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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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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Fall
    There are a lot of innovative ideas, some strong moments, but also a good amount of filler. If you give it a spin, though, you'll probably find some hidden treasures in these songs as well.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The End of That
    It's wise and at times gorgeous but ultimately still processing the past and not ready to take risks.
    • 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.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Warm Blanket
    In the end, Warm Blanket offers proof that sometimes it’s good to stick to what you know.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dross Glop
    Even when the remixes don't come up with anything particularly groundbreaking to say, it's interesting to hear Gloss Drop through new ears.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Havoc and Bright Lights
    Her syntax can look clumsy on paper, almost like she's trying too hard to express sentiments than make statements, but on record her words seem to flow and fit the music perfectly.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ruins
    Ruins succeeds a little more often than it fails, and one should look no further for a new playlist to accompany a late study session or classy dinner with some hip friends.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The OF Tape, Vol. 2
    Too many things happen here, from the Brick Squad-type rave-ups to Ocean's R&B laments, for it to ever sound like a truly unified, full-length group project.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Into the Future
    While Into the Future, like Build a Nation before it, harkens back to the Brains' golden age, it's not the ROIR Sessions. The band couldn't recreate that sort of spitfire aggression today if they tried, and it would be almost unfair to expect them to. But it's close.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dormarion
    Dormarion [is] his most mature album yet, and proves Lerner to be one of the more talented young indie pop acts out there today.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Great Escape Artist
    The classic Jane's rough edges have been smoothed out and coated in electronic confections, but there is a darker, grinding groove beneath that sonic sheen.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Nature of Things
    Many of the tracks are sparse, relying more on the vocals of brothers Jon and Jason Sunde than anything else.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Melt
    As it stands today, they're just another band doing a very familiar thing--at least they're doing it really well.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Conditions of My Parole
    Although only an industry standard 12 tracks in length, Conditions of My Parole feels slightly overlong with its high points noticeably spread apart, resulting in a familiarity that detracts from its ability to unnerve.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Silver & Gold [Boxset]
    We're given a playful, fun, but ultimately unrewarding compilation for anyone other than completionists.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nanobots
    One key note on Nanobots then, given its general lack of new things to take note of, is in the surface stats: 25 tracks crammed into 45 minutes, including nine delightfully incomplete ideas under a minute long.
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    • 60 Critic Score
    Seeking Major Tom
    Although the variety of supporters helps, Searching is at least eight songs too long; the concept and Shatner's style often wear out their welcome.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Free the Universe
    The inclusion of larger singles-moving, profit-generating artists leads to mixed results on Free The Universe.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Diver
    It's amicable, it's friendly for the shoes, but it's like watching a mud-covered wild horse frantically kick at the locked barn doors.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Woolen Men
    nd. Yes, the band tugs a little too hard at its roots at points, but it’s still a fun listen, and it’s hard not to dive in as they play in the dirt.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rize of the Fenix
    Rize of the Fenix proves that Tenacious D still reign supreme. But maybe only burrito or chicken supreme and not quite Cutlass Supreme this time out.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Writings On the Wall II
    While the best part about the tape is its track-for-track coherence–unlike most of Mane's releases, there isn't a single atrocious or incongruous moment here–the worst part is that there isn't much difference between its peaks and valleys.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Good Mood Fool
    On Good Mood Fool, his voice takes center stage and is wrapped in a myriad of joyful ‘80s pastiche.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    No Poison No Paradise
    With the exception of the reaffirming victory lap of “Money Bags (Paradise)”, a lot of the material surrounding that five-track streak [“Sunday’s Best,” “Parallels," “Sunday’s Best,” “Monday’s Worst”] falls short.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wrote a Song for Everyone
    It’s an ambitious collection, but the roots veteran pulls it off.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Beacon
    A fun, punchy batch of 11 crisp tracks.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Infinity Pool
    It’s a deep dive that, while not as accessible as the band’s previous works, proves they’ve chosen experimentation over stagnancy.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Prom
    The majority of a record being submerged in noise certainly won't please everyone, but Prom stands as a solid second release from a group that certainly has a lot of growing left to do.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Chickenfoot III
    III is probably a slight improvement over the past effort in places where it counts--I just don't see enough people caring beyond passive curiosity in the long-term.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cast the Same Old Shadow
    Cast The Same Old Shadow is a more complete work than Pauper's Field, the arrangements fuller and the songs more tightly knit, but it can still be laborious.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Spring Breakers
    The album marries moments of both excess and restraint, and the dance between Skrillex and Martinez makes the ebb and flow of the music match that of the plot: a successful score.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    True Romance
    For now, True Romance is a valiant attempt that doesn’t do much more than provide the soundtrack for “getting ready to go out” songs on tinny laptop speakers.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Thr!!!er
    Existential nu-disco hasn’t been done to death, but it has been done better than this.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If Not Now, When?
    To say this album is a complete miss would be unfair. In reality, it's a great band reaching for a completely different horizon, all with hints of their previous selves.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Uncaged
    If there's anything at fault with Brown's latest, it's the trap of lapsing into self-satisfaction with the way in which the band defies labeling.
    • 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.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Finally Famous
    With an album that highlights the lowlights and vice-versa of being an MC, Big Sean has crafted an effort that makes room for himself on the rap spectrum.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Transitions
    Mostly, Elephant & Castle captures the sensual possibilities of electronica without settling into well-rubbed grooves.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All of Us, Together
    While Teen Daze's formula has worked in EP form in the past, it wears thin by the end of the full-length album.
    • 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.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Trust Now
    In recorded form, Prince Rama's magic becomes bewildering, likely to leave listeners more spooked than stunned.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Purgatory/Paradise
    Purgatory/Paradise is a mixed bag, and while it lives up more to the first half of its title than the latter, its best moments still prove worthy of the wait.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    B-Room
    Maybe it puts something of a low ceiling above its head by adhering too closely to the band’s recent efforts, but while little here stands out above other Dr. Dog records, the songs are still plenty good.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Oak Island
    Oak Island might not bloom at the supposed crossroads of art and science (fiction), but it’s a pleasant enough take on the reconciliation of nostalgia with the desire for adult life.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hairdresser Blues
    A more intimate look at both the man and the musician.
    • 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.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Infinity Overhead
    The album touches on just about every idea that has made this group a big deal in the first place, but it lacks the sex-appeal of the group's last full length, OMNI, and misses the adventure of Planet of Ice.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Flume
    Streton definitely has the production chops to make a solid record. However, if he wants a great record, he needs to edit down that tracklist and sequence it for cohesion.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Moonlight Butterfly
    This album goes past relaxation, past tranquility, into a place that leaves me numb.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Icky Blossoms
    Despite the fractured voices, the swank production and thematic lyrics of love, lust, and uncertainty unify the album.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If You Have Ghost [EP]
    The Ghouls of Ghost B.C. are, first and foremost, putting on a show (as evidenced by the bombastic live show recorded here), and the winking song selections and dramatic musical choices of If You Have Ghost continue that grand stage performance.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hell: The Sequel EP
    On a major label debut, there is very little room to mess around and get experimental, but that's precisely what he's done. It's not a great effort from either end of the duo, and it frankly leaves one wondering what could have been for such a promising pair.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Light of the Sun
    At 14 tracks, The Light of the Sun would have fared better if cut by three or four numbers. But that's why god invented the skip button.
    • 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.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Natives
    Natives is an effort of exquisite pop.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gold Cobra
    Gold Cobra props itself up as the best thing we've seen from our most hated band since even 1997, and the two albums following that had enough singles to fill a greatest hits compilation one record ahead of schedule.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Andy and His Grandmother
    It’s a rare glimpse into Kaufman’s methodology--one that will make uninitiated listeners wonder, “Aren’t comedy albums supposed to be funny?”
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mumps, Etc.
    If Alopecia was the perfect fit sonically and thematically for Wolf's verbal diarrhea, then Mumps comes off more like a scattered greatest hits record than an album with a preconceived vision.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Love and Regret
    At times, the music is playing it a little too safe under the reverb. More dynamics or a bit more vastness in the sound might've elevated tracks like "New Dawn" and "Violent Cries".
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    For Professional Use Only [Mixtape]
    The album may have its shortcomings, but in the end it is a solid statement on his appreciation for varying forms of production and his intent to further embed these during his live sets and upcoming studio albums.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Here
    If Up From Below was a crazy dance festival, Here is the smooth joint smoked in the shade afterwards.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Warm Pulse [EP]
    An eerie dose of deep electronics, Warm Pulse is another step in the right direction for two producers building their own audience.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Radioactive
    The peaks overshadow the valleys here, leaving an adequate showing from a guy who deserves to be taken more seriously than his looks and background might warrant.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Language
    For a band that spent a year in solitude writing and recording Language, Zulu Winter sound an awful lot like everyone else out there.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Exhibitionists
    Superhumanoids have the talent to breach their simple formula, but they often cut their best ideas too short.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tha Carter IV
    Overall, by the end of the album it feels like Wayne maybe pushed Tha Carter series one installment too far.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dreams and Nightmares
    If Meek wants to maximize his potential, he'll have to step out from his boss' (er, bawse's) shadow and further develop his own identity.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Swamps [EP]
    The EP’s six tracks waft through speakers like the haze that envelopes South Florida during the controlled burns of the Everglades each fall.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Amoral
    There are some great moments in New Wave revisionism. But, in the end, it isn't all that memorable, just something fun to toss on every once in a while.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Do Things
    As a whole, the album treads the fine line of genre fetishism and reinvention.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Always [EP]
    The duo has shed a lot of the excess sunshine, but the aspects of Condale that made it so irresistible,the knack for melody and the earnest tales of young love, still find a home on Always.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Maybach Music Group Presents: Self Made, Vol. 3
    This album is comprehensive, but not exactly cohesive.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Zeros
    Not quite accessible to the unsuspecting ears, Zeros appeals in that inexplicable, morose way, propelled by a certain pleasure entwined with the chaos of the uncertain.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    One Track Mind
    Psychic Ills continue to produce music that succeeds by repetition, a trick that can’t hold up for everyone or in every situation.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ice on the Dune
    It’s neither better nor worse than Dream, but for all that talk of “pushing through four dimensions” (“Surround Sound”), the album remains planted in its comfort zone.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Silencio
    Silencio is Sadier's most politically charged album yet, and it creeps out its message with a familiar-but-refreshed style.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Herein Wild
    Frankie Rose still has great instincts of where her music should be going. She just has to trust them more.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Paracosm
    Elsewhere, he mistakes AOR-ready sentimentality and banal lyrics for perfect summer-album material, which seems like a misdirected pursuit--Within and Without already was a near-perfect summer album.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Interiors
    With the new focus on body-moving sounds, Interiors feels like Mesirow’s desire to appease crowds like those at FYF, without leaving behind those infatuated by the lusciousness of her first LP.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lysandre
    Too often, it just doesn't seem like he was as ambitious with the craft of this one as he was with past efforts, however natural they may have sounded.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Soft Will
    The subject matter gives depth to the record, but sometimes it feels like Smith Westerns are filling in templates instead of writing songs.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kisses on the Bottom
    Kisses on the Bottom is a respectable collection from a pop mastermind.
    • 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.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Spanish Moss & Total Loss
    Too much of the same synth sounds and Kozub's too-hazy vocals (sung into an old analog vocoder that makes the melancholy lyrical content impossible to understand) leave the album lacking a certain spark.
    • 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    III
    The two halves of III frequently war, the pleasantly shambling rhythms consistently undermined by Enborn’s just off-key yawling on viscerally unusual topics, as well as the occasional genre shift.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unlearn
    Unlearn is an album full of great, clever songs if listened to individually. As a whole, however, it's too scattered.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The High Frontier
    Languid and drone-heavy, The High Frontier is for the star-gazers that don’t get tired of looking up and wondering what’s out there, as opposed to going out and seeing what’s there for themselves.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Great Gatsby [Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film]
    Put simply, The Great Gatsby soundtrack resonates like the dinky Grammy sampler album they give to us plebeians who aren’t important enough to attend the ceremony anyway.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bloodlines
    Although Bloodlines is a solid effort, it never seems to really take flight; alternately quiet and bold, it can’t seem to decide whether it wants to be a testament to Mathè’s artistic transformation or a kind of tentative experiment, to be abandoned if it doesn’t pan out.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Milk Money
    Milk Money takes a disappointing step back in the album’s second half.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Banjo or Freakout
    The album's strengths indeed grow on you with time, but his failure to capture these strengths as a whole is what denies it stature among other bedroom recordings.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Joke in the Hole
    While this album shares a lot of qualities with the likes of Mr. Impossible, its straight to the jugular strike at being a groovy good time comes off a little less polished.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Twelve Reasons to Die
    Had GFK’s focus been on par with his corresponding hero’s repulsor beam, this record would’ve been more than a solid collection that fails in trying to make high-art with a half-hearted storyline.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sistrionix
    While the record is still enjoyable, particularly due to a strain of riot grrrl-infused audacity and vociferous demands for respect, the sonics fail to achieve much progress and rely far too often on tried-and-true riffs and structures.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wayward Fire
    Mohager takes the propulsive beats of New Order and makes it his own for the modern club set. With a better editor, Mohager's future won't let up any time soon.
    • 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Moon Tides
    The scope here is smaller, the instrumentals keener on serving as a pedestal for the vocals than as a landscape for them to get lost in.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tomorrow's World
    There's a glistening sheen here, and the mixture of fast and slow ("When I Start to Breathe" is ballad-like with an eminently hummable chorus) keeps things refreshing.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Vodka & Ayahuasca
    Take Vodka and Ayahuasca as a testament to these guys' long-acquired mastery of their craft, even as the rhymes are generally less than striking.
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