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For 787 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 72% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 24% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Okonokos [Live]
Lowest review score: 0 I Get Wet
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 643 out of 787
  2. Mixed: 133 out of 787
  3. Negative: 11 out of 787
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Mouse And The Mask
    As subversive as it is weird.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Funeral
    An emotionally wracked masterpiece, drawing on immaculate influences like the Pixies and Talking Heads while sounding distinctly original.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Dirty South
    Even though the production is slicker, The Dirty South is still packed with painful, well-illustrated southern gothic sagas.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Sea Change
    Many of these harrowing tunes, like "Lonesome Tears" and "Guess I'm Doing Fine" have the lonely blues feel of Beck's similar-sounding Mutations, and they definitely get better with repeated play.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Playing The Angel
    Not only is Depeche Mode virtually indestructible, the pioneering British synth-pop group also keeps getting better.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Retriever
    Sexsmith's best album yet.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Midnite Vultures
    Beck's best when he's tweaking music he has a genuine interest in, giving new humor and affection to his nasty grooves.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    X&Y
    Some may call it repetitious, but with songs so beautifully crafted, everyone should agree that X&Y equals A.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Transatlanticism
    Ben Gibbard has a knack for painting scenes of such intimate detail they come off as universal.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Idlewild
    Idlewild is a more down-tempo affair than its genre-splitting predecessor, but it wins points with stone-cold psychedelic soul classics such as "Mighty O," "Peaches" and "Hollywood Divorce."
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Black Holes & Revelations
    Head-smashing songs like "Supermassive Black Hole" and "Invincible" all point to an album that strives to be nothing less than epic. It succeeds.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Takk...
    People will be Takk-ing about this truly amazing album for years to come.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Turn On The Bright Lights
    For such a dark and brooding record, Turn on the Bright Lights is also unexpectedly thrilling, coasting on jagged minor-chord guitar melodies and huge emotional swells with a ton of high points along the way.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
    A slower album than most, Bomb eventually reveals itself as a work of genius, wrapping religion, love and life into emotionally thrilling gifts.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    World Without Tears
    Williams' captivating lyrics are gut-wrenchingly intimate.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Keep It Like A Secret
    Beautiful pop symphonies that hit like a Louisville Slugger.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Asleep In The Back
    Their debut drips of melancholy and swims in gorgeous sheets of incidental noise.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    This disc's rich, exotic flavor gets more intense the longer you chew on it.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus
    He gets all beautiful on your ass for the Orpheus portion of this double-disc set, then explodes with a pounding intensity on Abattoir Blues that'll knock your socks off.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Demon Days
    Get past the dark stuff and Demon Days reveals a stash of songs that are more fun than a Hong Kong Phooey marathon.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Okonokos [Live]
    As concert recordings go, this is one of the best.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A Little Deeper
    Ms. Dynamite's debut album is heady stuff, punctuated by groundbreaking beats, seductive vocals and melodies that lodge themselves firmly into your cranium.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Final Straw
    They've updated fuzzy '90s-era alternative rock while tinkering with becoming Northern Ireland's answer to Coldplay.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Live In New York City
    Deeper Bruce fans will go ga-ga over the dearth of hits on this collection and twists like "Born in the U.S.A." getting a Nebraska-esque treatment and a great version of "Jungleland." Everyone else will simply love it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Guero
    Beck's taken everything he's good at and made it better.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Songs For The Deaf
    Say hello to your new metal gods.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat
    A most pleasurable guilty pleasure.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    From A Basement On The Hill
    Exquisite, angry, sad and personal, basement is a beautiful swan song of one of this generation's best.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Antics
    There's something totally irresistible about Antics: The air of mystery, the bleak but hopeful arrangements and the melodies so sharp and moving that they might inspire a night of heroic partying.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Songs In A Minor
    Fusing R&B, pop, jazz, blues, throwback soul--hell, you name it--Keys delivers grandstand ballads (like the single "Fallin' "), midtempo music, diary-worthy lyrics and feminist funk as if they were all as uncomplicated as scales.
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