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For 628 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 74% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 24% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 77
Highest review score: 100 Treats
Lowest review score: 0 Testify
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 561 out of 628
  2. Mixed: 62 out of 628
  3. Negative: 5 out of 628
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Romanian Names
    As for the claim that Romanian Names represents the pinnacle of Vanderslice's recorded output to date, the argument certainly holds water. The dozen songs are all inviting, catchy even, in their own way, and aurally consistent with the history of "sloppy hi-fi" production at Vanderslice's Tiny Telephone studio.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Bachelor
    Wolf, ever so self-aware, makes The Bachelor's most intimate moments its most powerful ones, where the frivolity stops and the artist reverts to his eccentric, idealistic nature.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vampire Weekend
    What is key to this album's effectiveness is how Vampire Weekend's rhythmic momentum enervates the filler, turning another band's less flamboyant 'Campus' into a cymbal-crash-on-every-hit mini-epic, or the nearly irritating 'Blake's Got a New Face' into drunken singalong.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eyes At Half Mast
    Packed with emotion and feeling, in Eyes At Half Mast Talkdemonic have issued a powerful statement of beauty.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Oceans Apart
    This is it, folks - this is the Go-Betweens album you’ve been waiting since the joyous news of their reunion. Oceans Apart captures the lushness of their earlier works, the separate-yet-complementary songwriting beauty of Forster and McLennan and their ability to paint the doldrums in charming pastels.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    To Willie
    Timeless and universal, everyone can identify with Willie Nelson's songs, as sung by Houck, as Phosphorescent's tales of heartbreak, wasted youth, and harsh introspection.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Real Gone
    When you boil Real Gone down to its tracks, you’ll keep finding more reasons to love this man – more than anything, you can sense his easy grin.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Son
    A grand experiment in vocal manipulation, Son makes Bjork’s Medulla seem like child’s play.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
    Spoon has again produced a collage of songs that may be proverbial, but are not paint-by-numbers.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Set Free
    Set Free gives 2001’s Know by Heart - critically acclaimed and widely regarded as Amanset’s masterpiece - a serious run for its money.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bring It Back
    This is rousing pop distilled down to its molecular structure, executed with confidence.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love And Other Planets
    If you’re looking for music to make heartfelt love or fall asleep to, this here’s your record.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dents And Shells
    Dents and Shells is human in the best and truest kind of way: it is the work of a man, appreciative of feeling and progress, warts and all.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    So This Is Goodbye
    Furnished with seductive melodies, dry beats, translucent tonality and a variety of bouncing electronic arpeggios, So This Is Goodbye is filled with pure synth-pop oxygen.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Living Well
    With Living Well, Rob Crow has created some of his finest work.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    La Foret
    It sounds a whole lot like you’d expect the new Xiu Xiu album to sound.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ships
    If you are a long time fan of the Danielson Famile... Ships will not disappoint.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Good Arrows
    Good Arrows tempers its communal, folky feel with tasteful and restrained use of samples and loops, resulting in an inviting environment that feels soothing and organic.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cryptograms
    This is not a complete or coherent narrative of despair, as the two album halves don’t particularly work with one another—it really feels like two EPs sewn together. But the effort is more than evocative enough to scare the hell out of you, at least for a little while.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    9
    An album to which listening compares to watching The Break-up or The Last Kiss.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fab Four Suture
    Fab Four Suture is a solid, satisfying listen front to back.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Some Cities
    The album has a mood that runs throughout, unfolding from nothing into something extraordinary.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lost Channels
    Lost Channels is still comforting, except now instead of misery finding company, Great Lake Swimmers have made an album that reaches down, and pulls you out of the darkness and into the light that was always there.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
    From start to finish the album is well balanced and well fueled, and while it isn't quite the total package it is certainly a step in the right direction.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Easy Tiger
    Easy Tiger is his most consistent effort since Gold and his without doubt his most assured ever.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go
    Whereas their back catalog centered on decidedly un-rogue waves of distortion, My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go is a collection of quiet, often surreal songs that border on balladry.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Heligoland
    Thanks largely in part to founding member/mainstay Robert "3D" Del Naja, there still remains that indefinable, singular aspect to Massive Attack that still carried the group over the hump of 2003's tepid 100th Window and onto the superior Heligoland.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Lisbon
    You always know when a Walkmen song comes on your shuffle, and Lisbon does nothing to dispel that. In fact, it adds another solid entry to an increasingly solid catalogue.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Pink Graffiti
    The lag spots that usually accompany albums like Pink Graffiti are negated by the surprising fun quality of the rest; a perfect wake-and-bake companion.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    The Big Doe Rehab
    Rehab has every right to coast on the momentum of Ghost's hot streak--exploit it, if you will--for an overload of same.
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