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For 1,598 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 Dear Science,
Lowest review score: 25 The New Game
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,360 out of 1598
  2. Mixed: 176 out of 1598
  3. Negative: 62 out of 1598
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Holy Ghost!
    As a result, Holy Ghost! has created a classic pop album, albeit one dressed for dancing in hipster finery.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Northern Aggression
    L.A.'s veteran indie rocker is on a tear in his third outing with the up-for-anything Miracle 3 - guitarist Jason Victor, drummer Linda Pitmon and bassist Dave DeCastro - fusing Wynn's penchant for Americana rock, psychedelia, brutal punk and extended jams into an intriguingly seductive blend.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
    You can file it alongside another notable album about finding light in the darkness, "Electro-Shock Blues" by Eels.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Banga
    Banga is both a return to form and her best album in many years.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Ceremonials
    She's found a way to honor her Bjorkian appetites for lavish orchestral spectacle while finding the depth and subtlety of her voice.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    American Doll Posse
    "ADP" is often fun but sometimes overwrought, and non-fans may find it too much.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    IRM
    Throughout the follow-up to her 2006 album, "5:55," Gainsbourg never sounds out of her element, no matter how the music shifts underneath her feet.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Push The Button
    An evolution in big beat and sweet dance-pop loyalty as hard-hitting as their mid-'90s works "Exit Planet Dust" or "Dig Your Own Hole." [23 Jan 2005]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Shangri-La
    It's not the exquisite crispness of Yacht's bass lines that makes Shangri-La so appealing (though that certainly doesn't hurt). Rather, it's the band's knack for giving weighty ideas the lighthearted gift of groove.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Aquarius
    Aquarius heralds an essential new voice, one that coheres 100 current ideas about women, sex, sadness and musical restlessness in one excellent album.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Jiaolong
    Jiaolong boasts nine timeless dance-floor bangers that resurrect a moment.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Sex And Gasoline
    Along with peers such as Emmylou Harris and John Hiatt, who also launched their careers in the '70s, Crowell seems to have found the fuel to just keep getting better.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Good Time
    It's an unusually rich, solidly traditional country record with 17 songs, all written by Jackson, a first in his 18-year recording career.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    A Grand Don't Come For Free
    The production is as dry as old wallpaper. But as a kind of Art Brut storytelling, it is magnificent.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Ruff Draft [Reissue]
    "Ruff Draft" is a rare solo affair that captures him in the midst of furious, creative burst and change in direction.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    A Crow Left Of The Murder
    "Crow" is a striking redefinition, an album that roars and twitches with the raw, aggressive, fury of urgent rock activism.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Sky Blue Sky
    The most musically direct and down to earth of the band's six-album career.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Blueberry Boat
    The album is a bit daunting and demanding. But it's also compelling and rewarding. [22 Aug 2004]
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Teflon Don
    One of the best summer blockbusters in recent memory, Teflon Don proves how thin the line is between a flight of fancy and something fantastic.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    100 Days, 100 Nights
    100 Days, 100 Nights deserves every accolade it has and will receive.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Heartbeat Radio
    Heartbeat Radio is Lerche's most eclectic outing yet, with no overarching concept beyond a consistent level of excellence.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Kicking Television: Live In Chicago
    It embraces both Tweedy's classicism and his refusal to settle for the familiar. [20 Nov 2005]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Nouns
    Nouns showcases the appealing joy to No Age's process, the band attacking its music with relish and humor.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Apologies To The Queen Mary
    The music reinforces Wolf Parade's edge-of-desperation outlook by refusing to offer the comfort of conventional pop music's reassuring repetition. Even if some choruses recur during a song, the music behind them is never the same as the last time around. [23 Oct 2005]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    What Will We Be
    He filches from a variety of genres--Brazilian Tropicalia, glam rock, lounge jazz, Zeppelin-like psychedelia--but it never sounds awkward. He loosens the stitches on each to fashion his own unique costume.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    I Am A Bird Now
    With this second full album, the singer and songwriter stakes a claim on a unique and fascinating turf, a sort of avant-cabaret musical theater that embraces a David Lynch-like moodiness and experimental-folk mystery, intimate confession and theatrical grandeur. [20 Mar 2005]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Little Honey
    There's a raw energy on Little Honey--which arrives this week, a little more than a year after 2007's "West"--that's as refreshing as it is palpable.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    FutureSex / LoveSounds
    "FutureSex/LoveSounds" isn't an easy listen at first. Its crazy layers meld together into a sticky bit of a mess, and the lyrics are mostly standard love stuff. But repeated listening helps the tunes unravel. [11 Sep 2006]
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Out of the Game
    This ability to maneuver through complex emotions is one of Wainwright's strengths and makes "Out of the Game" an essential recording.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Baby 81
    Revolutionary? Not really. But another strong turn.
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