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For 2,725 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Island
Lowest review score: 0 Scream
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,898 out of 2725
  2. Mixed: 751 out of 2725
  3. Negative: 76 out of 2725
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Uneasy Laughter
    Given that Uneasy Laughter is guitar-centric first and foremost, both Saving Face and What Separates Us benefit from having muscular riffs that help offset its huge synth lines and Solomon's tenuous vocal range. Which is Moaning's greatest strength, but can be a weakness too, as they haven't been fully able to add more personality to their vulnerable, dark romanticism.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Panorama
    It serves as the nuanced companion to the disquieting narrative of Rooms of the House.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Volume 3
    The third chapter in She & Him’s discography won’t convert those who dislike the genre and it won’t alienate fans of it either.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Caretakers
    Yorn loses some of the album's momentum as it progresses, too enamored with its stately flow—but just like any troubadour who calls L.A. home, he still writes some of the most tuneful folk-rock this side of Laurel Canyon.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    To the Happy Few
    The resulting album feels fresh and contemporary--as much as any new young guitar band around today--and not at all a retro step.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cotillions
    Cotillions does have its fair share of bloat, though—at 17 tracks and clocking in over an hour, its instrumental parallels can often feel redundant once it concludes. Nevertheless, his recent "unplugged" projects suggest he’s found fulfillment carving his own path rather than overthinking how to capture the spirit of our times.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ambulance
    Most of Ambulance tends to cast a shadow on their most riotous tendencies, but there are still surprises to be found; the more sanguine Blair Dagger almost sounds out of place with its salacious tremolo strains, though it also highlights the band at their most playfully engaged.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Soft Will
    Soft Will won’t enter the annals as album of the decade, but it showcases the tools and talent to make it happen one day.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Utopia
    Utopia does function as a companion piece to Vulnicura, if only because it doesn’t require much effort to separate them as contrary forces.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hoyas [EP]
    There are no real standout tracks, it is a four song EP after all and electronica has a slight tendency to blend into one long reverby track. But as a piece, it moves so softly, so deep and so colourful.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Athena
    She heads into more accessible waters —on tracks like Down on Me and Confessions, Davis softens her pop-meets-classical mishmash with a mellifluous inflection that gives clarity to her self-empowering message. And like a memoir of sorts, she goes through stories that range from her birth to the present day.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An Album by Korallreven
    An Album assembles all the loose threads from previous bursts of inspiration to sequence a scenic panorama to get lost into.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Migration Stories
    Some of the arrangements stick, and some of them don't, but it's always enjoyable to hear where his open-ended narratives take you.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wonderful, Glorious
    Wonderful, Glorious is a solid Eels record, with some of the best arrangements they have ever written.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Temporary Pleasure
    It’s trashy yet too self-conscious for its own good, it’s lovingly crafted yet ultimately hollow, it’s dance music which veers from so catchy you can’t help yourself to chin-stroking music to nod at and appreciate.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strange Peace
    Strange Peace is about finding even a semblance of mental calm when everything seems awry, and hard to think of many other modern hardcore bands who could accomplish this with such genuine physicality.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Nine Types of Light
    Whether you will enjoy this ultimately depends on whether you're more of a rocker or a dancer - indeed, some people much preferred the mellower sound of their last record - but there's little denying that this album misses a lot of the urgency and sheer emotional energy of the band's first two LPs.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    With Love
    Between the two, disc 1 is more memorable than its counterpart, but together they still form a fascinating insight into one of the foremost production talents operating on our shores today.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Time [EP]
    Ultimately, Time’s liquidity, while mesmerising to some, will be a distance myth to others.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Zonoscope
    Cut Copy are back, and back with enough danceable synth-pop to flatten the sensitive Bombay Bicycle Club member in all of us - but only just enough.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Expo 86
    Expo 86 emphasizes the fact that novel beginnings are meant to prosper whilst winking at the past from time to time.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wild Mountain Nation
    One thing the album does not suffer from is a lack of ideas. In fact, it sounds like the band has crammed each song with sounds, licks, rhythm shifts, basically anything they could come up with, hoping to manufacture inspiration from creativity.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Young & Old
    Young & Old is a more mature release which demonstrates that Tennis possess both the wisdom and guile to evolve.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Horehound
    It’s a maiden voyage with a few kinks that need to be worked out. One promising aspect is White’s new pet project, The Kills singer Alison Mosshart.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Light
    In Light is commendable for exploring the successful niche Givers have been residing within since their 2009 Givers EP.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    IV
    IV is impeccably produced, one that tailors even the finest details with a delicate brush; even when it disappoints it’s still a joy to listen to since every instrument is mixed to perfection.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Americana
    You have never heard these songs like they are presented here, and there's a chance you have never heard them better, either.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Days of the Bagnold Summer OST
    Inspired by B&S leader Stuart Murdoch’s read of the novel, the soundtrack thankfully veers more towards the bibliophile than the head-banger. Two B&S classics are re-worked, including a spritely updating of the perfect fitting I Know Where The Summer Goes as well as more of a straight read of Get Me Away From Here I’m Dying.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Human Hearts
    They work best when under the restraints of a three-minute pop song, resolute to achieving guitar resonance in a compact framework.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kill For Love
    It's a handsome work, but it really could have done with a bit of judicious editing.
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