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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
    Makthaverskan II
    II, which crosses the pond for the first time this month via Run For Cover Records, is a brutal, addictive piece of work that constantly spasms between hunger and anger.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Southsiders
    Southsiders is an Atmosphere album, which means that it is going to be better than many hip-hop releases this year, but it’s also exactly what you’d expect from the artists and has moments that feel outdated.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    White Women
    Despite a few setbacks, White Women proves that Chromeo are on their way back to form via a playful deconstruction of dance floor jams and an innocent, universal heartache.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Christmas Island
    Andrew Jackson Jihad are reaching the right balance, subtly maturing without losing the raw charm that fueled their last decade.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Someday World
    Once one grows comfortable with the album’s prevailing electro-acoustic ambiance, the repetitive song structures do little to add energy to the beleaguered soundscapes.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Refractory Obdurate
    Refractory Obdurate sounds a clamorous warning that something is nigh. Rather than a direct message, Edwards offers only a shatter of brimstone pieces.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Luminous
    Luminous is a shot across the bow, letting the world know the punks have grown up.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Nikki Nack
    Parts of Nikki Nack are interesting, deeply beautiful, and insanely catchy. Other parts are painful to listen to given their overt blindness to the nuances of holding conversations like the ones she attempts to initiate.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Oblation
    The record flows nicely and rewards uninterrupted listening. Floor’s triumphant sludge metal has never sounded so refined.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Sheezus
    Kanye West-referencing record, Sheezus, which is at its strongest when it cops to more details and weakens considerably when the London-born singer-songwriter falls back on generalities.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    A Letter Home
    A Letter Home won’t in future decades be listed alongside the best or the worst of those offerings, but it might find mention as one of his oddest fleeting experiments, alongside Everybody’s Rockin’, Trans, Greendale, Living with War, or lord knows what else is still to come.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Diploid Love
    Dalle’s return performance, no matter how energetic and strong musically, lacks the lyrical details to latch onto.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    I Never Learn
    The music might seem cold, but when you’re surrounded by it, enveloped in it, it can keep you warm, too, like a glacier cave or an igloo.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    More Than Any Other Day
    Goofy stretches like those [on “Today More Than Any Other Day”: “Today, more than any other day, I am prepared to make the decision between two percent and whole milk”] make it easier to digest, and even relate to, the anxiety that informs More Than Any Other Day more and more as the album marches forward.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Supermodel
    Equally appropriately, with increased attention comes increased expectations and increased scrutiny, neither of which are met by this sophomore release.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    9 Dead Alive
    Fans of Rodrigo y Gabriela’s early albums will find much to enjoy on 9 Dead Alive. The duo has continued their journey toward creating a unique sound that stands astride the disparate worlds of flamenco, tango, rock, metal, and countless other genres.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Indie Cindy
    Sure, you can wallow in disappointment that this record ranks a distant fifth alongside the band’s classic LPs, but don’t allow yourself in the process to miss out on a handful of worthwhile songs.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Birds of Satan
    The lyrics on The Birds of Satan are fairly generic and read like first drafts--simple phrases about bad love, and good love, and the throes in between--but the words are never distractingly bad.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Shrink Dust
    Ever the tinkerer, Shrink Dust expands VanGaalen’s immense talents to even more uncharted, exciting territory.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Everyday Robots
    Albarn’s still very good at writing songs. And with this introspective statement, he’s not showing any sign of growing stale.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Shriek
    Despite its lesser moments (forgivable, given the nature of the project), Shriek is a successful reinvention and hopefully a prelude of things to come as the band embarks on its new life.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Drop Beneath
    Eternal Summers occasionally fade into their own dream on The Drop Beneath, but that’s understandable, as their dream has become far more captivating.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
    What The Cautionary Tales needs is a prudent pruning. This album struggles to appear deeper than a common puddle.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Food
    While there are still moments where her many commitments result in under-developed tracks (like the lackluster Labi Siffre cover, “Bless the Telephone”, or the uncomfortable vocal sample of “Forever Be”), she takes a risk and succeeds.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Z [EP]
    What ultimately makes it stick, from the beaming hooks to the gossamer production, is the execution, how all the scattered pieces eventually jell until the puzzle is complete.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Enclosure
    The overly complicated percussion is an impractical fit for his songwriting style and offers little for the listener to cling to.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Honest
    Future’s sophomore LP is a raw interpretation of his heartfelt musings filtered through an audio processor and laid bare at the intersection of trap rap and synth R&B. It’s a fascinating foray into alternative trap that ambitiously pushes the limits of self-expression and transmission.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Rented World
    That energy and excitement [from the band’s past two albums] is severely lacking here, replaced by by-the-numbers pop punk that is uncharacteristically complacent.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Loom
    There’s a duality here, and it’s present throughout Fear of Men’s debut album, Loom.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Illmatic XX [20th Anniversary Edition]
    As perfect as Illmatic is, there are plenty of crevices that can be explored and different musical avenues to test Nas’s verses/scriptures.
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