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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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    • 66 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Everything Goes Wrong
    While there's merit to the charges that songs suffer from sameness and that musicianship is a secondary facet of the band, the Girls' detractors don't consider tradition; walking in the footprints of Bikini Kill, Ramones, and other like predecessors who faced similar criticisms, their flaws serve to be their most interesting, differentiating features.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Get Color
    On Get Color, though, the frenetic impulses from two years back have been carefully tempered, the percussive backbone more sharply honed and the ear-bleeding textures more cleverly implemented.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Hospice
    Hospice sits squarely in this camp, a heartbreaking aural experience that hits us on a deeper level.
    • 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.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Riceboy Sleeps
    An hour or so later I finally succumbed to my bed, content. I can only imagine Riceboy does so in kind.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Hometowns
    Hometowns has an earthly fragility, folksy without being folky. Score another one for Canada.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Wait For Me
    The end result is a rewarding record fraught with introspection and melancholy but also one that perhaps signifies that Moby's shaken off his early 90's sentimentality...for now.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Beacons Of Ancestorship
    Textual descriptions may be difficult to understand without listening through the album's 11 songs, but for someone who has been a faithful listener since their eponymous 1994 debut it is important to know that Beacons Of Ancestorship is surely a keeper.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ambivalence Avenue
    This new bag of tricks is implemented with due subtlety that bolsters the charming simplicity qualities, while filling the tracks out and, cautiously, adding some curves.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Bitte Orca
    Bitte Orca signifies something exciting and all too infrequent in popular music: striving for a sound that doesn't have a definite audience.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Eternal
    The Eternal is absorbing and raw, from the slower, affable 'Antenna' to the pounding 'Poison Arrow.'
    • 80 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    Rainwater Cassette Exchange
    Rainwater Cassette Exchange certainly finds creative ways to transform their music and expand their already impressive catalogue, even if most of the songs are quite short and leave the listener yearning for more.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Veckatimest
    While Veckatimest contains just over fifty-two minutes of some exceptional music, it lacks one critical component that's essential to any form of art: emotion.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It's Frightening
    It's Frightening kicks into high gear from the get-go, and never looks back.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Around The Well
    Despite the similitude of both discs, their respective modesty and muscularity present variety without overreaching. To put it into trite punny terms, Well has some depth.
    • 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.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Desire Lines
    Meanderthals are a collaboration between Idjut Boys and Rune Linbaek, with a sound that is a bit of a fluffier than what we have traditionally come to expect from the Smalltown Supersound label roster. That fluffiness adds a fresh breeze to the otherwise unassuming mix of throwback downbeat and Scandinavian folk strumming.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
    Even though the album may be too erratic to cohere into anything thematic, its eccentricities do an excellent job of keeping it interesting.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Entertainment
    2009's Entertainment finds the duo reverting somewhat to their more flamboyant origins while still trying to stay current. It's a divergent approach that fortunately works more for the record than against it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Outside Love
    Screw the band name, McBean is a temporal writer, and he channels his unique vision into equal parts regardless of his color-coded outfit. It's a bold and brash move that is working wonders thus far.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    My Maudlin Career
    Clever, catchy, and moody, Maudlin Career is what contemporary pop music should be. It is wholly as satisfying as Campbell is unsatisfied.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Fantasies
    The complex emotional duality of the disc is nothing less than penetrating. Most of the tracks are danceable as well as lonesome, and can be enjoyed in a variety of settings.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Two Suns
    The slightly pretentious concept, though, is balanced by the equally lavish music and specifically Khan's voice.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Now We Can See
    As with any such wildly anticipated album, the reverse motion could be a case of perspective, of personal expectations being insurmountably high, because Now We Can See is by no means a bad album. It just seems a little pedestrian for such a talented and unique band.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Vs. Children
    Every song is steeped in melancholy, but the underlying beauty that ties it all together is in the courage of Ashworth's characters to face the unforgiving reality they occupy.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    It's Blitz
    If this is the band's "Parallel Lines," they've brought tunes worth comparing.
    • 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Wavvves
    If they ultimately self-destruct as they appear to be these days, their legacy is hopefully remembered for self-produced fuzz-rock and sloppy onstage antics. More importantly, hopefully they're remembered.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Face Control
    An interesting listen, Face Control has an eerie vibe, as though something beneath the surface is just a bit off.
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