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For 4,039 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: 2,753 out of 4039
  2. Mixed: 1,215 out of 4039
  3. Negative: 71 out of 4039
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Air Conditioned Nightmare
    Like Miller’s series of short stories, this work is no direct condemnation of the diverse Unites States. It’s a series of realizations filtered through an inquisitive, if slightly paranoid, mind. The truths might not be revolutionary, but every generation needs new messengers.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Age of Transparency
    Age of Transparency is that rare record that manages astonishing density without ever feeling crowded. The production swirls in the air like glitter in water, and it catches new light on each listen.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Slime Season 2 [Mixtape]
    If you want true avant-garde hip-hop, you’re better off looking elsewhere. If it’s a melodic, cohesively produced collection of rap songs you’re after, you could do a lot worse.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Peace & Truce of Future of the Left
    Falkous and his mates also keep the musicality lean, groovy, and (mostly) accessible throughout Peace & Truce.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Liberation!
    There’s a drifting, wandering quality to its 11 tracks. Liberation! is intrigued by various corners of belief, but keeps it at a smirking arm’s length.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Drip Harder
    There’s an uncommon chemistry and flow between Gunna, Lil Baby, and the producers that makes this far more than your typical collaboration.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Kamikaze
    On Kamikaze, as on their 2013 breakout album Blowout, the band comes across like the Adderall-fueled offspring of The Beastie Boys and proto-punks The Heartbreakers, both groups defined as much by their attitude as by their actual music.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Islah
    It’s a showcase of versatility that plays to its creator’s strengths enough to feel like a definitive statement, no matter how many other projects he’s released before it.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    In Spades
    So much of In Spades recalls what makes the Whigs so much fun. It’s unapologetically brash, soulful, seductive, and more sophisticated than naysayers might care to admit. What prevents the record from nearing the realm of Gentlemen or Black Love really begins and ends with Dulli’s vocals.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Take All My Loves: Nine Shakespeare Sonnets
    It’s hard to imagine how someone whose last album was an opera could out-do themselves, but Rufus Wainwright has achieved just that with Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets, to be released via Deutsche Gramophon on April 22, 400 years after William Shakespeare’s death.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Once More 'Round the Sun
    There could be more structural risk-taking and the band could stand to have more grandiose moments, but, well, you know: Consider them six for six.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Forward Motion Godyssey
    Post Animal have managed to find a sound much more their own — both momentous and giddy, contemporary and sentimental.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    In the End
    Though not perfect, In the End is a reminder of the smoldering vulnerability that earned The Cranberries their initial fame and a testament to why they’ll be remembered long after they’re gone.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    You're Doomed. Be Nice.
    It’s therefore best to view You’re Doomed. Be Nice. as a collection of anthemic slogans rather than anthemic songs. Upward-looking phrases tend to pop out from the complicated arithmetic.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Shape Shift with Me
    As a cohesive work, Shape Shift with Me lacks the level of urgency and revelation of its predecessor. ... As listeners, we might not be able to carry the same things away from it, but maybe that’s okay---at the end of the day, it’s for her, not us.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Guidance
    Though Russian Circles haven’t eclipsed their best work, Guidance is more a subtle nod to the coexistent depths and heights that have defined and run through the band’s music from the very outset.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Everybody's Coming Down
    It’s a safe-sounding, classy album.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Jackie Lynn
    Much like a good piece of genre fiction, Jackie Lynn is quick, sharp, and full of intrigue.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Full Circle
    Unvarnished emotion and simple language rolling off her imperfect voice like poetry cemented Lynn’s legacy; Full Circle tries to preserve it for posterity, but with an addendum. Mortality squiggles blatantly through on two new songs.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Jomsviking
    Of Amon Amarth’s 10 studio albums, this is the most enjoyable front-to-back listen and the truest celebration of the band’s Nordic obsessions.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Down Below
    Tribulation has found a fine balance, setting the primordial muck of their blackened roots up into a much soupier pool of influences and musical ideas.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bottomless Pit
    Death Grips pride themselves on constantly shifting and progressing from one release to the next. That unfortunately sometimes outweighs cohesion, but Bottomless Pit is tighter, more daring, and catchier than that.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Minor Victories
    Minor Victories is the work of intimacy and candor. It goes beyond a one-off project and instead becomes a contained piece of longing and hurting. The cohesion behind it all should be the envy of any band whose members have the luxury of being in direct vicinity of one another.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Night Creeper
    Instead of searching for clues while flipping through pages, though, listeners must dig into the narrative of The Night Creeper through the album’s immersive, fuzzed out atmosphere.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Look Now
    Look Now is another solid entry into an already healthy and vital body of work. It’s not his absolute best, but it still earns a spot in the meatier part of his iconic recording arc.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dark Bird Is Home
    Sweden’s hometown hero has grown up. His innocent, childish charm didn’t leave; he’s battered and burned, but he’s smiling nonetheless, pushing himself to triple the melodies with buckets of instruments for a larger sound that still beats with the same heart.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Coming Home
    On Coming Home, Bridges solidly aligns with the latter, his soulful R&B studied and nostalgic, but also immediate and emotionally true.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sexwitch
    It’s fun, it’s mysterious, it’s committed to its concept, and it could be the album of the Halloween season.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Better Oblivion Community Center
    More a revitalizing burst of energy than a passing of the torch, Better Oblivion Community Center frequently finds Bridgers and Oberst bringing out the best of each other.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Stranger to Stranger
    Stranger To Stranger is poof positive that Simon isn’t simply still here, but he’s kicking with gusto. In a year where good news has been fleeting for classic rock fans, Simon’s latest is worth grabbing onto with both hands.
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