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For 5,868 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:
  1. Positive: 4,412 out of 5868
  2. Mixed: 1,416 out of 5868
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5868
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Loner
    There’s not one dud track on it, and each listen unveils something new to hear. Most pleasingly though, in these dark times, is that it’s a whole heap of fun. 2018 may be only a few months old, but we may have its album of the year already.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Sound Of The Smiths
    Their back catalogue is a stunning body of work and arguably each track deserves its own review.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Tigers Blood
    Tiger Blood is the sound of an artist improving on her already high standards.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Audio Vertigo
    It’s their best album in years – maybe since The Seldom Seen Kid – and one of those records that will throw up new little surprises on each listen many months from now. Not only one of our most consistent bands, but also one of our most surprising – the national treasure status is well earned.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Angles
    Disjointed, hyperactive, experimental, whatever. Angles is the album to beat this year.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Marnie Stern
    It all adds up to Stern's most fully realised, most rounded album yet, and a huge step in her evolution as an artist.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Darlings
    Darlings is a record that feels simultaneously cerebral and carnal--and things don’t get much sexier than that.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Our Shadows Will Remain
    The album is so intricate, rich and multilayered that it’s difficult to do justice to its overall sound.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    El Pintor
    El Pintor is sleek, minimalist and brilliantly realised, and is the band’s best work since Antics.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Seeking New Gods
    Seeking New Gods is simultaneously thought provoking, questioning, elegant and unsettled – but it is fundamentally a feelgood album. We find Gruff Rhys at his most natural, his winning blend of a slight, endearing shyness balanced by extrovert, psychedelic tendencies.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Psychodrama
    It’s rare to hear a debut album so confident and accomplished, especially when the artist himself has just turned 20 years old. Yet Psychodrama is pretty close to a masterpiece and raises the bar for a new standard in British rap.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    I Never Learn
    The nine songs gathered on her third record beautifully convey heartache, loss and desolation. It’s not just in the songwriting--although, that is, of course, wonderful. It’s also in the production.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    RTJ2
    Run The Jewels 2 is one of the best albums of the year.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sound of the Morning
    Overall, Pearson has produced an album with very few weak spots. It’s a record that takes the strengths of Return and builds on them, resulting in a work that, from the very first listen, you know you’ll be going back to again and again.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Fetch the Bolt Cutters
    Fetch The Bolt Cutters isn’t the easiest album to listen to – and in these claustrophobic lockdown times, some may baulk at spending 51 minutes with an album of this intensity. Yet while it’s certainly not an album for background listening, those who are willing to invest some time in it will be rewarded by one of the most remarkable records released this year.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Pt. 1
    For now, this is an album that establishes Foals as one of the most exciting and driven bands of the generation.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Nikki Nack
    At times, there seems to be almost too much to process in Nikki Nack, and it’s true that this is certainly an album that repays multiple listens and complete immersion. That immersion will pay dividends, for Merrill Garbus has produced yet another deftly thrilling listen.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Close to the Glass
    The Notwist is an apt example of a band that is making good music for no other reason than because making music is what they love to do, which Close To The Glass demonstrates in spades.​
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Black Sands
    It is a hugely impressive piece of work, and subsequent listens will reveal further layers and melodies you missed first time around. Don't delay the induction a minute longer.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Every Country's Sun
    This album shows that there’s plenty of life in this band yet, and they’re changing and developing whilst also addressing the past. But most importantly, they’re still creating interesting, vital albums.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
    A 1000 Times is an opening track as startling as it is oddly timeless, and if, when it debuted in July, it promised great things of this pairing, the resulting album certainly delivers.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    All of Us Flames
    An album which could well be one of the best released this year – and, in its pleas for solidarity and acceptance, one of the most important and vital records as well.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Black Tambourine
    Black Tambourine have finally gotten the treatment they deserve. This is essential listening for anyone who wonders where indie-rock's been, or where it's going. The influence is obvious, and the music has never sounded better.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    My Woman
    With every album she releases, Angel Olsen seems to step up a gear. As My Woman will comfortably be seen as one of the best albums of the year come December, it’s a head-spinningly exciting prospect to think where she’s going to go next time around.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Black Sheep Boy
    An unknown quantity to me before the first listen, by the third play I was already plotting which of my friends I would be lending it to and reprimanding myself for not having come across them sooner.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blonde on the Tracks
    It never once drags or feels like a chore to listen to, for she pulls you in and keeps you enthralled for the duration. She does this across the entire album.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Less Than Human
    It's a mightily impressive achievement.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Prairie Wind
    The pedal steel guitar playing on the whole record is breathtaking.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blunderbuss
    Lovelorn, honest, poignant and emotional in the best way imaginable.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Data Lords
    Schneider’s assessment of the impact of digital advances, while pessimistic, is not without nuance. ... Schneider is capable of breathtaking beauty as a writer – unafraid of exploring direct melodic communication and stirring arrangements. There is also plenty of subtlety and nuance in her writing, so this communicates honesty and sincerity more than earnestness.
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