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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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    • 78 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Goodbye Terrible Youth
    As McClure and co. look backward, their music only progresses forward.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Big Baby D.R.A.M.
    It’ll be interesting to see how those sorts of lyrics sound 10, 15, or 20 years down the line, but at the very least, Big Baby D.R.A.M.’s melodies and instrumentation are enough to ensure people will be listening to these songs for a while.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Two Vines
    The content of Two Vines doesn’t need to truly illustrate that concept to succeed. Empire of the Sun have managed to remain steadfast in the sound they’ve carved out for themselves since day one, which can be a challenge for a band that has pushed as big and wide as these two have.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Integrity Blues
    On Integrity Blues, Jimmy Eat World return to that mood of reverie, with often beautiful and quietly triumphant results.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Yes Lawd!
    The producer being so secondary here is certainly a missed opportunity. The album still ends up being a thrill, due to the duo’s sheer talent, but its caution undermines its competence. .Paak has insisted that Yes Lawd! is not an Anderson .Paak album, but it sure sounds like one.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Joanne
    The result is a work that may not close any circles, but instead start the pattern of a new shape: something weird, but compelling, and largely authentic.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Retribution
    This blending of past and present, delivered in the rawest way, makes her promise of Retribution that much more powerful.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Say Yes!: A Tribute to Elliott Smith
    If all the covers were as deeply felt as Caroline Says or Julien Baker’s, Say Yes would leap from a covers album to a tried and true tribute, a record that could bring an artist back to life, if only for an hour. If listeners are looking for that, well, then just listen to Elliott Smith’s originals.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Alone
    She might be conflicted, but Alone revels in the kind of humanity that’s long made Hynde’s best work with the Pretenders tick.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    American Football (LP2)
    It’ll make you remember that weird, wistful emotion that isn’t quite sadness but isn’t quite anything else, either. Because, while their music may sound as fresh as ever, American Football’s message these days is clear: time takes everything.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    You Want It Darker
    Using his remaining time, he’s not only putting his house in order, he’s tidying up ours too. You Want It Darker prepares us for his departure and, in turn, shows us how it’s done, so we have a road map--pockmarked by land mines as it is--in place when we reach that stage.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Running out of Love
    Running Out of Love is absolutely true to the duo’s style and their assessment of today’s Sweden.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    These Systems Are Failing
    Taken individually, the tracks from These Systems Are Failing are refreshingly vibrant for the 51-year-old Moby, who, even after 12 studio albums and countless other releases under his belt, continues to reinvent himself.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Dissociation
    Their final record is fittingly cyclical, beginning in the death of love and ending in death alone, full of transportive moments and beauty along the way. And though there may never be another Dillinger Escape Plan record, this one is perfectly suited and deserving of massive replays to come.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cashmere
    That ability to tell stories of varying depth and importance is what rap is really all about, and in that regard, Swet Shop Boys are ascending fast.
    • 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Walls
    Musically, WALLS isn’t some adventurous left turn towards krautrock or no wave. Rather, it’s KOL’s most unified, solid, and direct album since Aha Shake Heartbreak, its arc owing to time-tested AOR more than anything else.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Day Breaks
    The record retains some of the boundary-pushing and the jazz doesn’t always thrill, but it’s a record on which Jones sounds entirely familiar.
    • 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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Don't Let the Kids Win
    Due to her diverse strengths, Jacklin’s songs differ greatly--but where for some that may result in an inconsistent tone, Jacklin strengthens the album by honoring its emotional core at all costs. Tracks jump from genre to genre without losing their hypnotic quality.
    • 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.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Ruminations
    Oberst is best when his guard is down, and this album takes seven songs for that to finally happen.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cody
    The transitional record nails the discomfort of feeling out of place or unsure of yourself. Imperfect but impassioned, Joyce Manor astutely capture uncertainty and anxiety throughout Cody.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Big Boat
    Big Boat, is wonderfully accessible thanks to its relatable sense of communal fun, as well as the band’s own self-awareness.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sirens
    Jaar has signature tones--every musician does, and it’s hard to escape them--but he steps past expectations to make a political statement that’s still subdued, jaunty, and sharp.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Seat at the Table
    The interludes are all derived from the same sonic template as the songs, so the borders between tracks can be hazy, giving the album a meandering feel. That said, ultimately there’s something refreshing about Solange’s dreary, almost funereal compositions.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Altar
    None of the material on The Altar will revolutionize alt R&B, future soul, or whatever awkward label one might apply to this nebulous genre. What is here, though, is proof of an artist still searching for a new direction.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Atrocity Exhibition
    These songs aren’t for everyone, but they stand as some of the most fearlessly created music of the year--even if Brown sometimes sounds petrified for his life.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Care
    There are few sonic commonalities between the texture-oriented Love Remains--an album a lot of people loved--and Care. Objectively, though, this is a thoughtful, sincere pop R&B record that at times reaches Krell’s intended gorgeous heights.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    American Band
    While the no-bullshit lyrics and get-in, get-out nature of American Band work to make the band’s politics perfectly clear (at 47 minutes, it’s a contender for DBT’s shortest LP), it still has unique lyrical details that separate it from other protest music, even protest music of the loud and pissed-off variety.
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