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For 1,511 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Untitled
Lowest review score: 10 United Nations of Sound
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,005 out of 1511
  2. Mixed: 449 out of 1511
  3. Negative: 57 out of 1511
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sonic Nurse
    What emerges is Sonic Youth at complete ease with themselves and their music, operating simultaneously at the peak of their powers and with a powerful, audacious restraint.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Volta
    It's probably Bjork's most succinct and inventive statement yet.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Room On Fire
    Frankly, this is it all over again.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Living With War
    It may not be his best album but it ranks as one of his most important.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Loose Fur
    This is true cosmic American music and possibly the best thing all concerned have ever done.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
    This is an album that's far from complacent and what's most in evidence throughout is they're seeking to challenge themselves as much as their audience.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Celebration
    It's a dizzyingly impressive debut.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gallowsbird's Bark
    A unique musical vision with a genuinely unique and beautifully skewed worldview to boot.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Everything Ecstatic
    "Everything Ecstatic" pulses with imagination and subtle talent, choosing to follow a sweet technicolour road rather than take a harder, and far well trodden path.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    More Than A Woman
    Braxton has gotten brave and ratcheted-up both the attitude and tempo.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hot Shots II
    The result is largely the mature second album that we were hoping for with Steve Mason's magical way with a tune still proving capable of injecting an awe-inspiring and yet indefinable emotional resonance to everything he touches.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    More Parts Per Million
    Yet though the music may not win any originality awards - Sebadoh and Guided By Voices spring instantly to mind as precursors - there is a refreshing lack of pretension throughout.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Proof of Youth
    Proof Of Youth was made for rolling back the years and the rug, not chin-stroking contemplation. If shredded Axminster was The Go! Team's aim here, then mission well and truly accomplished.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Genesis
    Goes on a bit, predictably (20 tracks!), but only Jay-Z can match its highlights for party soundtrack of the year.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Summer Sun
    This minor masterpiece of an album is nothing less than a precision exercise in deconstructed songwriting.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chain Gang Of Love
    The Raveonettes have something the Mary Chain lost around the time of 'Automatic': an understanding of how to make a tight three minute pop song feel exhilarating.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?
    If Avril Lavigne dealt with her 'issues' by adding whiskey to her skinny latté, bummed about on a Californian beach at sunset and listened to The Go-Gos, this is what she'd sound-like.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unicorn
    Skim the surface and you'll find ten slabs of icily slick electro-pop, spend a little time and you'll uncover an altogether darker core; either way Unicorn delivers in whichever form you're looking for.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Growing Pains
    Blige's eighth studio album [is a contender] for being the best of her career.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    22 Dreams
    Ultimately, 22 Dreams is, simply put, Weller's best album since "Stanley Road", and one to be remembered for years to come.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Brainwashed
    The result is pretty much what you'd expect from an album bearing Lynne's name on the credits.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Wake Up!
    It's not just that these sentiments are timeless - these songs, in these hands, are only now receiving their definitive interpretations.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Big Doe Rehab
    Despite not being quite as smart as "Fishscale", The Big Doe Rehab certainly marks another reason (along with recent GZA shows and the release of "8 Diagrams") to suggest the Wu-Tang dynasty is going through something of a renaissance.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Colour The Small One
    Rather than mimicking and rehashing "Simple Things", she's found a warmth and depth of feeling that makes "Colour The Small One" the logical progression.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do
    Happily so, as well, as any adherence to the backstory would ruin what's simply the best dumbass party album of the summer.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Happiness In Magazines
    It's not original or slyly crafted enough - a couple of songs could definitely have benefited from a quick edit from Damon - to feel truly classic, but it has a charm and a vibrancy that's impossible to resist.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Excuses for Travelers
    As tear-soaked and gorgeous as we ever might have hoped.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Eraser
    You must surely marvel at Thom Yorke's insistence to challenge his audience and his enemies.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    With The Lights Out
    It’s the way “With The Lights Out” fleshes out the plot that makes it so compelling.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Body Talk, Pt. 2
    Lady Gaga apart, the most interesting stars in 2010 are women in their 30s and beyond, artists with phosphorescent personalities that might burn the fingers of anyone wishing to mould them. Singers like Alison Goldfrapp, Grace Jones and Robyn Miriam Carlsson.
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