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For 1,396 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 29% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 77
Highest review score: 100 The Stand Ins
Lowest review score: 10 The Raven
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,197 out of 1396
  2. Mixed: 180 out of 1396
  3. Negative: 19 out of 1396
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Slaughterhouse
    Segall takes us on a tour de force that is short and succinct in nature and delivery: the music swells with an infinite amount of pulse and drive and supported by Segall's remarkable ear for melody, it's simply another winner in his long-standing discography.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Grown Backwards
    A vital, winning album.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Misery Is A Butterfly
    Arguably the best album in their career.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Our Endless Numbered Days
    This may be the kind of album that turns on a new generation of fans to the beauty of folk music, while approaching it from a modern perspective.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Yellow & Green
    The band resorts to an 18-set record simply because everything is indisputably necessary and furthermore, solid gold.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Home Sweet Home
    This is the finest debut hip-hop album I’ve seen since Aesop Rock’s.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Tronic
    The best kinds of albums are the ones that capture that fragile balance between great music and pairing lyrical wordplay. And Tronic is an album that fans of both the lyrical side and production side of hip-hop can love.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Crystal Castles
    With Crystal Castles’ infectious, eclectic music, this is easily one of the highlights of the year and a great addition to the super-genre that is electronic music.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Monomania
    This kind of hunger, this kind of uphill battle and this kind of gritty determination leaks out onto Monomania with tremendous results; the ending fruition is another gleaming winner for Cox and Deerhunter.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Crack The Skye
    It’s the rarest type of album: one that exceeds every expectation you may have, branding itself in your mind forever and constantly surprising you with how amazing it is.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    C'mon
    As the result of their impassioned musicianship and disciplined songwriting, this band has always had go-to credibility; with C'mon, they've raised the bar higher still.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Monitor
    There isn't anything remotely 'neat' about The Monitor. Instead, it's a rocking, joyful, epic beast of an album that rattles with energy and pulses with the heart of a raging bull.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Saturnalia
    Saturnalia is easily the best album I have heard this year and will undoubtedly be included in many a year end list.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Warmer Corners
    The easy, carefree atmosphere is extremely effective; the songs’ warmth of proximity makes each better than it would be if heard alone, resulting in an album that somehow transcends its simplicity and becomes something of remarkable beauty.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Supper
    A strong early contender for Record of the Year.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Rave Tapes
    Mogwai’s newest offering, Rave Tapes, is a brooding masterpiece of a record.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Static Tensions
    Static Tensions is the fourth album from Savannah, Georgia metal mavens Kylesa and it may well be the best damn album the band’s released and one of the finest of 2009, metal or otherwise.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Aha Shake Heartbreak
    Wrongly cast as a chicken-fried version The Strokes after 2003’s stellar Youth & Young Manhood, on their latest, Aha Shake Heartbreak, The Kings prove that they’re a band of significant depth and originality.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Music For the Quiet Hour/The Drawbar Organ EPs
    Continuing to mystify audiences with ethereal, oft-experimental electronic music, Shackleton delivers one of the finest jewels of 2012.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Since We've Become Translucent
    A consistently heady and visceral shot of classic Mudhoney: angry, fuzzy guitars, propulsive rhythms, and sarcastically-jaded lyrics.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Illinois
    Exhausting, enthralling, disorientating, celebratory, and contemplative, Sufjan Stevens has delivered another album that will keep us listening and educated till Christmas.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Fever Ray
    It may not be as enigmatic as Silent Shout but if nothing else, it is a fantastic album on its own accord.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It's All Around You
    The music is consistently fresh, fascinating, and evocative... the band’s best album to date.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Two Thousand
    Melodic post-punk rarely sounds as beautiful, exciting, or emotionally connected as it does on Two Thousand.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Cool
    This is certainly a breath of fresh air in what was a slow year for hip-hop.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
    Those without a stomach for a little humor in their music will surely thumb their noses, but for everyone else, this is essential listening: a whip-smart band of originals, living with death, throwing coconuts at the rest of us from greener pastures.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ten
    It’s so intriguing that I continually find myself tuning and listening to it over and over again.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Pattern + Grid World
    This new EP is a terrific welcoming of fresh, new thriving music from one of electronic music's leading men.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Silent Hour/Golden Mile [EP]
    The way the EP grows from song to song--with a seamless flow inherently added midway through creation--Silent Hour/Golden Mile never ceases to impress.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Multiply
    Multiply is not just the year’s most adventurous album, it’s one of its most melodic, soulful, and engaging as well.
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