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For 1,600 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 35% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Chemtrails Over the Country Club
Lowest review score: 25 The New Game
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,362 out of 1600
  2. Mixed: 176 out of 1600
  3. Negative: 62 out of 1600
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Other Life
    The Other Life is a showpiece for Jennings' familial knack for outlaw-country hell-raising.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Stars Dance
    Stars Dance is exactly the kind of album one makes in 2013 if you want to keep the pop sugar of the Disney tween cabal but mix in some broken glass and a club bathroom nosebleed.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Pura Vida Conspiracy
    Pure Vida overwhelms as often as it inspires.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Amelita
    Amelita might be the most buoyant album of 2013, a lighter-than-air set of summery folk-pop tunes with titles like "Sunshine" and "The World Smiles."
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Where Does This Door Go
    Where Does This Door Go feels like a once-promising OK Cupid date that's gone off the rails.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Electric
    Two young dudes couldn't make a synth-pop record so polished and seamless, one with a maturity matched only by the constant quest for surprise. Only the Pet Shop Boys can do that, as evidenced by Electric.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Big Sur
    It all sounds entirely of Bill Frisell’s unique world, yet still like a previously undiscovered land that sounds well worth a visit.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Comfort
    It's a real album in a singles-driven genre, and a record certainly worth slowing down and savoring.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ciara
    Content? Sure. Complacent? Not yet.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Magna Carta Holy Grail
    "Magna Carta Holy Grail" certainly is shimmering, heavy and at times sonically stunning, and Jay-Z can toss a brilliant metaphor like it's nothing. But a true masterpiece harnesses intellect and adventure to push forward not only musically but also thematically.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Every Man Should Know
    Connick's music has none of the attitude the singer often summons outside the studio.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sound the Alarm
    This album, produced chiefly by Jones and/or the Avila Brothers, has the hallmarks of those great Memphis sessions of yore--sultry organ work, a lithe rhythm section and lots of meaty horn accents--with touches that bring it comfortably into the 21st century.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Kenny Dennis LP
    Taken together, the 11 tracks on Kenny Dennis feel like chapters, and combine to create a work as accomplished--and entertaining--as a well-imagined graphic novel or confidently told short story.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Kveikur
    In moving away from the band's stultifying idea of beauty, Kveikur gets at something livelier--and far more lifelike.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Born Sinner
    Cole's not an especially charismatic MC, but he has a welcome self-awareness and good taste in backdrops.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Yeezus
    Yeezus is minimal but powerful, a record filled with more aural space than anything on “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” his excellent 2010 album.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Wack Album
    The Wack Album feels awfully short on fresh ideas.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Tomorrow's Harvest
    Any of these songs could have appeared at any point in the group's discography. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. A full-body massage, after all, is just as pleasing the fourth time as the first.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Settle
    It’s hard to imagine a more inviting dance record being released in 2013.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Personal Record
    A record that feels wonderfully askew, making Personal Record a challenge worth taking.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    ...Like Clockwork
    Homme is one of the few singers and lyricists today who know that rock 'n' roll is built on a mix of menace and dark humor, and almost every track on ...Like Clockwork has a moment that makes you want to drive to Joshua Tree, pound some beers and start fires in the shape of pentagrams.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Once I Was an Eagle
    With Once I Was An Eagle, she's finally made a record that matches the magnitude of her vision, and puts her well ahead of almost any twentysomething singer-songwriter peer working today.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Trouble Will Find Me
    To the National's credit, its exploration of the dour has never been this subtle, but by never shifting the mood, the band has also never been this draining.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Love Is Everything
    Carefully rendered and unabashed in its optimism, it's as personal as anything Strait has ever recorded. And it's completely devastating.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    More Than Just a Dream
    There's a fine line between evolution and de-evolution, and which process Fitz and the Tantrums is experiencing on its sophomore effort, More Than Just a Dream, depends on what you liked about the L.A. band's breakout debut.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Modern Vampires of the City
    A brave, surprising third effort that's both challenging and confident, catchy but progressive, expertly imagined and executed.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Annie Up
    Their switchblade-sharp vision incorporates acute observational powers about the human condition and savvy compositional skills that come together in songs that are piercingly honest, funny and sometimes both.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Life on a Rock
    Chesney's tone-deafness here seems especially egregious because it's surrounded by better, smarter material.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Authentic
    Authentic not only misses the mark, it doesn't even come close.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    I Love You
    The band does black and white, but nothing in between.
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