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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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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Soft Will
    The subject matter gives depth to the record, but sometimes it feels like Smith Westerns are filling in templates instead of writing songs.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kisses on the Bottom
    Kisses on the Bottom is a respectable collection from a pop mastermind.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Distance Is So Big
    While the best moments on The Distance Is So Big have hooks to spare, “Scienceless” and “Public Opinion Bath” could’ve used at least one. It’s just hard to maintain that kind of optimism over the course of a whole record.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Spanish Moss & Total Loss
    Too much of the same synth sounds and Kozub's too-hazy vocals (sung into an old analog vocoder that makes the melancholy lyrical content impossible to understand) leave the album lacking a certain spark.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Jiaolong
    In totally brushing aside the complexities of Caribou in order to make dance music, he loses sight of the more complex moments in the dance music he's making.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    III
    The two halves of III frequently war, the pleasantly shambling rhythms consistently undermined by Enborn’s just off-key yawling on viscerally unusual topics, as well as the occasional genre shift.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unlearn
    Unlearn is an album full of great, clever songs if listened to individually. As a whole, however, it's too scattered.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The High Frontier
    Languid and drone-heavy, The High Frontier is for the star-gazers that don’t get tired of looking up and wondering what’s out there, as opposed to going out and seeing what’s there for themselves.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Great Gatsby [Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film]
    Put simply, The Great Gatsby soundtrack resonates like the dinky Grammy sampler album they give to us plebeians who aren’t important enough to attend the ceremony anyway.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bloodlines
    Although Bloodlines is a solid effort, it never seems to really take flight; alternately quiet and bold, it can’t seem to decide whether it wants to be a testament to Mathè’s artistic transformation or a kind of tentative experiment, to be abandoned if it doesn’t pan out.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Milk Money
    Milk Money takes a disappointing step back in the album’s second half.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Banjo or Freakout
    The album's strengths indeed grow on you with time, but his failure to capture these strengths as a whole is what denies it stature among other bedroom recordings.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Joke in the Hole
    While this album shares a lot of qualities with the likes of Mr. Impossible, its straight to the jugular strike at being a groovy good time comes off a little less polished.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Twelve Reasons to Die
    Had GFK’s focus been on par with his corresponding hero’s repulsor beam, this record would’ve been more than a solid collection that fails in trying to make high-art with a half-hearted storyline.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sistrionix
    While the record is still enjoyable, particularly due to a strain of riot grrrl-infused audacity and vociferous demands for respect, the sonics fail to achieve much progress and rely far too often on tried-and-true riffs and structures.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wayward Fire
    Mohager takes the propulsive beats of New Order and makes it his own for the modern club set. With a better editor, Mohager's future won't let up any time soon.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nothing Is Real
    Whether the sound quality on Nothing Is Real is intentional or not, the lo-fi rattling smothers the hooks and makes the songs feel suspiciously like demos.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Moon Tides
    The scope here is smaller, the instrumentals keener on serving as a pedestal for the vocals than as a landscape for them to get lost in.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tomorrow's World
    There's a glistening sheen here, and the mixture of fast and slow ("When I Start to Breathe" is ballad-like with an eminently hummable chorus) keeps things refreshing.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Vodka & Ayahuasca
    Take Vodka and Ayahuasca as a testament to these guys' long-acquired mastery of their craft, even as the rhymes are generally less than striking.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mysterious Phonk: The Chronicles of Spaceghostpurrp
    Much like the Odd Future catalog, SpaceGhostPurrp's impressive, stark, spooky production will be enough to win over listeners bothered by the sexism.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Palms
    The problem of carving a new brand of sprawling music that feels carefully hand-crafted at every nook while not letting those nooks fly by too easily, or unappreciated, is not one that Palms has a great solution towards.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Event II
    It’s still engaging in places, but it never comes close to reaching the level of its predecessor.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Colored Emotions
    It's full of moving parts and the type of effortless transitions between songs that makes the album much more than the sum of its parts.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Time [EP]
    At his best, Calder channels a disaffected claustrophobia, bearing down on twentysomethings lost and disaffected in their parents’ basements. It’s a bummer listen, but sometimes that’s warranted.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Myth
    Geographer managed to show how well they clean up.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Space Homestead
    The album sounds like it was written and recorded one lazy day on someone's back porch, and could perfectly soundtrack such a day.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Shut Down The Streets
    Shut Down the Streets is a strange beast and one that will fall victim to that option that destroys the album sequence as we know it: shuffle. Fortunately, the high points are so high that they warrant a listen, even a purchase of the record as a whole.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Snakes/Vultures/Sulfate
    EmptyMansions plays like a well-crafted diversion, an artist’s escape to play in his own corner of the musical playground, if just for a short spell.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pre Language
    Disappears have created a dark, at times dancey, record that very rarely lets up.
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