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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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Froot
    Jumping from intense outpours to cheeky pop, it’s an album of songs meant to be cherry-picked and passed on, not listened to as a whole.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
    There’s plenty of filler here, but at least it all works toward trying to inject some humanity back into the world of buzz-worthy pop music.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Milk Famous
    While captivatingly evil at points, the absence of the hooks that made It's Frightening so exceptional can make Milk Famous a difficult match.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Dalliance
    Few artists can make complaining about heartbreak passable subject material, and even fewer come out of that experiment more likable. Despite some too-similar musical passages and a lack of memorable moments in the album’s mid-section, a few gold standard hooks, some heart-pumping pop punk, and clever turns of phrase help Dalliance do just that for Gold-Bears.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Long Enough to Leave
    Long Enough To Leave might not blaze much of a unique trail, wearing its love of the past proudly on its sleeve. That said, it still delivers its share of gems culled from other well-traveled musical paths.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Meat + Bone
    First-time listeners might find the record a tough initiation. But for diehard fans, Meat + Bone is a long-awaited return to the wild side, with the Blues Explosion offering up all the mutated musical goodness as you can stomach.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Risveglio
    The album feels like a careful study of new techniques, but the end result never breaks into more than a simmer.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Pool
    For now, Pool is a pleasant enough record, but one that doesn’t quite hook into the emotions or memory.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pe'ahi
    Despite its ambitions, Pe’ahi ripples through without much fanfare, another breeze fallen short of a storm.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Vicki Leekx
    This isn't a mixtape that you're going to be bumping in your crib for months to come, but it is one that is contextually very important to her career. It warrants at least one listen for that reason alone (plus it's 100% free.)
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Personality
    This is just a starting point, but it's obvious he's found his footing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Big Dark Love
    Big Dark Love is brilliant where many MBD albums also thrive: in setting a stage.... The problem is that watching the band set up the stage is still more interesting than the production that follows.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mosquito
    The payoffs don’t always resonate with the pineal, which should be the one thing worth counting on from the band.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Close to the Glass
    The glacial pace and gentle vocals remain, as does the unique mix of electronic landscape and live instrumentation.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nocturne
    Nocturne embodies one artist's sense of what pop used to be, so maybe the future will bring the perfect balance between his two albums, his ideal world.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All the Times We Had
    Themes include perseverance, climbing mountains, parenting, etc., although at times, they do wander into Cupid’s playground on songs like the title track.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    High Country
    On a practical level, High Country is a decade-old band trying out different material. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Rattle That Lock
    Heartfelt, if not always inspired musings are scattered throughout the record.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Feel It Break
    The creative basis for the album's sound and feel are quite original (look no further than the two official NSFW videos released for the album here and here), but after about a half-dozen tracks, it seems like the Austra motor sort of sputtered and died in terms of creativity.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Femejism
    Deap Vally are most compelling when they dig further than irreverently dismissing superficial, mainstreamed feminism, but rather go on to explore what makes modern womanhood disturbing or even terrifying, the omnipresent eye of patriarchy be damned.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Not the Actual Events [EP]
    Between the abundant déja vu and the periodical redundancy (doldrums which would be easy enough to overlook on a full-length, but prove problematic on a brisk 21-minute listen like this), Not the Actual Events’ purported “impenetrability” manifests as a riotous retread instead.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Master of My Make-Believe
    [The album] shines in most parts and violently hampers itself in others.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nothing Is Real
    Whether the sound quality on Nothing Is Real is intentional or not, the lo-fi rattling smothers the hooks and makes the songs feel suspiciously like demos.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Only in Dreams
    There are some songs to love, but you can only take so many variations of the same theme.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dreams in the Rat House
    It’s Shaw’s seemingly uncontrollable voice that steals the show, finding powerful moments even in stale formats.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Little Heater
    Banjo, pedal steel, and fiddle show up on cue here and there with lovely results, but never to the point of distracting from the album's foundation of Irwin and her acoustic guitar just singing away their woes to each other.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Swimmin' Time
    The darker tone on Swimmin’ Time shows they’re able to change things up, but they may be too afraid of losing their momentum to really be daring.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sees the Light
    Sees the Light ditches the brusque garage rock roots of Vivian Girls in favor of girl group-influenced pop, but a palpable aggression gives this sophomore effort an energy her debut lacked.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Please
    Lerche’s playful expressions of heartbreak capture those [emotional] extremes with competent, if rote, poise, even if a few of his experiments fall flat.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Distance Is So Big
    While the best moments on The Distance Is So Big have hooks to spare, “Scienceless” and “Public Opinion Bath” could’ve used at least one. It’s just hard to maintain that kind of optimism over the course of a whole record.
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