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For 4,040 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: 2,754 out of 4040
  2. Mixed: 1,215 out of 4040
  3. Negative: 71 out of 4040
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tough Love
    Tough Love relies more on gravitas, allowing more space for overly serious numbers like the Emile Haynie-produced “Pieces”. Sometimes sweetness works better.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Command Your Weather
    Command Your Weather is a passing blast--intriguing to devout followers and a punishing rehash for those who’ve already heard and digested the band’s best material.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Stiff
    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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Always Strive and Prosper
    Always Strive and Prosper doesn’t play to Ferg’s strengths. It feels more like album made by a big label committee, carving up a talented rapper piece by piece and stripping away everything that makes him special.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All You Need Is Now
    While All You Need is Now won't bring flocks of teenagers over to Duran Duran's side, it's certainly a commendable effort if for no reason other than it's the band's most relevant and listenable record in almost two decades.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hands of Glory
    His palate of sepia tones coupled with essentially contemporary lyrical twitches loses much of what makes Bird special, instead relegating Hands of Glory, to a heartwarming and honest tribute--and little else.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Developer
    The sophomore effort from this San Francisco-based five-piece is just what its title suggests: a development from the band's debut that boasts a more mature sound, thanks in part to producer Eli Crew.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Event II
    It’s still engaging in places, but it never comes close to reaching the level of its predecessor.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Spacehopper
    When Tripwires push so far out of their confines that the boundaries can’t be seen, the uncertainty and frustration of the lyrics starts to make more of a connection. Unfortunately, too often on Spacehopper they stick too close to the traditional patterns of orbit.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Creep On Creepin' On
    After listening to the Creep On Creepin' On, it's recommended that the listeners get some as well--the constant bleakness and nightmare-inducing weirdness warrant some immediate remedy.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Marks to Prove It
    Sadly, Marks To Prove It puts all its work into weighty matters instead of incorporating the quintet’s funny bone.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    People, Hell and Angels
    People, Hell and Angel isn’t perfect--or godly--but it does contain some canon tracks that every Hendrix fan should hear.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Shut Down The Streets
    Shut Down the Streets is a strange beast and one that will fall victim to that option that destroys the album sequence as we know it: shuffle. Fortunately, the high points are so high that they warrant a listen, even a purchase of the record as a whole.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    7 Days of Funk
    7 Days of Funk is a slog through shallow percussion (especially in the amateurish drum pattern on the Kurupt-featuring “Ride”) and drowsy synthwork.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Gift for the End
    With so much good (and weird) folk music out there, it's difficult to strongly recommend something so sleepily middle-of-the-road.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bang, Zoom, Crazy... Hello
    The songwriting is boring and inoffensive, but the lyrics really sterilize the record.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Spirit
    Best to appreciate them for what they are: a noble effort that likely won’t have a marked impact on the world at large.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    25 25
    What 25 25 is missing are those necessary bits of relief that were worked into their previous album.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Peanut Butter
    Joanna Gruesome rides on raw emotion, whether it stems from anger or victory, but they lose the edge of their retorts.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Blow
    The familiarity between Maricich and Dyne has resulted in the most earnest storytelling for The Blow yet, but without Bechtolt, the songs have lost much of the textured depth behind Maricich’s easygoing delivery.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    A New Place 2 Drown
    This is music created under the role of the supportive brother, and for much of it, he’s too focused on his sibling’s creations to fully flesh out his own work.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Give Till It's Gone
    He might lack a sense of direction personally (at least right now), but it's this lack of clarity that has produced a very focused record.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Marvelous Clouds
    This is a solid record, but nothing to dissuade interest in some Aaron Freeman originals.
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blak and Blu
    In a perfect world, he'd have everything necessary to run the blues flag worldwide; for now, we'll have to settle for something merely enjoyable.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Afterman: Ascension
    While the album isn't full of the kind of revelations that drop jaws and illicit gasps, the emotion here is a much-needed place of solace and solidity in a mythos larger and more involved than Heaven's Fence itself.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Held in Splendor
    What would be even more effective is more focus on spanning dynamics and intensity, which can come naturally when shooting for something a bit more personal, but that doesn’t negate Splendor as a successful sophomore step.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    51
    He sounds confident and comfortable, doling out that trademark weird.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    We Disappear
    The Thermals stay surface level both with their lyricism and their songwriting.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Keys to the Kuffs
    While it may not hit the heights of Madvillainy (to be fair, what could?), there are some strong verses and some equally strong production.
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