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For 4,812 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Parades
Lowest review score: 0 And Then Boom
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,477 out of 4812
  2. Mixed: 1,220 out of 4812
  3. Negative: 115 out of 4812
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Long Sleep [EP]
    Her abstract notion seems to unfold halfway through opener ‘Spells’, as she starts engaging in a form of scat singing, amid wispy solos and a dreamy chorus.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    V.
    There is a nagging sense with this attempt that they are leaning on their influences even more than usual, however this is also stands as their best-produced and most accessible record, so there is a balance struck. Whether those outside of the proggy, psychedelic set will acknowledge that, remains to be seen.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wildness
    Overall, Wildness is a really great comeback record. There are a few dud tracks in there, especially in the first half of the album, but these are more than compensated for by the excellence of the remainder of the record.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Love is Dead
    The third album by Glasgow’s Chvrches, Love is Dead, is the sound of your heart as it falls back in love.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Now That I'm a River
    There are flaws in the album, as some songs could be shortened a little and not every song connects, but once you start trying to add that individual polish, you would risk losing the essential character of the whole. As a solo debut, it is an album of assured intelligence.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Angels of Death
    What compels here, is Castle’s ability to have created a piece of art so intimately descriptive of her personal fear of death, and how it links to the songwriter process and her thirst for immortality.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Wide Awake!
    Truly, Wide Awake! is a success all round--the joyous sound of a band taking everything that makes them great and amplifying it, toying with it and producing something even greater.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sparkle Hard
    When this album is good it’s superb--probably the Jicks’ finest yet; and when it’s less so--less focused, more haphazard and wilfully out-there--it’s still pretty damn great as well.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dirty Computer
    While some fans of her earlier, more challenging, material may be mildly disappointed sonically by such a straight-up pop record, even they must acknowledge what an important album this is both personally to Monae and socially to the current world, and for that, it is a successful and pleasurable work.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beyondless
    Beyondless is an ambitious and accomplished ride that will claim a deserved spot on most Best-Of lists this year. Wrap up warm: the ice age has arrived.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    7
    The result is 7, a record that gets closer to the band's self-imposed boundaries than they ever have before without really threatening to break them down.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino
    It’s not the Arctic Monkeys you might expect, and living inside Alex Turner’s identity crisis can be an occasionally uncomfortable experience, but give it some time and this sixth album reveals itself as one of the most interesting of the band’s career.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer.
    While much of the album has you spitting out quicksand, the clear escapism theme of ‘Noah’s Ark’ is a hand dragging you out of the quagmire. And with the amount of misery The Body are offloading here, you’re gonna need a bigger boat.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Confident Music for Confident People
    Confident Music For Confident People is exactly what it says on the tin. It's also the most unashamedly addictive record you'll hear all year.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Be More Kind
    Overall, the album is thought-provoking and relevant. It’s an enjoyable listen and one which morphs and draws deeper messages with each listen. The moderate changes in sound only serve to highlight the poignance of the words through unassuming backing.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rebound
    She’s created an album that’s worth more time than a quick fling on the rebound, another engaging entry in her ever-expanding catalogue.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Exorcism
    Exorcism is very often an uncompromising listen, but the truth that Wilson exposes makes it hard not to galvanise around her. Her sheer unwillingness to sugar-coat the truth is harrowing yet inspiringly brave.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Music for Installations [Box Set]
    This collection of his most ambient and interesting soundtracks is presented here in a contemporary art crescendo; and features the good, the better and the synthesized from his artsy endeavours.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Singularity
    Yet another satisfying record from the London-based producer, who, while loses marks for his perhaps too similar creation, remains an important figure in the UK electronic scene and for good reason. Ultimately, Singularity will shape your summer of 2018 the same way Immunity did of 2013, and all power to it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Conquistador
    Despite his various left turns, the one constant in Carlson’s work is the unrelenting hypnotic power of repetition, and a conviction that “the best music feels like the melody has been around forever.”
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Caer
    While Caer stumbles over artifice at the gate, Twin Shadow eventually rebuilds a vibrant pallet to unload actual confessions that other lonely listeners can relate to.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Grid of Points
    Grid of Points is the sound of what’s left after the winds have subsided. It’s astonishingly beautiful and astonishingly, painfully real.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Girl Cried Red [Mixtape]
    On A Girl Cried Red Frasqueri showcases that she is more than just visceral beats and fierce rhymes. She has written some of her most confessional and personal lyrics to date.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In the Rainbow Rain
    With the exception of the dingy, dirty and grandiose boom of ‘Pulled Up The Ribbon’, most of In The Rainbow Rain is made up of occasionally-sombre songs cleverly disguised as up-beat, harmless, light-hearted tunes, which of course they’re not.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hippo Lite
    The second album from Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley carries the same sense of freedom as their first outing, this time a bit softer and more song-shaped than their debut’s meanderings.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No. 4
    Overall No. 4 is serene, still, and deep. It doesn’t allow you to become transfixed by predictable patterns by rather relaxes you into accepting the next step, whether you are being visited by a herd of headless horsemen, flying away on a magic carpet or sinking slowly, irresistibly, into torpor.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Evil Spirits
    With Evil Spirits, you have to halt, to concentrate entirely to absorb the main message. Close your eyes; and it’s a politically charged electro-pop-rock love-spell to our tumultuous political times--but without the band’s names on the front, you wouldn’t even begin to place which dimension this demon came from.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Deconstruction
    It’s a--for the most part successful--attempt to reach across divides in a world which seems more confusing by the day, a battle against the increasing entropy which seems to be seeping in at the edges of all our existences.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Lookout
    With The Lookout, Veirs has synthesised both these personal and political feelings into something that can sometimes feel timeless, offering a beacon to hold in the darkness.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Straight Hits!
    The Straight Hits! might not have the visceral punch of The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads or the openness of Last of the County Gentlemen but it has more than its fair share of moments, even if Pearson admits breaking several of the five rules, but obeys an unwritten Sixth Pillar: musical rules are made to be broken.
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