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Magic Numbers
    The Magic Numbers is one of the best pop albums of the year.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
    Although The Mysterious Production of Eggs lacks the gleeful variety of Swimming Hour, it is obvious that Bird has created his most cohesive statement to date.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Takk...
    Well-constructed, thoughtful, emotionally provocative and cathartic.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Ouliposaliva
    The imprint scores its hat-trick with Ouliposaliva: the entree of Angil and the Hiddentracks, one of the most bizarre/bankable records to air outside of its creators’ Parisian side-streets.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Laced
    Laced is more than a real step-up for Psychedelic Horseshit, it's the best album of its kind I've heard this year.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    'Sno Angel Like You
    Weighty and authoritative, the gospel backings help convert Gelb’s often world-weary musings into straight-talking wisdom, the kind of stuff you want to listen to on a bad day.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Lost And Safe
    Lost and Safe removes much of the chaotic elements of its predecessors, substituting a more focused, and therefore cohesive approach to their cut-and-paste style.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Half Smiles Of The Decomposed
    As a pure, balls-out rock n' roll record, Half Smiles of the Decomposed is certianly on par with the likes of Isolation Drills and Universal Truths and Cycles.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Outside Closer
    Outside Closer seems to have mined an infinitesimal point on the musical map, something near the intersection of RJD2, Sigur Rós and Iron & Wine. It’s the detail and obsession with which Hood has excavated this minute point that makes the album so warmly, hopelessly riveting.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Budos Band III
    They've rapidly become the standard bearers for the funkiest of instrumental soul, and III suggests they could keep doing this thing for several albums before it even begins to approach boring. We should all be as similarly stoked.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Skelliconnection
    Beautiful, thematic, meticulous, revelatory, and challenging.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    House of Balloons
    House of Balloons is an album suspended in contradiction--a collection of sex jams tired of sex, or a paean to coke addled irretrievably by the same. It lacks dynamism because it has to; the Weeknd know nothing else, just that in every solid groove lurks the metronomic pulse of something waiting to die.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
    If "Woke On A Whaleheart" (2007) was the cuckoo clock, Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle‘s Callahan’s triumphant Renaissance.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Fishscale
    It isn’t the street rap of Ironman, it isn’t an exercise in abstract lyricism akin to Supreme Clientele, or the partially-focused and repeatedly disappointing Bulletproof Wallets. Regardless of that, the album captures exactly that Ghostface Killah is and has been over his past four records.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Love Kraft
    Even by SFA’s lofty standards, the production on Love Kraft is little short of incredible.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Album of the Year
    There's a stunning balance between fluid variations and deviations that in total feel like improvisation and the strictly confined, loping-in-circles gait of traditional hip-hop-a process which then lends itself to being described as simultaneously dynamic and hypnotic, loose and hard, jam and the jam.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Showtime
    While Showtime has one or two more duds than its shock-assault of a predecessor, its continued siege is of essentially comparable caliber.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Maths + English
    This one sees him expanding outward in any number of directions, and succeeding in nearly all of them.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Do You Like Rock Music?
    Yan and Hamilton manage to capture old clichés in new ways and that, filtered through their weirdness and idiosyncrasies, the sentiments seems new (or at least more original).
    • 87 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Town And The City
    Los Lobos sound fresher, more invigorated, and weirder than they have in years.
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