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For 1,701 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 2.1 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: 1,553 out of 1701
  2. Mixed: 130 out of 1701
  3. Negative: 18 out of 1701
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Kumoyo Island
    It feels akin to waking up, still groggy, and taking in the world before you. It’s surely a different world, now, with them gone. They’ve left us with all they had to offer.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Care
    With Care, CLAMM continue to reconfigure their sources and refine their methods, offering their take on the current age, fractured as it is by pandemics, climate change, acute financial instabilities, and the rise of the autocratic impulse. They bemoan the human tragedy, but in so doing, experience a fleeting high.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Heavy Rocks [2022]
    More than anything, the album allows the trio to not only appeal to the variety within their followers, it also shows they’ve still got plenty of ground ahead of them.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Heartmind
    As the music fades in and out on the eight-minute closing title track, one can only imagine that boat in the water, the burning hot summer sun melting you down, and those slow but powerful waves washing you away. This is what it feels like to listen to Cass McCombs, especially nowadays.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    What I Breathe
    The first Mall Grab album is decidedly too busy and scattered to be much of anything but a letdown for most fans.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    A Foul Form
    While A Foul Form honors the history of hardcore, it also occurs as smartly topical, the band’s turbid rage and anti-aesthetic stance conjuring a post-capitalistic malaise and the decay of global culture. And though this set marks a pivot from previous work, spotlighting the band as they navigate a fresh battery of sonics, it’s unmistakably them.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Reset
    Panda Bear has enough talent to make one of his less-than-monumental works worth a listen. And although Sonic Boom sometimes overstuffs the record with unnecessary sounds, his chemistry with Panda Bear is natural. Perhaps next time they’ll leave the toy in the box, though.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Cheat Codes
    Cheat Codes captures the glory of rap’s classic era and brings it to the present through thick mesmerizing samples and the rapper’s incredible vernacular.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 43 Critic Score
    Funk Wav Bounces, Vol. 2
    Detractors have long said that Harris’ music is tailor made for background summer playlists you can ignore – listening to this project, it’s hard to disagree.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Florist
    Florist’s latest project stands as the culmination of previous collaborative and solo work, featuring the band as a whole at their most minimally precise; and Sprague, in terms of songwriting, vocal performances, and composition, at her most versatile and visionary.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Sun's Signature [EP]
    Sun’s Signature is a wonderful record whose core themes of hope, splendour and faith in nature are something we could all do with right about now.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    God's Country
    God’s Country is a truly wonderful, twisted record. About halfway through you start thinking it’s maybe the best debut album of the year, and by the end of the first play you start thinking it’s possibly the album of the year. It’s intimate, expansive, political and deeply personal, unsettling, upsetting and life affirming.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Isoviha
    A noisy, (erratically) bouncy, drone-y, vaguely Strawberry Jam-y set of tracks, which handily establish Vladislav Delay as operating at the top of his game, and still sounding, really, like very little else out there.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    Renaissance
    It’s an album expressing the joys of love – physical, verbal, musical, familial and all the other kinds. While she’s the one in the spotlight throughout the album, this isn’t a record about her – instead she’s honouring all those people who find themselves through the release provided by these communal spaces. And damn, it’s a hell of a good time.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Barbarism
    Barbarism is much further from the sound of a Priests record than expected, and it’s further proof that the Greer isn’t interested in repeating the past over and over again.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    XI: Bleed Here Now
    Every song sounds like a bunch of musicians taking things in stride, enjoying the process of creating over all else. Obviously by loosening the reins a bit, the pitfalls of sometimes recycling melodic and lyrical ideas aren’t completely dodged, and by effect, some tracks end up stranded in limbo around the two-and-a-half minute mark.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Riderless Horse
    The album may be a little homogenous for some listeners, but this is a narratively and emotionally precise set of songs, set to sneakily indelible melodies. Nastasia has never written with such vivid truthfulness, such earthen brutality.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    The Other Side of Make-Believe
    It plays to their strengths in most places and often challenges them to retain the will to be original and innovative in their established modus.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Beatopia
    Beatopia lacks the edge and drive of its predecessor, yet several inspired moments are enough to maintain Kristi’s reputation as one of the nation’s most exciting young artists.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    IM NAYEON
    Both fun and grounded, the charm of Nayeon is irresistible and whether you enjoy K-Pop or not, this is worth checking out if you are a poptimist in general.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    Hellfire
    Sheer breath of freshness and youth.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Girls
    This is a mini-album that does exactly what it’s meant to, in exactly the time that it takes to do so.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Arkhon
    As a whole, Arkhon is a distinct statement. Even Danilova’s uneven work manages to be intriguing.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Home, Before and After
    Her eighth studio album may be her most ambitious yet, but that added weight can lead some songs to run too long or feel overstuffed. She may still be trying to find the right balance between her larger soundscape and storytelling, but Home, before and after is an exciting evolution that feels both old and new.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sometimes, Forever
    It’s music to laugh about our former selves at, just as much as it’s perfect to get drunk and eat ice cream to – and in that, it could define a whole new generation. But for now, it will totally define this summer.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Muna
    MUNA is the best soundtrack one can find for the next few months. Seemingly destined to join the canon of pop’s great cult-classics (Carly Rae Jepsen’s Emotion, Robyn’s Body Talk, among them), it’s an album whose legacy should last much longer.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    In Amber
    Some of it drags (looking at you, “You’ve Won This War”), and the lyrics, melodies, and sounds don’t always land. At times you can practically feel him straining for it all to Mean Something, but Butler remains a powerful and important voice in music, even when a particular album doesn’t fully succeed.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Time Bend And Break The Bower
    It manages to take inspiration from a grab bag of styles and still create an unified, singular end-product. Earnest and unburdened, Time Bend is a staggeringly bold statement for a debut album. It would, indeed, seem as though we have not seen anything yet.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Farm to Table
    It’s a decent follow-up, but one that unfortunately comes off less Bartees Strange and more Bartees Safe.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ugly Season
    This is undoubtedly going to be a divisive one for long-term fans, with some holding it up as just as vital as anything else, while others will simply overlook it or just take a couple of highlights to add to their ‘Best of PG’ playlists. Whichever the case, whether you devour it or dismiss it, there’s no denying that it expands the mythos and majesty of Perfume Genius.
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