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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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    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Heartless
    Heartless continues the successes of Sorrow and Extinction and Foundations of Burden, while also incorporating familiar but tasteful sonic flourishes from adjacent genres.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Back To The Woods
    It’s a brutal and lovely album that refines Reservation’s far-flung impulses into a targeted stream of consciousness.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Not Even Happiness
    There’s something to be said for the potential for personal growth inherent in traveling without a destination, and every song here is the sound of Julie Byrne making peace with her restlessness.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Rocket
    As inscrutable as it can be at times, Giannascoli never betrays his purpose, making Rocket his most developed and accomplished album yet.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Drunk Tank Pink
    Drunk Tank Pink is a beautiful demonstration of how musical rebellion and fury need not be explicitly lyrically tied to the current moment to speak directly to those living through it.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mid Air
    Don't leave") and humbles him on "Two Children" ("Watch as I fall down to my knees"). The former frontman of U.K. darlings The Blue Nile isn't well-known in the States, and who knows if he'll ever get his due here--he's already 56. But with Mid Air, he's certainly given himself a shot
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Adore Life
    Adore Life is many things, but the thing it feels most like is a celebration. On one level, it’s a celebration of the fact that guitar-driven rock music is probably here to stay. But it’s also a celebration of life at its strangest, messiest, and most vital.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Painted Ruins
    The band’s growth as a cohesive unit results in their most accomplished album yet. Painted Ruins is a wondrously complex adventure that rewards attention and patience yet is never inscrutable.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Burden of Proof
    This is the biggest Benny album to date, but he doesn’t lose what made him great and such a beloved underground rapper. His boasts are as strong as ever, and his flows are cold like the air in the Buffalo streets.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Father of the Bride
    Father of the Bride may not have the initial excitement and glistening energy of the band’s now-classic first three albums, but it offers a rewarding and audacious achievement of its own.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    One Day I'm Going To Soar
    An accomplished piece of work, which, like life, has its blemishes and its triumphs.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Future and the Past
    Faced with the unexpected, Prass evolved, trading inward-facing confessionalism for outward-facing perseverance and releasing one of 2018’s minor masterpieces in the process. Plus, you can most certainly dance to it.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Ventura
    Ventura is lean and lovely.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sunshine Rock
    The lyrics paint a picture of discomfort and restlessness, which grows over the course of the album into a fully formed portrait of personal strength, creativity, and hard-eyed refusal in the face of the harassment of time.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sauna
    He made sure Sauna is a trudge through comfort, discomfort, fear, and acceptance, a completed revolution that leaves us flat on our backs squinting to make out what’s on the other side of this boiling steam.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Overgrown
    It’s the ideal sophomore LP: Blake emphasizes and magnifies his finest assets (the croon, the dark romance) for the sake of a better song.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Silence Yourself
    Recorded live in the studio rather than piecemeal, Savages’ debut album Silence Yourself sees the band completely locked in with each other.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    City of Refuge
    The collaborators' influences are visible, but not dominant, as Washburn's banjo remains central, striking a nice balance. Some fine tuning and vocal variation could make for a stellar follow-up to these new genre endeavors, but a return to her classics, for this immensely talented artist, would be equally as appreciated.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mutilator Defeated at Last
    Mutilator is a hulking beast that covers a great deal of distance--as much as any other Oh Sees album to date.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Past Life Martyred Saints
    A record that is both magical and heartbreaking, Past Life Martyred Saints looks to be a beautiful start for Anderson, who has a small handful of live shows set up for the summer.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?
    Though less immediate, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? still bristles with the spirit that makes Deerhunter’s work mystifying. Along with Fading Frontier, the album presents a new era for Deerhunter, one more contemplative and spacious yet continually beguiling.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cut the World [Live]
    Ultimately, Cut the World is a successful experiment.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Saves the Day
    Saves the Day puts the “pop” in pop punk, but it’s a sweet formula.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Rap Or Go To The League
    By Rap or Go to the League, 2 Chainz is a veteran rapper of a certain age who posits himself to be at the top of his game. Unlike the outsized projections rap stars routinely make to seem more powerful, 2 Chainz assessment of himself is actually correct.
    • 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.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Hot Thoughts
    [Britt Daniel's] big statement is his Body of Work, of which every fine part adds up to a greater sum. Here comes another one.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dig in Deep
    More often than not, she digs in deep sonically with her fellow players, but she digs in deep lyrically, too, making the words her own even when they’re someone else’s.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Sea When Absent
    Sea When Absent, too, is full of bliss, even if it’s too often sabotaged by an excess of ideas scattered on the page without room to breathe.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Schlagenheim
    There is a sort of pure, youthful exuberance to what black midi are making, but their experimentation also carries with it a sense of mission.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Blank Project
    The ten tracks here can feel a bit weighty when played in succession, especially with “Weightless” and “422” each running about a minute too long. The final three tracks (“Out of the Black”, “Dossier”, and “Everything”) go a long way to ease that issue.
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