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For 1,698 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 39% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Achtung Baby [Super Deluxe]
Lowest review score: 18 If Not Now, When?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,551 out of 1698
  2. Mixed: 129 out of 1698
  3. Negative: 18 out of 1698
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    In Lieu of Flowers
    On In Lieu Of Flowers, COVID-19 lockdowns and quarantine provide a suitably bleak backdrop to their narrator’s tails of spiralling alcoholism and isolation. .... Despite this, the music rises with an undeniable air of victory as driving drums and guitars crescendo alongside horn flourishes. Like on much of In Lieu of Flowers, West can’t help but be awestruck by the unlikely triumph of still being alive amidst the wreckage.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT
    Throughout, she marches from truly great lyricism that is on par with the very best of her contemporary idols and peers to unfiltered writing that leads to more ridicule on TikTok than engagement with the listener. Musically, the project is also split between deeply engaging material that is her best yet, while the main album at times just seems too homogenous for its own good in locked in mid-tempo and synth-pop.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Ramona
    It doesn’t always work as well as an album, but folks will still look back and remember the time Cummings spent everything, went all in, and became Ramona.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    This Could Be Texas
    English Teacher’s debut album is delicate, accomplished, and complete.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    angeltape
    It’s a consistently good album, and one that harks back to their previous work while also suggesting new possibilities as they move forward. It would be nice if they could take less time to get the next album out, though.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade
    The Libertines, with their second comeback, have chosen the other, “safe” direction, and sacrificed their integrity for it. Doherty sounds tired, abandoning nostalgia for kitschy gestures. Barât has fun, putting on his old jacket and playing rockstar, but he’s not rethinking his role as musician, or portraying growth as a songwriter.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Fabiana Palladino
    Though album’s influences go as far back as Marvin Gaye’s “I Want You” (“Deeper”), the overall tone is suitably compressed and claustrophobic. The taut paranoia and confusion that belied Prince & The Revolution’s 1999 and Purple Rain forms a touchstone, modernised when the tenor shifts to Rhye.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Interplay
    Interplay is space rock as solid as it comes, but also deeply indebted to a millennial era about 20 years ago, which both shoegaze and alternative rock have left behind. A different kind of nostalgia, perhaps.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Only God Was Above Us
    The band seem focused on a singular mission: to deliver a rich, imaginative work that demands our attention, one that pushes the expectations of listeners as well as themselves. The question is: do they succeed? The answer is a resounding, unequivocal yes: Only God Was Above Us feels in many ways the kind of album we always knew the band had in them to make.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Something in the Room She Moves
    This is an achingly human journey into the vast mischievous subconscious, never trying to manipulate how you should feel.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    COWBOY CARTER
    Beyoncé has given us her most excessive body of work to date. It is unfocused, it swerves and changes directions, yet delivers quality in so many different ways no part of it can be called inessential. While one could choose a cynical route and think their way into not appreciating the full product, the truth is history will be kind to Cowboy Carter as yet another classic album from Queen Bey.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    Kaiser Chiefs' Easy Eighth Album
    If Wilson and crew are trying to invoke a riot, then Easy Eighth isn’t the best manifesto – but it does at least fill the time fine enough until they figure out their cause.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 64 Critic Score
    Glasgow Eyes
    Glasgow Eyes isn’t far off being a great record, but those drops in quality aren’t just blips, they’re chasms.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Tigers Blood
    By using her clear mind to acknowledge all that has made up who she is, she has put together the puzzle of her past through the lens of today to create something that transcends its personal nature to truly resonate with her widening audience.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    TYLA
    TYLA is an excellently made debut album. With its brief 38 minutes, the album presents Tyla as versatile yet having a recognizable style, as suitable for both R&B and amapiano, and as soft and powerful. The end product is a solid record with no real skips whose main aftertaste is that of the potential in display.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Bright Future
    Filled to the brim with pathos and lived-in melancholy, she has crafted yet another jewel for her ever-expanding crown. It might not be quite as cohesive as songs was, but it benefits from being more varied, and from having some of her most affecting vocal performances.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Deeper Well
    Her well of inspiration has always been deep, with songs about environmentalism, family troubles and small town gossip, but it seems now, when pressed too hard on the idea of maturity, Musgraves appears all too shallow, and no longer the three-dimensional character we loved and craved so much.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Underdressed at the Symphony
    Her ability to speak about truly complex and philosophical facets of love and the self in a lyrically simplified way, but with sonically expansive and cohesive instrumentation, is admirable and incredibly progressive in the world of genres and storytelling.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Eternal Sunshine
    It’s a gallery walk through of her feelings with fans and listeners. The mind, like a bedroom, can be messy. While completely set up with decor and personalized trinkets, the chair in the corner with all your clothes and the trinkets poking out from under the bed are quite obvious. Grande proves again that she is not embarrassed to let it all be seen.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    The Collective
    The Collective is thoroughly, classic Kim, but many of the odder choices – such as a truly annoying autotune appearance – seem to stem from deep collaborative dialogue.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    The Great Bailout
    The Great Bailout is as much a historical commentary as a work of art, a detailed chronicle of the way in which a flawed system was flawlessly crafted.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 64 Critic Score
    Scope Neglect
    As it stands, the record is too disjointed as a whole body of work, and you get the sense that when you return to it at a future point it’ll be to pick out the peaks and entirely ignore the lows. Such is life.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    I Got Heaven
    Whether or not Dabice believes things inside her have changed, it’s undoubted that I Got Heaven is taking Mannequin Pussy to new levels, and things on her exterior are only going to get bigger and brighter.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Souvenir
    The band’s deepest, and strongest, album to-date.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Still
    Still does try new things, as it finds her working with new people while simultaneously showing more of herself. Sensational yielded a remix album, but Still is de Casier’s first album with features, and the artists appearing here do a good job fitting themselves into the mold of her musical world.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    VENUS
    Venus finds Larsson serving energy and vulnerability in equal measure, however, still giving the listener an uneven experience when it comes to song choices and sequencing.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Past Is Still Alive
    Their tunesmithery is crystalline, their lyricism freewheeling yet precisely penned, and their voice as evocative yet relaxed as ever.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 62 Critic Score
    TANGK
    The fact that TANGK captures a band boldly going out of their own depth doesn’t take away that IDLES come on a little too strong too often, compelling you to swipe left more often than right.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 52 Critic Score
    This is Me…Now
    Considering this is her first album since 2014, it’s unfortunate that it can feel a little one-note. A Romeo and Juliet-esque yearning wasn’t necessarily expected or desired, and it doesn’t always serve her best across this effort.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Weird Faith
    Weird Faith is an honest and well-written record by one of underground pop’s sharpest and most empathetic artists.
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