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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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    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    More Than Any Other Day
    Goofy stretches like those [on “Today More Than Any Other Day”: “Today, more than any other day, I am prepared to make the decision between two percent and whole milk”] make it easier to digest, and even relate to, the anxiety that informs More Than Any Other Day more and more as the album marches forward.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Ghosts of Highway 20
    Though Williams is no stranger to an effective narrative, rarely have her stories captured such a concrete portrayal of human experience at its most unsure moment: the end.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Coolaid
    Solo albums like 1993’s Doggystyle and 1996’s Tha Doggfather cemented his reputation as one of the hardest in the business, which has allowed him the freedom to be as brash as he wants to be. On Coolaid, Snoop uses that solid footing and wastes no time taking it back to the G-funk era with “Ten Toes Down”.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Boy Named If
    “What If I Can’t Give You Anything But Love?” is pleasing enough, yet undeniably cliché in terms of both its music and its central topic. Those issues notwithstanding, The Boy Named If is a wonderful record and a testament to Costello’s enduring originality and talent.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ken
    Overall, ken is one of Destroyer’s most accessible albums. It features nary a song over six minutes and several under three, its sounds are compact and crisp, and its arrangements are clever and cohesive.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Wasted Years
    OFF! prove that they can still lay claim to being the realest, rawest band in the land without handcuffing themselves creatively.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Seraph
    While Seraph is a consistent debut, there is nothing here as immediately drawing as “Why” or “Shame” from the Worthy EP. But Arsenault holding back is still more emotive than most artists firing on all cylinders.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    5 Years Behind
    On their debut full-length, THICK are solidifying their status as a pop punk band at a time when the state of pop punk is relatively murky.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Infest the Rats' Nest
    While the album may be directly compared to 2017’s Murder of the Universe, it’s arguably the most straightforward material they’ve written in some time. And while it feels like a minor misstep in comparison to much of their catalog, it finds the band crafting forceful and ferocious, mosh pit-friendly rippers that are politically and socially relevant.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Devil Music
    The stakes aren’t high on Devil Music, an album that feels less like a career marker for The Men and more like a simple, straightforward gift that they had a blast making, and something they hope you’ll like too.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Free TC
    For all of Free TC’s turn-up nut-grabbing, it’s the beating heart that ends up stealing the show.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Way and Color
    It’s a slick and glossy record, even at its most unhinged.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Who Made the Sunshine
    Griselda captain Westside Gunn remains as shocking as ever, and his ear for beats hasn’t lost a step despite his higher profile. Conway and Benny are both in fine form here, too, especially on closing song “98 Sabers”.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pile
    Pile might celebrate the moodier, grittier side of rock music, but it does so with enough of an ear for a good hook to make you want to embrace the weird.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Songs
    It’s tough to get away with hiding such beautiful lyrics in such a cold environment, but Woolhouse pulls it off.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    More Faithful
    More Faithful is a genre-bending record with explosive yet concentrated sound that stays true to No Joy’s signature shoegaze rock.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Apocalypse, Girl
    Apocalypse, girl is an understated mesh of free jazz and artful improvisation, guiding us out of the nightmare capitalism has dreamed for us and into sexual liberation and individual rebirth.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    IV
    IV sounds as timeless as the instrumentation itself. BadBadNotGood’s work with Ghostface Killah will have drawn in more listeners, but what they’ll find on IV is so much more than they might have expected.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hypercaffium Spazzinate
    They’ve practiced patience and waited to arrive at 16 songs that feature either airtight pop melodies or a throwback to the fury of their early days. Never before have those two facets of the band’s personality merged so seamlessly on record.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    As Long as You Are
    This latest record delivers everything we’ve come to expect from the Baltimore-based band — plucky synths, drama-dripping vocals, and a well-rounded backdrop of sound that sounds like something out of an outer-space orchestra, rather than something mixed over Zoom.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pickpocket's Locket
    Pickpocket’s Locket is an exceptionally cohesive album helped in large part by the instrumentation building on the foundation of Mercer’s lyrics and delivery.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Shadow of a Doubt
    Suffice to say, this new album’s darker, tougher production fits him like a snug pair of fingerprint-concealing gloves.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Long Way Home
    Låpsley’s technical abilities are not to be questioned; her stamp is all over this album’s production, and her sonic impulses rarely stray far from “on point.” But when her heart starts to catch up with her head, as it does intermittently on Long Way Home, whoo boy: Watch out.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Shrink Dust
    Ever the tinkerer, Shrink Dust expands VanGaalen’s immense talents to even more uncharted, exciting territory.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    How to Be a Human Being
    The tracks flit between genres with little regard for thematic continuity. Still, the album makes up for that absence with a barrage of raw humanity.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Playland
    Marr’s mastery of ambiance and sonic texture is still unrivaled, and while there are noticeable nods to the mighty Smiths, they don’t sound the least bit tired or worn.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    What Now
    It swings between biting and sublime, with occasional moments of triteness; but when Meath and Sanborn get it right, they get it very, very right. In a live setting, even the trite ones will bang, and maybe that’s all you can really ask.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Singles
    No album will ever supplant their trademark live show, but at the very least, the confidence they’re putting to tape sure makes Singles‘ audacious title acceptable.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Out in the Storm
    While her songwriting hasn’t quite made the same leaps that prior records have shown, Out in the Storm offers a unique perspective: that of someone happier and stronger for the pain endured.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cheetah [EP]
    The producer once again succeeds with delivering music that’s intricate and forward-thinking while still landing within listeners’ grasp.
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