For 4,039 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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: 2,753 out of 4039
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Negative: 71 out of 4039
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Communicating is far from an attempt to water down their music for a larger audience. An intriguing record that pushes boundaries, Communicating proves why Hundred Waters are always worth paying attention to.- Consequence
- Posted Sep 15, 2017
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The heavy songs on Evolution should please longtime fans, with a couple harkening back to the dynamism of Disturbed’s first couple of albums, but the glut of softer tracks may have been served better on a separate acoustic EP.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 19, 2018
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Whether you’re into it or not, it’s hard to discredit the remarkable solidness of the album, which, against most preconceptions, exists far outside the world of Superchunk. It’s everything a side project should be.- Consequence
- Posted May 5, 2015
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Ultimately, Every Shade of Blue is an easy, accessible listen, and many of its tracks are certainly radio-friendly. There are pleasant pop hooks and a few earworms here and there.- Consequence
- Posted May 13, 2022
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He’s just topped off his winning streak with the most predictable rap album you’ll hear in 2019 that isn’t actually bad in any way. And like everything else about his rise, that’s way too soon.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 2, 2019
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The 12-song tracklist is full of individual gems, but would have better highlighted their songwriting strengths if trimmed.- Consequence
- Posted Jun 18, 2015
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For most of its length, The Golden Echo is so jam-packed that the songs where Kimbra tones down the decor and lets her lyrics ring become some of the most interesting.- Consequence
- Posted Aug 19, 2014
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BRONCHO slow down on Double Vanity, a pleasant movement in some ways. But like R.E.M.’s Monster, another one of those ambitious garage rock dalliances, the aesthetic is too dense, the result too one-dimensional.- Consequence
- Posted Jun 13, 2016
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It’s his cleanest, most optimistic recording, far from the lo-fi yearnings of before, but still ultimately a document of his personality as a bedroom bard for the insecure and introspective.- Consequence
- Posted Sep 3, 2015
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The producer being so secondary here is certainly a missed opportunity. The album still ends up being a thrill, due to the duo’s sheer talent, but its caution undermines its competence. .Paak has insisted that Yes Lawd! is not an Anderson .Paak album, but it sure sounds like one.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 24, 2016
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While the album does make impressive strides, it doesn’t come without its shortcomings. Even at 39 minutes, the Synesthetica feels repetitive at times, small modifications made here and there to a tested formula.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 12, 2016
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Fuego is new and fresh, in both content and intent, changing things up, sinking a few birdies, and settling for a bogey or two.- Consequence
- Posted Jun 30, 2014
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On Integrity Blues, Jimmy Eat World return to that mood of reverie, with often beautiful and quietly triumphant results.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 25, 2016
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What ultimately makes it stick, from the beaming hooks to the gossamer production, is the execution, how all the scattered pieces eventually jell until the puzzle is complete.- Consequence
- Posted Apr 22, 2014
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It just needs to be a passionate, cathartic, connective emotional experience. For the most part, Ones and Sixes fits that bill.- Consequence
- Posted Sep 9, 2015
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For a moment of respite, a calming breath against the rush of modern life, Buoys is a fine balm in spite of its shortcomings.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 4, 2019
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Despite the grit on N.E.W., all three musicians boast a bonhomie similar to a local band’s open friendliness, making for one of the most approachable punk albums in recent memory.- Consequence
- Posted Apr 16, 2015
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While the album is all over the place, its grooves are potent and its mood considerably hypnotic and intense.- Consequence
- Posted Jun 11, 2014
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While Endless makes its visual implications clear, the whopping 18 tracks that soundtrack it muddle his intent.- Consequence
- Posted Aug 22, 2016
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These tracks have enough originality to further Araab’s run as a progressive producer and a consummate artist in his own right.- Consequence
- Posted Jul 11, 2016
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Sure, Mandatory Fun is cheap, juvenile, and often downright grating, but damn if it isn’t good for a couple of laughs.- Consequence
- Posted Jul 16, 2014
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You can still hear marginal residue of the man who managed to be compared to both Dylan and Prince within the same five-year period. You just won’t find those comparisons so much lately.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 11, 2017
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While its true that he’s grown since signing with TDE back in 2005 and now sounds wiser and more confident, he’s yet to distill his personality into a package that communicates that growth.- Consequence
- Posted Sep 16, 2015
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For the most part, there is a stalwart consistency that interweaves through the tracks, Conversations feeling like the outcome of a thoughtful and heartfelt dialogue.- Consequence
- Posted Jul 16, 2014
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With the help of a new band and a few unexpected guests, Gane continues his mischievous streak on Void Beats / Invocation Trex, building familiar, pleasing drones to get your head nodding.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 18, 2016
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With Trouble, they easily avoid the sophomore slump and take an accomplished leap forward.- Consequence
- Posted Jan 27, 2014
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As long as Love Yes relies on these simple yet effective tricks, it goes down like rock candy, the sweetness undercut by a compellingly sour sting. Only when the band tries to match the lyrics’ complexity with the music does the album begin to falter.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 11, 2016
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Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon neither blights nor burnishes Pop Smoke’s legacy. It’s fine. Better to remember Smoke as the dark-horse MVP candidate for summer 2019.- Consequence
- Posted Jul 14, 2020
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Marauder is still Interpol, and it’s still pretty good. It’s got mood and emotion for days. But because the album is marred by nonexistent bass lines and, most concerningly, production and mixing choices that run completely at odds with Interpol’s natural strengths and most beloved idiosyncrasies, it’s nowhere near great.- Consequence
- Posted Aug 22, 2018
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Offset splits his time between personal stories and generalized trapping, with mixed results. When he finds the right flow, few can match him for sheer musical joy. Other times he sound flat and stale. ... You have to respect the work ethic that produced these 16 tracks, even if many of them don’t merit a second listen.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 26, 2019
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Sitting mid-album, “Beyond the Deathray” epitomizes this new band-focused approach, and it’s probably the most beautiful track in The Prodigy’s discography; however, the revered schizophrenic beats of the crew hinder this from becoming a “band” album in the popular sense of that word.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 25, 2015
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Gorman is a charming writer and performer, and Slow Gum is successful, but he doesn’t need to lean so hard on his influences.- Consequence
- Posted Jun 26, 2015
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At her best, she turns simple observations into complex emotions. The Pains of Growing has its flaws, but altogether it’s a cohesive statement and a marked improvement from her debut.- Consequence
- Posted Dec 7, 2018
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Hitch finds them not just following their best and worst tendencies, but beating the listener over the head with them. It’s not the worst way to spend an hour; you just might want to carve out some time for a nap afterwards.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 23, 2016
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Some of the covers on Dylan in the 80s work because they restore the troubadour aspect of Dylan lore.- Consequence
- Posted Apr 3, 2014
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While Sia’s lines wear a badge of effortlessness, her ripe voice lends gravitas to these “victim to victory” ballads (as the notoriously media-shy singer characterized them to the New York Times in a rare sit-down).- Consequence
- Posted Jan 27, 2016
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Though it might not sound like a revelation, embracing the reality of Yoko Ono is the key to the success of Yes, I’m a Witch Too. Unfortunately, that’s only done here to varying degrees.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 19, 2016
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After Grof’s narration drifts away, Fox and company do their best to push and pull at the tempo, to spin like a Sufi, to stretch out yogic, to get into the monastic mystic chanting, breaking free of the everyday and into the spiritual.- Consequence
- Posted Jan 31, 2014
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If you’re a Kozelek disciple, the songs on Live at Biko won’t give you further insight into the love, lust, humor, and sadness that make him tick, but the dialogue sure will.- Consequence
- Posted Jul 18, 2014
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I Decided. is a fresh statement that proves Big Sean is continuing to evolve.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 8, 2017
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Styles is a more confident and precise songwriter on Fine Line than on his debut, even if the progress is incremental rather than exponential.- Consequence
- Posted Dec 16, 2019
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Attempts at the rapper-live band album are risky, and while it has some qualifiers, this one has to be counted as a success. It’d be a wild success, though, if the instrumental half of this collaboration were to take a truly equal share of the spotlight.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 13, 2015
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Its mood is warm and inviting, but it barely has enough heft to stick with you past the season.- Consequence
- Posted Sep 2, 2015
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You might want to laugh at points, because a good deal of it is very silly, but somewhere within the second half, you’ll become just a little invested. By the grand finale, you might even feel inspired.- Consequence
- Posted Jan 29, 2016
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Northtown’s rising star proves his worth on Ratchet through his genre fluidity.- Consequence
- Posted May 15, 2015
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It riffs, it’s entertaining, but above all, it contains an existential joy that transcends recorded sound.- Consequence
- Posted Aug 27, 2015
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Pillars of Ash rockets through 11 tracks without looking back, without room for breath. The songs tend to blend together in the spin cycle, one screamed vocal track melting its way into the next, one thundering drum fill inseparable from another.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 3, 2016
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