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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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    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    An Odd Entrances
    Thee Oh Sees control the listener’s heartbeat with daft indifference and total control simultaneously. An Odd Entrances shows the band knows how to do so with the fragmented release of a two-part album, too.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Crosswords [EP]
    He explores the mundanities of the real world in his angelic voice, giving them a startling beauty and pouring them out in little spiked Dixie cups.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    McCartney III
    McCartney III will likely go down as one more intriguing artifact from this deeply strange year: an above-average quarantine album from one of the highest-profile artists yet to share their lockdown material. Left alone with his thoughts like the rest of the world, Paul McCartney turned solitude into something unifying. The end result has its flaws, but the sentiment certainly doesn’t.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Atomic
    Atomic succeeds because of the band’s willingness to dive into their muse and experiment. It’s why they’ve achieved such high status in the sub-genre. By taking on a subject larger than themselves, Mogwai are able to lose their identity in telling such a tragic story.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Homegrown
    While a handful of tracks (around the belly) don’t live up to their legend, hearing Homegrown after all these years rates as a fine gift for Young to leave to his legions of fans … and, hell, humanity.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Return of the Dream Canteen
    Return of the Dream Canteen is a pretty faithful second helping of Red Hot Chili Peppers as they stand in 2022. ... It’s hard not to wonder what kind of splash the album could have made had it been pared down or if there was more time between the two releases. As it stands now, though, Return of the Dream Canteen still manages to add more than it takes away.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    4REAL 4REAL
    4Real 4Real carries some of the most introspective writing from YG to date.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Heart Is a Monster
    Many of the album’s finer moments come in the slower, more abstract compositions.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Still on My Mind
    Twenty years in, Dido knows what she’s good at, even as she’s learned some new tricks. She makes these influences seem perfectly natural and has stretched herself without sounding frayed.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Fever 121614, Live in Japan
    Rather than reference the work they’ve made before, each project takes on a completely new form. Fever 121614 is no different, as Deerhoof harness their previous material, turn it on its anxious head, and perform it in a way that allows fresh life to creep in.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Nothing's Real
    Shura is at the center of this album, and though the results aren’t always revelatory, she herself remains hugely engaging.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Villains
    For an outfit who’s claimed groove-rock for two decades, it’s a relief to hear what they sound like with a beat you can dance to. Now let’s see them keep it going.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Other People's Songs
    Each of its eight tracks--most of them gems from punk stalwarts such as Against Me! and Smoking Popes--use solo-Kinsella’s musical tricks to convert aggression into snow-sprinkled majesty, revealing a tenderness and surreal imagery that weren’t as apparent in the original versions.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Good Luck and Do Your Best
    There’s a sense of positivity throughout that recalls the lighter works of contemporaries like CFCF or early Baths. Utilizing that warmth, Gold Panda is able to master restraint and thoughtfulness.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Aero Flynn
    Aero Flynn is an engrossing artistic statement born out of tumultuous circumstances. This one mesmerizing piece is worth savoring all on its own.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Infinite House
    Like last year’s Electric Balloon, Infinite House bristles with different impulses, though many of them feel braver and larger than before.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Old Flowers
    She is mourning and healing all at once here, and while at times it can feel a bit tedious, overall she’s delivered one solid collection of songs.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Platform
    Platform is continuously emotive, although it never quite tops the peak of “Chorus”.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Morning/Evening
    Morning/Evening is 40 minutes of vivid, dreamy, culturally challenging work that reflects not only on the comforts of family, but the cleansing nature of greeting the day and sending it off.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Planet Her
    Planet Her maintains the versatility that Doja’s Hot Pink performances hinted at, but it all hinges on her knack for a singalong chorus, and fits cohesively in our ever-diversifying pop landscape. The result, while not terribly profound, is an album full of bulletproof bops, with the help of some well-chosen star collaborators.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ye
    Despite its sometimes grating protagonist, ye is a pleasant enough way to pass half an hour. Seven tracks is long enough to develop an idea without wearing it out. The production is typically lush. Kanye has returned to the kinds of soul samples that made him famous to begin with.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Slugger
    The energy of that debut track [“Basement Queens”] carries over into Slugger, which weaves catchy pop synthesizers around stylized guitar effects and melodic choruses.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    On Your Own Love Again
    There are no jitters or missteps on On Your Own Love Again; it’s an album of puzzle-piece precision.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bestial Burden
    Songs often exist to structure a moment of reflection, to set reality into a structure to breathe for a moment; noise, on the other hand, often embodies the lack of breath. That’s rarely as true as it is with the latest from Margaret Chardiet’s Pharmakon, Bestial Burden.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Until the Hunter
    It is a pleasure definitively for the listener, and from all reports for the musicians as well.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    VEGA INTL. Night School
    Palomo has managed to group everything that catches his eye under one disco ball-laden roof, but Night School rarely feels overstuffed. It stays playful and casual, and its stakes often feel low as a result.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dumb Flesh
    The album is vivid between shadows, pulsing with the diseased blood of a body slowly losing its motivation to carry on. Had Power pushed himself to soundtrack this deconstruction through the minimalist nature of his quiet work, though, Dumb Flesh could have been fully realized.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dreams Worth More Than Money
    He’s always been a reliably ferocious street rapper. DWMTM establishes him as that and something else: an artist with the ambition to go big and the finesse to stick his landing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    All-Amerikkkan Bada$$
    The 12-song project is the Brooklyn native’s most well-rounded release to date.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Jade Bird
    She makes the listener feel close to her time and time again throughout the album, from the blinding light of guitar-led anthems like “Lottery” and “I Get No Joy” to the pure fun of “Going Gone” and the almost terrifying gravity and proximity of “If I Die”. It’s this vulnerability that makes her approach feels so real, and that demands that we attend to her music and take something real away from it.
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