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For 5,883 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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: 4,425 out of 5883
  2. Mixed: 1,418 out of 5883
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5883
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Marigold
    There’s a danger throughout Marigold of looking too deeply into every lyric, and of searching for meaning in each song. Those who come to Pinegrove without knowing the backstory will find an album of pleasant alt-country that may not hit the heights of their back catalogue, but feels like a tentative step back to normality.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fine Fascination
    Fine Fascination is a very listenable debut.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Time of Dust
    It doesn’t quite hang together in the way that an official Harcourt album does, acting instead as a kind of taster for things to come. Yet as aperitifs go, it’s pretty satisfying.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    This Is My Hand
    With this album, Worden seems intent on muscling in on the territory of innovative but hard-nosed American mavericks like St Vincent and Dirty Projectors. Ultimately though, This Is My Hand falls some way short of emulating the standards of those acts.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fears Trending
    Fears Trending is the musical equivalent of a cross-country run on a cold, wet winter’s day: challenging, occasionally a bit of a trudge but, ultimately, rewarding.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Into Colour
    A guilty pleasure for some perhaps, yet one well worth indulging.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Good Witch
    Although she’s not quite there just yet, with a more stringent editor, and a producer who could get the best out of her (Max Martin would seem a lip-smacking prospect), Maisie Peters is undoubtedly on her way to producing a truly great pop album.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Man Made
    Man Made suffers from too much material, not enough editorial oversight, and not nearly enough inspired composition.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Chrome Dreams II
    Anyone looking for another 'Hurricane' will be disappointed--but, for sheer eclecticism, the record hits a number of highs.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Let's Go Extinct
    Fanfarlo should still be around for a while; you only hope they can make more of an impression in the future.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Boys & Girls
    This is an album packed with promise but which tails off somewhat at the close.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Cross The Universe
    Newcomers to Justice will find A Cross the Universe only an occasionally endorphin-boosting experience, with most of the rest of the record a polished, if soulless recording of a group nearing the height of its powers.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tape Deck Heart
    Long and short, it’s hit and miss.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Integrity Blues
    Not everything they attempt comes off--The End Is Beautiful is a harmless and cloying ballad and Through comes across as Jimmy Eat World by numbers--but for the most part Integrity Blues is an intriguing and varied entry into the band’s back catalogue.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Farm
    As long as you don't mind working for your alt rock fixes, however, Farm is certainly worth the effort.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pray To Be Free
    Despite such misgivings [that the album runs out of steam and falls into pastiche territory] it's a decent enough record that deserves a follow-up.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Watch the Throne
    Watch the Throne feels all too fractured from the tension of two rappers (and two egos) at the top of their game, trying to get along.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    No Name No Color
    While it's admirable that they're supporting indie label Bright Antenna, their songs run like sold-out singles with all the real hooks replaced with lesser ones. The annoying screaming that Lopez completely misuses comes off manufactured and whiny.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Be Up a Hello
    It’s a well-produced record, even if Ufabulum is a better example of the new style put to good use.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unreal Unearth
    As it is, Hozier’s third album is a album that is simply a bit too sprawling. It’s certainly great in parts, and that voice never fails to impress, but it becomes a bit too bloated to listen to in full over time.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Odd Couple
    For fans of "St Elsewhere" and general mash-ups of styles, The Odd Couple will contain a few splendid tracks, a few decent offerings, and a few duds.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Out Of The Woods
    Thorn's voice will always be a thing of undimmed charm and emotion, but the gulf between the music styles on display here, which flick from 70's disco, piano ballads and electro-pop seem like trying to keep a foot in both camps of the simpler days of her youth, and the ‘hip' dance crowd.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino
    When the Arctic Monkeys’ career comes to be reappraised, this album could be seen as an outlier, or the start of their next phase. It won’t be to everyone’s taste, but sometimes, dividing an audience is exactly what you need to do.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
    All told it's a slightly patchy album, but one which is nonetheless saved by a couple of pop gems.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    ISAM
    For those unwilling to ride his digital wave of collapse and partial reconstruction, Farmer's mythological re-enactments will seem essential.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Love Songs for Robots
    Whilst it’s a brave attempt to explore new lands outside their comfort zone, it’s one that isn’t quite as rewarding and rich as Patrick Watson would have hoped.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Glynnaestra
    There are possibilities of ideas, tunes and textures yearning to communicate here, but the paper-thin construction doesn’t stand up to much scrutiny. Yet ultimately, experimenting with instrumentation and the pair’s (albeit limited) vocals do occasionally make for a pleasant, if not completely engaging, listen.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    One Deep River
    While there's no arguments with the quality of the craft on display, over the course of a 12 track album, you may find yourself nodding off sometimes. Yet there's still a warm glow to this album, and anyone who's missed the sound of Knopfler expertly working the fretboard, will find much to love on it.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gentle Spirit
    His debut album (a previous finished collection was never released) skates dangerously close to self indulgent pastiche yet contains some immaculately played gems that possess the definitive crackle of old school analogue tape sessions.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sun Midnight Sun
    Overall this disc is a well-made breeze of strong songs and great playing, but the moments of fence-sitting hold it back.
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