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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Hardwired...To Self-Destruct
    At nearly 80 minutes, it’s understandable for an album like Hardwired… to Self-Destruct to have lulls, but the band gets way too comfortable way too early.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Eternally Even
    Especially on the front half, tracks flow into each other inconspicuously, and two of the nine are one song split into two parts, probably unnecessarily. The effect, then, is a bit of a shrug, a signal that James either has less to say or is less inclined to profess it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    New Skin
    CRX might pride themselves on not focusing excessively on cohesion, but on the level of the individual song, a lack of unity can undermine otherwise powerful elements. With New Skin, CRX have defined the parameters of who they are as a band. Going forward, they will need to find harmony in the tensions between them.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Gameshow
    As a band that formed in 2007 and became emblematic of indie pop in the early part of this decade, Two Door Cinema Club were already sliding towards irrelevance. Unfortunately, Gameshow doesn’t really help to arrest that trajectory.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Three
    Three is a Phantogram record in that it’s a well-crafted release, but it lacks the originality Phantogram prided themselves on.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Revolution Radio
    Revolution Radio plods its way down roads the band first stomped on years ago. In a career filled with euphoric highs and honorable lows, this might be the first album that sits exactly on the middle of the scale, dipping its toes into every possible outcome but refusing to dive in and embrace either comfort or chaos.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Head Carrier
    While Head Carrier may fall far short of lightning bolts raining down from Olympus, there’s enough reason to believe Pixies have a bit of thunder in them yet.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mount Ninji and Da Nice Time Kid
    These songs, plus several others, are ultimately frustrating because they never achieve Die Antwoord’s self-professed new direction. Even more frustrating, the few tracks that try something different end up being some of the group’s strongest material to date.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Divine Feminine
    The album could offer some really tender moments, but because they’re buried under lyrics that talk about nothing but sex, they’re lost. Instead, The Divine Feminine leaves a sour taste behind and entirely misses an opportunity to truly honor the female gender.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Femejism
    Deap Vally are most compelling when they dig further than irreverently dismissing superficial, mainstreamed feminism, but rather go on to explore what makes modern womanhood disturbing or even terrifying, the omnipresent eye of patriarchy be damned.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ultra
    On Ultra, it simply feels as though something is missing, and overall, makes more sense as an appetizer than the entrée.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Pure & Simple
    Though Pure & Simple will be palatable for her fans, it lacks the depth that put Parton in the spotlight to begin with.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Sweatbox Dynasty
    Closer “Let’s Get Worn Away” manages to be more anchored with its sonic goals, able to shift through six or seven different phases to make it clear that Fec is aiming for a collage-like final product. Elsewhere though, Sweatbox Dynasty is mostly just composed of individual pieces of a collage, a mashup, a pastiche, whatever you want to call it.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    25 25
    What 25 25 is missing are those necessary bits of relief that were worked into their previous album.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Innocence Reaches
    By lacking any resonant peg and showing little advancement, the record feels like a question mark, a gray spot on the timeline.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Spend the Night With…
    Cheena offers something different enough to merit a listen, although it’s hard to imagine Spend the Night With... leaving the kind of footprint on the impressionable young artists of tomorrow that the bands and luminaries Cheena so dutifully reference have left on them.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Boy King
    There’s sonic beauty everywhere in Boy King. The arrangements are impeccable and frequently ingenuous, but the album doesn’t yield much on repeated listens. Somehow the humanity of Wild Beasts’ previous work is nowhere here.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Afraid of Heights
    Despite functionally inelegant song choices (“Big Red Gun”) and filler (“February Winds”), a good deal of Afraid of Heights trades in rapid-fire aggression for a calculated barrage of justified fear (the title track, “Ghost Ship of Cannibal Rats”).
    • 55 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Operator
    Operator drags the listener kicking and screaming into what sounds like the soundtrack to the depths of hell, where the only music available is an unrelenting, want-to-bang-your-head-against-the-wall symphony of noise.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Youth Authority
    The Maddens and co. sound like they’re throwing the obligatory tropes of encroaching middle age against the wall, hoping that something, anything, will stick.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Loud Hailer
    A mixed blessing. The musical edifice that he and his cohorts have built is strong and daringly modern, but they’ve decorated the insides with spray paint and hashtagged sentiments.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Command Your Weather
    Command Your Weather is a passing blast--intriguing to devout followers and a punishing rehash for those who’ve already heard and digested the band’s best material.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Ellipsis
    Clearly Biffy Clyro see themselves as strivers, a band that charges relentlessly forward. But at times, listeners might wonder if they’re headed in any interesting direction.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Take Her Up to Monto
    While the album features several standout tracks and stunning vocals, as a whole, over-shined production and mashed-up genres obscure Murphy’s strengths.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    California
    California doesn’t go out of its way to stay creative. Here lies the death of the immediate hook, but Blink-182 are having fun regardless--and hearing that may be the best part of this album.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Summer 08
    After starting strong, Summer 08 fizzles out, much like a failed night on the town.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Muzik
    This is a welcome step forward for a promising band, and a beautiful statement. However, in practice it becomes a bit laborious. Each song hangs in the same atmosphere, offering little variety but plenty of good vibes.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Life in the Dark
    The Felice Brothers seem out of their depth here, reveling in tired imagery and pretending to make it fresh by changing just a few small details.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hot Hot Heat
    The resulting record is catchy, but ultimately falls as flat as all their other attempts to recreate the magic of that first release, unable to capture the imagination, energy, and urgency of Make Up the Breakdown.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Johannesburg [EP]
    Rather than mine the potential depths of a more cohesive collaboration, the two halves often feel disconnected.
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