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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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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Grace & Lies
    Powerful growth propels the music on Family Band's debut album, yet they always seem to find themselves returning to a cloudy depth, drenched in deep thought and dark notions.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    White People & the Damage Done
    White People might not raise itself to the scathing heights of Biafra’s punk rock heyday, but it proves that punk’s most prized court jester still hasn’t washed the bitter taste from his mouth.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dagger Beach
    Dagger Beach is a marked return to Vanderslice’s impressively meticulous tinkering after the hurried live recording of White Wilderness.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Behind the Green Door [EP]
    Like Halo’s previous work, Behind The Green Door coos the listener to listen often and closely, while instilling that sense of intrigue that unexplained mysteries leave you with.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Mosaics Within Mosaics
    Mosaics Within Mosaics, much like life, will float past you in a complicated, blur, but there are so many important, beautiful moments to learn from when you let them, rather than trying to pin them down.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    C'mon You Know
    While fans will justifiably find a lot to love, anyone holding their breath for a shift into experimentalism is going to have to go without oxygen until LP4.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Forward Motion Godyssey
    Post Animal have managed to find a sound much more their own — both momentous and giddy, contemporary and sentimental.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    No One Is Lost
    It takes a slight adjustment to get used to their new dance direction, but it’s worth the shift.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Antenna to the Afterworld
    Smith’s wit and droll storytelling skew the sci-fi elements more Vonnegut than Heinlein, the extraterrestrial flourishes clearly used to explore essentially human elements rather than push into outer space.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    After the End
    Part of the success of After the End lies in its seamless and smart sequencing.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    II
    A pall of unrest certainly permeates the record, but II feels of a single entity, one cloaked in fog but backlit by strobes.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    No One Ever Really Dies
    If the album title means anything, it’s that all of these major talents are still here. In fact, they’re stronger than ever.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Voices
    Slighting a group for sounding “too much like themselves” is a difficult proposition, but the moments where the songwriting or musical performances defy and exceed expectations demonstrate that the true talent of the group may lay somewhere beyond their comfort zone.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Exister
    While not all of the fist-pumping numbers here are equally successful ("Drag My Body" nearly deflates the middle portion of the record by sounding like The Smithereens), they do show a reunited band that's interested in charting a path forward instead of simply reflecting their past glories.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rare Chandeliers [Mixtape]
    He's more lethal than ever before, further pushing experimentation with the relationship between context and sounds, without being overly involved or hard to enjoy at face value.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    End of Daze [EP]
    Although distant from the translucent bedroom recordings of debut I Will Be, the 18-minute EP marks a pivotal moment for Dum Dum Girls, extending far beyond the initial lo-fi confessions of Dee Dee Penny.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Losing
    Lyrically, she’s never been better. Vocally, never more dynamic. Those two alone should make for another breakout record, but unfortunately, the core of the band is left faint, robbing the music of the pulsating energy and raw sensation that initially made Bully such a head-turner. Thankfully, Bognanno’s voice and words are more than enough to carry a record.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Keep Me Singing
    The return to familiarity is a welcome one.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Trouble
    With Trouble, they easily avoid the sophomore slump and take an accomplished leap forward.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Egypt Station
    Egypt Station is a minor entry in a major catalog, a Paul McCartney record for people who like Paul McCartney records.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Little Red
    What she’s given us, here, is an album that sustains the energy of the party while prioritizing the real, complicated human feelings in the middle of it all. It’s quite something.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tripper
    Essentially, Tripper is not a drastic change for Fruit Bats but an homage to expansion and trying new things–while still knowing where home is.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mole City
    On Mole City, Quasi embrace their scattered thoughts with a wink and a grin, and never let go.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    II
    It hearkens back to that timeless quality, to the special kind of rock 'n' roll that's neither tied to a decade nor defined by one. Judging strictly from II, Nude Beach are within arm's reach of that unique spirit.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Ultraviolence
    The characters and artifacts that surround these songs feel artificial, like stock props, but the music that Del Rey pulls them through splits them open, shakes them to life.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Let's Go Eat the Factory
    Factory may not be Guided by Voices at its very best, but it's certainly Guided by Voices at its, well, Guided-by-Voiciest.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Drop Beneath
    Eternal Summers occasionally fade into their own dream on The Drop Beneath, but that’s understandable, as their dream has become far more captivating.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ancient Future
    Willits + Sakamoto deftly guide the listener through their world, invisibly prodding you along the dark river to the "Completion" that closes the album.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Kathryn Calder
    While Kathryn Calder certainly deserves credit for its open mind and surrealism, sometimes the bigger topics get lost in the smallness of the songs.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    KIRK
    He’s just topped off his winning streak with the most predictable rap album you’ll hear in 2019 that isn’t actually bad in any way. And like everything else about his rise, that’s way too soon.
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