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For 3,080 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: 2,472 out of 3080
  2. Mixed: 574 out of 3080
  3. Negative: 34 out of 3080
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This Could Be Texas
    Much like BC,NR’s magnificent Ants From Up There, the album feels like several potential closers have been strung together during the album’s final stretch, which could have been trimmed a little to maximize the impact of what’s left. Nevertheless, this is an extremely colorful, fun and addictive record that showcases the enviable talents of a young band with a bright future.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
    Big Boi isn't an MC; he's a songwriter. That distinction is what separates him from other rappers, and it's what makes Sir Lucious--an album whose elan is instantaneously felt and whose spirit only becomes more invigorated with each listening--such a pleasure.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Untrue
    That emptiness tempts a listener in, and puts you in its place--you, in a sense, step into the record’s point of view. This invitation to intimacy is a powerful move that most club music is simply incapable of.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Rounds
    Now, rather than trying to replay his roots and influences, he’s incorporating them as threads in the in the tapestry of his own rich, distinctly beautiful sound.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Neon Golden
    With Neon Golden, the Notwist have created a daring album full of different sounds and textures. While this might sound like a textbook post-rock album, it is without a doubt a record firmly anchored by its pop sensibilities.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Apex Predator - Easy Meat
    One thing that’s allowed Napalm Death to keep punching through mirrors is that as its sound has sharpened, the band’s ability to capture high-resolution chaos has sharpened, too.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Black Origami
    It’s dark and brooding, fiercely sparse at times and blindingly dense at others. Footwork is no longer an appropriate descriptor for this music. With Black Origami, Jlin has transcended her roots to build a language all of her own. And simply put, it’s brilliant.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For Those I Love
    For Those I Love is a wonderfully open-hearted portrayal of young Ireland akin to contemporaries Fontaines D.C. or the Murder Capital.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ignorance
    Ignorance is a serious album about serious things, wrapped up in lush music that doesn’t mask the urgency Lindeman feels. Earlier Weather Station records had a tendency to slip into the background. This one forces you to pay attention.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fed
    Ingenuity and sincerity (two things in which Hayes excels) are priceless, and the sum of the parts is quite a masterpiece indeed.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tigers Blood
    The sound blooms; Tiger’s Blood is the most polished of Crutchfield’s albums to date.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Last Exit
    Last Exit is a truly excellent album, one of the best of 2004 so far. But what is truly exciting is the promise Last Exit holds for the future – for that of the Junior Boys themselves and the countless others it is sure to inspire.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Merriweather Post Pavilion
    It's not a return to form so much as a complete reinvention, this is an album that highlights a particularly buoyant Animal Collective, one that’s managed to expand their sound in surprising ways while still retaining the same basic creative impulses that made them such a joy to watch develop over the past decade
    • 89 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Songs For The Deaf
    A balls-out, hateful, heavy, and catchy piece of work that rocks like it was 1994 all over again.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bright Green Field
    The band is very good, good enough to pull off this edge-of-your-seat flirtation with breakdown.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Wearemonster
    Five years on, We Are Monster finds Raijko Muller so confident and articulate that Rest comes off in comparison like a set of hastily scrawled clutch notes.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ali & Toumani
    To put it simply, Ali and Toumani is a quiet, intimate, timeless record; a transcendent expression of cultural pride, deep friendship, and above all, breath-taking musical colloquy.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    High Land, Hard Rain [30th Anniversary Edition]
    Get beyond the Phil Collins-into-Peter Gabriel style clarity, and the songs start to take hold.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    There's a Dream I've Been Saving: 1966-1971
    There’s a Dream I’ve Been Saving is an engrossing 107 song compilation of weird artistry that panders to all the trends of its era, that being 1966-1971.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    We're New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven
    McCraven lays down a lush musical backdrop that allows Scott-Heron’s words to have emotional impact.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Yours, Mine & Ours
    So when I say that Yours, Mine & Ours sounds too good to be true, I'm resolved after much deliberation that this is an entirely positive thing: it is impeccably conceived, executed, and produced.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Chutes Too Narrow
    On Chutes, Mercer’s voice is singing right next to you, and the change works wonders.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    To Be Kind
    Three full studio albums into their reinvigorated latest phase, and Swans’ ability to surprise remains as potent as ever To Be Kind might just be the most startling and uncompromising of the trio, although these qualities take time to unveil themselves.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Hypermagic Mountain
    Essentially, the Brians don't really need to innovate that much anymore and instead are just fine-tuning their craft in glorious ways.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II
    Working almost like a glorified mixtape, many of the tracks bleed together or start mid-scene with field recordings of corner action. It adds to the feeling that you’ve dropped in on something important.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Divers
    Newsom is, obviously, not the first musician to get technically better at what she does while we’re looking on, and not the first, either, to elicit a twinge of regret from listeners who liked the rawer, wilder beginnings.... Divers hides its sting not in an unusual voice, but in its lyrical and musical complexity, and it’s a good trade after all.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ta Det Lugnt
    While it is undeniably a good record, reaching into the stratosphere of excellence at points, Ejstes' overall modus operandi seems more akin to outright homage at times than any sort of exploration of the means and methods of vintage '70s rock and its application in a modern context.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dream Weapon
    Magnificently noisy in some places, forebodingly quiet in others and at all times distended from full cognizance, Dream Weapon is a balanced, well executed step firmly away from Genghis Tron’s former selves. Call it their Year Zero.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Accelerando
    He may not voice things like Ellington would have, but it doesn't matter. It could never stop, as far as I'm concerned.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Return To Cookie Mountain
    There's a wider range of styles and sounds here, from dramatic shoegazer epics to the closest they've ever gotten to straight-ahead rock. Not everything gels solidly, and there are some awkward moments, but no real stumbles.
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