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For 474 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Twin Cinema
Lowest review score: 20 Liz Phair
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 362 out of 474
  2. Mixed: 100 out of 474
  3. Negative: 12 out of 474
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Extraordinary Machine
    Lacking both the musical and counter-cultural thrill of the Brion recordings, this album turns away from a certain artistic "rawness" in the original recordings, razing away counter-melodies and acoustic decay for a well-polished delivery that presents the photogenic songstress in a more "flattering" light.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ghosts Of The Great Highway
    Ghosts of the Great Highway is one of those albums that you want to have around for when life gets you down.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These Were The Earlies
    What's impressive is the way they bring all these elements together, the natural world leading seamlessly into a brighter landscape of surreal otherness.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    We Love Life
    The instant pop buzz Pulp have concocted in the past is largely missing, but each listen reveals another layer, another level, another reason to love it. Highly recommended.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bright Ideas
    Spine-tinglingly great.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Change
    This is pop music pushing the boundaries of what pop music should be, without having to resort to overproduced and mass-marketed gloss.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Her Majesty The Decemberists
    Meloy's words stir your insides like good poetry, his imaginative tales climb into your mind, set up camp and stay awhile. But without the enchanting, heart-wrenching and totally affecting power that is the consequence of The Decemberists' music, the words would not have ever found life.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Out of Season
    On Out of Season, Gibbons' voice takes the spotlight. There's a quivery sound, similar to Billie Holiday's, which gets lost amid Portishead's stops and starts.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Isolation Drills
    Yes, it's fun rockin' pop. But, unlike a lot of today's pop music, Guided By Voices keep their depth.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Apologies To The Queen Mary
    From the first few seconds of the album, you're hooked.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Remote Part
    Idlewild are rapidly outgrowing their influences as they forge a unique identity that leads me to suspect that they may soon be inspiring a slew of like-minded new bands.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Search Of... [Second Version]
    Whatever the lyrical content, though, the pleasures of N*E*R*D ultimately come down to their exhilarating production, flush with the breathless energy of rock and starry-eyed with the psychedelic potential of the studio.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Me & Giuliani Down By the School Yard (A True Story) [EP]
    Like so many great singles of the past, this is the sound of a good band getting great. Don't miss the moment.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Escondida
    She sounds as distant as much of the Anthology of American Folk Music, and yet there is an intimacy to her songs. This is a singer/poet who really feels things. And this is the new, weird America, and Holland is singing its woes with a wisdom far beyond her age.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sung Tongs
    By the time the longplayer finishes playing, you realize, whilst the acoustic guitars and harmonized vocals and that awesome table-tennis-ball-bouncing-beat may've made you think this was some easy-to-love pop platter, it actually hasn't stumbled all the way towards getting-it-together.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Good News For People Who Love Bad News
    While the album is not as cohesive a vision, many of its songs are more focused.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Sunset Tree
    Ultimately the album is bolstered by the risks he takes, and though it trips a bit and never quite achieves the direct vision of previous efforts, it's rewarding nonetheless, for the perspective it brings to Darnielle's body of work.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Idiology
    The record spans time and genre, reinterpreting everything from ska to country-tinged folk as if it were the product of a whimsically inaccurate translation device from another planet, and in the process creates a new musical language altogether.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Homesongs
    A collection of slow, sad, stately songs whose obvious studio smarts are dwarfed by a big bleeding folkie's heart.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Skyscraper National Park
    An album that is both emotionally powerful and truly beautiful.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    ()
    The album coheres; it's a full body of work intended to be heard holistically, not simply as a collection of songs. But it takes some work. You must be an active listener to appreciate it fully.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
    Despite dozens of listens, much of Whatever People Say congeals together like so much spent gravy, with only the clever couplets sticking out.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pyramid Electric Co.
    Pyramid Electric Co. is a vast step forward for Molina. It provides ample evidence of his spiritual growth and shows him once again evolving as an artist.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blacklisted
    Blacklisted proves that Case's musicianship has evolved alongside her songwriting skills.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Our Shadows Will Remain
    Sturdier production and straightforward songwriting make a strong backbone for someone once lauded for his mysticism.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Woman King [EP]
    Ultimately, Woman King promises remarkable things to come for Iron and Wine, especially if Beam continues to expand his musical palette.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Stephen Malkmus
    Throughout, there's little doubting Malkmus's charisma as a performer...
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Niño Rojo
    It's easily the least convincing album from the three Banhart's offered thus far.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
    Brings together the best parts of metal, hardcore punk-rock and dance-y post-punk for a sound that would be otherwise useless if it weren't for one thing: The boys got "it."
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You Are Free
    You aren't free after all, because once you've let the album in, you may never shake it off again.
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