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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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    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Patch the Sky
    In this latest chapter of his career, Mould has turned his music into a personal reflecting pool, a watery blank canvas into which he expertly casts the stones of his regrets and longings. Just don’t plan on booking your birthday party there.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Friends That Break Your Heart
    Love is messy, and friendship can be even messier. With this album, James Blake succeeds in tapping into the ways that these emotions can be tangled together, for better or for worse.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Blue Banisters
    The accumulation of these ideas can become monochromatic, meandering, and repetitive; apt background music for loitering in the bath. The most pleasurable and moving, even unsettling, moments on Blue Banisters arrive when Del Rey breaches, however gently, her own boundaries.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Human Ceremony
    The talent is there in spades, and the well of influences is a deep and bountiful one. There’s nowhere to grow but up for Sunflower Bean.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Exhausting Fire
    Exhausting Fire has heart, both sonically and lyrically. It moves with confidence, content with its explorations, and it’s engaging because of it.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Closer to Grey
    It’s the next sonic chapter in Chromatics’ dramatic novel. With incredible growling synths and Johnny Jewel’s undeniably fantastic, experimental production elements, Closer to Grey is the unexpected sonic growth spurt we didn’t see coming from Chromatics.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Welfare Jazz
    There will be no sophomore slump for Viagra Boys. At its best, Welfare Jazz represents an evolutionary step from Street Worms that’s tighter, tougher, and more riotous than what came before. That same evolution even lifts the record’s missteps. There are failures, but at least they’re interesting failures.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Championships
    While the Audemars-Piguet and Rolls-Royce Wraith have not disappeared from the equation and Meek Mill’s affinity for the finer things is still intact, his conscience is the crown jewel of Championships.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Little Red
    What she’s given us, here, is an album that sustains the energy of the party while prioritizing the real, complicated human feelings in the middle of it all. It’s quite something.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Abyss
    Abyss terrifies from start to finish, the haunting work of a twisted genius in her prime.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    uknowhatimsayin¿
    While other artists struggle to translate personal development into their music, Brown does it with ease, navigating growth in a way that’s not only deeply personal but also extremely honest.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sweep It Into Space
    When you turn on a Dinosaur Jr. record, the thinking goes, it should always sound like a Dinosaur Jr. record. I’m happy to report that Sweep It into Space does, in fact, check this box.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Real Hair [EP]
    Speedy Ortiz has the self-awareness to box this off as a four-song bonus, a transitional work, a small step in a larger arc.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Liquid Cool
    Liquid Cool may be called understated for being Nite Jewel’s first album in four years, but it is refreshingly so.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    No Home Record
    No Home Record roils with just the kind of catharsis we need in Bad Timeline America. Play it loud, play it often, play it again.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Oczy Mlody
    It’s hard to place Oczy Mlody into a direct political context, as the record was finished before the election results, but the grim Lips seem ever more at home in this climate.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    July
    July might be Nadler’s most cohesive and focused record yet.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
    Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper rides high on his proven strengths, but doesn’t exactly explore new territory.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mourn
    The entire album doesn’t even run half an hour, and that includes a bonus track. But you’ll be hard-pressed to find a band who knows who they are at such an early point in their career, fully formed but still willingly malleable, like a stained-glass window that can’t possibly hold its shape over time.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Aa
    Already with a massive following, this expansion of Baauer’s palette sets a new pace for bass.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Somewhere Under Wonderland
    A colorful and emotionally rich palette of sounds that combines past recording styles, flavors from covers album Underwater Sunshine, and the spontaneous spirit of their live performances.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    C'mon You Know
    While fans will justifiably find a lot to love, anyone holding their breath for a shift into experimentalism is going to have to go without oxygen until LP4.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Planetarium
    Every listener will have to individually cherry pick the songs that work best for them, but these are the ones that best deliver on the possibilities of the album’s premise.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    ZUU
    ZUU is Curry’s ASTROWORLD, unmistakably transporting us to a specific time and place and never apologizing for it. The 2019 summer snapshot may prove as ephemeral as the season it represents, but for Curry, it represents an important step in embracing the heart and changing the hatred of a city it’s clear he will never truly leave.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    You're Welcome
    Altogether, this is the sound of the former King of the Beach aging gracefully. Or as gracefully as this punk can manage.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    In Glendale
    Heidecker’s still a little green as a singer. He’s not bad at all--quite pleasant, actually--but throughout In Glendale, he sounds unsure of himself, never going full vibrato or exhibiting the same commitment as his Laurel Canyon forefathers.
    • 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.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Lion
    If Lion--easily one of Murphy’s most solid solo releases--was made in less than a week, imagine what time and planning could accomplish.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    From a Room, Vol. 1
    These nine songs have the potent rumble of a muscle car revving its engine as a show of strength balanced with that poignant ache that country music does so well.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Love Letter for Fire
    Beam and Hoop convey their emotions sweetly, offering their own imperfect glimpses of an old theme told in new ways.
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