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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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    • 69 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Model of You
    This sounds like a case of a band unraveling their weirdness.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Star Wars Headspace
    Likely under tight deadline, each track tends to live squarely within the individual producer’s standard production palette.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Coma Ecliptic
    Coma Ecliptic clocks in at over an hour, but most discouraging is the band’s failure to translate the album’s conceptual themes to the listener in that timespan.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Beerbongs & Bentleys
    “Same Bitches” sounds like a song Ty Dolla $ign once made and ultimately scrapped, and Post was more than happy to turn another man’s trash into his treasure, no matter how awkward or forced he sounds among more natural fits G-Eazy and YG.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Highlights
    While there is nothing abhorrent about Tanlines’ pleasant sophomore effort, it seems their passion was supplanted by force of habit.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Someday World
    Once one grows comfortable with the album’s prevailing electro-acoustic ambiance, the repetitive song structures do little to add energy to the beleaguered soundscapes.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Songs of Experience
    Songs of Experience is an album where the band’s best and worst songs of this century can exist next to each other, where vast rewrites make it apparent that multiple rounds of sessions went into the finished product.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Initiation
    Initiation is the type of album that’ll please many, infatuate a few, and fade from memory for the rest.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Get Hurt
    Get Hurt sounds like The Gaslight Anthem trying to figure out what kind of band they want to be.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Gone Now
    Gone Now makes it clear that he knows his way around a chorus--he often jumps right into them at the start of songs--but verses are strained and general while impulses are too often freely indulged, rather than examined and pulled apart in the hopes of building something that looks more like innovation than imitation.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Feel Something
    The problem is The History of Apple Pie managed to fork over 10 songs of generic, sugared pop that’s almost entirely forgettable by the time dinner rolls around.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Nasir
    His lyricism, though timely at points, is largely impersonal if not flat-out pedestrian and makes NASIR the first album in Nas’ catalog that Nas has failed to show up for.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Younger Now
    Just as things seem a little promising, the limp “Thinkin'” struts in like a Carrie Underwood c-side and firmly sets the tone for the record’s toothless closing third.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Last Year Was Complicated
    While Last Year Was Complicated is completely adequate, its highlights are a SparkNotes summary of the pop music from the past 12 months.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Bad Love
    The lack of specificity blunts the potential trauma of Bad Love’s heartbreak, the trauma that its well-apportioned, dramatic music demands.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Better Nature
    Lee may be an expert when it comes to lush atmospherics, but he’s simply not interested in pursuing the small mistakes that give a song its personality.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Rubba Band Business: The Album
    Rubba Band Business, is, unfortunately, more of the same.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    This Wild Willing
    The Khoshravesh brothers’ Iranian sound spices things up on a few tracks, but not enough to prompt multiple listens. Hansard’s passion seems to be lacking in the way he sings on most tracks, and that ends up being a letdown. Perhaps the experience of making the album was much more magical than the music that resulted from it.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    SAVE ME [EP]
    There’s no denying Future’s ability to constantly curate content, but perhaps with a little more time and focus, Save Me could have been significantly better.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Await Barbarians
    Taylor doesn’t hit the requisite hands-flailing-in-the-air, feet-stomping sweet spot we’ve come to expect.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Music of the Spheres
    [“Coloratura” is] the song that most resembles the free spirit of Everyday Life and how much they’re capable of pulling off in a 10 minute, sprawling odyssey. Even more, it shows how resistant Coldplay are to becoming Maroon 5. If the rest of Music of the Spheres is any indication, then unfortunately, that’s where they’re headed.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Minus Tide
    True to the album name, Minus Tide is one body of work that lacks the aggression that initially made Lemonade so exciting.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Indie Cindy
    Sure, you can wallow in disappointment that this record ranks a distant fifth alongside the band’s classic LPs, but don’t allow yourself in the process to miss out on a handful of worthwhile songs.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    HITnRUN: Phase Two
    While Prince is raging against the dying of the light, there exists no graceful innovation on HITNRUN Phase Two. Instead, Prince presents only an aped version of his one-time vitality.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    New Glow
    While this blissful resistance to sophistication has always been present in Matt and Kim’s work in the past, on New Glow, they seem to have regressed even further from twee hallmarks like “Daylight” or “Let’s Go”.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    A New Place 2 Drown
    This is music created under the role of the supportive brother, and for much of it, he’s too focused on his sibling’s creations to fully flesh out his own work.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Us and the Night
    Us and the Night offers some bland, platitude-driven positivity, but only once shadowed by equally vague problems. There’s a thin line between building out themes for an album and getting stuck in a rut, and this one unfortunately sounds like it falls towards the latter.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    DUMMY BOY
    If your first language is, say, Russian or Chinese, then you might enjoy the musicality of some of 6ix9ine’s verses even though they blur together. Unfortunately, Dummy Boy is not improved with a knowledge of English, and indeed that might be an obstacle to enjoying the album.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    New Misery
    Most of the songs on New Misery sound exactly like Smith Westerns without Kakacek. But here’s the rub: Omori’s voice is so airy that it works best when punctuated by meat-and-potatoes moments straight out of the classic rock cookbook.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Enclosure
    The overly complicated percussion is an impractical fit for his songwriting style and offers little for the listener to cling to.
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