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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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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Slave Ambient
    Although these judgments point toward Slave Ambient being among the top records the summer of 2011 has to offer, the record's off-axis dichotomy, now favoring studio-assembled mellowness, steals enough of the bite and traction from these songs to keep it merely a contender.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Silent Alarm
    Removing the formulae and sensual stimuli from the Party leaves little that’s substantive or innovative. Even the most cursory of examinations would show the group to be an “it” band and not much else. However, Bloc Party’s absurdly good at being an “it” on Silent Alarm.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Love Songs For Patriots
    Little of the album fails to impress in its striking melodic strength or its lyrical intelligence---which shouldn’t surprise Eitzel’s long-time fans. But the album does have one recurring flaw: overextension of its ideas.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Everything's Getting Older
    Everything's Getting Older proving that, despite his wrinkles and back ache, Moffat's never going to shave his head/convert to Buddhism, and is still the scowling, contemptuous, but eloquent philanderer he was when he was tearing up the '90s--except now, he's a little more comfortable, and attacks using serene piano accompaniments.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    The Stage Names
    The nearly impossible thematic scope attempted and deftly handled here is a tribute to Will Sheff's dexterity and range as a songwriter (if not a vocalist), and the band's chops for being able to keep pace.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Past Life Martyred Saints
    The most intense moments in Past Life Martyred Saints are evocative enough to drag you back through your own most overblown emotional crises, but when the buzz fades, you are plopped back into the halcyon present, strangely empty.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
    It’s wild music, and it’s wildly musical, and, yeah, it’s probably the most wonderfully raw production Springsteen’s talent has ever been channeled through.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Where You Go I Go Too
    This album is a textbook grower, not just because it demands repeated listens, but also because the pieces all start similarly and take their sweet time to reveal the individually entrancing things they are.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Alligator
    Tonally and lyrically somewhere between L. Cohen, Aidan Moffett and David Berman, Berringer's cynical, world-worn love-letters and resigned croon work perfectly with the band's rock steady rhythm-section.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Universal Audio
    Universal Audio is a triumph in pop standard, simultaneously reminiscent of all the clichés, soundtrack archetypes, and euphonic exigencies of pure melody inherent in the mainstream pop of the last two decades. Yet it’s still a fully realized, consistently rewarding, original work.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    II Trill
    The record attempts nothing: it doesn’t stretch or break a sweat but celebrates its easy victory ecstatically, like some asshole Olympic sprinter racing against a middle school track team.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    La Foret
    Too many songs here move at a glacial pace and seem to take away from Xiu Xiu’s strength: an ear for melody, a love for dissonance, songs that go interesting places and engaging instrumentation.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Impossible Spaces
    Whatever these songs lack in immediacy, they rebound with an artistry.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    The One... Cohesive
    They're also carrying on in the tradition of independent rap artists from the fertile early 2000s, producing whatever they damn please and selling it for ten bucks. An uncompromising approach can lead to disaster, either financially or creatively, but COHESIVE is the paradigmatic fruit of such an approach.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Smoke Ring for My Halo
    Vile has slyly written pop that enters one's head without leaving much of a permanent mark; instead of a distraction from one's deeper woes, it's chameleonic accompaniment.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    By The Throat
    It’s not only an addition to 2009’s unassailably fantastic class of ambient music, but in a way is unique to that class for the menace with which it’s threaded.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
    As a whole, An Empty Bliss is a remarkably cohesive listen and one that achieves its goals, but whether or not it, in and of itself, is an entirely creative work is another question entirely.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Rather Ripped
    A quietly brilliant album.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    There Is Love In You
    There is Love in You renders "Ringer" primer, posits itself as perfect solution to messy experimentation, and while it’s hard to find the divisiveness in that, it’s also hard to be truly moved.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Brothers
    The no-bullshit album cover might be the cheekiest thing about delightfully straight-forward Brothers.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Jarvis
    All in all, Jarvis a mixed bag. It feels like the sort of thing that Cocker would do just to expunge his notebooks before moving on.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Post-Nothing
    It’s all quite charming and lovely.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stitches
    You’d think that an album with somewhat conventional music that eschews a conventional sense of arc, narrative or otherwise, would come off awkward or ineffectual, but with Stitches there is aesthetic, textural immediacy and, even more importantly, immaculate craftmanship to help it make an impact from the very first listen.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Primary Colours
    The pure emotion and aggressiveness isn’t suppressed or transformed into something else, but rather just given room for some thought, allowed to open itself up and find the strange flowers within.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Honor Found In Decay
    It is a stubborn, patient sharpening of their craft.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love Remains
    How To Dress Well is certainly not the only contemporary act to use nostalgia as the basis for an aesthetic, but Krell's ideas about the past and our relationship to it seem to be considerably more sophisticated than those of his peers.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Next Day
    You can’t really blame Bowie for conforming to 21st-century quality control when it comes to the sound and scope of this record, but it’s not exactly something to be celebrated either. What deserves celebration, or at least indulgence, are the glimpses of sublime execution on The Next Day, as well as Bowie’s skill in maintaining his mystique after all this time.
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