Consequence's Scores

For 4,040 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:
4040 music reviews
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Secondhand Rapture blurs the line between throwing up our hands in defeat and throwing them up in joy.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    To their credit, The Orwells own their brattiness, but they also know their way around a good hook. That’s a devastating combo, and in the case of this album, it makes for a more-than-satisfying modern rock record that’s both carefully crafted and shot straight from the hip.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Yet while it's not really great music, comparable to the masterful works of Tchaikovsky or Stravinsky, it has its day by the sea.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    MCHG packs a lot of ideas, and not all of them prove very useful, or even well-articulated, by the end. The pieces congeal, eventually, to form a semblance of one of our most prominent cultural figures. The image just isn’t as defined, as focused, or as powerful, as it once was.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The production isn’t totally underwhelming, just streamlined to develop a sense of dream-like haziness.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Though it spans just 16 minutes between three songs, Jamaica Plain is a must-hear for Violators fans interested in a musical snapshot of the band’s early stages.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's by turns soft and loud, gentle and harsh, humanistic and totally machine. And it's very, very danceable. It's the album you were hoping Daft Punk would write last time, only Daft Punk didn't write it-but they did score a major assist from their friends here.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rolling Papers may be Wiz Khalifa's studio debut and his breakthrough record, but as far as mainstream rap goes, it's far from it.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The band is so good together, though, and sound so at peace and at ease knocking these songs out, that it makes it hard to even dislike the record, problems though it may have.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Arguably mellower, definitely matured, Roses is a collection that will please more than enough people to chart without quite winning best in bloom.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Though “experimental” may be a bit of an overstatement, the best parts of Delta prove that, in the hands of the right producer, Mumford & Sons remain capable of recording radio-ready earworms that challenge expectations (a little, at least) while still retaining the major qualities that made them superstars in the first place.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They play compulsively listenable '60s garage rock draped in black lace and a sneer. Whatever they don't offer in originality, they make up for in commitment.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    >album title goes here< may show a more mature, artistically evolved deadmau5, but it'll still sell out auditoriums.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Across the album’s 19 tracks, Meth’s nuanced rapping, the cohesive production, and the guest rappers’ willingness to be team players cohere into an affirmation for Meth’s fans.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    None of the tracks break four minutes. Yet there are clear moments of self-reflexivity that make the new direction an easy adjustment.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The effort's as sweet as any candy and just as jarring as inhaling 11 inches of the stuff in one sitting.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Clock Opera's brand of mutilated pop music shimmers as a genuinely profound musical experience. Excuse the awful pun, but their time is most definitely now.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tape Club's winning collection of songs should finally get some well-deserved exposure to prove that SSLYBY has nothing to be embarrassed about.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The band's willingness to persevere rather than fall victim to the misery gives These United States a winning quality.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Although each track aside from the instrumental “Liquid Light” remains prime for an indie-focused dance floor (thanks in part to production credits by Erol Alkan and James Murphy), a new sense of calm introspection arrives with the band’s revelations.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The heavy songs on Evolution should please longtime fans, with a couple harkening back to the dynamism of Disturbed’s first couple of albums, but the glut of softer tracks may have been served better on a separate acoustic EP.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    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.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ultimately it’s their underlying acoustic, Spanish flavor that sets Crystal Fighters apart from the other bubbly synth-pop acts on the market today.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    It’s like live band karaoke, and everyone is invited, which is all this really boils down to at the end of the day. They’re not reinventing the wheel; they’re using it.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Though Big Talk doesn't deviate from the trusted rock-pop path with a few bluesy stepping stones, it's a satisfying listen in which this drummer-turned-front man holds his own incredibly well.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Universal Pulse is the band's best release since 2001&#8242;s From Chaos.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A wacky, emotionally resonant collection of songs with the best kind of musical ADHD out there.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    For Swedish House Mafia fans, Until Now is exactly what they wanted out of the trio.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The only songs that completely jell vocally are the ones featuring former Beach Boys.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's nothing too exceptional about Live on the I-5, but given that this is the first new release from the recent reincarnation of Soundgarden, it's worth a listen.