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For 4,036 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: 2,751 out of 4036
  2. Mixed: 1,214 out of 4036
  3. Negative: 71 out of 4036
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You
    The Worse Things Get isn’t about us or even for us. These 40 minutes belong to Neko Case. It’s her cleansing.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Burn Your Fire for No Witness
    With the stunning Burn Your Fire For No Witness, she deftly captures the terrifying dread of being in limbo, stuck in the sludge of a transitional period. But even with the existential doubt, the loneliness, and the angst, there’s still a resilient beacon of hope.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Invasion of Privacy
    It’s not perfect, but the album is remarkably cohesive, the right length, and filled to the brim with songs that already feel like inevitable summer smashes.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Sciences
    Roughly half the tracks being available prior to this release isn’t much of an issue when they are of such high quality, and the fresh tracks are some of the best the band have ever written. The group seem rejuvenated with a long road ahead of them.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    ANIMA
    It’s easily Yorke’s best solo outing and rates among his finest albums from any project this century.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Sparkle Hard
    Sparkle Hard is at once his most sonically adventurous and structurally tight set of music in over a decade and easily stands among his most rewarding work with the Jicks.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    All Nerve
    All Nerve finds The Breeders sounding more ecstatic and less restrained than anytime since Last Splash originally soaked the alt-rock scene.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Rips
    In interviews, Timony has said that she wanted to make “relaxed and fun” music, and in that regard Rips hits the mark.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Thanks for the Dance
    Each of the nine songs and poems that comprise Thanks for the Dance is a self-contained, coherent piece of art that perfectly fits in the Cohen canon, making it a worthwhile listening experience and a poignant farewell from one of music’s greatest and most eloquent writers.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Negro Swan
    Negro Swan is a grand work that gives credit to the pioneers of the culture while building a path forward within that framework, placing Hynes firmly in the canon as one of the most insightful musicians of his generation.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Cuz I Love You
    The record is purposefully compact, genre-blending, unifying, reaffirming, devoid of corniness, with just two well-selected features that heighten but do not overshadow her performance. If other artists are clever, they’ll take note: Lizzo has just set the standard for how to make a perfect pop record.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Vince Staples
    Vince Staples is introspective without being isolating, thoughtful without being boring, and innovative without being pretentious.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15: Travelin' Thru
    While longtime Dylan students will discover much to enjoy and ponder on Travelin’ Thru, casual observers should have no trouble resisting these abandoned experiments. Still, it’s enticing extra-credit listening for those who care.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Our Love
    It’s rich in slow-burning ambiguity, and it may be vibrant and clean, but it doesn’t entice dialogue quite the same way his past albums have.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Currents
    Currents is all about the wide lens. It’s not the landscape worth falling in love with, but the way Parker gives us a tour. Let it happen, and it will carry you off somewhere much further away than you realized was worth visiting.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Underneath
    It delivers on every promise in a sleek, incredibly catchy package and does it all in under 50 minutes. Yes, it’s music made by young adults obviously aimed at young adults. Yes, it could be more subtle about its influences. And yes, it’s going to make a whole lot of year-end lists.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Pop 2 [Mixtape]
    On Pop 2, her second mixtape of 2017, she digs even deeper into her music’s rough edges, exploiting its paradoxes, peeling back its layers, and having more fun while she’s at it than she’s ever had before.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Sling
    Sling may not have the pop-centered style of Immunity, but it’s one that features Clairo’s impeccable ability to craft intimate, emotive songs. It’s a record that’s musically indebted to the past, but it’s done so in an adventurous, fascinating way.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Take Me Apart
    Putting aside all of the work Kelela has done to hit her stride in the mix, she is ironically most brilliant when the producers lay out.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Eternal Atake
    Eternal Atake has moments of heartfelt candor, including “Chrome Heart Tags” and “Spread the Bag”. LUV Vs. the World 2 doesn’t really. There’s no equivalent to the “Never Bend” remix from 2018, which hinted at a world of hurt behind the “project walls.”
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Electric
    Throughout the record a pleasing balance of melody and repetition is maintained.
    • 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
    • 75 Critic Score
    Eternal Sunshine
    eternal sunshine is a place for her to process and reflect; she might not be fully in her healing era, but she’s picking herself up and preparing for whatever’s next.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heaven
    This is a mature and polished debut, and if you thought Adele was a decent vocalist, you should listen to this girl.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
    Asunder is polemical in its trudge, drawing out notes the way a politician pauses between words to emphasize their meaning. As with 2012’s Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!, Godspeed pulls it off.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    El Camino
    El Camino distills its predecessor's high-octane fumes and high-profile influences into very nearly the Platonic ideal of rock and roll.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dream River
    Thanks to the rich clarity of his delivery and the prominent place that the vocals take in the mix, Callahan’s lyrics cast a long shadow over the rest of the album, allowing the literary connotations to carry over into analysis.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Dude Incredible
    Dude Incredible, however, is also one of their most direct albums, the nine songs holding that same menacing gut-punch, despite that highfalutin thematic unity.
    • 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.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Hold the Girl
    What Sawayama has successfully captured with Hold the Girl is the healing power of pop music, and the catharsis that can come just as easily with an arena-ready banger as it can with a feral scream.
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