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For 4,040 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: 2,754 out of 4040
  2. Mixed: 1,215 out of 4040
  3. Negative: 71 out of 4040
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ices
    Ices is a sincere record that was supposed to be a mission statement for its artist, as per its title. But instead, it’s an exercise in pointless cultural appropriation that just makes it unclear whether there is anything to Lia Ices at all.
    • 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.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Crush Songs
    It boldly aims to tighten the gap between today and tomorrow in a time where heartbreak makes a single week feel like eternity, but it’s ultimately memorable only to Karen O worshipers.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    At Best Cuckold
    Zahner-Isenberg has changed his focus more toward the piano and atmospherics on At Best Cuckold, as opposed to the complicated guitar lines of their debut, and it works well. However, to keep growing, the band can’t stay focused on cute adolescent lyrics that, while tongue-in-cheek, don’t match the lush intricacies of the music behind them.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Physical World
    If the lyrical substance isn’t quite there, at least the riffs are.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Classic Zeus
    While Classic Zeus sounds like it’s supposed to be catchy, it’s ultimately impossible to remember.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Overjoyed
    Despite its goofy grin, squeaky clean production, and cheesy lyrics, Overjoyed is a good thing.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Barragán
    Barragán, the follow-up to that 2010 misstep [Penny Sparkle], course-corrects well, incorporating the most interesting elements of that electronic side trek while returning a few steps closer to their strengths.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Musik, Die Schwer Zu Twerk
    Despite it purposely avoiding any links via nomenclature, Electric Würms echoes Flaming Lips. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing is purely subjective, but here’s hoping that Drozd will get to maintain the helm on future projects.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Green Language
    Not all DJs can be producers and vice versa. Rustie’s trendsetting ability is rivaled by few, but that hasn’t translated into an equally challenging full-length endeavor.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Swimmin' Time
    The darker tone on Swimmin’ Time shows they’re able to change things up, but they may be too afraid of losing their momentum to really be daring.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Neuroplasticity
    Neuroplasticity, at times, makes Spx sound out of place on her own record.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Annabel Dream Reader
    It’s not that The Wytches aren’t capable of ballads or contemplative space, it’s just that they haven’t found a way to do so in a way half as uniquely or powerfully as they have the big, explosive stuff.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Lost in Alphaville
    The issue with Lost in Alphaville, besides simply retooling earlier Rentals songs, is its feeling of playing it safe.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Chorus
    A little bit of the candy-coated trip of Chorus works--but too much and the magic starts to fade, the moments losing their sheen, their details fading into an unmemorable pastiche.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    V
    As a whole, the albums works on a cohesion, transitioning from stronger, more powerful tracks (“Dynasti”, “Dean & Me”, and “All White Everything”) to the remaining eight cuts, which are breezy, quiet, and, sadly, quite boring, thanks to cheesier lyrics and lack of production effort.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Gemini, Her Majesty
    Leave it up to an overly trippy album like Gemini, Her Majesty to not only mix one of the most eccentric actors ever with an aquatic bird, but also a giant fish.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Blacc Hollywood
    Hollywood is an improvement over 2012’s O.N.I.F.C., but it serves an overly similar purpose.
    • 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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss
    There are transitions in mood, but the focus is on love songs with vitriol supplanted by a brand of joie de vivre, the darkness still there but distanced.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Lights Out
    Lights Out offers plenty of pop nuggets--a few of them punchy and expansive, most others losing steam right out of the gate.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Worlds
    His ability isn’t lacking; Robinson just needs to ditch that indie pop crutch in order to strengthen his own voice.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Television Man
    For now, with the biting and enjoyable Television Man, the band feels a bit stuck in a predictable art punk sludge.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Time Is Over One Day Old
    In the Grace of Your Love was the sound of a forgotten band pleading for your interest and affection as if life itself depended on it. Time Is Over One Day Old may possess the same lineage as that record, but despite all of its attempts at being similarly organic, it couldn’t be colder or more distant.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Sand+Silence
    As pleasant and competent as Sand + Silence is, it rarely emphatically grabs attention. Instead, it’s an appealing but overall unremarkable batch of well-recorded indie pop. That’s it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Gist Is
    Unfortunately, it seems the desire to be wild and innovative eclipsed the will to create songs that hold together.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Racy
    This makes for an uneven listening experience and detracts from the sharply conceived and executed songs. Three years is a long time to wait for such unbalanced output.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pe'ahi
    Despite its ambitions, Pe’ahi ripples through without much fanfare, another breeze fallen short of a storm.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Model of You
    This sounds like a case of a band unraveling their weirdness.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Beck Song Reader
    Not everyone is interested in branching out, which is the album’s main shortcoming. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with Tweedy or fun. sounding like themselves, but it feels like a missed opportunity to try something different.
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