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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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    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A Moon Shaped Pool
    By nature, Radiohead albums will always be somewhat epic, but this one is more consistently grandiose than any of the band’s releases since 2000’s masterpiece Kid A.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Blonde
    With these 17 tracks, Ocean shows himself to be one of pop’s foremost innovators.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A Seat at the Table
    The album radiates universal beauty and truth in the tradition of Stevie Wonder and Minnie Ripperton--and the whole world could simply use more of that.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Life Will See You Now
    Yielding vibrant optimism where Lekman had typically sulked with a smile. Life is the perfect pick-me-up for the winter of our discontent.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    DAMN.
    After delving into the personal on 2012’s good kid, m.A.A.d. city and going broader on Butterfly, Lamar has found a middle ground on DAMN. that yields some of his most emotionally resonant music yet.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Melodrama
    It’s Lorde’s own storytelling that offers Melodrama‘s most rewarding twists.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Hive Mind
    There’s something enjoyably old-school about Syd’s leisurely approach.
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Beatles [White Album] [50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition]
    It peels back the layers of a group diligently working to produce something special. [30 Nov 2018, p.51]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Nov 21, 2018
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    When I Get Home
    A stunning effort. Solange creates such fully realized art that even when she may be expressing uncertainty and doubt, she’s charging herself--and her audience--with finding possibility.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Gaslighter
    By blending early-21st-century pop savvy with the storytelling that made country music so crucial to the American canon, Gaslighter is all fire and nerve, performed by three women whose musical bona fides are rivaled only by their rock-solid backbones.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    folklore
    Swift explodes the expectations of anyone preparing to call her music "diaristic," writing songs from different perspectives while putting her already-detailed work under a microscope. ... A content smile of an album on which one of the world's biggest pop stars, charts be damned, forges her own path and dares listeners to come along for the ride.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Sign O' the Times [Deluxe Edition]
    On a purely musical level, this collection is a true beauty, with 63 previously unreleased tracks. ... For the completists, you’ll want this set forever in your life.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Wildflowers & All The Rest
    Suffused with warmth and memory, this set belongs among your Tom Petty records. [Nov 2020, p.97]
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    evermore
    Swift's lyric-writing abilities feel leveled-up on Evermore, its characters drawn in pointillistic detail. ... Similarly, the musical risks on Evermore are bigger, both in scope and in payoff. ... Freedom from expectations has, both with this album and its predecessor, led to Swift's leaps giving new heights to her already-pretty-skyscraping career.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Renaissance
    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.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Maroon
    On their latest, Maroon, they've delivered that too rare musical commodity: a disc overflowing with potential hits.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat
    If you think songs get into trouble past the three-minute mark and words are nothing more than things that fall out of your mouth, D-D-Don't Don't Stop The Beat is the record for you. [8 Aug 2003, p.71]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 76 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Sign [EP]
    Ineffably gorgeous. [18 Jan 2002, p.80]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 76 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Lost Planets & Phantom Voices
    When Sprout is both tuneful and coherent... he achieves pure bliss. [14 Mar 2003, p.67]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 61 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    18
    It's a formula, but damn if it isn't still effective. [17 May 2002, p.74]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 74 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Long Walk Home: Music From The Rabbit-Proof Fence
    Has the same ethereal grace as Passion. [21 June 2002, p.85]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 66 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Puzzle
    Songs so odd and cheekily gleeful they could almost be Mentos jingles.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Stephen Malkmus
    This is silly stuff, obviously, but it's a welcome return to the giddy wit that had dimmed as Pavement tried to contort itself into a conventional rock band.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Travelogue
    The miracle is that Vince Mendoza's symphonic arrangements sometimes place Mitchell's alto in even more intimate climes than the scaled-back settings that surrounded her seminal soprano. [22 Nov 2002, p.78]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Optometry
    Morphs subtly between hip-hop abstraction and unalloyed free-improv exploration. [Listen 2 This supplement, Aug 2002, p.23]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Grotto
    There's something in Hersh's hushed, otherworldly hymns about dysfunction and off-center mental states that's deeply unsettling--in all the right ways. [14 Mar 2003, p.67]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Pig Lib
    Pig Lib accomplishes what no punk-schooled fan would think possible: It makes prog-rock cool.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    I'm Staying Out
    It brims with beautiful, confidently delivered tunes about love.... and all its inherent dangers. [25 Apr 2003, p.150]
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