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For 4,038 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Channel Orange
Lowest review score: 0 Revival
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,752 out of 4038
  2. Mixed: 1,215 out of 4038
  3. Negative: 71 out of 4038
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The North Borders
    The North Borders now finds Green secure enough in his craft to command the talents of his guest vocalists and create emotional harmonics.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Singles Collection, Vol. 3
    Long-time fans who have a completist urge will find owning these tracks in one stylish package to be a necessity (the vinyl’s “silver foil jacket with incredible tritone all-original artwork” looks dope), while new listeners will get a good survey of the diverse songwriting and groove-heavy garage/psych rock of Thee Oh Sees.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mirage Rock
    Mirage Rock isn't a perfect record, but it's one to own.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Minnesota
    In the end, Jennings' truthfulness more than makes up for Minnesota's minor setbacks.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    1977
    Nash doesn't seem like he's willing to fully own up to his shortcomings and take a full and deep-enough personal-via-lyrical inventory. It works against him on 1977, but the music, as usual, is on point.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gem
    The result of all this reinvention is a brief but unhurried, moody album that brings the hedonistic tendencies of glam and the obsessive undercurrent of Spector's girl group anthems to light.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Widowspeak
    It's a promising brand of ethereal indie rock for a band just beginning.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Glacier
    The entire album, an inspiring instrumental accomplishment that moves at a glacial pace, puts Jamison in the leagues of some of the better ambient musicians going today, and on only his first real foray into the genre.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    All My Love In Half Light
    For better and for worse, All My Love In Half Light also sees Lady Lazarus finding her footing as a musician, and is a less cohesive and consistent statement than Mantic.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wolf
    Tyler is his own worst enemy, of course. But the buoyancy of the production and the overall intrigue of hearing him struggle with his idle hands prevent the album from getting mired down in too much vanity.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    What We Saw from the Cheap Seats
    What We Saw From The Cheap Seats could've been Spektor's magnum opus, but the flashes of brilliance here are enough to keep us hoping for her next release.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Beautiful Rewind
    On Beautiful Rewind, Hebden displays the possibilities and complexities within the music itself.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Natural History
    While there's still no reason to call these guys accessible, there are moments here.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Manifest!
    Although it's top-heavy, Manifest! is a strong debut and proves Friends isn't just a singles band.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In the Mountain in the Cloud
    On this album, the tracks that are lacking in length often sound as if they–well–are lacking in something else as well. Not to say In the Mountain is a poor effort; it merely seems like it would benefit from a bit more development.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Breakthrough
    Breakthrough is a challenge for listeners, and the producers that make up the growing California beats scene.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mechanical Bull
    Mechanical Bull is the sound of a band reviving its former selves for the benefit of each other and for their longtime fans, and it’s their best album since Aha Shake Heartbreak.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Young Hunger
    With Young Hunger, Manuel has carved out an album that hardly gives you a chance to wipe the smile off your face--or pull yourself from the dance floor.
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    • 70 Critic Score
    Wild One
    Wild One is a deeply personal tale of coming into adulthood from a band that certainly has some promising growth ahead.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bankrupt!
    Bankrupt! could end up the most anti-pop pop album of the year, which is exactly as confusing as the album sounds at times. But if the choice was between confusing or boring and safe, Phoenix made the right call.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Live at the Aragon
    Even at their most atonal, though, Mastodon's occasionally discordant vocalists hardly detract from the awesome power of their music. Besides, if you dig Mastodon enough to purchase a live album of theirs, you're pretty unlikely to take issue with the gruffness of their vocals, or the awkwardly sung harmonies.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Timez Are Weird These Days
    Nothing, be it labels or names or even time itself, can hold Theophilus London back from making great music.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tales of Us
    The album’s an impressive new beginning for the singer, and while she doesn’t quite get there 100%, she’s at least entertained the idea that this place is no fantasy.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Paul McCartney: Ocean's Kingdom
    Yet while it's not really great music, comparable to the masterful works of Tchaikovsky or Stravinsky, it has its day by the sea.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Forever Becoming
    Though not as resonant as Pelican’s material that better blended their two strengths, Forever Becoming nonetheless carries both.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rat Farm
    Though they certainly had friends in high, grungy places, Rat Farm is another example of how singular the Meat Puppets are, each new record sounding more like themselves than anything else.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strapped
    They may still be a work in progress, but that progress thus far is demonstrative of an increasingly innovative band, one working too hard to slump.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Scott & Rivers
    Cheese aside, this record is best heard with your heart and not with your head.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Synthesized
    Junkie XL never allows the guests to dominate the tracks, synthesizing polished layers by merging the strengths of outside players with his own multi-genre prowess.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Move Like This
    Move Like This is indistinguishably a Cars album. Not since their breakup in '88 has anyone sounded remotely close.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Demolished Thoughts
    His fragility, his strong, intriguing lyrics, his textural mastery are all on display, but something more biting seems missing.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Django Django
    Despite the wildly ambitious flourishes, it's Django Django's sense of restraint that allows the album to channel not just the sound of The Beta Band, but charm as well.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-Blooey!
    Ooey was a bizarre concept that, with effort and care, became an effective reality.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tassili
    The result is an intimate, crystalline collection of almost entirely acoustic songs that hews as closely to American folk as it does Algerian protest songs.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Lion's Roar
    It weaves a pleasingly expanded set of instruments and styles, all under the watchful eye of producer Mike Mogis.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gallery [EP]
    Gallery does little to further their musical template, but piggybacked with Idle Labor, it does cement Craft Spells as a contemporary master of the genre.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Apocryphon
    It's heavy metal distilled to its purest form.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Afterman: Descension
    The Afterman: Descension will keep old fans happy, but it won’t be gaining new ones.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wild Chorus
    There’s an attractiveness to Wild Chorus’s calm unwinding.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bass Drum of Death
    While GB City felt fast and dirty like a fleeting glance with a stranger, Bass Drum of Death is a fully realized one night stand.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Total Dust
    Dusted may not be their day jobs, but both men have shown a clear ease and commitment to the act from note one.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pajama Club
    Pajama Club definitely deserves a listen, if not for its diverse range of sound, then simply to appreciate the creative genius of Neil Finn.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Glad All Over
    Glad All Over largely succeeds because it never devolves into simply getting the old band back together.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Double Cup
    Double Cup is a great collection of dance music that manages to be compelling in 14 different ways.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sweet Sour
    Band of Skulls' clean tone and unabashed take on rock positively scorches at every point on the album.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Ghostlike Fading
    My Best Fiend might be reluctant to categorize their sound, but they prove that no matter what direction they take, the payoff packs a lasting impression.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Our Heads
    Most of the London electronic outfit's fifth album, In Our Heads, fills the perfect middle dance floor between their disparate influences.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Honey Locust Honky Tonk
    Like his previous solo records, Honky Tonk does include some duds, but the majority of these 17 tracks are keepers.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Monkey Been to Burntown [EP]
    The guys from Baltimore prove that only two tracks pulled from the same album can be the impetus for limitless creation.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Formerly Extinct
    With Formerly Extinct, Rangda evolves into something distinctly more maniacal but also clear-eyed, adopting an image of both experience and youthful-mindedness.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bulldozer
    It’s quite the grab bag of influences, but Devine makes good use of the sonic sprawl and everything plays nice together.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    My Friend Fish
    My Friend Fish proves its geniality, as Fleming’s vocals and personality go well with just about everything.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ready to Die
    That fleeting escape aside [“Unfriendly World”], Ready to Die is another torrid tour de force from a band built for speed, not comfort.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Paddywhacking
    Friley's crooning is the consistent attraction throughout Paddywhack, creating a warbled daydream for listeners to fall into.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Grace & Lies
    Powerful growth propels the music on Family Band's debut album, yet they always seem to find themselves returning to a cloudy depth, drenched in deep thought and dark notions.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bubblegum
    Even when the record bites a little harder on tracks like the politically charged “Fiscal Cliff”, or the Nirvana-inspired rendition of “She Can See Me”, there’s an energy to Bubblegum that allows for endless fun, even when the band furrows its brow in spots.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Back To Land
    Back To Land is the most forgiving, clear album in the Wooden Shjips catalog, an interesting step for a band once lauded for their obscurity.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Endgame
    Endgame is inherently the follow-through of its predecessor, with additional flavors that may or may not help the cause lyrically prevalent.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Long Wave
    Although original material would have been welcome, Long Wave proves that every song can be an ELO song if it really tries hard enough.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Area 52
    As an Afro-Cuban record, it's solid.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Threads
    The only sleight against it is that it's fairly derivative–as much as the band members might deny it, their fast, female vocal-driven sound is, at times, a little reminiscent of trendy pop punk acts like Paramore.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hung at Heart
    Though much of the musical fun inherent in Hung at Heart comes easily, a few well-placed flourishes push out of complacency.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Savage Heart
    The Savage Heart is a little bit of both, thanks to a band with the smarts, chops, and passion to make something fresh out of the expansive musical fodder that helped lay its rowdy foundation.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ski Mask
    Rather than chase his early highs, Ski Mask is the latest issuance of a unique voice continuing to explore his particularities and place them in new contexts.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tender New Signs
    Tamaryn stay in their comfort zone on Tender, while doing their best to make us leave ours.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Out of Love
    Out of Love is a fun listen, but it doesn't go much deeper than that.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Exister
    While not all of the fist-pumping numbers here are equally successful ("Drag My Body" nearly deflates the middle portion of the record by sounding like The Smithereens), they do show a reunited band that's interested in charting a path forward instead of simply reflecting their past glories.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gossamer
    Gossamer's X-ray confessionals offer just enough intrigue to ignore its faults.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    En Yay Sah
    The unfamiliar has never felt so inviting.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    @Reverend_Makers
    All in all this is a refreshing, infectious, and unpretentious album that’s big on sound.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Our Loving is Hurting Us [EP]
    With its otherworldy cries, spectral synths, slow-burning beat, and the kind of impeccable production that would do Burial proud, "NoWayBack" is a four-and-a-half minute summary of the best of what oOoOO has to offer.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Banga
    Banga doesn't just preserve a petrified version of Patti Smith circa Horses; rather, it's fresh and innovative, albeit disjointed.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You
    The Worse Things Get isn’t about us or even for us. These 40 minutes belong to Neko Case. It’s her cleansing.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    No Love Deep Web
    It's relentless top to bottom, but if you can get beyond the occasional groaning psycho-sexual screams there's a whole alternate network Death Grips have created.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Our Home is a Deathbed
    Overall, the Louisville group's ideas mostly work, and the album's strengths grow with repeated listens.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cave Rave
    Ultimately it’s their underlying acoustic, Spanish flavor that sets Crystal Fighters apart from the other bubbly synth-pop acts on the market today.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Never
    Never is a bold step forward, but one that sacrifices the sugar-rush tweaking to solid if uninspiring ends.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Prince Avalanche [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
    With 15 tracks spanning 38 minutes, there aren’t a whole lot of opportunities to connect or build on ideas, but the artists do a fine job of traversing dynamics.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Violent Waves
    This is the band's first self-produced, self-released album, and the extent to which it improves and builds on their previous material is a testament to how much these guys have their shit together--producers and record labels be damned.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ultraista
    He doesn't exactly leave his own atmospheres, but he has fun in them.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Enough Thunder [EP]
    On Enough Thunder, James Blake strips back the effects board and quivering bass for a surprisingly sparse effort, taking on the role of balladeer and even covering Joni Mitchell on his way to an effort that'll divide the droves of fans he's won over since the release of his self-titled debut earlier this year.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Return to Annihilation
    While they still wander adventurously, Locrian’s soundscapes are beginning to resemble fully realized songs with a beginning, middle, and end.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Take the Kids Off Broadway
    It's got that first-take impulsiveness to it, full of tics and eccentricities, and that lack of pretention lets us see Foxygen as the characters they truly are.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Halcyon
    In today's era of pop, where computers find the soul for winning contestants, it's hard to scoff at Goulding, whose sole problem on her record is being too emotionally redundant.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Beaus$eros
    The production on the album is a very wide spectrum that still manages to feel cohesive.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Remixes, Vol. 1
    Likely prompted by Ultra Records, The Remixes Vol. 1 is much more of a marketing tool for the imprint than a career highlight for Araab.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mirror Gazer
    Duvall is proactively creating a new genre, but it's no question that he's simultaneously making enjoyable music. That's why disco-hop works: It collides two worlds with other sub-genres to meld into a cool palette of celestial sounds.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Live from the Underground
    Honesty and craftsmanship (and, yes, some hubris) run through the record, and the unmemorable tracks ("Porchlight", "Rich Dad, Poor Dad") are just barely so.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    More Is Than Isn't
    RJD2′s creations are beautiful offshoots of their distorted components rather than monster mashes.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Allez! Allez!
    All said and done, score this as another understated triumph for a band built on the blood and sweat of the greaser rock sounds of yesteryear.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Totale Nite
    While Totale Nite doesn’t tip toe around its skewed sensibilities, Merchandise demonstrates a healthy knack for turning its weirder, darker musical instincts into something palatable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Heza
    With this collection of simple, endlessly enjoyable indie pop, Heza and Generationals make the statement against giving up and remaining stagnant.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
    It's a decent enough album with 10 rock-solid songs that come close to but never quite reach the elevation pitched by the album's expressive title.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tooth & Nail
    The scope may be smaller this time around, but in the end, the record delivers the same smart, sometimes funny, always impassioned results.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Low Highway
    The Low Highway once again reveals that Earle’s gift for songwriting owes not only to an ear for melody but also to an ear attune to the quiet sufferings that most of us ignore.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Like Rats
    Sometimes less is more, and Like Rats offers up considerable proof.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Magic Hour
    Magic Hour is just another reason why people keep Scissor Sisters perpetually on their musical menu.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Join Us
    Join Us is a throwback to the style of music They Might Be Giants built the first two decades of their career around. At long last, the duo has returned to making geeky adult music for geeky adults.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Master [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
    Greenwood has delivered a score that's both haunting and beautiful, and if Anderson's film is even half as strangely inspired, we're all in for something good.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Awesome As F**k
    As it stands, Awesome as F**k is a good representation of Green Day today.
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