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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I'm Gay (I'm Happy)
    Yeah, he hinted at this sort of consciousness on a couple of recordings in the past, but this is full-fledged social commentary.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Death Magic
    There’s a locked-away sadness to Death Magic’s deadened, industrial take on electronic music.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Return to the Moon
    It’s undoubtedly healthy for musicians to step outside of their main project to spread their wings and create something new. But in the end, the project reads as only a slight tweak on Berninger and Knopf’s established voices.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Moth
    While not a minimalistic record by any stretch of the imagination, Moth greatly benefits from a toned-down approach that gets to the core of what makes each song work.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Tomorrow's Hits
    Tomorrow’s Hits doesn’t boom like The Men’s early material (namely, 2010’s Immaculada and 2011’s Leave Home), but it’s more rousing instrumentally than last year’s New Moon.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Different Kind of Truth
    Over 13 tracks, A Different Kind of Truth offers the same youthful escape that sold the band to millions worldwide over 30 years ago.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Rainier Fog
    While not the strongest of the band’s second-era output, it’s a nice addition to Alice in Chains’ impressive discography.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Area 52
    As an Afro-Cuban record, it's solid.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tired of Tomorrow
    As a shoegaze record, Tired of Tomorrow‘s production is too metallic, its chord progressions sometimes bordering on pop ­punk. But as a post-­hardcore record, its guitar parts are overly­ simplistic and its vocals are sleep-inducing. It’s got one foot in each camp, but doesn’t benefit from either as much as it should.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Gods of Violence
    The record surges without slowing down, expanding without adding burden. Moreover, it proves that, out of the old class, Kreator are among the strongest, crushed not by ego or commercial temptations.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Zipper Down
    Like Hughes and his signature ’70s-indebted mustache, Zipper Down makes familiarity refreshing.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Love Letters
    Metronomy must have many more experimental ideas to sift through before settling down with any one particular sound, just failing to come up with a compelling, powerful way to tell this story.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pala
    Yeah, you could tag Pala as any number of things, but there's no arguing that this is anything but pure, unadulterated fun.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Women & Work
    As in real life, the party songs are more fun than the hangover.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Instrumental Tourist
    Tourist could have benefited from more calculation and an emphasis on the things that have paid dividends for these guys in the past.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tao of the Dead
    It's important to have moments like this in a concept album that's meant to be taken as one massive 52-minute expression; doing so gives the listener a break and focuses on momentary satisfactions in order to properly digest this cornucopia of solid rock goodness.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Pussy's Dead
    Taken as a whole, the record doesn’t match the highs of its best material as often as it could, but there should be enough new ideas at play to hold fans over for the next six years.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Desperate Ground
    Desperate Ground feels less righteous and ironic without the Dubyah & Guantanamo backdrop.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Spiritual Emergency
    After Grof’s narration drifts away, Fox and company do their best to push and pull at the tempo, to spin like a Sufi, to stretch out yogic, to get into the monastic mystic chanting, breaking free of the everyday and into the spiritual.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    4
    Between doing more of the same old goodness and boiling everything down to its most essential lethality, Beyoncé also makes room on the album for more grandiose tracks that would sound right at home in Broadway musicals.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Phedre
    While the album as a whole can provide a generally good listen, it may collect dust in just a month's time.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wild Chorus
    There’s an attractiveness to Wild Chorus’s calm unwinding.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dispossession
    Dispossession exists on its own plane of acid-washed semi-wakefulness.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Body Music
    One of the problems Body Music faces is that it’s an album supporting a string of pre-processed singles.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Privilege
    A mix of danceable synth grooves, lo-fi Norman Greenbaum guitar throwbacks, and Baroque pop.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Love is Dead
    Many of these songs will soar in arenas and on festival main stages. They’re expansive, epic, and Mayberry’s powerful voice never wavers. But that openness comes at a price, and throughout Love Is Dead, every time CHVRCHES have the chance to get stranger, messier, and more unique, they rein in their eccentricities, going cleaner and more general.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Thee Physical
    Thee Physical is music ready for a dance floor (just as much as past Pictureplane releases have been), but it's also a disc that shows growth towards a better ability to blend the synthetic and the organic.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Russian Wilds
    The Russian Wilds captures the magic of on-stage jamming.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wolf's Law
    Yes, face The Joy Formidable's something and it's better than most. Just don't dig too deep for what that something is.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Imps of Perversion
    They’re Imps of Perversion, delighting in leading others down the darker path rather than breaking it. That path may sound a little familiar to those who’ve been following similar imps for a couple of decades, but that doesn’t make Pop. 1280 any less enthusiastically bleak.
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