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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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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Golden Grrrls
    This isn’t the kind of thing you’re going to put on when you’re amped-up for a night out. But as far as sunporch indie punk goes, few albums constantly hit such sweet highs with sincerity.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Cherry Bomb
    It’s hard to blame Tyler for indulging his whims. These songs work best when you throw out your own ideas about where they should go.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy
    The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy could be the comeback for a band who deserves to be recognized as something much more than a mid-'90s punchline.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Prince Avalanche [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
    With 15 tracks spanning 38 minutes, there aren’t a whole lot of opportunities to connect or build on ideas, but the artists do a fine job of traversing dynamics.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Sleeping Operator
    The end result is a mix of African influences and devilish American folk for dancing around the campfire.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Past, The Present, The Future
    The Past, the Present, the Future fits right in with the previous three Jodeci albums, and will certainly be responsible for at least some members of the next generation of R&B babies. But it’s also front-heavy, and ham-fisted in spots.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mouseman Cloud
    On Mouseman Cloud, his fifth solo album in the past two years, Pollard's craft runs a bit stale, impressing more with quantity of ideas than actual substance.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Nights in the Dark
    Nights in the Dark picks up where its predecessor left off, but its scope and ambition are impressively wider. Thankfully, this sounds like it owes more to the band’s natural growth than it does to any hamfisted attempts at forcing innovation.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    VIEWS
    Given all the resources he has, the album may have been too big to fail, but he’s still maintained enough of his unique talent that it’s unlikely anyone could have done it better.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Clay Class
    Tightly wound, little post-punk tunes.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Longtime Companion
    While Longtime Companion may suffer from infrequent changes in pace and tone, Smith's archetypal broken heart is articulated kaleidoscopically, and with the authenticity of a grizzled highwayman.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Butter
    It's [closing song "Ain't The Only One Havin' Fun is] a free-spirited return to the teenage wildness that's entirely off from the varied, conflicted emotions of an otherwise mature Butter. Even on this step away, the true blue guitar riffs and steel-cut hook are the work of a professional pack of southern garage rockers.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nocturnes
    The trouble with Little Boots’ choice in house music is that there’s little room for experimentation. At times, lyrics rhyme just to be adhesive and the beats drone on and on and on.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strapped
    They may still be a work in progress, but that progress thus far is demonstrative of an increasingly innovative band, one working too hard to slump.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cry Pretty
    For her sixth studio album, Carrie Underwood has taken some modest political risks without changing her full-throated style. She knows what she’s good at, and Cry Pretty is full of the kind of songs that made her one of the most popular artists in the world.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Positive Songs for Negative People
    The album’s best songs are those that more readily acknowledge life’s small tragedies.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Without Your Love
    While oOoOO doesn’t display the sheer discomfiting power of a Haxan Cloak, the emotive abilities of a Balam Acab, or the rhythmic intensity of an Evian Christ, Without Your Love pulls from all of them and leaves with a solid, worthwhile listen.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
    It's a decent enough album with 10 rock-solid songs that come close to but never quite reach the elevation pitched by the album's expressive title.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Music for Dogs
    While Lynch and Rasmussen manage a keen awareness of how technology will continue to shape us, the way they process that fear feels tired, not adding anything new to the conversation.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Halcyon
    In today's era of pop, where computers find the soul for winning contestants, it's hard to scoff at Goulding, whose sole problem on her record is being too emotionally redundant.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    12 Desperate Straight Lines
    The more innovative tracks are definitely worth a download. However, a good portion of the album is basically filler.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Pray for Rain
    While the driving forces behind Pray for Rain might not be ultra-fresh, Vesprille and Hindman do a more than passable job of wrapping them in a brand new package.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Original Colors
    It's something bigger, wilder, and less pop structured.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Tell 'Em I'm Gone
    The production and playing are beautiful throughout the album, and Yusuf’s voice remains remarkably preserved, still able to instantly spring from gentle introspection to emphatic eruptions. The record as a whole does suffer, though, from certain cover choices.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Seraph
    While Seraph is a consistent debut, there is nothing here as immediately drawing as “Why” or “Shame” from the Worthy EP. But Arsenault holding back is still more emotive than most artists firing on all cylinders.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This Is...
    In the end, you love this album. Of course you do. But not as much as you could have, and when you have this much potential and youthful energy on your hands, that sin is almost unforgivable.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Camp
    Gambino can really rap. Scratch that; he can really, really rap, plus sing and emote and put on a show better than 90% of his hip-hop counterparts.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    A Letter Home
    A Letter Home won’t in future decades be listed alongside the best or the worst of those offerings, but it might find mention as one of his oddest fleeting experiments, alongside Everybody’s Rockin’, Trans, Greendale, Living with War, or lord knows what else is still to come.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Sea Lions But Were Afraid to Ask
    Bandleader Adrian Pillado and the rest of the group work their way through their retro surf-influenced blasts of pop with ease.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hall Music
    Hall Music offers some thrilling contrasts, both in style and mood, giving Loney, Dear's sound a more orchestral makeover.
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