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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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    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Oblivion [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
    Like Daft Punk’s soundtrack for Tron: Legacy before it (a film also directed by Joseph Kosinski), Oblivion is symbiotically dependent on the silver screen.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Reincarnated
    Executive produced by Major Lazer, the affair is an approachable relative to Jamaican roots and dancehall.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Night Visions
    Being surrounded by the attention of reputable producers and recorders helps make an album like Night Visions find its place on the charts. But leave room for the twinge of disappointment that comes from the lack of that Imagine Dragons edge that made them stand out in previously heard singles.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Seabed
    It may have taken Vondelpark awhile to hone their craft into an album, but the payoff is one of the more promising debuts of 2013.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    ...And It Shook Me
    It’s an easy album to love, but hard to love it more than anything else.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Illumination Ritual
    There are a few moments that go on a bit too long toward the end, like “Branches on the Arrow Peak Revelation” and “North Star Ordination”, but overall, Illumination Ritual is the band at its poetic best, riding the quiet night wind to a restful conclusion.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Indicud
    This record just proves that Kid Cudi has a lot of sorting to do, and continuing down the same old path simply won’t cut it in the long-run.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wait to Pleasure
    Their eagerness to separate themselves leads to mixed results, feeling alternatingly awkwardly forced and brilliantly composed.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Space Ducks
    With Ducks, Johnston and cohorts craft a soundtrack that works as a cohesive album.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Totale Nite
    While Totale Nite doesn’t tip toe around its skewed sensibilities, Merchandise demonstrates a healthy knack for turning its weirder, darker musical instincts into something palatable.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bankrupt!
    Bankrupt! could end up the most anti-pop pop album of the year, which is exactly as confusing as the album sounds at times. But if the choice was between confusing or boring and safe, Phoenix made the right call.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Birthdays
    While the album’s rustic first half simmers the songwriter with the myriad Jeff Buckley and Justin Vernon comparisons, it’s the last seven tracks where Henson embraces the exploratory nature of a second album.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Terror
    It’s an album that provides tangibility to an incredibly complex feeling.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Quiet Darkness
    Two downtempo instrumentals do little to elevate their surroundings, and the album’s longer tracks reiterate more than they evolve. Still, Houses accomplish their aim of filling an hour with a cinematic, transportive music--a perfect soundtrack to milling about the end times.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Infestissumam
    Ghost’s sophomore effort, however, is more of a lateral movement than an improvement, and for a band whose songs rely on falsetto and choruses, the absence of memorable melodies on Infestissumam is an eternal sin.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Birthmarks
    Birthmarks is, largely, the sound of the band learning how to gracefully leave behind pre-pubescent tomfoolery in favor of meatier themes and weightier production.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Desperate Ground
    Desperate Ground feels less righteous and ironic without the Dubyah & Guantanamo backdrop.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Floating Coffin
    Thee Oh Sees are incapable of recording an unlikeable album, and Floating Coffin’s warmed garage slashers will satisfy a noise-addled listener.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Top of the Pops
    Top of the Pops wonderfully captures the essence of a band that’s produce plenty a “Direct Hit”, Art Brut’s anthemic denial of anxiety and passion for fun documented in full.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Still Life
    Ark’s sonic palette has broadened to encompass both ethnic instruments and contemporary sound effects.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    {Awayland}
    O’Brien, or Villagers rather, succeeded in creating an album rife with adventure and tragedy, made even more addictive with each listen.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ghost on Ghost
    As puzzle pieces to a full-length album, at least a third of these songs come off as superfluous and unnecessary.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mosquito
    The payoffs don’t always resonate with the pineal, which should be the one thing worth counting on from the band.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rat Farm
    Though they certainly had friends in high, grungy places, Rat Farm is another example of how singular the Meat Puppets are, each new record sounding more like themselves than anything else.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Free the Universe
    The inclusion of larger singles-moving, profit-generating artists leads to mixed results on Free The Universe.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Snakes/Vultures/Sulfate
    EmptyMansions plays like a well-crafted diversion, an artist’s escape to play in his own corner of the musical playground, if just for a short spell.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Twelve Reasons to Die
    Had GFK’s focus been on par with his corresponding hero’s repulsor beam, this record would’ve been more than a solid collection that fails in trying to make high-art with a half-hearted storyline.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    True Romance
    For now, True Romance is a valiant attempt that doesn’t do much more than provide the soundtrack for “getting ready to go out” songs on tinny laptop speakers.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    My Shame Is True
    Although this isn’t a punk classic, My Shame Is True comes out swinging as Alkaline Trio’s strongest effort since 2008’s Agony & Irony.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Recurring Dream
    While the album hits great heights, its scattered influences and sounds would suggest it’s reasonable to wonder which track will get the “2″ added to it on the next disc.
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