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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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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In a Warzone
    There’s nothing particularly weak about the record, but it sacrifices the band’s singularity in service of a punk sound that, while plenty amped, ultimately feels a bit by the numbers.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Without Your Love
    While oOoOO doesn’t display the sheer discomfiting power of a Haxan Cloak, the emotive abilities of a Balam Acab, or the rhythmic intensity of an Evian Christ, Without Your Love pulls from all of them and leaves with a solid, worthwhile listen.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Redeemer
    Blunt’s past records steeped that sincerity in reverb or in incomprehensible in-jokes-the beauty was in the blur. This time around, he’s figured out that he doesn’t look too shabby in focus either.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Id
    He should be tired after creating an album in a voice so insularly his. That insularity can make tracks blend together some, but Laufman’s genre-collaging and quirky point of view make Id a compelling listen.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bass Drum of Death
    While GB City felt fast and dirty like a fleeting glance with a stranger, Bass Drum of Death is a fully realized one night stand.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Talk a Good Game
    ["Dirty Laundry" is] so raw and visceral that we finely see her as intended: vulnerable, flawed, and totally real. She tries replicating that authenticity, but there’s only the uber-cliché “I don’t care; we’re over” anthem “Gone” and the album’s superficially enjoyable title track, which Rowland approaches with some intriguing level of nuance.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With Love
    This beautiful mess of splatter-painted hi hats, creaking kick drums, and swooning synth patterns, as confusing as it may be, is something to behold.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One True Vine
    [Producer Jeff Tweedy's] his raw production lending itself to the Staples powerful presence.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Spacehopper
    When Tripwires push so far out of their confines that the boundaries can’t be seen, the uncertainty and frustration of the lyrics starts to make more of a connection. Unfortunately, too often on Spacehopper they stick too close to the traditional patterns of orbit.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Field of Reeds
    Listening to Field of Reeds sometimes feels like taking a test and forgetting everything you thought you studied for. At the same token, its gorgeous production, control, and vision make it hard to turn away from.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Born Sinner
    Allusions to apples are all across the 16 self-produced tracks, along with glimpses of snakes, countless temptations, and the feeling that Cole knows too much for his own good.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Olympia
    Olympia’s aura pervades the listening sphere Austra has fabricated for their second LP, transcending the frozen cave of their first to the upper echelons of atmospheric dance-pop.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In a Perfect World
    With time, greater individuality will come. Right now, this is an accomplished and emotive statement of intent, cinematic in scope and able to raise goose bumps at will.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Distance Is So Big
    While the best moments on The Distance Is So Big have hooks to spare, “Scienceless” and “Public Opinion Bath” could’ve used at least one. It’s just hard to maintain that kind of optimism over the course of a whole record.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ice on the Dune
    It’s neither better nor worse than Dream, but for all that talk of “pushing through four dimensions” (“Surround Sound”), the album remains planted in its comfort zone.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Empire
    Park’s songwriting is nothing if not confident, energetic, and pop aware. The downside of that focus, though, is that the album feels homogenized, both lyrically and musically.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Golden Age
    The replay value requires a couple of things: some sort of ear for harmony, and the utmost confidence that the feeling will remain universal, even when the sounds are not. Golden Age almost never forgets to bring both.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dear Mark J. Mulcahy, I Love You
    Dear Mark J. Mulcahy, I Love You plays like a love note to fans, blending Mulcahy’s singular solo sound with that sugarcoated Polaris vibe in 35 minutes of irresistible pop bursts.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Perfect View
    It’s bleak music conjured from machine rather than man, but Norvidde succeeds just as wholeheartedly as his friends and countrymen as conjuring the bitter darkness that’s coming to define the region.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dagger Beach
    Dagger Beach is a marked return to Vanderslice’s impressively meticulous tinkering after the hurried live recording of White Wilderness.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Half of Where You Live
    Half of Where You Live is a strong follow-up from a producer who’s underrated due to his patience and steadfast refusal to be ostentatious.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Yeezus
    Yeezus feels very proto- something, the roots of some aesthetic that has yet to be minted. It’s revolutionary at its most urgent, as on “Black Skinhead”.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    bounty
    Like last year’s kin, bounty is a lively collection of electro-pop that does lots with its limited palette.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    More Light
    More Light sees Primal Scream returning with a more exciting, adventurous outlook, no doubt fueled by re-teaming with DJ and producer, David Holmes, whom the group first worked with on parts of XTRMNTR.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kveikur
    While energized, Kveikur doesn’t break away from Sigur Rós’ safe spots.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Antenna to the Afterworld
    Smith’s wit and droll storytelling skew the sci-fi elements more Vonnegut than Heinlein, the extraterrestrial flourishes clearly used to explore essentially human elements rather than push into outer space.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Wack Album
    While TLI never rival the best of those bygone styles in terms of memorability, this is the first album of theirs to make clear how well they’ve grown to understand the dynamics of making rap songs, fake or otherwise, beyond basic song structure.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This Is Another Life
    Beyond all the heartbreak, Lortz has penned a beautiful record of someone taking those first few difficult steps.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Infinity Pool
    It’s a deep dive that, while not as accessible as the band’s previous works, proves they’ve chosen experimentation over stagnancy.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sunbather
    Sunbather is a developed, mature, and, above all, an original statement that truly lives up to the unbelievable amount of hype it has earned.
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