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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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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Obsidian
    Obsidian is a brave and necessary record that builds on Baths’ glitchy poignance.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tales of a Grass Widow
    The Casady sisters spin some of their most accessible tracks in years.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    IV Play
    Interestingly, the album’s emotive selection happens to be its most musically daring as well.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    False Idols
    Ten albums in, the singer proves he still has the juice to keep things interesting, even if he ultimately falls short of his own headstrong expectations.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Once I Was an Eagle
    With a lilting piano, soft strums, and the pats of a bongo at most, Once I Was An Eagle strips the art of Marling down to her barest.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Howl
    There’s a sense listening to Howl that its creation might have stung a bit, but in the end, the band’s pain proves to be the listener’s pleasure.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bright Sunny South
    Amidon sounds equally curious about the songs he picked up from his parents as he is about those he picked up from the radio; so naturally, juxtaposition plays a huge role in this album.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kids in L.A.
    The strength of this record is that, even without sunshine to bolster it, these songs remain enjoyable and nuanced.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Drifters/Love Is the Devil
    Hungtai’s ideas swing rapidly from beautiful to chaotic to completely atonal.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dreams in the Rat House
    It’s Shaw’s seemingly uncontrollable voice that steals the show, finding powerful moments even in stale formats.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Four (Acts of Love)
    While all of these versions differ wildly from their originals, they also lose a withering amount of weight due to arrangements that are generally sparser and slowed down.... The other half of FOUR‘s tracks are original, and although they veer more on the foreboding side, they also end before Harvey can establish any kind of differing mood.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Impersonator
    By paring pop music to its core human elements, Majical Cloudz has written a record that’s bare enough to breathe inside.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Limits of Desire
    The production isn’t totally underwhelming, just streamlined to develop a sense of dream-like haziness.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Fairway Full of Miners
    Sometimes too much is super exciting, and sometimes too much is just a little too much.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers
    There’s this cool embrace of death, maybe even an advocacy of suicide, that underlies The Brothers Lionheart and in No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers, Vår has constructed a kindred document. Try not to get too bummed out.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Secondhand Rapture
    Secondhand Rapture blurs the line between throwing up our hands in defeat and throwing them up in joy.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Random Access Memories
    Random Access Memories proves that Daft Punk remain masters of their domain, who defend their array of superlatives because of, rather than in spite of, unconventional sound choices.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Black Pudding
    It’s a less appealing debut than Lanegan’s first records with, say, Isobel Campbell or Soulsavers, and a challenging introduction to American audiences for the talented Garwood.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Trouble Will Find Me
    It’s approachable without compromise and confident enough to be itself, not another Alligator or High Violet, but unmistakably from the outset Trouble Will Find Me.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Abandon [EP]
    Even the sharpest pain, the deepest hell can be survived, and Abandon is a reminder of that.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Wake Up
    Wake Up is happy and very danceable, but it should only be consumed in small, commercial, or movie trailer-sized doses.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Curiosity
    These 32 minutes over nine songs total--a total that could easily qualify the collection a long-ish EP--leave you thirsty for further reverse-engineered fun.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dungeonesse
    A greater emphasis on humanism would give Dungeonesse more soul and, perhaps most important of all, more hooks.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Perils from the Sea
    Perils‘ biggest strength is also its biggest weakness: even at its best, it merely recalls the strengths of its individual players, instead of charting its own course.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Save Rock and Roll
    Singer Nate Ruess’ sincerity and youth anthems fuel Save Rock And Roll.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Empty Estate [EP]
    This EP is dressed exactly how it sounds: a little more vibrant and a little more stoned.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Nightmare Ending
    Nightmare Ending might be too big to work as a first-time introduction to Cooper’s music (either Talk Amongst the Trees or Lambent Material would do better), but it’s a loving summit for anyone who has been trailing him through the years.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tricolore
    While a word like “twee” occasionally threatens to overpower Tricolore’s little world, the solidly built layers of a song like “Train Tracks for Wheezy” shift focus to craftsmanship.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Way Things Fall
    ADULT. certainly have a precise understanding of their sound, but can’t seem to inject any new life into the system.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Volume 3
    While Deschanel’s songwriting is classically strong, the performances spot-on, and the arrangements undeniably impressive, She and Him don’t offer much of an update to this classic sound.
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