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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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    • 70 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Red Yellow & Blue
    Born Ruffians are as eloquent in their summation of today’s indie rock style as any other likeminded band; in that sense Red, Yellow & Blue is as literate and aware as its title’s reference to primary colors implies. But knowingly limiting one’s scope to temporary fun predictably keeps the band from turning out something with lasting power.
    • 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.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Noble Beast
    Noble Beast overcomplicates what should be a simpler formula; the meat is in Bird’s performances, the virtuoso skills at his disposal, not the antiseptic display of distorted guitar tones that the album’s best song unfortunately resorts to in its final section.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Sojourner
    This is undoubtedly the way the songs should be heard, and the set certainly doesn't feel cheap or rushed.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Nightcrawler
    Nightcrawler is the remedy to the collective uncertainty cast by Day I Forgot’s giant shadow of mediocrity: it’s a “solid record” that highlights Yorn’s potential as a songwriter and craftsman, underplays many of his weaknesses, and firmly situates him within the category of Rock Troubadours Who Are Still Worth Paying Attention To.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Rockferry
    Although flawed, Rockferry holds a startling amount of promise.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Special Moves/Burning
    Special Moves illuminates the band's act for what it is.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    A Question Of Temperature
    If Stamey had chosen to go one way or the other — straight covers or an all-out album full of originals--- A Question of Temperature would be a much more interesting album. As is it stands, nothing here really captures the imagination.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Idlewild
    Deft, flawed, entertaining, thrilling, and disappointing, often at the same time.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Leaving Atlanta
    Built as they are on rock 'n' roll clichés, these songs hold the listener at a distance. It's a bit of fun, but nothing more. Unlike their influences, something about this band doesn't really stick.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Far
    I was surprised that it holds up well to close scrutiny--in spite of my reservations, the album is well performed and crafted, with a surprisingly mordant thematic unity touching on mortality and the soured promises of childhood--but I’m still bothered by its anonymity.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Live at the South Bank
    For either Reid or Hebden completists, Live at the South Bank is a useful and worthwhile artifact. For someone seeking entry to the catalogues of two vital artists, this is a thorny and difficult listen.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Ridin' High
    Keeley & Zaire’s Ridin High has absolutely nothing to offer its listener or hip-hop at large except for a fat pile of old rap comfort food and, tucked evenly away from the beginning and end of the record’s runtime, two absolute fucking bangers in 'Addicts for Real' and 'We Made It.'
    • 80 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Arrivals
    Arrivals is just about a palatable enough affair; a minor stretch at sixty-two minutes but with enough peaks to be eaten in three sittings or so.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Load Blown
    Load Blown is damaged as a whole, even despite its overwhelming internal coherence that makes for few surprises along the way.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Shake The Sheets
    It's the first truly inessential album he's made.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Emerald City
    The problem is that Vanderslice’s lyrical scope remains too broad to enable a cohesive or definitive conceptual statement, and his music too tightly defined and predictable to be considered a departure.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Sun Bronzed Greek Gods
    Sun Bleached Greek Gods is a perfectly serviceable introduction to the latest hot-off-the-grill, young, immortal, unemployed, nearly insufferable bedroom pop outfit.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    The Friends [EP]
    As a summer stopgap for their new full-length this fall, Friends. works fine. The title track is quality, plus their fanbase eats this shit up.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Sagara
    So Sagara sounds necessarily and unavoidably at odds with itself, a not wholly successful balancing act that lands its objects within sight and some distance from where its artist intended, but the effort is commendable and important.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Not Too Late
    Yes, there could be more new ground broken in this material, but this does not necessarily equate to artistic diffidence.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Hospice
    As a breakup narrative, it’s successful. As pop music, it’s either too insular or simply unable to turn Silberman’s own experience into something one would desire to revisit.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Backspacer
    A little more effort at the end would have been appreciated, but so long as you’re content with paying full price for what’s essentially twenty-eight minutes of listenable music, Backspacer works as a fun little rock n’roll record.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Eponymous
    The results are occasionally--surprisingly, even--very nice.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Forth
    Forth is a decent reminder of what makes the Verve great.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Brave And The Bold
    The Brave and the Bold is an awkward, lumbering affair, of passing interest to fans of the artists’ work and no one else.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Mylo Xyloto
    To Coldplay's credit, amidst the over-production they still manage to reach their quota of flag-waving festival rock songs, some of which could be considered career highlights.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Visitations
    Visitations is cold.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Cherish the Light Years
    If this is your thing, you'll be happy (sad?) to hear that Eisold has done it again, and offers us yet another beautifully written and comprehensively detailed chapter in the endless book of self.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Drums And Guns
    Another wildly uneven affair.
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