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For 4,038 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: 2,752 out of 4038
  2. Mixed: 1,215 out of 4038
  3. Negative: 71 out of 4038
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Evolution
    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.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Non-Believers
    Whether you’re into it or not, it’s hard to discredit the remarkable solidness of the album, which, against most preconceptions, exists far outside the world of Superchunk. It’s everything a side project should be.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Every Shade of Blue
    Ultimately, Every Shade of Blue is an easy, accessible listen, and many of its tracks are certainly radio-friendly. There are pleasant pop hooks and a few earworms here and there.
    • 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.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    My Love Is Cool
    The 12-song tracklist is full of individual gems, but would have better highlighted their songwriting strengths if trimmed.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Golden Echo
    For most of its length, The Golden Echo is so jam-packed that the songs where Kimbra tones down the decor and lets her lyrics ring become some of the most interesting.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Double Vanity
    BRONCHO slow down on Double Vanity, a pleasant movement in some ways. But like R.E.M.’s Monster, another one of those ambitious garage rock dalliances, the aesthetic is too dense, the result too one-dimensional.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Brace the Wave
    It’s his cleanest, most optimistic recording, far from the lo-fi yearnings of before, but still ultimately a document of his personality as a bedroom bard for the insecure and introspective.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Yes Lawd!
    The producer being so secondary here is certainly a missed opportunity. The album still ends up being a thrill, due to the duo’s sheer talent, but its caution undermines its competence. .Paak has insisted that Yes Lawd! is not an Anderson .Paak album, but it sure sounds like one.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Synesthetica
    While the album does make impressive strides, it doesn’t come without its shortcomings. Even at 39 minutes, the Synesthetica feels repetitive at times, small modifications made here and there to a tested formula.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Fuego
    Fuego is new and fresh, in both content and intent, changing things up, sinking a few birdies, and settling for a bogey or two.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Integrity Blues
    On Integrity Blues, Jimmy Eat World return to that mood of reverie, with often beautiful and quietly triumphant results.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Z [EP]
    What ultimately makes it stick, from the beaming hooks to the gossamer production, is the execution, how all the scattered pieces eventually jell until the puzzle is complete.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Ones and Sixes
    It just needs to be a passionate, cathartic, connective emotional experience. For the most part, Ones and Sixes fits that bill.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Buoys
    For a moment of respite, a calming breath against the rush of modern life, Buoys is a fine balm in spite of its shortcomings.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    N.E.W.
    Despite the grit on N.E.W., all three musicians boast a bonhomie similar to a local band’s open friendliness, making for one of the most approachable punk albums in recent memory.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    9 Songs
    While the album is all over the place, its grooves are potent and its mood considerably hypnotic and intense.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Endless
    While Endless makes its visual implications clear, the whopping 18 tracks that soundtrack it muddle his intent.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Dream World
    These tracks have enough originality to further Araab’s run as a progressive producer and a consummate artist in his own right.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Mandatory Fun
    Sure, Mandatory Fun is cheap, juvenile, and often downright grating, but damn if it isn’t good for a couple of laughs.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Colors
    You can still hear marginal residue of the man who managed to be compared to both Dylan and Prince within the same five-year period. You just won’t find those comparisons so much lately.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    90059
    While its true that he’s grown since signing with TDE back in 2005 and now sounds wiser and more confident, he’s yet to distill his personality into a package that communicates that growth.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Conversations
    For the most part, there is a stalwart consistency that interweaves through the tracks, Conversations feeling like the outcome of a thoughtful and heartfelt dialogue.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Void Beats/Invocation Trex
    With the help of a new band and a few unexpected guests, Gane continues his mischievous streak on Void Beats / Invocation Trex, building familiar, pleasing drones to get your head nodding.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Trouble
    With Trouble, they easily avoid the sophomore slump and take an accomplished leap forward.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Love Yes
    As long as Love Yes relies on these simple yet effective tricks, it goes down like rock candy, the sweetness undercut by a compellingly sour sting. Only when the band tries to match the lyrics’ complexity with the music does the album begin to falter.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon
    Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon neither blights nor burnishes Pop Smoke’s legacy. It’s fine. Better to remember Smoke as the dark-horse MVP candidate for summer 2019.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Marauder
    Marauder is still Interpol, and it’s still pretty good. It’s got mood and emotion for days. But because the album is marred by nonexistent bass lines and, most concerningly, production and mixing choices that run completely at odds with Interpol’s natural strengths and most beloved idiosyncrasies, it’s nowhere near great.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Father Of 4
    Offset splits his time between personal stories and generalized trapping, with mixed results. When he finds the right flow, few can match him for sheer musical joy. Other times he sound flat and stale. ... You have to respect the work ethic that produced these 16 tracks, even if many of them don’t merit a second listen.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Day Is My Enemy
    Sitting mid-album, “Beyond the Deathray” epitomizes this new band-focused approach, and it’s probably the most beautiful track in The Prodigy’s discography; however, the revered schizophrenic beats of the crew hinder this from becoming a “band” album in the popular sense of that word.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Slow Gum
    Gorman is a charming writer and performer, and Slow Gum is successful, but he doesn’t need to lean so hard on his influences.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Pains of Growing
    At her best, she turns simple observations into complex emotions. The Pains of Growing has its flaws, but altogether it’s a cohesive statement and a marked improvement from her debut.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Hitch
    Hitch finds them not just following their best and worst tendencies, but beating the listener over the head with them. It’s not the worst way to spend an hour; you just might want to carve out some time for a nap afterwards.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Bob Dylan in the '80s, Vol. 1
    Some of the covers on Dylan in the 80s work because they restore the troubadour aspect of Dylan lore.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    This Is Acting
    While Sia’s lines wear a badge of effortlessness, her ripe voice lends gravitas to these “victim to victory” ballads (as the notoriously media-shy singer characterized them to the New York Times in a rare sit-down).
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Yes, I'm a Witch Too
    Though it might not sound like a revelation, embracing the reality of Yoko Ono is the key to the success of Yes, I’m a Witch Too. Unfortunately, that’s only done here to varying degrees.
    • 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.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Live at Biko
    If you’re a Kozelek disciple, the songs on Live at Biko won’t give you further insight into the love, lust, humor, and sadness that make him tick, but the dialogue sure will.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    I Decided.
    I Decided. is a fresh statement that proves Big Sean is continuing to evolve.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Fine Line
    Styles is a more confident and precise songwriter on Fine Line than on his debut, even if the progress is incremental rather than exponential.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Sour Soul
    Attempts at the rapper-live band album are risky, and while it has some qualifiers, this one has to be counted as a success. It’d be a wild success, though, if the instrumental half of this collaboration were to take a truly equal share of the spotlight.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    All Yours
    Its mood is warm and inviting, but it barely has enough heft to stick with you past the season.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Astonishing
    You might want to laugh at points, because a good deal of it is very silly, but somewhere within the second half, you’ll become just a little invested. By the grand finale, you might even feel inspired.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Ratchet
    Northtown’s rising star proves his worth on Ratchet through his genre fluidity.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Curious Volume
    It riffs, it’s entertaining, but above all, it contains an existential joy that transcends recorded sound.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Pillars of Ash
    Pillars of Ash rockets through 11 tracks without looking back, without room for breath. The songs tend to blend together in the spin cycle, one screamed vocal track melting its way into the next, one thundering drum fill inseparable from another.
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