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For 6,003 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 to hell with it [Mixtape]
Lowest review score: 0 Maroon
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,225 out of 6003
  2. Mixed: 1,625 out of 6003
  3. Negative: 153 out of 6003
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Couture, Couture, Couture
    At times it sounds like pastiche but when they're themselves... the 'Couture...' club are amazing. [6 Nov 2004, p.59]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    We're Animals
    Covers all the same ground as albums by Le Tigre, Liars and The Rogers Sisters in the space of one spectacular 45-minute burst. [12 Nov 2005, p.45]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Broken Hearts Club
    With ‘Broken Hearts Club’, Syd has crafted an album that elevates her to new heights – one that positions her as an exceptional, peerless talent.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Songs for Our Mothers
    Rhe majority of this 46-minute album is gripping, a sickening start to the year that makes Saul’s temporary departure all the more understandable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Five Spanish Songs [EP]
    Bejar has a wondrous lyrical facility that it’d be a shame for him to forsake--but he’s also possessed of a beguiling, breezy touch that acts as a musical lingua franca here.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Workout Holiday
    Songs begin fully-formed before spiralling into abstract drum loops punctuated by slicing guitars and vocal drones (‘Mess Your Hair’). At other times, the most perfect moments of Small Faces psychedelia or Velvet Underground basement pop will emerge from the most unlikely formless squalls (‘Sitting’; ‘Heart From Us All’).
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV
    While their version of My Bloody Valentine’s ‘Only Shallow’ sounds exactly the same only much more so, the unexpected choices work best.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Collective
    Not all of these experiments quite come off: the industrial clang of ‘It’s Dark Inside’, on which she drawls, “they don’t teach clit in school / Like do Lit”, veers close to ‘Yeezus’ parody. It’s notable, though, how contemporary her distorted art-punk sounds.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    To The 5 Boroughs
    Like Missy Elliott, the Beasties are reimagining hip-hop--what it was, what it is, what it can be. [12 Jun 2004, p.47]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Will Be
    This rollicking debut album is a balance-redressing, cliché-bucking tonic.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Clinging To A Scheme
    Whether by design or evolution, The Radio Dept’s third album fits the grand scheme of all things voguish and hazy rather perfectly--though that’s not to say they’ve made a faultless record, as ‘Clinging To A Scheme’ arguably hangs from just a few songs.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    David Comes To Life
    Behold their evolution: while 2008's 'The Chemistry Of Common Life' album was drenched in religious connotations and spiritual euphemisms, this time, their rock opera about romance and death at an English lightbulb factory (seriously) is theatrics personified, taking listeners on a quest while still abiding by their precious DIY ethic.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lover
    At 18 tracks long, ‘Lover’ is more sprawling and further from flawless than her 2014 pop crossover ‘1989’. But it succeeds in spite of its clunkier moments because Swift’s melodies are frequently dazzling and her loved-up lyrics are ultimately quite touching.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Melody A.M.
    The music is a spectral combination of bleepy 80s synths, lightly crunching backbeats and dreamy vocals; the mood is pure post-clubbing afterglow, in bed with your loved one, in some snowbound Ikea log cabin.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Gods We Can Touch
    ‘The Gods We Can Touch’ is loaded with AURORA’s idiosyncratic quirks and enchanting notions, but it’s never purely a slave to whimsy. Now’s the time to give in to AURORA.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Man on the Moon, Vol. 3: The Chosen
    Kid Cudi gives us every part of himself, laying out his insecurities and inner demons in the hope that it might help someone else, his words etched into a vivid backdrop of intoxicating melodies and palatial riffs. No one does mood music quite like Cudi.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Karpeh
    It’s a project where everything has been allowed to evolve and align properly: Clay’s willingness as a songwriter to go to a place where he was once uncertain, and his courage to compose and lead with his most authentic playing yet.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vestiges & Claws
    The record is littered with painstakingly layered guitar parts, mellifluous melodies and clapping drumbeats that nod to Russell’s posthumous collection ‘Love Is Overtaking Me’.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Don't Run
    Cheery yet punk-as-fuck attitude is studded through their rattling second LP.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    IGOR
    Whether or not you choose to take his advice with either your first or your 51st listen, IGOR is an accomplished and evergreen record that’s well worth putting your phone down, turning the TV off and devoting your full attention span to.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tiny Changes: A Celebration of Frightened Rabbit's The Midnight Organ Fight
    A truly special tribute to a wonderful songwriter.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ivywild
    At 16 tracks long, it’s a dense, textured offering that--on numbers like the lush ‘Love Streams’--manages to shimmer with both nimble experimentation and languid pop finesse.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Donovan Blanc
    The two-piece create an irresistible sense of longing that’s more disarming than Donovan’s smoothest pants-off line.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    X.O. Experience
    Their fourth album rarely disappoints...
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Doris
    He doesn’t want to be a powerhouse rap star. Doris may alienate people looking for him to be that. For everyone else, this is a powerful record.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Judgement Days
    The beats are slick and the vocals flawless.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tally All the Things That You Broke [EP]
    A whiff of unoriginality aside, what this EP offers Parquet Courts addicts is fresh meat to chew on, signs of innovation and further evidence that these New Yorkers are one of the world’s most essential new bands.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Strange Creatures
    Strange Creatures is an audacious and gratifying return that makes you want to envelope yourself in its gloom.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fetch the Bolt Cutters
    This time there’s a more untamed fierceness in Apple’s voice, as she relays tales of feminism, abusive partners, the sacrifices of love and the dinner parties she won’t be quiet at. Unrefined sounds recorded in her LA home make for a visceral listening experience.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Messenger
    The Messenger isn’t just a summary of everything worthwhile in contemporary rock music, it’s an insightful and informed dissection of life in 2013 and all the futile iOS updates, cyberstalking conglomerates and financial travesties that clog up the spaces between us. In a world claiming to connect us all, it argues, we’re getting more and more dislocated.
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