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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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    • 76 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    This Wild Willing
    The Khoshravesh brothers’ Iranian sound spices things up on a few tracks, but not enough to prompt multiple listens. Hansard’s passion seems to be lacking in the way he sings on most tracks, and that ends up being a letdown. Perhaps the experience of making the album was much more magical than the music that resulted from it.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    SR3MM
    On Sr3mm, Discs One, Two, and Three are all hanging out on the same street corner. There are plenty of interesting moments. But it would have been nice to go on a journey.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Thank You, Happy Birthday
    Though some of these songs would work well on their own, as a full length, they lack fluidity, consistency, and an overall theme that usually binds songs together.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Depression Cherry
    Maybe the best thing about dreams are the surprises we find there, that there is risk involved for it all to turn bad without much notice. Depression Cherry lacks these stakes, and the result is a dream that’s hard to remember once you’re outside of it.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    This Is My Hand
    While This Is My Hand carries the celestial torch held high by My Brightest Diamonds’ previous works, and does so with a discerning eye to continuity, it also doesn’t break any ground.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Made Up Mind
    It feels as if the focus on Made Up Mind was on serving the songs rather than the players, which is understandable, as plenty of guitar heroes make less guitar-centric albums in an effort to prove themselves as more than just a bag of a licks. But, it all just falls a bit flat of what this group is capable of in the right context.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wait to Pleasure
    Their eagerness to separate themselves leads to mixed results, feeling alternatingly awkwardly forced and brilliantly composed.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
    Even with its stunning, heartfelt moments, it’s hard to think of Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance as a cohesive Belle and Sebastian album. The band manages to blend their signature brand of subdued indie pop with new, bombastic disco cuts, but sometimes the disparity can be jarring.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The New Life
    Girls Names reproduce favorite sounds admirably, and they’ve chosen an extremely popular era to recall, but perhaps a little maturation in this New Life will get them to an exciting place equal to the one they’d already reached.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Silver & Gold [Boxset]
    We're given a playful, fun, but ultimately unrewarding compilation for anyone other than completionists.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Howl Of The Lonely Crowd
    It's difficult to be so down on an album that's this agreeable, but you can't help but feel you're listening to a band that's just settling with familiar patterns.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Ultimate Care II
    Ultimate Care II, then, is less an album and more a curio, perhaps better suited as part of an installation art piece at Matmos’ inevitable MoMA retrospective in 20 years than as a proper album.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ghost on Ghost
    As puzzle pieces to a full-length album, at least a third of these songs come off as superfluous and unnecessary.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Gensho
    Gensho doesn’t allow for much variation, character development, key changes, note changes, or even much respite at all from the nonstop noise.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dangerous Woman
    The pop star is putting out fine records, but it’s hard to escape the feeling that her ludicrous potential remains unfulfilled.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Middle Brother
    Middle Brother is nothing revolutionary, but it is an enjoyable throwback to the good ol' days of classic Southern living.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Psychic Warfare
    Fans of Sult’s style and metallic blues riffs will find a few gems among these tracks, but this is merely par for a Clutch album.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Jiaolong
    In totally brushing aside the complexities of Caribou in order to make dance music, he loses sight of the more complex moments in the dance music he's making.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Watch the Throne
    Nothing can be accomplished if someone doesn't stand up and act as the new gold standard. Kanye West and Jay-Z have proven themselves to be, at the very least, kings of just that notion.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Yours, Dreamily
    Auerbach got the chance to dial down the tempo and warm up the mood with his friends, and if this side gig doesn’t eclipse his main one, at least it has him flexing out of his mold.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Freaking Out [EP]
    A more or less identical tempo on all songs and very little variation in the synth timbres aid and abet the disco vibe, yet they also come off as a bit monochromatic.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Evil Empire of Everything
    The best of The Evil Empire of Everything simmers like the frank dinner table conversation afterwards-a dialogue that white America rarely gets to hear and one that gets cut tragically short on this record.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Come Home To Mama
    Whether anyone outside Wainwright's devoted fanbase will take notice of the album is hard to say, but the world could use more pretty voices with smart ideas.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Darkness and Light
    Darkness and Light loses its depth, however, when Legend skews toward pop (see: “Love Me Now”), even if these songs do maintain a catchy candor. Fortunately for the album, they’re rare and few.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Perils from the Sea
    Perils‘ biggest strength is also its biggest weakness: even at its best, it merely recalls the strengths of its individual players, instead of charting its own course.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Honky Tonk
    Honky Tonk finds Farrar once again bearing the brunt of Son Volt’s musical and emotional baggage, and that’s nothing new.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gold Motel
    Gold Motel is in the truest sense a feel-good record, one perfectly suited for the mellow, hazy days it reaches so far to recreate.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Wonderful, Glorious
    Wonderful, Glorious isn’t the sort of reinvention that Everett wants it to be. It’s just another loop around the road that E and his pathos have been treading for years.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wild Peace
    Songs like "In Dreams" begin promisingly but grow stale, while others lack standout qualities.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys
    Son of Rogues Gallery merits a couple of hours of anyone’s time. Just don’t expect to put it all on repeat. The tracks you do will be worth it.
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