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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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    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Pure Heroine
    10 songs here, and not one loser in the bunch. [11 Oct 2013, p.72]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Oct 7, 2013
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song
    This pretty collection brims with introspection about life and love, but it's hard not to wish that Lee would exercise a little less emotional restraint. [11 Oct 2013, p.72]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Oct 7, 2013
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    My Name Is My Name
    [He expands his reach] with the aid of producer-label boss Kanye West, guest ranging from The-Dream to Kendrick Lamar, and a steely gusto unmatched in hip-hop. [11 Oct 2013, p.72]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Oct 7, 2013
    • 61 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Bangerz
    It's utterly fresh, a pop blitz from a hip-hop blueprint, and proof that Miley won't settle for just shocking us.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Old
    Old positively vibrates with Brown's nasally helter-skelter energy. [4 Oct 2013, p.64]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Sep 30, 2013
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Bones of What You Believe
    While their debut doesn't always maintain those kinds of highs [as singles Recover or Lies], it still provides plenty of charmingly straightforward indie-disco pleasures. [4 Oct 2013, p.64]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Sep 27, 2013
    • 71 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Diving Board
    It's slightly overlong and noodly in spots. [4 Oct 2013, p.64]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Sep 27, 2013
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    This Is...
    What starts out as jubilant becomes four-on-the-floor purgatory. [4 Oct 2013, p.64]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Sep 27, 2013
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2
    Apparently the producer saved his haymakers for round 2, because he's in full classic-Timba mode here.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Nothing Was the Same
    This lush, un-hurried album reveals a surer character, rebuking other rappers who talk smack "just to get a reaction" and even relatives diminished by easy money and proximity to fame.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    A.M.
    Some of that soul [heard on previous singles "Tomorrow" and "Voices"] survives on his fourth album, but too often he falls into the "bro country" trap currently plaguing the genre. [20/27 Sep 2013, p.152]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Sep 20, 2013
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Mechanical Bull
    Mechanical Bull finds the Tennessee rockers recapturing the white-lightning-in-a-bottle spark that made their early stuff so fun.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Defend Yourself
    The quintessential indie-rock band's tried-and-true sound remains remarkably, stubbornly intact on their first album in 14 years. [20/27 Sep 2013, p.152]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Sep 18, 2013
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Spreading Rumours
    They spend their second album trying to turn every song into another shout-out-loud anthem, which sometimes blunts the genuine highs. [20/27 Sep 2013, p.152]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Sep 18, 2013
    • 62 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    MGMT
    Their cavalcade of goopy dross and hippie-dippy navel-gazing takes a left at transcendence and eventually just lets this bloated trip sputter out altogether. [20/27 Sep 2013, p.152]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Sep 18, 2013
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    B.O.A.T.S. II: #METIME
    One minute of Chainz' absurdist couplets is gold, but the longer he coasts on his own, the more the shine fades. [20/27 Sep 2013, p.152]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Sep 18, 2013
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    True
    Avicii's genre-hacking whimsy may seem decadent or oblivious. But it's undeniably optimistic--inspiring, even.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Repave
    Repave rallies Vernon's swelling heartbreak, wind-chime wanderings, and nutty lyrics into robust, chorus-and-all songs. [6 Sep 2013, p.75]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Sep 11, 2013
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Love in the Future
    Legend too often resorts to theater-kid oversinging. [6 Sep 2013, p.75]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Sep 11, 2013
    • 74 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Feels Like Home
    [The album] inlays modern Music City twang like turquoise in a belt buckle, while the lyrics funnel her cheery realism into finer-cut tales of staycations, sexually charged car talk, and how "Waterproof Mascara" won't "run like his daddy did." [13 Sep 2013, p.70]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Sep 11, 2013
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Fuse
    The result is sonically exploratory (if overproduced), but Urban's breezy, flirty lyrics are so dreadfully derivative that they undo his attempt at diversity. [13 Sep 2013, p.71]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Sep 11, 2013
    • 65 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Kiss Land
    He isolates himself inside long, slow-tempo songs that edge from seductive into oppressive--and, with their reverberating guitar chords and crisp, dominating drum sounds, will feel oddly familiar to anyone who's enjoyed a 1980s ballad by Genesis.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Electric Lady
    While the vibe's heady, the music can drift into syrupy cabaret or oversoft funk. But she maintains her chill over skillet-hot tracks like the disco-rocking "We Were Rock n' Roll" and the jumping "Dance Apocalyptic."
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Yours Truly
    One of the most purely enjoyable albums of the year, powered by her lithe, Broadway-honed voice and a canny exploitation of her most "adult" indulgence: nostalgia.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The 1975
    It's all promising, even if their debut leans harder on style than substance.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    AM
    Five albums in, they may not be a buzz band anymore, but they've become something much more interesting: a good band.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Hesitation Marks
    Both Hesitation Marks' lead single, "Came Back Haunted," and the propulsive, New Order-nodding "Everything" rank among Reznor's finest. His one vice is an obsessive attention to detail, which has served him well in the past but here suffocates the more delicate melodies of "In Two" and "All Time Low."
    • 72 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Hall of Fame
    Fame finds him rising above even his strongest guest stars.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Neon
    Neon feels confident and complete. [9 Aug 2013, p.75]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Aug 12, 2013
    • 71 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Civil Wars
    While the result might seem a little like that awkward first post-split Christmas when Dad comes back and crashes on the couch, it turns out that, well, conflict suits them.
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