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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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Idle No More
    In addition to being a contender for garage-rock album of the year hook for hook, chord progression for chord progression, there are lots of strong personal touches here.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Junip
    More often than not, Junip can essentially be heard as an instrumental pop album with the music feeding and building off itself. After seeing parts of three separate decades together, Junip have finally worked up to what they can be at their best.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hotel Valentine
    Hotel Valentine isn’t just a soundtrack to non-existent film, but an otherworldly excursion unto itself, best experienced with headphones on and eyes shut.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Calling Out
    Calling Out cements EZTV in a long lineage of sad-sack pop rockers and does so with ease.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If You Wait
    Although The xx parallels are undeniably forthcoming, London Grammar’s innovative combinations of vocal and instrumentation are a unique, necessary progression.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Jesu/Sun Kil Moon
    Kozelek sounds like a man making great strides in self-acceptance. This rosier outlook, coupled with Jesu’s fuzzy, grunge-era melodies, lightens (thankfully) the demands put on the listener. An annotated glossary outlining locations, people, and callbacks would still be helpful, though not necessarily essential.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ancient Romans
    You can't help but move along to some of the entrancing, pulsing drones found on Ancient Romans; altogether, another epic, grandiose, striking LP from one of the best and most underrated musicians of the moment.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dead to Me
    Girls Names have managed to take all that familiarity and bring it to a mysterious place, where seemingly disparate worlds of innocence, pain, dancing, and dreaming are encouraged and inhabited, taken back to the future.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mowgli
    The themes and imagery on Mowgli are articulated and tied together with an intense focus and surprising maturity.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    A Distant Fist Unclenching
    A Distant Fist Unclenching is Krill’s oddball medium between the poppy joy of Alam No Hris and the table-flipping hopelessness of Lucky Leaves.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Dodge and Burn
    What makes Dodge and Burn such a terrific and complete listen is how much ground it effectively covers and how furiously it does so.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Medicine at Midnight
    An essential listen for fans and a fair introduction for newcomers, Medicine at Midnight feels like the rare late-career release that genuinely earns its spots within the legacy setlist.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Onwards to the Wall [EP]
    With moments of breathing room and stripped melodies, APTBS continue subtle explorations of their strengths and the conflict between cacophony and harmony.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Heads Up
    With so many co-existing styles, what could have been a disjointed listen is reigned in thanks to intelligent songwriting, contemporary production, and, most importantly, an intensity that elevates everything with impenetrable confidence and cool.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Submarine (Original Songs from the Motion Picture)
    It's a fine piece of work in its own right.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Glorious Dead
    The Glorious Dead isn't necessarily a saving grace as much as a solidifying grace for The Heavy.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Master [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
    Greenwood has delivered a score that's both haunting and beautiful, and if Anderson's film is even half as strangely inspired, we're all in for something good.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Forever Becoming
    Though not as resonant as Pelican’s material that better blended their two strengths, Forever Becoming nonetheless carries both.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    If Anything
    If the band insists on entertaining a jaded, troubled headspace, at least everything on If Anything sounds pretty damned good from the outside looking in.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Yes, I'm a Witch Too
    Though it might not sound like a revelation, embracing the reality of Yoko Ono is the key to the success of Yes, I’m a Witch Too. Unfortunately, that’s only done here to varying degrees.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Dreamer/The Believer
    The album doesn't really spark until you fold in a few of the harder tracks.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    King's Mouth: Music and Songs
    For those who love the aughts’ Lips catalog, but were thrown off by the abstract experimentation of the last few records, King’s Mouth should be a welcome return to form.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Versions
    Nothing on Versions quite tops the intensity of those first two tracks, and so the project carries some loose weight at its bottom half.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Obscurities
    The best thing about the collection is the way it reminds us that Merritt is a Janus-like songwriter, looking backwards and forwards, and while we can see influences from the past, there is also the sense that Merritt has often looked into the future.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Warpaint
    Although it’s admittedly a patient listen, Warpaint plucks at a different petal each time through it in its entirety. It’s truly a triumph for a group of women whose colors are singular and run incredibly deep.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Forever Endeavour
    Overall, though, the album is crisp and straightforward, making Forever Endeavor a big step toward Sexsmith gaining household-name status.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wonky
    Is this the best album of Orbital's career? Certainly not. But it is their best album in the past 15 years.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mature Themes
    Mature Themes is definitely bonkers, and it's also the quintessential tapestry of hi-fi genius.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Perfect Hair
    The album does have its share of absurd, tangled, almost impenetrable lines, nasally sung patches that could definitely be called an acquired taste, and mutated, oddball production that’ll raise more than a few eyebrows.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Day of the Dead
    The Dessner brothers manage to curate a kind of open-ended question for each artist regarding how their individual musical language translates the work of The Grateful Dead.
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