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For 3,084 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: 2,476 out of 3084
  2. Mixed: 574 out of 3084
  3. Negative: 34 out of 3084
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    True North
    Michael Chapman’s songs are gorgeous, dark-tone places, full of the work of musical collaboration, but also haunted and spare. Lovely stuff.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In The Future
    Black Mountain won’t win any prizes for innovation, but their slightly bruised brand of retro is far more fertile than that of their contemporaries.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If...
    Far from being liabilities, such disparate moments help define If… for the better: as a work that frolics in different directions without losing control or coherence.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Takes
    Takes is most worthwhile for Adem fans, but intriguing for anyone who enjoys a new perspective on old tunes.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mothertongue
    What makes Muhly’s work particularly interesting then is not only his use of this style--comprehending the four movements of the title track is particularly vexing as bits of voices mingle and move at different velocities--but the use of the style in a dynamic way itself, reminiscent of Nyman’s compositions.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Follower
    With The Follower we have the first truly top-tier Field album that seems to draw its energy more from refinement than innovation, from the spin of the wheel rather than the speed of the car.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Exploded View
    This crew has figured out how to make it work as a quartet.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Father Divine
    Father Divine ranks among the best of Ladd’s efforts, and is easily one of his most adventurous.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Musik
    He’s a better photographer than he is a musician, but Eggleston’s passion and restless, searching creativity shine through here. And as with his finest images, these deceptively simple pieces can conjure a range of emotions and narratives for more complex and rich than what an initial impression might hold.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tago Mago [40th Anniversary Edition]
    We have a groundbreaking album re-released, with some strong live material
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Summer Through My Mind
    It may be that he doesn’t have a country bone to stand on, but he obviously knows all about the music’s spirit.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    River of Souls
    Sonically these songs are crafted out of beautifully thin, translucent textures that brush over one another to create half hues and harmonies. And lyrically, too, they pile evocative, not definitive, images one on top of the other, until a song can encompass two diametrically opposed ideas without any tension at all.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon)
    Ultimately, what you see here is indeed what you get: amour, imagination and rêve from two men who fell to earth...from the dark side of Méliès' moon.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal
    Whatever a given listener’s quibbles or preferences around the two versions of the album, there’s another thing that points to a core truth about Terror Twilight: both versions still ultimately sound pretty damn good.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Hungry Saw
    England’s most defiantly rococo pop group can make a richly detailed record without really trying.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Feel the Sound
    Imperial Teen crafts a super-clean, super-sharp, inordinately complex collection of songs that, nonetheless, go down like cherry cola.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    North
    North is an album intended to be accessible, and it embodies its time and place more honestly than most records released this year--which is a risky thing to say while also acknowledging that the title refers to a time as well as a place: the Northern England of Joy Division and The Human League.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cancer4Cure
    The most disarming thing El-P's got going for him is his ability to sound like he's broadcasting from an impossible future even while he's standing right next to you in the present.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Where We Come From
    The sound is open and uncluttered, rare for a genre that relishes tangles. There’s lots of liquid synths, and were they gracing a 4/4 thump, they’d have an Ibiza glow to them.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lotta Sea Lice
    Lotta Sea Lice avoids the potential flippancy of a side-project, using well considered song selection and quality lyricism to drive a singular but, we hope, not a single collaboration.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Saints & Sebastian Stories
    Ordinary moments are distilled into liquid bits of musical clarity, surrounded by a rich but muted palette of sounds and let fly into the world. It is rare for songs so soft and confiding to sound this sophisticated.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Stage Names
    The Stage Names is raucous, rambunctious and occasionally quite funny.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    L.I.E.S. Presents: Music for Shut-Ins
    The most heartening thing to be said about Music for Shut-Ins is that it reflects the opposite ethos, a go-for-broke glut of great songs in or around house music’s orbit.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Eternal
    The Eternal is a rock group playing at the peak of their powers: assured but not ‘comfortable,’ and free with each other.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Borametz Tree
    C Joynes and the Furlong Bray have dreamed up a wholly convincing invisible city and utopian alternative musical history of the world. While the beleaguered Havians “do not excel at the musical art”, the Bray boys do, and have created something warm and joyful out of the long ages.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mind Over Matter
    It meanders stylistically all over the map, but unites all those styles in a pounding, obliterating “Bristol Road Leads to Dachau”-style drum beat that punches you right in the soft tissues.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Way Out
    The Books have always been both playful and serious, but their latest album moves between the two easily and without making the listener take note. It is so subtle that even when paying attention, it still feels natural.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    III
    The band strikes a balance between symmetry and expansiveness, which gets at the core of why the krautrockers have endured—disciplined beats allow the free-form wanderings to reach places that more shaggy jamming misses.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Useless Coordinates
    Brown addresses alienation, identity, the lure of the spectacle, religion but she does so with an oblique approach to words that mirrors Drahla’s approach to their music. If this all sounds very serious be assured that Useless Connections is an album that, above all, rocks.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Imperial
    The Imperial [is] a pleasure to hear. Sonically, the dark, rich timbres of The Imperial are as wallow-worthy and voluptuous as bar-light or certain kinds of sadness. Like the assuredly crappy hotel from which it takes its name, The Imperial is too run through with exhaustion to want to spend a lot of time with, but it’s perfect for retreating into when you can’t feel right about anything.
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