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For 3,519 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 81% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 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: 100 The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do
Lowest review score: 0 Playing With Fire
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,085 out of 3519
  2. Mixed: 407 out of 3519
  3. Negative: 27 out of 3519
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Soft Bulletin
    A vertiginous rainbow swirl that crams so many ideas into so many tight spaces that each track is like a perfectly rendered Joseph Cornell box.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Push the Sky Away
    The peak of Cave's 15th album with the Bad Seeds is a multidimensional walkabout through sonic shadows and fog. [22 Feb 2013, p.74]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Feb 20, 2013
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Detours
    In Detours' subdued second half, though, Crow lays off the social commentary to address her own recent rough patches, with lyrics that grow more absorbing and intimate as Bottrell's eclecticism simmers down.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Blonde
    With these 17 tracks, Ocean shows himself to be one of pop’s foremost innovators.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Celebration
    Superfans may well die happy with this much concentrated Madge-estry: 36 tracks covering nearly every phase of her 25-year career. It all holds up surprisingly well.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Modern Times
    Intriguing, immediate, and quietly epic, Modern Times must rank among Dylan's finest albums.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
    It's that very rare thing: a totally fresh--and utterly engaging--sound. [Listen 2 This supplement, Mar 2004, p.12]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Tigers Have Spoken
    A breathtaking 35 minutes. [12 Nov 2004, p.122]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition
    Many of the unreleased, B-side, and cover tracks here are less immediate, but no less joyful for the Pavement completist.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This Is Happening
    Golden-voiced Murphy, however, doesn't try for any cheap Bowie-baritone vocal mimicry, and his lyrics and musicianship have greater depth and polish. The best inspiration should come with improvements, and Murphy's are vast.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    græ
    græ finds him trying to be, well, everything, and through a convergence of folk, jazz, classical, and art-rock, along with his probing lyricism, Sumney has managed to produce a sonic marvel.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Remedy
    This blissful joy ride is hard to resist and easy to love.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
    Familiar, compelling, and tugging out empathy.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Robyn
    Fantastic all of the time.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Way I See It
    Backed by a galvanizing ensemble of musicians that would make the Funk Brothers proud, Saadiq belts out effervescent love songs with infectious vigor.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Reminder
    Another multifaceted gem.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Achtung Baby [Super Deluxe]
    The six discs in Achtung Baby: Uber Deluxe Edition may seem like overkill, but most everything here, from the raw demos (a stripped-away "Mysterious Ways" is especially revelatory) to the cache of beat-science remixes that put 1993's confusing Zooropa into better context, is essential to understanding the most inscrutable stadium-filling band in history.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See
    White conjures lost souls drifting through a mythical nation of pawnshops and cheap motels, his voice a sensual whisper over their rattling bones. [9 Jul 2004, p.89]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    North
    Feels like a mash note to autumnal Manhattan. [26 Sep 2003, p.93]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Whoa, Nelly!
    One of the year's most consistently pleasurable debuts.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Tempest
    Thirty-five albums in, Dylan remains as magical and mysterious as ever.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Rough and Rowdy Ways
    Rough and Rowdy Ways is a clear reflection of America’s jagged landscape — one of romance and mystery, creativity and fortune, protestations and politicking, conquests and colonialism. It makes for an exquisite, haunting listen.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Extraordinary Machine
    The cleaner take on Extraordinary Machine is like a trip to a less cluttered haunted house, and Apple's more nuanced delivery sticks the knife in, but slowly. It's both charming and devastating. [7 Oct 2005, p.72]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    In Rainbows
    Rainbows may be the gentlest, prettiest Radiohead set yet.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Icky Thump
    Despite all the distortion and teeth-shivering riffs, Icky Thump rivals White Blood Cells in accessibility. [22 Jun 2007, p.68]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    American VI: Ain't No Grave
    There are none of the folk-alt-rock karaoke selections of previous American discs on American VI: Ain't No Grave, just 10 wholly appropriate picks that speak to the gravity of ?Johnny Cash's situation and his joy?in both life and death.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Live in Europe 1967: Best of the Bootleg, Vol. 1
    The set lists may have looked similar, but here's proof they didn't sound alike --and that they'll still get you mighty high.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This Is Country Music
    The whole record plays like a best-of sampler--not just for Paisley, but for the history of the art form.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Taking The Long Way
    Finally, they put their music where their opinionated mouths are.
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