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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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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dirty Gold
    Dirty Gold is plenty inviting, sonically speaking, with patches of rock, EDM, and pop. It’s problematic, however, that the album zones in on those genres with about as much specificity as those designators have.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Go Fly a Kite
    Kweller does what he does best-mesh all the influences we've all heard a thousand times (The Beatles, Dylan, Beach Boys, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Etc.) into a bunch of three to four minute easy-listening pop songs.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    13
    Despite the volume, 13 is a return to form--if a somewhat obvious one--and an example of perseverance.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Love from London
    Love from London can be thought of as a gallery of bright watercolors with more portentous shades nestled in the background, or perhaps looming just off canvas.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Weird Work
    Weird Work is less synthesized and more nuanced than their previous works.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tricolore
    While a word like “twee” occasionally threatens to overpower Tricolore’s little world, the solidly built layers of a song like “Train Tracks for Wheezy” shift focus to craftsmanship.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Something
    Something is exactly what Chairlift fans asked for.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blues Funeral
    A creative and fitting nudge out of the comfortable shadows and back into the harsh spotlight-where Lanegan belongs, at least some of the time.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Birthdays
    While the album’s rustic first half simmers the songwriter with the myriad Jeff Buckley and Justin Vernon comparisons, it’s the last seven tracks where Henson embraces the exploratory nature of a second album.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
    The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here revels in being just a record.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Perfect View
    It’s bleak music conjured from machine rather than man, but Norvidde succeeds just as wholeheartedly as his friends and countrymen as conjuring the bitter darkness that’s coming to define the region.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wyoming
    Water Liars’ songwriting has been compared to veterans such as Dawes, Grizzly Bear, and even Fleet Foxes, but their sophomore effort, Wyoming, has more mental meandering and grit than all of the above.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Civilian
    Wye Oak should be highly commended for expanding their already strong sound. Let's just hope they leave in a tad more of their younger selves next time around.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Vows
    While neither reinterpretations of the past nor genre hopping are unique in the world of pop, it's the effortless way that Kimbra does it all that makes Vows a compelling listen.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sequitur
    This seeming juxtaposition of entirely retro leaning, concise pop sensibilities and massive, atmospheric tendencies shouldn't meld seamlessly, let alone adjoin each other, yet Hauschildt repeatedly finds a way to fit the pieces together.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Julia with Blue Jeans On
    As with its predecessors, Julia With Blue Jeans On forges new ground for the prolific artist, both musically and aesthetically.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rome
    For all of its glorious string flourishes, vivid visual allusions, and bursts of choral splendor, the best parts of Rome are truly left to the imagination.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Computers & Blues
    Even though it's not quite his best album, Computers and Blues catches the Streets at the best he's been in years.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Point of Go
    This album is pure indie pop sunshine.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mariachi El Bronx (II)
    It digs a little deeper at the lofty topic of love, creating an intense album with rhythm, heart, and plenty of horns.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Push and Shove
    There is plenty to enjoy as you push and shove right to end of the album.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Old Ideas
    Old Ideas, however, succeeds in largely keeping the music subservient, buoyant enough to keep things moving but not distracting any attention from the lyrics, the true star of the show.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rkives
    While there’s a lot to love on RKives, as with any postmortem compilation, it runs the risk of lacking cohesion and coming across as a jumble with no common threads.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    W
    It might be tempting for some to initially dismiss Planningtorock as weird for the sake of being weird, but W exposes an artist who is experimenting with musical conventions, with bizarre and often captivating results.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Indigo Meadow
    The Black Angels don’t meander or mince words, and Indigo Meadow is a testament to that ideology.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gallows
    More than an impressive musical step forward, Gallows does the band one better by showing their true colors.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Negativity
    The party might be coming to an end, but at least Negativity gives enough of a hint that the band might be better off for it.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Civil Disobedience for Losers
    Beyond the best-foot-forward songs that the riff-mining Allen and drummer Brandyn James Aikins soak themselves in, the sci-fi, pulpy tracks stretch far across a relatively small spectrum.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rolling Blackouts
    Rolling Blackouts doesn't move away from what the Go! Team is known for. Instead, this is a snapshot of a band both honing their skills and creating a fun piece of music.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Save Rock and Roll
    Singer Nate Ruess’ sincerity and youth anthems fuel Save Rock And Roll.
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