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For 2,723 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: 1,897 out of 2723
  2. Mixed: 750 out of 2723
  3. Negative: 76 out of 2723
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Norman Fucking Rockwell!
    It's a remarkably sharp pop record that retains her fascination with pop-culture iconography and the rosey simplicity of a post-war America where classic rock and blue jeans ruled and takes them to much deeper places. ... Think of it as an hour-long car ride peeling down the highway with classic rock blaring out of the radio and no real destination in mind other than where your impulsive nature might take you.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    We Are Always Alone
    Portrayal of Guilt’s songs become so chaotic and overwhelming in their bipolar brutality that almost every song needs an ambient comedown to cool off, though even these are just as lurching and ominous as each riff is impeccably tight and terrifying.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Empty Country
    These songs work as an extension of himself—coming from one of indie rock's most literate songwriters—delivered with thoughtful compassion and no shortage of ambition.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    In a Poem Unlimited
    As activist hashtags #MeToo and #TimesUp bear weight and stage heavy resistance against a significant and still increasing population of men with power, Remy’s words prop up the cause, not quite providing the movement its anthem(s), but certainly offering its reason(s) why.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Is Survived By
    Each moment on Is Survived By is a hotly tempered emotional assault that leaves no closet-bound skeleton unaccounted for an un-torched.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Innocence is Kinky
    This mind-expanding record will inspire a more inexpressible connection: you will carve your own niche within its deep and absorbing textures, and you will find new things upon every listen.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Cocoa Sugar
    Cocoa Sugar is an invigorating listen from beginning to end, and it's hard to imagine any other band making a musical work of art that's as visceral this year.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Suburbs
    The Suburbs is about a search for home, for a place in the world when the home you knew is gone.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    In Colour
    In Colour is one of the best albums of 2015 and one of the best dance albums in recent memory, simultaneously a moving homage to London rave culture and a realization of the potential of one of the most exciting and original minds in music today.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    House of Balloons
    When it's all said and done, Tesfaye has presided over a mind bending, drug induced tour through an underground world of debauchery that only leaves him hollow. He commands the mood better than artists who have been in the game for years and yet this his first release.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shore
    This latest offering from Fleet Foxes embodies their entire catalog of folksy sounds, seasons it with some jazzy elements, and pares down some bloat (only one track over five minutes). Perhaps the only surface flaw of this album is that certain songs build too quickly and fade too fast.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Freedom
    What Freedom reveals is McMahon's ever-evolving tapestry, as it affectionally chronicles the human condition with candor and open-hearted curiosity.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Isolation
    With such a wide-ranging collection of retro sounds blended into one record, the fact that the album’s near 45-minute runtime avoids any real stale moments is another triumph from Uchis.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    22, A Million
    These songs are chaotic, unexpected and jarring. Samples, vocoders, and shambling synths crash together in an unstructured soundscape. But if you listen through the anarchy, you will find a stirring, masterful odyssey.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Emily Alone
    She leaves enough open spaces to invite some speculation and creative faculty, but by all accounts, this is the story she had to tell during this period in her life.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Let England Shake
    Let England Shake may be Harvey's less vainglorious manifestation, but it is also her most intoxicating. Rather than exposing a personal voice, she exercises her political inquietudes with studied intellectualism.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sound Of Silver
    I’d be surprised if the genre can produce anything much better than this.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Who Kill
    The bizarre take on folk, pop and anything else she sees fit is enchanting, joyful and thought provoking; it's everything at once.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Remind Me Tomorrow
    It’s her grandest and greatest evolution yet.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Welcome To Mali
    Welcome to Mali was one of 2008's hidden gems, so do yourself a favor and go check it out now.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Natalie Prass
    While the tracks rarely challenge the listener with bold experimentation or chord progressions that range much beyond major-and-minor resolves, Natalie Prass provides a concise amalgamation of R&B, funk, baroque pop, and soul with a consistent through-line.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Mirrored
    Powered by its fluid and seeming invincibility, Mirrored is almost frighteningly cosmic.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Are We There
    It reveals yet another side to this musician, who has continued to pull back layer after layer since she first appeared on the scene.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bon Iver
    Few albums are truly perfect though, and Bon Iver is not without its flaw.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    How I Got Over
    It's another rock-solid album from one of rap's most consistently great collectives, with no discernable weak spots to attack.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
    In Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, M83 have created an ethereal electronic masterpiece, and one which, thankfully, doesn't sound like a relic from the Warp Records back catalogue.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shade
    Shade, Harris’ most varied release yet, feels like the broadest and most crisp view of this vista yet, with clear, starlit openings (Unclean Mind), vast ambient gaps (Ode to the Blue), and hazy nebulas (Disordered Minds) coming together to form a stargazer’s dream.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Syro
    It isn't perfect, its sheer restlessness prevents it from being so, but it will undoubtedly come to be remembered as another masterpiece from possibly the greatest electronic composer to walk the earth.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jericho Sirens
    Packed with a surfeit of nimble guitar lines, they draw their forces together into an expertly crafted portrayal of raw anguish that surpasses any nostalgic commemoration. These mature punks sweat out their energy with vigorous and eloquent playing, and in doing so, also show their younger peers how it's done.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Life Is People
    He has come up with a gem of a record, heartfelt and true, that hopefully will get him some of the attention he richly deserves.
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