musicOMH.com's Scores

  • Music
For 5,847 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Everything's The Rush
Lowest review score: 0 Fortune
Score distribution:
5847 music reviews
    • 83 Metascore
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    Until The Quiet Comes is at once iridescent and ambiguous, luminous and impenetrable: an elegantly conceived and executed album which may well come to be seen as Flying Lotus' finest work to date.
    • 87 Metascore
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    A stunning debut then, and one that will make Fleet Foxes one of the most sought after bands of the year.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It all adds up to the sound of a band developing and maturing nicely, without ever losing sight of what made them so great in the first place.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Electric finds Pet Shop Boys more daring and accomplished than most pop stars half their age.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    So much of the delight of listening to music comes from the lyrical, our tacit affiliation with the rage, wit or pathos an artist wishes to project. This record goes some way to appropriate the perception of being wordless, hushed by the beauty of the world we inhabit.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This may well be Holter’s most accessible album to date, but it’s this very approachability that renders it all the more intriguing, drawing you in with open arms. Stately and serene, it’s a wilderness that begs to be inhabited for some time, a country you’ll be reluctant to leave.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    There isn't a duff track to be seen, and you get the feeling the whole thing's been meticulously planned and orchestrated, with a mindset of giving us a record to cherish, something to put on when the chips are down, and that rare thing, one that will almost certainly be loved in equal measure many years down the line.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    MASSEDUCTION is nothing less than an absolutely towering achievement.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It’s more conceptually consistent, more musically accomplished, more of pretty much everything that she’s ever done before – and what she was already doing was verging on masterly. Filthy Underneath is already a contender for Album of the Year, and it will take something truly exceptional to beat it.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Liars have not only been reborn creatively, they’ve emerged with by far the most accessible album of the band’s illustrious career to date.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    In short, every song is an earworm, and Lianne La Havas’ third album is haunting in the way only inspiring music can claim to be; a beautiful ghost to soundtrack your life to. ... Truly captivating.
    • 86 Metascore
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    Double Negative is an album that will endure for a long time. It’s a thrilling development that proves how Low continue to release music of extremely high standards, restlessly creative and never content to stand still.
    • 74 Metascore
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    A beautiful, dramatic, idiosyncratic album from a beautiful, dramatic, idiosyncratic band.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Opening track Last Breath is worth the price of the record alone. It provides the album’s title, all the more poetic when encountered in the grief-stricken context of the song: “I didn’t understand how beauty holds the hands of sorrow / How today can outshine tomorrow.” The production here is wonderful, with crystal clear dynamics and a real contrast between intimate and sublime.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Brash, poetic, and romantically obtuse, even from the grave Alan Vega is as challenging as he is charming.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Origin: Orphan is even more extraordinary; a howling, mechanistic piece of post-rock in the vein of Godspeed You Black Emperor!
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A genre defining release and a welcome return to boundary surfing music.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's the big numbers, when Hegarty steps up to the microphone, that reveal Hercules And Love Affair as a project that captures not only the full range of moods on a night out on the tiles, but also the full range of human emotions from the start of a night to its end.
    • 84 Metascore
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    Having produced one of the albums of the year with just her second effort, it’s incredibly exciting to ponder where she’ll go from here.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    There isn’t a weak track on show. It makes Plowing Into The Field Of Love a truly impressive piece of work.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Luminous, all told, is a sure-fire summer soundtrack from a band who are far more cerebral than they’d have you believe.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A superb album.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Entanglement is an album that needs to be considered alongside genre heavyweights like The Blue Notebooks by Max Richter or Englabörn by Jóhann Jóhannsson. It’s a timely reminder of how high modern classical music can reach.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The use of the church organ is a particular masterstroke and it imbues Hecker's compositions here not with grandiosity, but with a sort of faded grandeur that chimes brilliantly with his familiar themes. It also offers a superb range of texture and sound, sometimes attacking and aggressive, at others soft and warm.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This is such a great, great record for so many reasons.
    • 83 Metascore
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    If this is to be the band’s swansong, they’ve left behind something timeless and quite beautiful.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Their seeming insanity only adds to the magic.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    What we’ve got now is a world full of millennials that have grown up to make art about these injustices. HMLTD have done just that, focusing their trials and tribulations through a magnifying glass to burn us mere ants. And oh, how I love a bit of self-immolation.
    • 82 Metascore
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    It’s a towering achievement, building on what has come before while expanding it in astonishing ways. This is undoubtedly one of the best albums of the year.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Her instrument has aged with her like a fine wine, like Iggy Pop, or like Mr Jagger himself. It’s completely her, completely unique. The new version is gleefully bleak and unwieldy.