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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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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blondes
    Blondes need to hone themselves-become harder, better, faster, stronger-if they wish to become memorable, to stand out in listeners' minds as something tangible and unique.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Amok
    Far from capturing their kinetic live energy, AMOK feels as isolated, distraught, and feeble as the characters littered about in Donwood’s tragic portrait.
    • 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.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Algiers
    Algiers is sort of like the Grand Canyon: it may have some enjoyable attractions, but in the end, you're just staring at a giant hole.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Elsie
    Elsie begs for the late-night meanderings, sometime after the party, when your mind needs a personal escape.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    ilp.
    While Ilp proves he can walk the walk, he often fails to talk the talk.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Super
    While Super is not indicative of the next big thing, and a few of the more club-oriented numbers sound more like remixes than actual songs, it’s an enjoyable way of catching up with the Pet Shop Boys while being served something fresh.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Departing
    Departing loses a great deal of what made its predecessor so rewarding. It's got the music down pat, but a skeleton doesn't make a person. While a surface-level listen to these songs is satisfying, they won't hold up for too long. Not with Mangum back in town, either.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Family
    The album’s 10 tracks are likely to frustrate as much as excite Thompson loyalists.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Desired Effect
    An album that works best when politics and organized religion get the brush off.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Bronx (IV)
    Unfortunately (and as is the case with their past three albums), the band’s bash-it-out approach loses some steam by the end of the record. But if you’re down for unrelenting rock ‘n roll fraught with the bitterness of adulthood, The Bronx is your band.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Inevitable End
    The Inevitable End doesn’t have too much to say that hasn’t already been said either by Röyksopp or their descendants. But when it does hit on something, it screams its lungs dry.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Held
    Between the Held's strong opening and closing acts, it's apparent that Holy Other is still working in the world of the EP and may have jumped the gun on a full-length release.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Royal Headache
    With a handful of infectious hooks and a gem of a vocalist, Royal Headache has the tools to capture an arena audience by the ears.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Jackleg Devotional to the Heart
    The album starts off strong but ends up overcomplicated.
    • 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Moonlight Butterfly
    This album goes past relaxation, past tranquility, into a place that leaves me numb.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hope in Dirt City
    On Hope in Dirt City, he has worked out a record full of uniquely blended beats and bleakly grinning intelligence.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Life Of Pablo
    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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Overjoyed
    Despite its goofy grin, squeaky clean production, and cheesy lyrics, Overjoyed is a good thing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Museum of Love
    Fans of the label and the genre will find many familiar elements to love, but anyone expecting the LCD tree to sprout an overwhelmingly exciting new limb will likely be disappointed.
    • 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kudos
    Kudos shows a lot of potential. Songs like "Yazuka Park" reveal that they're capable of switching things up. They just need to balance it out, instead of riding steadily on the same distortion-heavy waves.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rot Gut, Domestic
    Overall, this is a very accessible album, but it might not be enough to push anyone from one camp into the other.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Waiting on a Song
    Although it features a few radio-ready summer moments, Waiting on a Song never quite rises to the heights reached by its famous collaborators or canon-approved inspirations.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Physical World
    If the lyrical substance isn’t quite there, at least the riffs are.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Scene Between
    If the record lacks the spunk and originality of past releases, then it more than makes up for it with the breadth of delightful hooks that flow through each song.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Slow Summits
    Slow Summits sees the band producing less shadowy than their peers and fellow Scotsmen Belle & Sebastian.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Quarterbacks
    Though the 19-track, 22-minute album zips by at a Black Flag pace, the songs feel more akin to Calvin Johnson’s monotone confessionals. Engle’s voice is meek and exposed, though he still manages to assert himself over the pummeling drums and sharp guitar riffs.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mess
    Mess gets caught in an odd trap in that it’s neither patient nor nimble.
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