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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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    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Nobody's Smiling
    Nobody’s Smiling is a well-rounded discourse on gang violence and inner city plight in Chicago that translates to almost every urban city in America.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Phantom Thread [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
    While Phantom Thread may offer the most straight-forward narrative of Anderson’s career, Greenwood gives listeners a reason to keep digging, thus furthering the life of a film that questions the importance of legacy and what ultimately lasts.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Brute
    Cleverly sampling the incapacitating Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD), the Kuwaiti-born producer offers a sonic account of the power utilized to deter political uprisings. Al Qadiri, though, uses the fragility of her signature minor chord progressions to rebut that aggression.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Both
    It’s [not] the best album from either performer (the low-pressure nature of their collaboration makes for equally low stakes), but it’s definitely the most digestible.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
    I Had a Dream You Were Mine overflows with satisfying and complex melodic shape.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Tetsuo & Youth
    Lupe is still a guy to root for, and Tetsuo & Youth is full of daring songs that remind you of why.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    It Kindly Stopped for Me [EP]
    Boucher chose to confront his feelings through song, and he did it for himself. The fact that he decided to share it with others seeking solace through sound is a gift.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    If I Was
    Though these songs are stripped down and subtle, they achieve a heightened emotional state.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?
    Chuck D’s hard-hitting lyrics and the album’s dynamic production can serve as a soundtrack for the American Dream (or nightmare, depending on your perspective) for the foreseeable future. Public Enemy seem here to stay, but the truth is — they have never really left.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    SremmLife 2
    SremmLife 2 may not pack the punch of its predecessor, but it shows that the brothers are growing musically. Far from one-note, Rae Sremmurd have the chops to sustain a long and varied run going forward.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Retribution
    This blending of past and present, delivered in the rawest way, makes her promise of Retribution that much more powerful.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bad Magic
    Bad Magic feels ancestral; you can feel it in your blood and in your bones. Even for those new to Motörhead, the album will have the power to recharge your love for all things rock ‘n’ roll.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Trouble Maker
    There’s no formal breakthroughs on Trouble Maker beyond the astounding economy, unless you think the harmonica on “Buddy” or Clash-goes-“Ring of Fire” chords on “Telegraph Avenue” makes this the band’s folk-punk album.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Capacity
    Lenker doesn’t always do pretty things--she can most certainly craft a beautiful song, but she’s canny enough to know that the ways in which we subtly alter our lives to be more aesthetically appealing often obscure a far more interesting truth.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Nothing Feels Natural
    The album sincerely embraces every dark corner of the brain, not just the ones that are easiest to sum up. Nothing Feels Natural is daring, sincere, and intimate, somehow more universal in its particularity.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Tasmania
    It can wander into some weird areas, but it still feels tethered to a clear objective. It’s hard not to take notice when a bunch of like-minded friends come together to make something this personal and imaginative.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Repentless
    The incendiary wrath on display here, so unapologetic and infectious, makes this album undoubtedly Slayer’s.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hopeless Fountain Kingdom
    Ultimately, she knows the pitfalls of dating more than one gender better than anyone in pop, and those moments of insight are when Hopeless Fountain Kingdom truly stands out from the pack, but it’s also reassuring that Halsey (who tags herself “alternative” rather than “pop”) conceives herself as an album artist first.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Kids See Ghosts
    The controlled chaos of the record is proof that somewhere beneath all of the public outbursts and musical misfires, Kanye West--not the old Kanye--but the actual man and his heart are still somewhere in the mix planning to raise the bar and occasionally executing to near flawless result.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dark Black Makeup
    There’s a timeless quality to Dark Black Makeup that, again, probably has something to do with the band’s young age and built-in resistance to musical trends. It’s refreshing to hear a band that wears its influences on its sleeves without toeing the garage-punk party line, and it’s led to a surprisingly diverse collection of songs.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Zipper Down
    Like Hughes and his signature ’70s-indebted mustache, Zipper Down makes familiarity refreshing.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    White Hot Moon
    White Hot Moon may occasionally sound like a band still figuring themselves out, but at least they’re letting their contradictions shine instead of hiding them under the lampshade.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    so sad so sexy
    Although the trap-influenced style wears thin at times, so sad so sexy is a superb reinvention of Lykke Li.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    KOD
    He doesn’t finesse his points; he douses them in gasoline and blows them up. And that’s great! We could all do with more fiery explosions in our music. Sometimes Cole gets wacky, but thankfully he’s never dull.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Joanne
    The result is a work that may not close any circles, but instead start the pattern of a new shape: something weird, but compelling, and largely authentic.
    • 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.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ritual in Repeat
    Not every track on Ritual in Repeat reaches the blissed-out fever pitch of “Bad Girls”, a four-and-a-half-minute slow burner that builds to a stunning crescendo, showcasing Moore’s voice to perfection. Even the songs that don’t, however, command their own gravity.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Unravelling
    Unravelling deals with lives falling apart, but with the addition of McGachan, We Were Promised Jetpacks come together as a cohesive force.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Second Love
    She’s more confident, done explaining herself. Moss’ dense paragraphs have been stripped down to just a few words, and the results are more poetry than prose.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Possum in the Driveway
    While The Possum in the Driveway may not be the type of album every Mulcahy fan has been anticipating, they can be assured that it’s yet another worthwhile stop on a journey that seems to have many miles left to go.
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