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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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    • 84 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Flower Boy
    It’s more of the same. It seems to be needing something more. An extra spark of interest.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tempest
    Tempest delivers yet another collection of the ramblers that have populated Dylan's records since Time Out of Mind.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    White Men Are Black Men Too
    The band fails to make a significant statement of their immediate necessity with this sophomore effort.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Nikki Nack
    Parts of Nikki Nack are interesting, deeply beautiful, and insanely catchy. Other parts are painful to listen to given their overt blindness to the nuances of holding conversations like the ones she attempts to initiate.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Soused
    It’s a unique recording, a shocking, exciting collaboration performed in full faith. But it too often fails to be more than the sum of its parts.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    High
    It turns out they were right to push through the breakup, but a few bleak songs dampen the high they’re chasing after as a result.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Blue and Lonesome
    In the end, the record feels like a copy of a copy, though produced on what may just be the world’s best copier. If nothing else, though, the record works as a pleasing re-centering for one of the greatest rock bands of all time.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Never Hungover Again
    The album’s heavier points tend to slant alternately intriguing and confusing.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Limbo
    We attempt to find a pattern in the nonsense (both in the vocals and in the music itself), to figure out what this is supposed to be saying. But Copeland is there at the knobs, twisting things just out of our reach.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    City of Refuge
    The collaborators' influences are visible, but not dominant, as Washburn's banjo remains central, striking a nice balance. Some fine tuning and vocal variation could make for a stellar follow-up to these new genre endeavors, but a return to her classics, for this immensely talented artist, would be equally as appreciated.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Visions of a Life
    Visions of a Life is often full, seeming to overflow. But the substance is lacking, resulting in a tiring trip through a band gamely trying not to merely cover itself.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Researching the Blues
    While it's still a worthy comeback for a band way past its prime, Researching the Blues is similarly only a few solid tracks away from greatness.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Paramore
    Beneath the lyrics live a less-than-cohesive batch of songs. But when the band allows each track a little more breathing room, they show some growth and have a good time doing it.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Reality Testing
    Reality Testing, then, pushes into new territory so well that it erases the possibility of its existence as a one-time distraction, and its few major successes lead to expectations of a more unified version.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam [EP]
    Thundercat releases typically detail grand worlds, but The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam relies too heavily on unspecific, cliched lyrical pain.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Magic Whip
    If it rocks, it fits perfectly in a live setting, easy to place among their best-ofs. But when it slumps, it really crumbles.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Plot Against Common Sense
    It's rewarding if given the occasional spin but tiresome if spun too often.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    New View
    The album’s weaknesses aren’t unforgivable; they just too frequently sound limp and over-saturated in storied traditions. The verve and unpredictability that so frequently fueled her songs are lost and sorely missed.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Emmaar
    For better and worse, surprises on Emmaar are scarce if there are any.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Oshin
    The songs just don't stick long enough to make more than an impression in the pillow.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cruise Your Illusion
    From the lean, scrappy production value to the grandiose guitar solos and Alex Coxen’s wobbling, vocal delivery a la Grant Hart, the record has the messy fingerprints of indie rock’s cherished first wave smeared all over it.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Quakers
    The vast majority of Quakers are pretty forgettable, while all but a couple of those which star big names like Aloe Blacc and Booty Brown, among others, do little more than offer a handful of choice glimpses at said big names' glory days, making for a static and decidedly unmemorable listen throughout.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    C'est La Vie
    C’est La Vie has moments of real beauty and depth while reflecting on fatherhood and settling down. But Houck should keep pushing into the strange, uncomfortable places where his best music gets made; now’s not the time to shrug it off.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Pale Horses
    On Pale Horses, they seek a comfortable spot between weighty post-hardcore and artful indie rock introspection, but ultimately sound suppressed.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Duke & the King
    This is a really pleasing album. Just don't listen too hard to the words.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    True [EP]
    Solange delivers an EP stocked with promising parts slightly dashed by a burgeoning identity crisis.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Oddfellows
    Aside from initial single "Stone Letter" and its vitriolic chorus, most won't come away humming many of the hooks or melodies, the way one might after listening to a Faith No More album.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Be Strong
    Exudes sheer fun as it embraces an honest love of classic House.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ultimate Painting
    Ultimate Painting is professionally executed, but at times underwhelming. Still, Cooper and Hoare have undeniable chemistry, and the album seems to be the start of a promising partnership.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Uzu
    The newly expanded outfit leans more heavily on their prog rock influences, losing some of the distinctions and dichotomies that made their debut so powerful.
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