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For 4,038 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: 2,752 out of 4038
  2. Mixed: 1,215 out of 4038
  3. Negative: 71 out of 4038
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Stills
    Stills explores its feelings of hurt and misgiving more deftly with its music than with its lyrics; if you’re sick of Dick and Barry types, the darkly-focused new wave avant-pop of Stills can still offer its rewards.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Big Dream
    It’s uncertain music from an uncertain man, an artifact that will continue to influence growing pains from the many Lynchian dreamers.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Sun Dogs
    The band blends past with present in a set that engages in its frequent change of direction.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Overseas
    Perhaps unintentionally, perhaps not, Bazan, Johnson, and the Kadanes leave us in a solemn haze by utilizing little more than two tastefully composed guitar lines. They lead us from the noise and the pain of the previous nine and a half songs, credits rolling, reminding us that the best-written music rarely requires tricks to incite its intended affect.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Songs from the Vanished Frontier
    Though they don’t jar in any way, it’s easy to get the sense that lyrics aren’t the first thing that Cohen considers when constructing a song. It’s more that they glide over and drift in and out of the music without forcing you to stop to examine them.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ghost Brothers of Darkland County [OST]
    Ghost Brothers of Darkland County is chockfull of slow-to-mid tempo tracks that prevent it from truly soaring, musically. Without repeated listens, it’s difficult to follow, but this release should be treated as a teaser.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Long Enough to Leave
    Long Enough To Leave might not blaze much of a unique trail, wearing its love of the past proudly on its sleeve. That said, it still delivers its share of gems culled from other well-traveled musical paths.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Remixes, Vol. 1
    Likely prompted by Ultra Records, The Remixes Vol. 1 is much more of a marketing tool for the imprint than a career highlight for Araab.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Honey Locust Honky Tonk
    Like his previous solo records, Honky Tonk does include some duds, but the majority of these 17 tracks are keepers.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Scott & Rivers
    Cheese aside, this record is best heard with your heart and not with your head.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Summer Knights [Mixtape]
    The even-keeled approach stands tall on this mixtape, validation of the years of wisdom and brilliant intent under his youthful exterior.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Me Moan
    On his sophomore LP, Me Moan, Gibson manages to dig even deeper while never lifting a knee from the alters of Hank and Willie.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Dusted Sessions
    The Dusted Sessions leaves you unsure of what you’ve just heard, like seeing a natural wonder for the very first time and feeling like a speck in the vastness of it all.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Watching Movies with the Sound Off
    Watching Movies is Miller’s most enduring, and endearing, project yet.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Mountain Moves
    While The Mountain Moves feels a little too familiar at times, that makes it an album option to crank up on your next road trip after you get sick of listening to The Eagles.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unreal
    There are special moments to be found in this disjointed musical grab bag, so if nothing else, the record at least gives enough reason to keep an open ear for what comes next.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    L'Ami du Peuple
    As always, Kinsella comes across as well-read, thoughtful, and concerned, reflecting the veteran musician’s early Cap’n Jazz days as much as his new fatherhood.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Magna Carta Holy Grail
    MCHG packs a lot of ideas, and not all of them prove very useful, or even well-articulated, by the end. The pieces congeal, eventually, to form a semblance of one of our most prominent cultural figures. The image just isn’t as defined, as focused, or as powerful, as it once was.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gravez
    Like Clinic or Mind Spiders, Hooded Fang perforates their darkest parts with music that laughs at itself.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Time Off
    His latest LP, Time Off, is his most tuneful yet.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Gifted
    The problem is, Wale isn’t at the top, he’s simply borrowing that swagger from the A-list guests that decorate The Gifted.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Run the Jewels
    Run the Jewels is the very synthesis of El-P and Mike’s shared admiration and cohesive worldviews, an effort of the purest collaboration and mutual understanding.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    For Years
    Overall, McAndrews’ solo endeavor is a strong first impression that explores post-dubstep twists and turns in awe-inspiring fashion, though over saturation in places makes the record difficult to completely comprehend.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Constant Sea
    Heliotropes show a surprisingly mature and focused control of their formula on A Constant Sea, luring you in only to eat you alive.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kenny Dennis LP
    The Kenny Dennis LP will reward those who are already familiar with Dennis’s backstory and Serengeti’s previous releases. Although this makes it somewhat exclusive, you can read the character’s biography before diving in.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All the Times We Had
    Themes include perseverance, climbing mountains, parenting, etc., although at times, they do wander into Cupid’s playground on songs like the title track.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Jackleg Devotional to the Heart
    The album starts off strong but ends up overcomplicated.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bosnian Rainbows
    Whatever they’re reaching for as Bosnian Rainbows is far more exhilarating than what either party’s put to tape in recent years, specifically Rodríguez-López.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Palms
    The problem of carving a new brand of sprawling music that feels carefully hand-crafted at every nook while not letting those nooks fly by too easily, or unappreciated, is not one that Palms has a great solution towards.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fantasy
    It’s a fresh sound, if a smidge antiseptic.
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