For 4,040 reviews, this publication has graded:
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44% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 69
Highest review score: | Channel Orange | |
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Lowest review score: | Revival |
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Positive: 2,754 out of 4040
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Mixed: 1,215 out of 4040
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Negative: 71 out of 4040
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Though it too often lingers when a punch is needed, Glitterbust carries plenty of weight.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 23, 2016
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The Thermals stay surface level both with their lyricism and their songwriting.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 23, 2016
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There’s only so much traction that can be extracted from adhering too closely to styles this familiar, and White Denim don’t provide quite enough edge to differentiate themselves.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 22, 2016
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Most of the songs on New Misery sound exactly like Smith Westerns without Kakacek. But here’s the rub: Omori’s voice is so airy that it works best when punctuated by meat-and-potatoes moments straight out of the classic rock cookbook.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 18, 2016
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Gensho doesn’t allow for much variation, character development, key changes, note changes, or even much respite at all from the nonstop noise.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 18, 2016
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This Is What the Truth Feels Like lacks a cohesive style, instead focusing on narrative.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 18, 2016
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Us and the Night offers some bland, platitude-driven positivity, but only once shadowed by equally vague problems. There’s a thin line between building out themes for an album and getting stuck in a rut, and this one unfortunately sounds like it falls towards the latter.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 11, 2016
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Like its namesake, this album feels more like a temporary solution than a permanent way forward.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 10, 2016
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The Larsons have style and passion for days. They just need to nail down a poignant message to pair with all the flash.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 7, 2016
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Likely under tight deadline, each track tends to live squarely within the individual producer’s standard production palette.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 7, 2016
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It’s upon closer inspection that You And I starts to lose some of its luster. To start with, some of these songs have appeared in various forms across his live catalog.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 7, 2016
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The band’s ninth studio effort ebbs and flows, but in the end, it has enough going for it to merit its existence, which is more than a lot of bands can say about their second-stands.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 4, 2016
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For once, the darkness of Poliça’s shadows are too muddled to make the climb through them worthwhile.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 3, 2016
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You Know Who You Are, on the other hand, is exactly the kind of thing we’ve come to expect from Nada Surf. Unfortunately, sometimes being reliable just isn’t enough.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 2, 2016
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Aside from “For U” (which features Charli XCX) and its Bloc Party aping intro, almost all of the fist-pumping energy of the debut has receded into a more mature, yet less thrilling persona.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 1, 2016
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TUMIM shows a regression to the mean, further establishing him as an above-average emcee whose runaway hype train simply ran off the tracks.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 29, 2016
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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.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 25, 2016
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The results are never bad, exactly, but they do fall somewhere between tribute and karaoke--call it Now That’s What I Call George.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 24, 2016
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The fickle genres of 99¢ not only see Santigold challenging the rules of pop, but bettering herself. In writing for others, Santigold grows a backbone that defines her unapologetically bold sound, even if she doesn’t push her lyrics as far as she does the music.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 24, 2016
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Adequacy is a trait that fits Stranger Things well. It’s not a disappointment like Glow & Behold, but then it only occasionally manages to reach the heights of Yuck’s debut.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 23, 2016
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For All Kings--like Repentless and Dystopia and Death Magnetic--is a safe and agreeable slice of thrash, but it’s also robotic, formulaic, and dated.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 22, 2016
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The Cave Singers belong to the same family tree as dynamic Seattle rock bands Murder City Devils and Pretty Girls Make Graves, which makes it even more frustrating that they keep resorting to the same old stomps and claps.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 18, 2016
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The results are mixed, surely, but not anything other than what they are.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 17, 2016
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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.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 17, 2016
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West finds control on an album whose first half is uncharacteristically wild. The focus present on these tracks [Waves, FML, Real Friends, Wolves] are what is expected of West.... But the strength in these moments also highlight how rudderless the rest of Pablo often feels.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 17, 2016
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For now, Pool is a pleasant enough record, but one that doesn’t quite hook into the emotions or memory.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 9, 2016
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Under the production of John and T-Bone Burnett (back again after The Diving Board), the instrumentation on Wonderful Crazy Night is glossy yet separate, as if each part was recorded in its own high-end echo chamber. As a result, none of it sounds unified--more high-fidelity karaoke mix than a band that’s playing together.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 8, 2016
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There are moments where the minimal psych additions actually undermine the band’s sound, as their hodgepodge, twitchy aesthetic has always been part of their charm. Ironically, the more polished, glossy synthesizers at times bog the album down.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 5, 2016
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The intangibles are all here in spades, and it’s obvious these guys have an exciting vision. Commontime is just arranged in such a way that the album’s contents are thrown into disarray.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 5, 2016
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It’s an overstuffed, yet often enthralling record by a band revealing depths that weren’t as apparent before.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 4, 2016
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