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For 3,076 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Ys
Lowest review score: 0 Rain In England
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,468 out of 3076
  2. Mixed: 574 out of 3076
  3. Negative: 34 out of 3076
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ways of Meaning
    There can never be too much of this kind of music--so there's a built-in safety in Ways of Meaning for Dunn as an artist and for its listeners. It's automatically successful if you take it up on its own terms, but I get the feeling Dunn is inching his way toward something that elicits a more nuanced response.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Clutching Stems
    Despite its lackluster production and a dearth of strong songs, Clutching Stems isn't quite a bust. Olson still turns in some strong tracks, which are not coincidentally the ones that sound like they would have been most at home on earlier albums.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Canta Lechuza
    It's the unexpected emotions that Canta Lechuza can unearth that stand as its greatest achievement. Lange's most complex compositions here make fascinating art from contrasting moods, and it's that complexity that, ultimately, make this album worthy of return.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sucre du Sauvage
    This is Quintron's best summation yet of his iconoclastic melding of raw rock & roll, R&B and funk, experimental electronics and art.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Errant Charm
    The Errant Charm is by no means a bad album, but it's not great either; it's just nice in a way that is too easy to ignore for its own good.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gloss Drop
    Gloss Drop is the most self-sufficient world Battles have made yet, and a pretty good argument in favor of music that gets less and less interesting the more you know about it.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    David Comes To Life
    David ain't the kind of thing you want to hear every day, but it's the kind of thing someone is going to play every day for a month. Or months. Whatever it takes to come back to life.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Teenage Hate
    While Teenage Hate sits squarely in the flamey-shirt scene of the '90s, even the greaser version of Jay knew how to bust up cliches.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fever
    Fever retains the cheeky humor of other dubstep artists, but its vivacity makes it his most immediate, and compelling, release yet.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    ISAM
    ISAM's clusters aren't as advanced as Tobin might have you think, and only represent a monumental leap forward if you compare them to his trio of classic albums, all of which were recorded more than 10 years ago.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Alegrias
    It's striking how well the gypsy sound fits with older material, but even so, the best song on Alegrias was written specifically for the album.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Talahomi Way
    It's a body of work that begs deep listening, the better to divine the wild kindness at its core.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Demolished Thoughts
    Maybe it's less dangerous, stoopid and contagious in moments. But for this newest gift, I do feel blessed nonetheless. In the end, I guess this largesse just makes me smile.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A New Way To Pay Old Debts
    A New Way... didn't need reinforcements, and taking in all 14 tracks in succession can be tough going, but a little bit of overkill doesn't dull the bracing energy of Orcutt's kinetic, four-string idioglossia.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stone Breaker
    Stone Breaker is undeniably a Mark E product, propulsive disco-house clouded by his trademark ambient haze, with terrific builds and releases. It's easily one of the better dance music albums that will come out this year.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tan Bajo
    Original Detroit, Northwestern, and New York garage bands figure equally in the blueprint, resulting in a robust hook-fest that plays like a mixtape of the greatest rock 'n roll songs '65-'78.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Diamond Mine
    It's clear that none of these songs really require amplification, that they, in fact, drive the beauty of Diamond Mine. Still, Hopkins's deft touch somehow adds to, rather than subtracts from, their elemental simplicity
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Innings
    They have always written insanely short, catchy pop songs in the modern idiom, and, for those looking for the one line post mortem, Innings doesn't just not disappoint, it delights.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Dissolve
    There's no denying Lynn's skill at reconciling disparate sounds, even if the brightest moments fail to paper over all the cracks.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Space Is Only Noise
    Jaar attempted something ambitious with this album--it stands apart, even if it never risks a whole lot. Space Is Only Noise is unique, but also a work of modesty and, for an album that samples French poetry and is rarely danceable, it's unpretentious.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Air Museum
    On Air Museum, they've turned more toward rhythm and pulse. So the melodies now are more like elegant patterns tattooing out micro-rhythms, and the ever-present warm timbral glow the two do so well has become a kind of undertow, a more urgent wave motion.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Moody, Standard and Poor
    They seem more interested in perfecting what they've already shown they can do better than anyone else.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs of the Queen of Country Music
    Impeccably tasteful, Kitty Wells Dresses is no mere museum piece. It deserves to rest in an enthusiast's country collection somewhere among, say, Buck Owens Sings Harlan Howard and Del Shannon Sings Hank Williams.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Feel It Break
    As the album thumps on, though, listeners who prefer dynamics over beat matching will lose patience.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Moonlight Butterfly
    It's enjoyable and I find myself anticipating the songs.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    False Beats and True Hearts
    False Beats and True Hearts may move slowly, but it moves with grace, and it never lapses into the sameness of yore. The varied arrangements help.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I Am Very Far
    With no connecting thread or great songwriting, I Am Very Far is difficult to engage with. It has its moments, of course, but the more I listen, the more I think of it as a creative palette cleanser -- a chance to try out a few ideas while planning the next big song cycle.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cosmic Lieder
    More accurately, these duo performances are truly sympathetic and move at the molecular level, making each piece on Cosmic Lieder wonderfully dense with information and ideas.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Past Life Martyred Saints
    Past Life Martyred Saints sounds as if it's trying to save rock, but without any winks or nods.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Goblin
    Goblin is the messy schizoid splatter painting of the child we've raised and ruined, and it's coherent only as a hopeless plea for us to expect nothing from him again.
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