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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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    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Tomboy
    Whichever route you choose, one thing remains unflinching: this album is guaranteed to please.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Apollo Kids
    They [Ghostface and Wu-Tang Clan] are truly a hip-hop enigma, and Apollo Kids is just another piece of proof.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Young the Giant
    This complete command over their craft really sets these Orange County natives apart, resulting in the kind of record that grabs you at first listen and becomes more meaningful every time through.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Thing Called Divine Fits
    Women are all over A Thing Called Divine Fits, but at its many hearts the record celebrates "a very brotherly" relationship.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do
    The Idler Wheel succeeds in creating a singular world more daring than any of Apple's previous records and one of the most daring pop records in recent history.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Strange Mercy
    With each album, her willingness to push the envelope in both halves of the equation grows, as if she trusts her audience to in turn trust her enough to follow her further along the path.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Director's Cut
    Director's Cut can be seen as new work, because some of these songs are very different to their earlier versions in tone and scale; both sets of work are equally brilliant, but here there is even more clarity of purpose,
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Psychic
    They’re challenging listeners to look at music and dance with a completely renewed lens, to forget what was normal and move on with an urge to protest what’s formulated. Admittedly, that’s a frightening and difficult feat, but also unforgettable once accomplished. One might use the same descriptors for Psychic.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bitch Magnet
    The service Temporary Residence Limited have done in making these nearly lost classics available again is downright admirable, turning out a set that's a must-have for post-rock fans.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Reign of Terror
    Sleigh Bells take one of the most confident and surefooted steps forward a band could take for a follow-up album, eschewing the storied sophomore pitfalls in favor of a sharper, fuller sound.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Seer
    This album redefines Swans by gathering the best of its past and re-centering the music on impulse and interplay, built with a preternatural sense of how long to let a section develop before moving on to the next idea
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Golden Age of Apocalypse
    Equal parts futuristic space jazz fusion and hip-hop that does well to bridge the seemingly disparate corners of Thundercat's sprawling resume, Apocalypse is one of those rare modern jazz records that's remarkably unpretentious without having to cheapen the daunting complexity jazz is noted for.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Love's Crushing Diamond
    The succinctness of the record creeps up on you, making it dissolve through your fingers in an unexpected way. But, maybe that’s part of the appeal, the desire for more that it leaves behind, a heightened hunger for baroque-tinged indie pop.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Yuck
    Anyone can recreate a sound, but Yuck succeeds where most bands fail by digging under the surface to capture the spirit and magic that made the music of their beloved idols possible.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Celebration Rock
    Where Post-Nothing melts into a hazy dream, Celebration Rock does exactly what it claims to do-it burns on and on like the best sort of party.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Parallax
    What makes Parallax a fully realized album is, in contrast to its compact musicality, the expanses and voids Cox explores.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    50 Words for Snow
    While looking for 50 Words For Snow, she has found 50 other original ways to express herself effortlessly, creating another intriguing piece of work.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Reservation [Mixtape]
    Where Minaj is fantastical and over-the-top, Haze is understated and raw.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    R Plus Seven
    R Plus Seven might be the first album to crystallize the simultaneous joy and terror inherent in a life of constant connection and constant surveillance.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Fever Dream
    The album's use of vocal samples, something less prevalent on Resurgam, feels incredibly fresh, and produces some of Fever Dream's best moments.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It's All True
    Their sense of naked honesty makes them so vulnerable that it is hard to believe they put it down on record, but that is part of their intriguing beauty; their willingness to fall is because they are pushed by the hands of true experience, and they also create the softest of musical landings for themselves and us.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    New Moon
    Sacrificing recklessness is different from sacrificing passion, and New Moon cements The Men as one of the most exciting rock acts today, no matter who they’re listening to or, most importantly, who they’re redefining.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Skying
    Every number attempts something at least a little differently, and succeeds for the most part.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Modern Vampires of the City
    Time, life, death, religion, New York City, and New York money are big topics to tackle in a 45 minute pop album, and Modern Vampires doesn’t even attempt answers to the questions it raises. Instead, it’s content to expound upon the Vampire Weekend aesthetic in inventive, imaginative, and undeniably successful ways.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Miner's Hymns
    While instrumental, the recurrent use of a glistening fanfare motif, present across the album's six tracks, gives these pieces a much stronger sense of cultural and biographical identity than most vocal music.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives
    While the highs last time around ("Slow Burn," "This Ain't A Scene") still feel a bit higher, Twenty Five, even while it grasps at noise and disorder, comes together as a fully formed, mature statement of an album.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Wakin on a Pretty Daze
    Its ambrosial melodies and austere instrumentation edify his canon of work, which has long been rewarding for its risky sensibilities and perseverance. Yet that’s what makes Wakin so curious; it’s Vile’s most derivative record to date.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Centralia
    Mountains is a simple name for a band. But it's also an utterly mysterious one that stretches implications across eons. In the right setting, Centralia just feels that deep and rich.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Push the Sky Away
    Richly arranged, masterfully sequenced, and full of brooding, Push the Sky Away combines the stately beauty of The Boatman’s Call and No More Shall We Part with the intensity of Grinderman/Lazarus-era Cave while managing to sound like neither.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Biophilia
    Though Biophilia is hardly easy listening, even by Bjork's challenging, outlandish standards, there's little doubting it'll stand as one of the more rewarding albums of her storied career.
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