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For 4,039 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: 2,753 out of 4039
  2. Mixed: 1,215 out of 4039
  3. Negative: 71 out of 4039
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Communicating
    Communicating is far from an attempt to water down their music for a larger audience. An intriguing record that pushes boundaries, Communicating proves why Hundred Waters are always worth paying attention to.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Evolution
    The heavy songs on Evolution should please longtime fans, with a couple harkening back to the dynamism of Disturbed’s first couple of albums, but the glut of softer tracks may have been served better on a separate acoustic EP.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Non-Believers
    Whether you’re into it or not, it’s hard to discredit the remarkable solidness of the album, which, against most preconceptions, exists far outside the world of Superchunk. It’s everything a side project should be.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Every Shade of Blue
    Ultimately, Every Shade of Blue is an easy, accessible listen, and many of its tracks are certainly radio-friendly. There are pleasant pop hooks and a few earworms here and there.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    KIRK
    He’s just topped off his winning streak with the most predictable rap album you’ll hear in 2019 that isn’t actually bad in any way. And like everything else about his rise, that’s way too soon.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    My Love Is Cool
    The 12-song tracklist is full of individual gems, but would have better highlighted their songwriting strengths if trimmed.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Golden Echo
    For most of its length, The Golden Echo is so jam-packed that the songs where Kimbra tones down the decor and lets her lyrics ring become some of the most interesting.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Double Vanity
    BRONCHO slow down on Double Vanity, a pleasant movement in some ways. But like R.E.M.’s Monster, another one of those ambitious garage rock dalliances, the aesthetic is too dense, the result too one-dimensional.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Brace the Wave
    It’s his cleanest, most optimistic recording, far from the lo-fi yearnings of before, but still ultimately a document of his personality as a bedroom bard for the insecure and introspective.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Yes Lawd!
    The producer being so secondary here is certainly a missed opportunity. The album still ends up being a thrill, due to the duo’s sheer talent, but its caution undermines its competence. .Paak has insisted that Yes Lawd! is not an Anderson .Paak album, but it sure sounds like one.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Synesthetica
    While the album does make impressive strides, it doesn’t come without its shortcomings. Even at 39 minutes, the Synesthetica feels repetitive at times, small modifications made here and there to a tested formula.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Fuego
    Fuego is new and fresh, in both content and intent, changing things up, sinking a few birdies, and settling for a bogey or two.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Integrity Blues
    On Integrity Blues, Jimmy Eat World return to that mood of reverie, with often beautiful and quietly triumphant results.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Z [EP]
    What ultimately makes it stick, from the beaming hooks to the gossamer production, is the execution, how all the scattered pieces eventually jell until the puzzle is complete.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Ones and Sixes
    It just needs to be a passionate, cathartic, connective emotional experience. For the most part, Ones and Sixes fits that bill.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Buoys
    For a moment of respite, a calming breath against the rush of modern life, Buoys is a fine balm in spite of its shortcomings.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    N.E.W.
    Despite the grit on N.E.W., all three musicians boast a bonhomie similar to a local band’s open friendliness, making for one of the most approachable punk albums in recent memory.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    9 Songs
    While the album is all over the place, its grooves are potent and its mood considerably hypnotic and intense.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Endless
    While Endless makes its visual implications clear, the whopping 18 tracks that soundtrack it muddle his intent.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Dream World
    These tracks have enough originality to further Araab’s run as a progressive producer and a consummate artist in his own right.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Mandatory Fun
    Sure, Mandatory Fun is cheap, juvenile, and often downright grating, but damn if it isn’t good for a couple of laughs.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Colors
    You can still hear marginal residue of the man who managed to be compared to both Dylan and Prince within the same five-year period. You just won’t find those comparisons so much lately.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    90059
    While its true that he’s grown since signing with TDE back in 2005 and now sounds wiser and more confident, he’s yet to distill his personality into a package that communicates that growth.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Conversations
    For the most part, there is a stalwart consistency that interweaves through the tracks, Conversations feeling like the outcome of a thoughtful and heartfelt dialogue.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Void Beats/Invocation Trex
    With the help of a new band and a few unexpected guests, Gane continues his mischievous streak on Void Beats / Invocation Trex, building familiar, pleasing drones to get your head nodding.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Trouble
    With Trouble, they easily avoid the sophomore slump and take an accomplished leap forward.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Love Yes
    As long as Love Yes relies on these simple yet effective tricks, it goes down like rock candy, the sweetness undercut by a compellingly sour sting. Only when the band tries to match the lyrics’ complexity with the music does the album begin to falter.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon
    Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon neither blights nor burnishes Pop Smoke’s legacy. It’s fine. Better to remember Smoke as the dark-horse MVP candidate for summer 2019.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Marauder
    Marauder is still Interpol, and it’s still pretty good. It’s got mood and emotion for days. But because the album is marred by nonexistent bass lines and, most concerningly, production and mixing choices that run completely at odds with Interpol’s natural strengths and most beloved idiosyncrasies, it’s nowhere near great.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Father Of 4
    Offset splits his time between personal stories and generalized trapping, with mixed results. When he finds the right flow, few can match him for sheer musical joy. Other times he sound flat and stale. ... You have to respect the work ethic that produced these 16 tracks, even if many of them don’t merit a second listen.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Day Is My Enemy
    Sitting mid-album, “Beyond the Deathray” epitomizes this new band-focused approach, and it’s probably the most beautiful track in The Prodigy’s discography; however, the revered schizophrenic beats of the crew hinder this from becoming a “band” album in the popular sense of that word.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Slow Gum
    Gorman is a charming writer and performer, and Slow Gum is successful, but he doesn’t need to lean so hard on his influences.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Pains of Growing
    At her best, she turns simple observations into complex emotions. The Pains of Growing has its flaws, but altogether it’s a cohesive statement and a marked improvement from her debut.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Hitch
    Hitch finds them not just following their best and worst tendencies, but beating the listener over the head with them. It’s not the worst way to spend an hour; you just might want to carve out some time for a nap afterwards.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Bob Dylan in the '80s, Vol. 1
    Some of the covers on Dylan in the 80s work because they restore the troubadour aspect of Dylan lore.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    This Is Acting
    While Sia’s lines wear a badge of effortlessness, her ripe voice lends gravitas to these “victim to victory” ballads (as the notoriously media-shy singer characterized them to the New York Times in a rare sit-down).
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Yes, I'm a Witch Too
    Though it might not sound like a revelation, embracing the reality of Yoko Ono is the key to the success of Yes, I’m a Witch Too. Unfortunately, that’s only done here to varying degrees.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Spiritual Emergency
    After Grof’s narration drifts away, Fox and company do their best to push and pull at the tempo, to spin like a Sufi, to stretch out yogic, to get into the monastic mystic chanting, breaking free of the everyday and into the spiritual.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Live at Biko
    If you’re a Kozelek disciple, the songs on Live at Biko won’t give you further insight into the love, lust, humor, and sadness that make him tick, but the dialogue sure will.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    I Decided.
    I Decided. is a fresh statement that proves Big Sean is continuing to evolve.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Fine Line
    Styles is a more confident and precise songwriter on Fine Line than on his debut, even if the progress is incremental rather than exponential.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Sour Soul
    Attempts at the rapper-live band album are risky, and while it has some qualifiers, this one has to be counted as a success. It’d be a wild success, though, if the instrumental half of this collaboration were to take a truly equal share of the spotlight.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    All Yours
    Its mood is warm and inviting, but it barely has enough heft to stick with you past the season.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Astonishing
    You might want to laugh at points, because a good deal of it is very silly, but somewhere within the second half, you’ll become just a little invested. By the grand finale, you might even feel inspired.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Ratchet
    Northtown’s rising star proves his worth on Ratchet through his genre fluidity.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Curious Volume
    It riffs, it’s entertaining, but above all, it contains an existential joy that transcends recorded sound.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Pillars of Ash
    Pillars of Ash rockets through 11 tracks without looking back, without room for breath. The songs tend to blend together in the spin cycle, one screamed vocal track melting its way into the next, one thundering drum fill inseparable from another.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    How Far Away
    Putting aside some of those rough edges, however, the record is a more than adequate diversion until Real Estate return with LP3.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In Waves
    What's disheartening about In Waves is its lack of a clear identity; the band seem to be targeting too much at once.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mary's Voice
    It's the aural equivalent of a dusty old attic, rife with sounds that evoke memories of earlier times.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Anything In Return
    While Anything in Return might be the most consistent of any of his records up to this point, it lacks the punch to break through.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys
    Son of Rogues Gallery merits a couple of hours of anyone’s time. Just don’t expect to put it all on repeat. The tracks you do will be worth it.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Perils from the Sea
    Perils‘ biggest strength is also its biggest weakness: even at its best, it merely recalls the strengths of its individual players, instead of charting its own course.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Born Sinner
    Allusions to apples are all across the 16 self-produced tracks, along with glimpses of snakes, countless temptations, and the feeling that Cole knows too much for his own good.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Songs from the Vanished Frontier
    Though they don’t jar in any way, it’s easy to get the sense that lyrics aren’t the first thing that Cohen considers when constructing a song. It’s more that they glide over and drift in and out of the music without forcing you to stop to examine them.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blondes
    Blondes need to hone themselves-become harder, better, faster, stronger-if they wish to become memorable, to stand out in listeners' minds as something tangible and unique.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Lives Inside the Lines in Your Hand
    Most songs comfortably fit into a category I maybe unfairly have in my head called “As heard on The O.C.”
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Quiet Darkness
    Two downtempo instrumentals do little to elevate their surroundings, and the album’s longer tracks reiterate more than they evolve. Still, Houses accomplish their aim of filling an hour with a cinematic, transportive music--a perfect soundtrack to milling about the end times.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Glowing Mouth
    Glowing Mouth illustrates Wilson's impressive, technically precise vocal diversity, if not necessarily his range.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hi Beams
    As evidenced by their remixes, the instrumental tracks here, and some of the pithier vocals, Javelin are high-caliber producers; their lyrics and melodies just haven’t matched that intensity.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ode to Sentience
    Ode To Sentience, while it's far from being a radical departure, has plenty of surprises.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    People, Hell and Angels
    People, Hell and Angel isn’t perfect--or godly--but it does contain some canon tracks that every Hendrix fan should hear.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blak and Blu
    In a perfect world, he'd have everything necessary to run the blues flag worldwide; for now, we'll have to settle for something merely enjoyable.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Born This Way: The Remix
    Just in time for the holiday season, there's something for everyone on Born This Way: The Remix.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    From the Top of Willamette Mountain
    The range of effects the place has on the folk singer resulted in his most resonant work yet.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    CVI
    CVI is a serviceable debut-with remarkable vocal performances-but Royal Thunder sounds caught between what it is (a blues-wielding powerhouse) and what it aspires to be (prog-metal escapism).
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blazing Gentlemen
    Blazing Gentlemen (and many of Pollard’s other releases) are less an album than a suite.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Glow
    Compared to Fourgeaud’s 2005 debut, Smash, there’s a new clarity within the arrangements. Clarity that allows the album’s inspirations to excessively bleed through a disorienting IDM facade.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Soft Fall
    While there is more focus to the classically tinged electro-pop songwriting on Soft Fall than their last album (2010′s Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier), it shows up in moments, and disappears entirely at others.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Let It Beard
    Let It Beard might be the weirdest but most original album of the year.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Saaab Stories [EP]
    We get a Harry Fraud production showcase, with limited Action highlights--a moderately enjoyable listen that’s nasty, but unsatisfying.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lonesome Dreams
    Even with the cultural grandiosity described here, in many ways, Lord Huron's music is pretty standard Americana fair: catchy twang through a hazy lens.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    rEvolver
    As toe-tapping or even eyebrow-raising as some of rEVOLVEr's 17 songs are (overlong at 66 minutes of no skits, just music), there's little to nothing here to put it over the top.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    For the Good Times
    Equal parts good time and fresh, original takes on these classic tracks, the band offers a medley of styles that color these standards in a new light.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Defend Yourself
    When it falls, it’s awkward, but when it gets there, it gets there. The blunders are all Sebadoh, but so are the gems.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tan Bajo
    While wild, boisterous garage rock is hardly hip in mid-2011, the breakneck speed and balls-out ferocity of Tan Bajo would be welcome at any time.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sum/One
    For those up to the challenge, SUM/ONE is a unifying electronic endeavor, astute in its own deconstruction for an indie crossover, and rife with enough low-end euphoria to get the most dedicated basshead bouncing.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Four (Acts of Love)
    While all of these versions differ wildly from their originals, they also lose a withering amount of weight due to arrangements that are generally sparser and slowed down.... The other half of FOUR‘s tracks are original, and although they veer more on the foreboding side, they also end before Harvey can establish any kind of differing mood.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Harakiri
    Throughout the album, it seems that Tankian is preparing the listener for something bigger, something serious.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Researching the Blues
    While it's still a worthy comeback for a band way past its prime, Researching the Blues is similarly only a few solid tracks away from greatness.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Flux Outside
    Despite its flaws, Flux Outside is an album filled to the brim with energy, sincerity, and fearlessness of a music world overrun by genre conventions.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Goblin
    All this underlying pathos ultimately makes for a sad and honest chapter in Tyler's career - his young, ground-breaking, fascinating, magnetic career that's only like, three years old. He'll get off that couch of his soon enough.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Original Colors
    It's something bigger, wilder, and less pop structured.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    13.0.0.0.0
    13.0.0.0.0 is a solid album with beautiful moments, but in the end, it lacks the grit that could push TTNG higher.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Never Trust a Happy Song
    A lot of them work; and some fall short. But even with that being said, for a debut, it's a fun, promising effort from a band who has already established themselves as a live show mainstay in the indie realm.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An Omen EP
    The EP's major aesthetic shifts do lead to one issue: the lack of a core or soul to How to destroy angels_, a shortcoming which will hopefully be resolved on the outfit's forthcoming long-player.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Radiosurgery
    There are plenty of catchy guitar riffs and just enough lyrics that stick, leaving the band to shine in a good way.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    ...And It Shook Me
    It’s an easy album to love, but hard to love it more than anything else.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tapes
    Ultimately, though, he [Edwin Congreave] knew exactly what his audience would enjoy, and he delivered accordingly.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Luciano Berio: Laborintus II
    At first glance, it's easy to brush off Laborintus II as half an hour of experimental drivel, but those that stick with it and let it soak will be rewarded.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Loma Vista
    It seems Family of the Year's fun-drenched formula is working just fine.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Joan Of Arc
    Where other releases traded in musical complexities, Joan of Arc strips the process down only to affirm Kinsella's forceful narrative intricacy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cynic's New Year
    This fourth LP once again comes close to making that leap [from second-tier to A-list], but ultimately it falls just short of the mark.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Native To
    Even though Native To is a pleasant introduction, there's nothing urgent here.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Enjoy the Company
    Enjoy the Company isn't here to tell you anything you haven't already heard, but if you're looking for some hopscotch rock just to keep you company, it can do the job.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This Machine
    This Machine is not the result of the Dandys turning a corner or shifting direction, but rather taking the best of where they've been and applying it to where they're going.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Handwritten
    Handwritten houses some of Fallon's strongest compositions to date, and while it ain't punk, neither is The Gaslight Anthem.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Underrated Silence
    It's ambient electronica that exudes shoegaze impressionism that is also as effective as ever.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Traveler
    It's not his most cohesive batch of songs.... But for a man who creates songs of which he says, "To me, they're for everybody to play," there's no reason not to include a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Talent
    As it stands, Talent is a decent album content with being at that level, not fighting to rise or fall any notches.
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