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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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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Dust
    while Roll the Dice's single-minded desire to evoke and capture the mundane and nightmarish may make In Dust sound like a rather joyless and difficult prospect, they fortunately still manage to include more than enough moments of bleak beauty to make it worth the repeat visits.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Earth Division [EP]
    Earth Division is more interesting than satisfying, but it's difficult to dismiss its beauty and its reach past the band's comfort level.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
    It's a sweeping, expansive album, that covers a lot of ground and leaves the listener satisfied.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wolfroy Goes To Town
    It's an album of striking and stark beauty, with finely crafted songs that feel stripped to their bare essentials, and just allowed to be what they are, unadorned.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Whole Love
    Once Wilco blazon forth their centerpiece, the remainder of The Whole Love takes a more familiar form that embraces self-assurance, even if those lopsided moments sum the overall experience.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Year of Hibernation
    Perhaps the album hits its heights a bit late, but when Youth Lagoon's full confidence is on display, it's hard to turn away.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Velociraptor!
    For Kasabian fans this will be a fine, perhaps even happy result--another album in a similar vein to satiate your lust for new music, but the nagging thought catches as it wonders how new, interesting or innovative any of this really is; the short answer is no, it's not.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Portamento
    As an album, it's probably the dullest anticipation of the year.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Looping State of Mind
    There's nothing here with quite the same catchiness that The Field somehow achieved on the head-nodders A Paw In My Face or The More That I Do, but each track is a fascinating experiment in sound, and this is perhaps his strongest record yet.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Violent Hearts
    The vocals are obscured, but nothing else really meshes.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Hunter
    From start to finish, The Hunter is a collection of songs that inadvertently expands their repertoire and capabilities while they turn off their heads and let their fingers tell the story.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Conatus
    Ultimately Conatus makes for a very sensuous, luxurious forty minutes, but it's minor flaws like these that prevent it from hitting quite as hard as it could have done, and from being the unqualified success that Stridulum II was.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Heaven
    In Heaven certainly does enough to make an initial impact, and on its own, it's hard to ignore.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Night of Hunters
    For all its faults, give Night of Hunters more than a little patience, and perhaps don't pay too close attention to the plot, and it reveals itself to be Amos' most consistent, interesting album since her mid-90s heyday.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Relax
    The production is inconsistent and largely a bit too bombastic for Das Racist's usually free-associative, untechnical rapping.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Nevermind [20th Anniversary Edition]
    The album is amazing. The reissue is amazing. The band is amazing.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Romantic Comedy
    Their overzealous sense of accomplishment can't be denied, especially when the album itself manages to never skip a beat.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Modern Art
    Modern Art doesn't have the pure pop exuberance of Girlfriend, but it proves to be a welcome addition to a distinguished body of work.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Veronica Falls
    An excitable sound, great vocal harmonies, a jangling noise that is immensely listenable: It's all here, it's catchy as hell, and it's exciting.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    An Argument with Myself [EP]
    As dedicated as he is to forming these characters into life-size beings, it doesn't change the fact that some are less interesting than others due to a lack of personification.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Celestial Lineage
    Celestial Lineage may be well crafted and even (relatively) accessible but by eschewing the ideas that coloured their previous work, Wolves in the Throne Room have ended up creating something that's not really black, but rather quite grey.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dracula
    There's a weird combination of influences at work here.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Different Kind of Fix
    This album is a great one, and proof that the band are able and willing to develop and grow their music.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wild Flag
    It feels like they've been doing this for years, and while they quite literally all have, the way they have formed and moulded that sum of past experience into one new entity is nothing but impressive.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Goblin
    This album then delivers anger, honesty and arrogance, all in sporadic scatter-gun fashion: the overriding feeling is confused, uncertain, often unreasonable, but ultimately well intentioned.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Era Extrana
    While Palomo advances his songwriting by attempting a concept album, he fails to vary the songs enough to allow their inner essence to shine, to glow, to hook inside the listener, to haunt them.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Big Talk
    More than anything, Big Talk reflects the Vegas background of its middling maestro.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The High Country
    Richmond Fontaine should be commended for bucking the singles trend and crafting an album that functions best, possibly only, as a whole, especially amid rumors of the album's impending demise.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Leave No Trace
    Not once does this record manage to clamber out of its self-imposed constraints of mediocrity; and for a band genuinely capable of blissful set piece tracks, that makes it mostly a somewhat distressing token.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Believers
    Bondy trudges along without much to believe in, but his instilled confidence tells otherwise.
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