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For 448 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 45% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 The Seer
Lowest review score: 10 >Album Title Goes Here<
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 330 out of 448
  2. Mixed: 109 out of 448
  3. Negative: 9 out of 448
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Believe
    Believe doesn't always live up to the standards of its best cuts.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    For Years
    For Years is very well made, especially for a debut, and has a lot of emotion--but it also feels applied to an existing context, and one that has dated quickly.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
    The result is a curious mix: a subtle and often beautiful record about not very much at all.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    R Plus Seven
    R Plus Seven feels isolated and eerily post-human. Musically it may be Oneohtrix Point Never’s most accessible work yet, but the emotional pull it exerts is minimal.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Galaxy Garden
    Galaxy Garden is ambitious, which is to be lauded, and Cutler also has a reassuringly realistic outlook when saying that he is still "chipping away at a big idea".
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Whorl
    It’s solid, proficient, fun--not quite transcendent, but, the sort of left turn that feels natural and uncontrived.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Smalhans
    When times are lean, Smalhans contains just the sort of shamelessly calorific dance music that we should be thankful for.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Amok
    AMOK isn’t quite dazzling, but it’s a clear improvement on its predecessor, and more than enough to win over old fans--and perhaps a few new ones, too.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fabriclive 73
    In short: this is a techno mix--a really good one.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blue Gardens
    Blue Gardens something a bit more sonically vivid is touched upon in ‘At Sea’, when acoustic percussion samples and a less stable synth harmonium shiver and waver in a manner that subtly detaches the track from everything that preceded it.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Moodymann
    Moodymann has inflated wildly, now standing at a monstrous 27 tracks in length through a generous stuffing of media samples and, in typical Kenny Dixon Jr fashion, a bunch of material that has already seen release.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Stealth of Days
    Stealth Of Days is sonic candyfloss, delectable on the taste buds but fleeting too. Added to which, as with candyfloss, you might find yourself tiring of the flavour before long.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kuopio
    While a demonstrable knack for narrative composition gives the album much of its immersive power, Kuopio isnʼt a huge departure from the blueprint.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Through the Window
    Fernow takes a more sprawling, less finely textured approach, so that Through the Window strikes a fine balance between morbid gloom and its faintly cheesy reference points.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Luminous
    Possibly, some will leave Luminous disappointed that The Horrors haven’t pulled off another quantum leap, but by slowing down and bedding into their sound, they’ve made a record that feels both studied and instinctual, elevated and elemental, and that’s no mean feat.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Orbserver in the Star House
    It is satisfying--almost a relief--see potential in this record for something more from the group.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Exai
    Booth and Brown are old hands these days, their territory firmly staked out. It’s gratifying to see, if only briefly, that they haven’t lost the element of surprise.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Release
    There's stacks to enjoy, but, for the most part, Release bares its bones and hides its heart.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An Omen EP
    Even if How to destroy angels_ are simply tweaking a long-established formula, rather than clearing the chalkboard, An Omen_ still presents a band that has mastered the task at hand.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cupid's Head
    While it may take until the next album for these darker elements to be as rewardingly complex as Wilner can be, it’s still an immersive trip.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Trap Lord
    Trap Lord’s such a tightly bound listen, however, that it jars when it misses the mark.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Free TC
    This is not the moment where he will become a superstar, but it’s a promising beginning to what should be a very long career.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Enter the Slasher House
    The result is a strange paradox in typical Animal Collective style: a suite of songs that’s at times alien, other times sentimental; often cutesy, but a little too bristly to curl up with under a blanket.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dependent and Happy
    This CD version has some outstanding moments, and at times is a masterful lesson in dream-like production.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    You're Dead!
    You’re Dead! finds ways to keep things pumping.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blank Project
    It’s a very puzzling record, but the last thing you should do is try and puzzle it out: just go with it and you’ll find its strange charms working much more quickly than you might have thought at first.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Past We Leave Behind
    Its subtle nuances reveal themselves with repeated headphone listens, and though it could use a bit of a trim, there’s plenty here to entice the listener to just lay back, lose yourself, and float.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wedding Bells [EP]
    The whole EP is terrifyingly accomplished, there is sick genius at work in every nanosecond of detail, and it definitely makes you feel like the 21st century as per 20th century sci-fi principles is finally well underway.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Flower Lane
    The Flower Lane is arguably not as essential, nor quite as oddly memorable as previous collected Ducktails instalments, but it does appear to be a new phase of the band.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Beautiful Rewind
    There’s certainly nothing on Beautiful Rewind with a hook as memorable as ‘Locked’, from last year’s Pink. When Four Tet hits that sweet spot between fragile beauty and gritty pirate radio music (as on the aforementioned ‘Aerial’ and ‘Buchla’, for instance) however, you really feel as if he’s onto something.
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