For 3,520 reviews, this publication has graded:
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81% higher than the average critic
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1% same as the average critic
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18% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 78
Highest review score: | My Savior | |
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Lowest review score: | Playing With Fire |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,086 out of 3520
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Mixed: 407 out of 3520
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Negative: 27 out of 3520
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- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Feb 27, 2024
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It's never a guarantee that a collaboration from talented soloists will work, let alone multiple times. The Record navigates that hurdle deftly enough to suggest that none of these artists have reached their full potential. Neither has Boygenius.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Apr 4, 2023
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Still, if the songs on Midnights aren't her stickiest, it doesn't much matter while they're playing, given how effectively they generate a mood and paint effective pictures.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Oct 21, 2022
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The Loneliest Time, Jepsen's sixth album (and the outcome of her being in pandemic lockdown), retains the ardor of her pop-cognoscenti-beloved albums Dedicated and Emotion, but it flaunts a new self-reflective streak that both energizes its highlights and opens the door for Jepsen to play with — and expand — her sound.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Oct 21, 2022
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The catalog of touchstones, samples, and cameos on Renaissance could double as a syllabus for a master class on the evolution of dance music as it has unfolded during Beyoncé's lifetime.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Aug 2, 2022
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Instead of taking a much-needed left turn and cranking it up to 11, he's settled for something safe — something too smooth, too worldly.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Jun 23, 2022
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Styles has put together an album that's so solid, even moments that would be cringeworthy when handled by lesser pop stars feel earned. ... Harry's House is also emotionally heavy at times, with Styles' understated delivery adding power to his plainspoken lyrics.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted May 16, 2022
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Most songs on the brisk 37-minute LP unfold like a breezy coastal drive — you can practically feel the beachy wind in your hair and hear the lulling tides lapping at the shore, waiting to pull you in. This is vibe music. But more upbeat cuts like "Any Given Sunday," featuring blxst, and the Justin Bieber duet "Up At Night" offer more of a jolt.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted May 2, 2022
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Ten years into her career — and despite the multitude of insecurities she addresses throughout Familia — the 25-year-old appears more sure of herself than ever.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Apr 8, 2022
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A woolly wall of sound from the chugging blown-out opener "Taking Me Back" to the spiraling title track. [Apr 2022, p.106]- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Apr 4, 2022
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- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Mar 31, 2022
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Morris' full breadth is encapsulated on Humble Quest, and it's far more ambitious than the title suggests. The 32-year-old's third studio album mines a rich yet relatable personal life- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Mar 28, 2022
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Not everything lands, and not everything that lands sticks. Even so, there aren't many 17-year hiatuses that end by presenting a group with plenty of gas left in the tank. "When I'm 40 years older/When I'm wrinkled and wise," sings Orzabal — and The Tipping Point makes a compelling argument that it will be worth the wait.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Feb 28, 2022
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If 2017's Strength of a Woman was her divorce record, chronicling the messy end of a 15-year marriage to producer Kendu Isaacs, Gorgeous is the sound of an artist slowly emerging from the other side.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Feb 14, 2022
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The result is Lucifer on the Sofa, Spoon's loosest, liveliest album since 2010's unruly low-fi gem Transference, which combines that LP's spontaneous spirit with the meticulous production and sharp melodic hooks of their most memorable work.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Feb 11, 2022
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These nine songs are the most inviting and accessible Animal Collective have been in more than a decade, with lovely lazy-river synth squiggles and gangland vocals as smooth as melted butter. [Feb 2022, p.107]- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Jan 25, 2022
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Dawn FM might be just shy of summoning the truly divine, but its best moments provide enough blinding light to counter the increasingly enveloping gloom of 2022.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Jan 11, 2022
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A surprisingly personal album that showcases how Adele has matured, both as an artist and as a person, since the middle of the last decade. She could have built on her blockbuster success in a cynical way, copy-and-pasting "Rolling in the Deep" and "Hello." Instead, she lets her emotions guide her, with triumphant results.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Nov 19, 2021
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The pair are clearly having fun with their loverman shtick here — a knowing throwback to a more-cowbell era when all the cars were Monte Carlos, the lamps were lava, and #MeToo was but a distant, joy-killing dream. Mostly that comes through with an obvious wink; other times it lands somewhere between Pepé Le Pew and Ron Burgundy on the self-awareness scale.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Nov 12, 2021
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Thank You is a powerful showcase for how good Ross is even after a two-decade absence.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Nov 5, 2021
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That Santana can still impose his stamp on a solid handful of tracks is absolutely worth celebrating. That he's unable to grab the spotlight on the rest of Blessings and Miracles offers a hint of what he's sacrificed along the way.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Oct 19, 2021
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Seven albums in, Carlile has long since proven herself constitutionally incapable of making a bad record. She's not about to start now.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Sep 30, 2021
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Her debut album Remember Her Name, which is full of heartfelt songs that soar and shiver alongside Guyton's majestic vocal, is a full-spectrum showcase of her long-simmering talent.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Sep 24, 2021
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If the tone for most of the record's first half tips heavily toward 2 a.m. regrets and tempos that rarely rise above a broken heartbeat, the BPMs shift, however briefly, on "Breadwinner." With its tart warnings to steer clear of a meal-ticket man who "wants your shimmer/To make him feel bigger/Until he starts feeling insecure," the track feels like a buoyant callback to the chicken-fried wit of past standouts like "High Horse" and "Biscuits."- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Sep 9, 2021
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The new album is like watching the eighth season of a sitcom and growing hyper-aware of all the recycled jokes and actors' laugh lines.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Sep 7, 2021
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Once again showcases her vulnerability, opening up old wounds from relationships with her father, a past lover, and, ultimately, herself. [Sep 2021, p.107]- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Aug 30, 2021
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Even amid all the worrying, their defiant, quivering music vibrates with possibility in a way that plainly and passionately refutes even the darkest moments of despair their lyrics express. [Sep 2021, p.107]- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Aug 25, 2021
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There's a subdued quality to Solar Power that feels a lot like caution, or just self-protection — a deliberate retreat from the raw, unfiltered verve of her earlier output into the safer remove of a wry bystander more at ease with cool observation than confessional bloodletting.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Aug 19, 2021
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The hooks are less immediately earworm-y than stomping When We All Fall anthems like "Bad Guy" or "Bury a Friend"; only rarely do the BPMs bump up high enough to transfer to the dance floor. Mostly, the beats are there to frame Eilish's singular voice: a smoky, silvery instrument that swoops and dips between vulnerability and bravado, jazz-bar bossa nova and confessional Gen Z poetry.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Aug 2, 2021
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Pink Noise revels in the freedom of moving beyond stress for something peaceful, adding yet another layer to Mvula's already-rich tapestry of sound.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Jul 1, 2021
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