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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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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cast the Same Old Shadow
    It's a soulful country stroll, which favors heavily on career building and that is something that Dylan Leblanc is sure doing, and quite swimmingly if I might add. Bravo.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Places Like This
    Places Like This is a fun album that’s difficult to describe and impossible to forget.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Magnolia
    With such tight and unashamedly sparse and intimate product along with an emphasis on nicely layered and blended vocals, it’s hard to find a complaint with Magnolia.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Octahedron
    Octahedron is most certainly not a wish for Top 40 stardom, but compared to past efforts by this collective, it’s probably the surest means of attracting a larger batch of casual listeners without completely rejecting the heady desires of Mars Volta obsessives.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Talahomi Way
    I'm sure that O'Hagan realizes that his band has made a name for itself in being able to almost take the listener away for an entire album of music. The experience is definitely a good one and a huge reason why Talahomi Way is a success because of it.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Cost
    The Cost is hardly a poor album - in fact it's a quite good album - but after the release of so many gems, I find it difficult for it to completely measure up to the stiff competition.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Digital Ash In A Digital Urn
    Despite all the bleeps and blurbs of this album’s electronic window dressing, it’s still Oberst’s emo-tive honesty and lyrical daring that makes up for the album’s forgettable moments.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Overcome
    There were some hits and some misses on this band's follow-up to a somewhat commercial success.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Otto Spooky
    Otto Spooky is an excellent album, yet sometimes too long for my attention span.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Treble & Tremble
    For an artist who continues to mature and expand, Treble & Tremble may not be his magnum opus, but it is a delightful indie-pop album.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Liberation
    An interesting collage of styles.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Oxeneers Or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go
    This is an updated version of Drive Like Jehu, often faster, angrier, and, conversely, more sparse and peaceful.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!
    The more poppy songs here are remarkably good.... But be aware that it's often a jarring listen.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    You Can Play These Songs With Chords
    Takes us on a tour of how things got started and where they could be going.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You Are The One I Pick
    All in all, You Are the One I Pick is a compelling and enjoyable listen which, at 35 minutes in length, is smart not to overstay its welcome.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Replica Sun Machine
    It’s definitely not album of the year (nor would it have nabbed that distinction in 2007 when it was actually released on the other side of the Atlantic), but the Shortwave Set bring just enough innovation with them to make this 45 minute disc worth your while.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Welcome Joy
    Welcome Joy is the perfect, earthy balance of the grittiest and the sweetest splendors that the Pacific has to offer.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Let There Be Morning
    Anyone with a love for substantive indie pop that sounds fresh with each listen would be erring by not picking up this affecting, gorgeous album.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Different Gear, Still Speeding
    The album is quite fun in places, and shows some actual songwriting acumen form Liam Gallagher.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Everybody Loves A Happy Ending
    Everybody Loves a Happy Ending is a polychromatic, sweeping collection of gorgeous guitar-pop gems, a clever and harmonious amusement park filled with fun rides listeners will want to board over and over.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    R.E.M Live
    Taken as a whole package though, R.E.M. Live is a flawed but respectable enough addition to the canon of three men who can still conjure up a bit of magic, albeit in spite of themselves.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Around
    Whilst Around is hardly groundbreaking stuff – Verlaine’s retro equipment preferences automatically predicate a retro feel – it is a genuinely unforced unfurling of a reclusive talent and a worthy companion piece to Warm and Cool.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Field Manual
    Ultimately this is an engaging pop album with lush sonics, like a guitar-heavy Death Cab album with a less than brilliant singer, which is not a bad thing at all, and should feed the need of fans of alluring, guitar-based indie-rock and keep DCFC fans contented until the release of their new album in May ‘08.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hungry Bird
    What strikes me is that past Clem Snide albums had their stronger moments, but also their weaker ones, while Hungry Bird, for all its time in development, is more solid throughout, delivering its 10 pop songs with a consistency that shows the band continuing to develop its sound.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Skin Of Evil
    Skin of Evil, out on Soft Abuse Jan. 20, is a breathtaking, mesmerizing record, a lyrical song cycle about love and loss, affection and anger and alienation.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Diver
    An intoxicating brand of synth-pop that's slicker than a Gordon Gekko coif.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Keel Her
    Inevitably, this strand of the release contains more obstacles for those unable to cope with the bedroom-birthed murkiness of the album as a whole. However, with some fine-tuning this less guitar-centric side of Keel Her could rise more positively to the fore in future.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Take My Breath Away
    What I am here to do is to point you in the direction of Take My Breath Away, Boratto’s exceptionally crafted new album.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sam's Town
    With those sharp synth lines, and an interesting sense of melody, the Killers have made a good album.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Life Coach
    There's a nagging feeling that Life Coach is a sketchbook instead of an art exhibit, and feels a little insubstantial at times. The album hits more than it misses, though, and makes up for the fact that it doesn't really have too much new to say by trading in an impressive range of styles while managing a moody cohesiveness.
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