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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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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    GMB
    GMB is a relaxed, enjoyable rap record by three dudes who have fun rhyming words together.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Black Hours
    On Black Hours, Leithauser tries on a bunch of outfits, and at times those outfits are more costume than something pulled out of his own closet.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Do To the Beast
    This reinvented band reflects Dulli circa 2014, and this record sparks fresh intrigue but sadly never quite rekindles what made the Whigs so unique in the first place.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Eagulls
    The band surely know their strengths and have developed their sound, but the individual songs suffer when stacked on top of each other.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Noctuary
    he album is full of gentle waves, and as such, the peaks tend to stand out, but the formula becomes apparent after enough iterations.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Piramida
    The thorough arrangements on Piramida continue to be the reason to come to an Efterklang disc, but they are rarely matched with equally strong pop components.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Hypnophobia
    Hypnophobia is a pleasant listen, but it passes by as quickly as a warm breeze on a spring afternoon.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Summer 08
    After starting strong, Summer 08 fizzles out, much like a failed night on the town.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Black Sun
    Overall, the few great tracks balance out the filler, and Gold Fields manages to forge a hodgepodge of weathered songs into something wholly emotional.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    As If
    The middle section of the album is stellar, and for a few fleeting moments, it all seems to work. Unfortunately, the rest of As If is much less engaging.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Down in Heaven
    Many of these tracks certainly evoke something older, plucked straight from a dad’s record collection, but Down in Heaven carries some of that mustiness. The record ends up being too careful, even occasionally uninspired.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gimme Some
    Two years later, the trio return with Gimme Some, a punk record that transmogrified itself into a pop-rock effort fueled by many drunken nights.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    True
    Despite the various moments of divergence on True, there is a musical uniformity that makes the album sound like a 45-minute multi-part song, a significant departure from Amoral, their disjointed but adventurous debut.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Soft Fall
    While there is more focus to the classically tinged electro-pop songwriting on Soft Fall than their last album (2010′s Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier), it shows up in moments, and disappears entirely at others.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Almanac
    "Sore Eyes", the only track that could have come from previous albums Widowspeak or The October Tape, halts the record some, but the rest of Almanc's 12 tracks dabble with Americana, the sounds of the '70s, and the band's already-established dreamy haze, resulting in a record that satisfies with each homage.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Hardwired...To Self-Destruct
    At nearly 80 minutes, it’s understandable for an album like Hardwired… to Self-Destruct to have lulls, but the band gets way too comfortable way too early.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sound Mirror
    There are still instances where the band lose sight of themselves, either not allowing the real heroes of the songs to take full control or plainly not recognizing where to trim the fat.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Solution
    Although The Solution is too hung up on the past to be relevant in the present, it remains a competent throwback to hip-hop's golden age, an era that both artists seem to be yearning for. That nostalgia pervades The Solution.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Next Four Years
    The Next Four Years marks their latest attempt to figure out what makes punk “dangerous,” and the results are mixed.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sub Verses
    The trio continue on that trajectory, the mystic chanting and ceremonial trances dancing through the scattering ash. Due to that cratered impact, everything on the album sounds urgent, an exhilarating feeling that takes a while to escape.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Falling Off the Sky
    Justifiably lacking that exuberance, Falling Off the Sky is tame and predictable.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Ellipsis
    Clearly Biffy Clyro see themselves as strivers, a band that charges relentlessly forward. But at times, listeners might wonder if they’re headed in any interesting direction.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns
    If you're willing to dig around a little bit, you'll unearth a small handful of moments showing Hiatt at his very best. You just have to get your jeans a little dirty.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Stuff Like That There
    It doesn’t do much to suggest any new insight into the iconic band or their sound. The collection is a pleasant reminder of their covering prowess, something that was likely fun to make and enjoyable for serious fans, but not much else.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Joan Of Arc
    Where other releases traded in musical complexities, Joan of Arc strips the process down only to affirm Kinsella's forceful narrative intricacy.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Coma Ecliptic
    Coma Ecliptic clocks in at over an hour, but most discouraging is the band’s failure to translate the album’s conceptual themes to the listener in that timespan.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Observator
    Despite standout moments within most of the songs, nothing on this album except perhaps the closing number, "Till the End", truly stands out as recognizably Raveonettes.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tan Bajo
    While wild, boisterous garage rock is hardly hip in mid-2011, the breakneck speed and balls-out ferocity of Tan Bajo would be welcome at any time.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In the Pit of the Stomach
    It's an improvement, and it reveals a band with plenty room to grow. In the meantime, these Jackpacks will continue coasting.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unreal
    There are special moments to be found in this disjointed musical grab bag, so if nothing else, the record at least gives enough reason to keep an open ear for what comes next.
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