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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:
  1. Positive: 2,754 out of 4040
  2. Mixed: 1,215 out of 4040
  3. Negative: 71 out of 4040
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ain't Ain't Ain't
    While the album will draw you in, you may find it hard to stay there until the last track.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Privilege
    A mix of danceable synth grooves, lo-fi Norman Greenbaum guitar throwbacks, and Baroque pop.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Fairway Full of Miners
    Sometimes too much is super exciting, and sometimes too much is just a little too much.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    PDA
    PDA is “affectionate pop”--an album with little to no heed about making you feel comfortable.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    What Did You Expect from the Vaccines?
    The Vaccines are clenching onto rock and roll, and this album is an amicable chapter in the genre. Amicable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All the Times We Had
    Themes include perseverance, climbing mountains, parenting, etc., although at times, they do wander into Cupid’s playground on songs like the title track.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Summer Bodies
    Buoy never seems to fully achieve what makes his music with Akron/Family so enthralling.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Out of Frequency
    Their sophomore effort, Out Of Frequency, is an otherworldly fantasy where disco isn't dead, chipmunks evolved from Adele or the Dee-Lites, and an iPod Touch is your gateway drug to euphoria.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cruel Summer
    For every fiery, self-serious verse here, you'll find at least one maladroit dud.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now
    It's a watered-down Earle, perhaps more than we'd expect, but it works.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Duke & the King
    This is a really pleasing album. Just don't listen too hard to the words.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lightning Bolt
    For the most part it’s a good record. The first two thirds are much stronger than that last third.... On its own merit, it’s a solid three stars.... The first couple of tracks had me firmly in its corner, but then the album took a complete nosedive on the back half. [Three reviewers in one]
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Live At Carnegie Hall
    For the most part, though, this show feels like two different concerts, one Veloso's and the other Byrne's.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lupercalia
    While he succeeds fairly well at ensuring that Lupercalia spends its every minute displaying his emotions on its sleeve, it's fairly safe to say that this record won't exactly storm the charts.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Delayed Reaction
    Despite the occasional retreat from formula, Delayed Reaction is very much a Soul Asylum record, and one fans should be quick to embrace.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Apokalypsis
    As a purely noise-laden entity, Wolfe is pleasant to the eardrums, and that makes for a modicum of interest.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lost Control
    Lost Control refines Dog Party’s tone into a crisp and punchy power duo dynamic that stays sickly around the edges.
    • 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Personality
    This is just a starting point, but it's obvious he's found his footing.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Velvet Changes
    He may not be the most verbose artist, but the temperament of a reluctant romantic is a quality he shares with some great ones.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nothing [EP]
    At the end of the day, Nothing does not seem groundbreaking because everybody is still digesting Dedication, a record that fleshes out the anachronistic ideas Nothing hints at.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Born This Way
    By the end of it, there's little doubting Gaga's sincerity. For all of her schlock and posturing, it's hard to remember the last time a pop star was this sincere.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    False Idols
    Ten albums in, the singer proves he still has the juice to keep things interesting, even if he ultimately falls short of his own headstrong expectations.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    How Do You Do
    On the whole, How Do You Do is a satisfying effort.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Ways We Separate
    The duo’s debut album solidifies that process, but doesn’t stray far outside of the range set by Beacon’s For Now and No Body EPs. The sound is smooth, but the stakes are low.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Paley & Francis
    If country and folk were to marry grunge and alternative rock, this album would be their best-looking child.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Don't Tell the Driver
    While the album brims with such expansive themes and stunning musicianship, it too often falls into low-slung ambience rather than explore the evocative power it demonstrates all too infrequently.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Credo
    You won't find a "Don't You Want Me" on this disc, but you will find a band that's aged a lot better than many of their contemporaries, as well as a few tracks that will stand up well alongside those of their modern-day followers.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Afterman: Ascension
    While the album isn't full of the kind of revelations that drop jaws and illicit gasps, the emotion here is a much-needed place of solace and solidity in a mythos larger and more involved than Heaven's Fence itself.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Prophet
    On Prophet, Knopf plays it by the book. In this sense, the most surprising thing about the album is how unsurprising it is. Knopf gets by, though, thanks to his raw skills as a crafter of songs, which are abundantly clear throughout.
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