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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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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    R.A.P. Music
    This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel... but most importantly, R.A.P. Music is rap music, as fresh as it comes.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On the Line
    On the Line is yet another beautifully-realised and impeccably-delivered effort from a songwriter who revels and beguiles us from floorboards and pavements that few other songwriters would dream to tread.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Before Today
    This isn’t a few Eighties synth presets stuck through a distortion pedal--it’s music that resonates far beyond a simple aping of well established precedents, often managing to be funny, sad and thought provoking in the space of a single track.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Parklive
    So it wasn't because Blur gave the most outstanding performance of their two-decade career that justified their rejection of what I'll call the Seymour route. It was the timing, the sense of 'crowning achievement', the feeling of poetic justice. As a document of that, Parklive is worth your money.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Action Time Vision: A Story of Independent U.K. Punk 1976-1979 [Box Set]
    Action Time Vision... covers a seminal time when anything seemed possible and a special kind of never to be repeated excitement hung in the air. For those reasons alone this box set is worth anyone's time and money.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Wind's Poem
    This is a terrifying, wise album.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Kaputt
    Bejar's reckless approach to romance is almost certainly one of those things you'd live to regret, but that's the appeal of great artistic endeavours: when the writer can pull in his audience so completely that we experience all the adventure while risking none of the consequences.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yonder Is The Clock
    As it stands, it’s an emphatically rich and addictive work. It does sound a whole lot like Dylan, yes. But it’s a whole lot of excellent itself, thanks very much.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It Won't Be Like This All the Time
    It’s a determined, seductive experience, brimming with belief and completely torching everything they’ve done before. As of now, The Twilight Sad are basically untouchable.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002-2010
    We could go on about how great this compilation really is until the cows come home, the Thurston Moore sampling 'Heaven's On Fire' possibly explaining why such documents as Passive Aggressive are essentially vital in rock and roll's present transitional phase.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Lesser Matters
    It has the same majesty and ethereal wonder contained in the best works of the Flaming Lips, Boo Radleys, My Bloody Valentine, Jesus and Mary Chain and Mercury Rev.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fantasy Empire
    It’s a visceral, pulsating entity, echoing with tinnitus.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    And Nothing Hurt
    It might be six years since the last album, but it was worth the wait.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Warm
    These are ultimately, however, personal stories that are elevated by their universal nature.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Meshes of Voice
    A melodic and lyrical versatility runs strongly but the atmosphere created around the words is beyond a mere accompaniment.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Silent Hour/Golden Mile [EP]
    Yes it may be comfortable and familiar, but Silent Hour/Golden Mile is never samey.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Singing Saw
    As a whole, Singing Saw is Morby’s best work.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Serena-Maneesh
    By marrying the subtle ethereality of bands like MBV with the swashbuckling pomp of a modern-day Iggy, they are a band at once single-minded and confused.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Before the Dawn [Live]
    There are moments where the live dynamics allow the songs to hit a few more buttons than the studio recordings did, but ultimately it was an overwhelmingly visual show and it feels like everything here is lacking its USP, no matter how good it is.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    What's Your 20? Essential Tracks 1994-2014
    It’s one for the wider music aficionado too though, a fine opportunity to appreciate the best band of the past 20 years.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Great Pretenders
    A great, and fun, album.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blue Cathedral
    An album that is both abundant in depth and variety, as well as in terrifying walls of noise and gaping chasms of silence.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cancer4Cure
    When you combine this teeth-gritting lyrical intensity with El-P's boundary-pushing production and stupefyingly capable poetics, it's little wonder that, for all its darkness, paranoia and rage, Cancer For Cure emerges as one of the year's most endlessly re-playable records.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ecate
    This is both the album Ufomammut completists will have been awaiting and the best album for new listeners to get their ears stuck into.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lovers
    When he steps away from alt-country-rock (or whatever you want to call Jeff Tweedy et al) Cline tends to veer towards a more experimental jazz sound and this is where Lovers really surprises.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This Is Happening
    This is Happening might not take us as far as Sound Of Silver, yet at times it’s still an exhilarating journey with ample opportunity to revel in another idiosyncratic lesson in the art, and joy, of sonic bricolage.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Snares Like a Haircut
    After 40 minutes you’re still not totally sure what it is you’ve listened to. This could be great, messy pop music, or just as easily be something you dreamt, dozing in post-coital bliss with a detuned radio in the background. Whichever it is, you’ll just be glad it exists. If, that is, it exists at all.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Electric Lady Sessions
    As a whole, perhaps unsurprising to those well-versed in the band’s skyscraping sonic feats, Electric Lady Sessions is an affecting appetiser with riveting moments strewn throughout the 12-song compilation.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Etch And Etch Deep
    An album-long search for new ways to express old thoughts, and far from any prescribed formula of tempos and buggery that would entail techno or drum n’ bass or other electronic information media.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Silent Earthling
    It takes some talent to blend elements of metal, prog rock, classic electronica (Brian Eno has been an acknowledged influence, and Rogerson will be releasing a collaboration with him in the near future), techno and hip hop into an album, but Three Trapped Tigers have pulled it off so convincingly here that it makes some of their previous material look unfairly clunky in comparison.
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