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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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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Holy Ghost!
    Holy Ghost! may not be a game changer, but it's not redundant in an electro-pop scene increasingly dominated by progressive disco.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shapeshifting
    On Shapeshifting, their first album for Paper Bag Records, Young Galaxy have found a sound that lives up to McCandless's compelling voice (it seems Ramsay has been reduced to a secondary role, save for opener "The Angels Are Surely Weeping"), and it provides an overall sensation very unlike their first two attempts.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Wasting Light
    To date, the Foo Fighters have never tried to reinvent the wheel, per se; they just want to keep it rolling. And that's just what Wasting Light does. For that purpose, Foo Fighters give us a solid record from open to close. The drought is over. Rock is back.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Awesome As F**k
    As it stands, Awesome as F**k is a good representation of Green Day today.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blood Pressures
    Compared to 2008's Midnight Bloom, Blood Pressures sheds the more pop beats and synthetic sounds and embraces a more simplistic, almost vintage-y blues punk hybrid.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Smart Flesh
    Notes reverberate and gently die while voices float in the ether, creating a sense of reverence and calm for most of the album.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All Eternals Deck
    It's about as Death Metal as folk can get, without even touching the genre remotely, if that makes any sense.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Belong
    They definitely sound like more of a band now, merging their despairing lyrics and indie pop demeanor with an alternative grunge that's certainly worthy of praise, perhaps even more now than ever before.
    • 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Live at the Aragon
    Even at their most atonal, though, Mastodon's occasionally discordant vocalists hardly detract from the awesome power of their music. Besides, if you dig Mastodon enough to purchase a live album of theirs, you're pretty unlikely to take issue with the gruffness of their vocals, or the awkwardly sung harmonies.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Burn Your Town
    Much like the performance that has forever etched the band into my brain, this LP has a whole lot of showmanship and theatricality, but under the surface it's a refreshing take on the post-punk movement.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Build a Rocket Boys!
    The band didn't set out to create a hit-laden album that repeats the successes of their past. Instead, they've crafted an album full of beautifully lush melodies, intricate patterns, and soaring vocalizations.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Live on I-5
    There's nothing too exceptional about Live on the I-5, but given that this is the first new release from the recent reincarnation of Soundgarden, it's worth a listen.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Femme Fatale
    It's engaging, and, in pulling the best elements from her past two efforts, Spears and her production crew built a purely blissful account of currently-trending tunes.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Return to the Ugly Side
    Much of what makes Return to the Ugly Side a success is its sincerity to the duo's source material.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Angles
    Angles, The Strokes' long awaited fourth LP, stands as the group's most eclectic album to date.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Going Out In Style
    There's nothing innovative here, per se, but what exactly did you want from the Dropkick Murphys? Oh, that's right: a party.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Endgame
    Endgame is inherently the follow-through of its predecessor, with additional flavors that may or may not help the cause lyrically prevalent.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang
    Like 36 Chambers adheres to a concept formula, as does Shaolin Vs Wu-Tang, relating the tale of ninjas and swords to gangstas and guns, and even without RZA, sustaining the notion that is the Wu.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No Color
    No Colors showcases a band who knows exactly who they are and feels completely comfortable in their sound, constantly pushing the boundaries of what is possible for a two-piece.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Land and Fixed
    So many of the tracks on the disc are strong musically and structurally that it's hard to argue with Sniper's singular vision....But, it'd be nice if, on one out of every few of those tracks, Sniper would find a way out of his monotone.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    100 Lovers
    The music is second to none on this album, truly, and is only made more potent with wildly imaginative lyricism.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    He Gets Me High
    While it's a very short experience, that works in the band's favor, eliminating the filler that plagues many albums these days. Combine catchy melodies in every original song with a pretty awesome cover of The Smiths and you have a project that's definitely worth a listen and probably worth a purchase.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Light Science
    Last track aside, Light Science ends up being purely genius. The instrumental rock is fresh and unique, a brilliant light amidst all of the other dull groups who are generating "the same old thing."
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lasers
    Fiasco's quite skilled at making catchy what is inherently a message many don't want to hear. He's at his most blatant, though, when he mixes his unique voice for the truth with emotional sentiments.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Collapse into Now
    All comparisons aside, Collapse Into Now is one heck of an album.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Port Entropy
    It's a wonderful record of a musician and songwriter in his prime, but one that requires a willingness to go on a ride, with an open mind and a willingness to have some fun.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Living with Yourself
    Living With Yourself is a wistful affair brimming with fondness and solemnity for the characters and stories that dot McGuire's life to now.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dead Reckoning
    Beyond the elaborate prose, the songs are outstanding and full of an energy that combines careful technique with rousing jams. Dead Reckoning is a unique and wild experience, one that's not to be passed up.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gutter Rainbows
    In that right, Gutter Rainbows is the ultimate success. However, in terms of accessibility, he's done better work, and this release will probably just go down as a good, but not a great Talib Kweli album.
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