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For 4,087 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 66% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 31% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 76
Highest review score: 100 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [50th Anniversary Edition Deluxe Version]
Lowest review score: 10 Songs From Black Mountain
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,651 out of 4087
  2. Mixed: 400 out of 4087
  3. Negative: 36 out of 4087
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Whole Love
    The Whole Love reveals itself as their finest album since Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Rooms of the House
    La Dispute picked a perfect time to make a classic album in the post-hardcore spectrum that might be considered a classic outside of genre, too.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The U.S. Albums [Box Set]
    With The U.S. Albums, we get a cleansed version of the experience, many times utilizing the UK remasters.... Sure, it’s a quibble to harp over better quality, but there is an argument to be made for historical accuracy.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    >Album Title Goes Here<
    Armed with a collection of adrenaline-pumping beats and diverse vocal appearances, it's a musical force that continues to establish Zimmerman's place among the house music greats.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
    To say Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper is a textural album is probably stating the obvious, but it very much is, in a way where the individual tracks feel simultaneously adventurous and tamed.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Bonfires On The Heath
    For those who cherished the late, great Go-Betweens, Galaxie 500 and The Zombies, take heart--here is your new favorite album, filled to bursting with shivering tremolo guitars, surrealist poetry and the sort of melodies that made the kids’ knees buckle whenever “Time of the Season” graced the airwaves.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
    Each song shows new facets of their sound.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Villains
    The evolution of Queens of the Stone Age has been slow and steady; and 20 years in the band still sounds amazingly energized.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Sob Story
    This ought to be the album that launches Spectrals out of the expanses of the insider underground. And if it doesn’t, it’s still one of the best records of 2013.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    For the Good Times
    For fans of what country was, For The Good Times could well be a hope chest for what could yet again be.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The 20/20 Experience
    Just like Futuresex before it, this innovative, sonically dazzling album sounds like it was beamed in from several years in the future—2020 sounds about right.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Brotherhood
    The quality is indisputable, although one might question why the Chems need another best-of. The answer is disc two of Brotherhood, an invaluable collection of their “Electronic Battle Weapons” (promo tracks released to DJs for field testing).
    • 89 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Sawayama
    Sawayama is an exhilarating reminder of a bygone time when boy bands ruled all and commercialism ruled the boy bands. That era is long gone, but that particular brand of maximalist pop is back, only better now than before.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Dances in Dreams of the Known and Unknown
    Not many bands in recent memory have been able to combine noise and otherworldly sonics with the sweat and hot breath of punk rock. The Skull Defekts have mastered it, boiled it down and resurrected it.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    After Dark, Vol. 2
    Mostly, the music works together more than it works to distinguish itself, always pushing movement and progression into the forefront in a sort of peaceful acceptance of chaos and uncertainty.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
    She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She finds Chelsea Wolfe at her most creative while reviving her particular, audacious and revered brand of dark storytelling. Every piece of the record finds a way to tie into the themes at its core while still pushing Wolfe’s own sound forward in earnest.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Beautiful Old Turn-Of-The-Century Songs
    Similar to the BBC’s fantastic Bringing It All Back Home soundtrack, The Beautiful Old further solidifies the root connection between Celtic folk and American bluegrass.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Fallen Angels
    The arrangements on Fallen Angels are wonderful and sumptuous. Recorded with his longtime touring band, it’s easy to hear how working with this music has breathed new life into them as a performing unit. Their playing is loose, easy and natural, and they sound like they’re having a lot of fun.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Blood Bank [EP]
    The record sounds, appropriately so, as if it were made by a band experimenting, rather than by one man alone, heartbroken, in his so-often-talked-about Wisconsin cabin.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    At Weddings
    At Weddings is filled with such a powerful, saintly aura that even the most ugly subject matters can spur flawless, beautiful results.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    July Flame
    July Flame is carefully composed, ever-deepening, glinting and glowing in new ways each time it’s played; there’s an inkling of something greater coming just around the bend, but for now it’s Veirs’ finest work.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Hungry Bird
    Rather than picking up where End of Love left off, Hungry Bird sounds like an extension of previous solo outing Lose Big. Barzelay’s soft, depressed poetry is brushed across the canvas of his wispy songs as if he could float into the ether at any moment, becoming a ghost singing from the wizenened remove of the afterlife.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Freedom Highway
    Whether she shuck’n’shimmies through the flirty trombone-laced “Hey Bebe,” the bowed cello and moan lullaby “Baby Boy” or the staccato romance denied “Love We Almost Had” (featuring fellow roots journeyer Bhi Bhiman), the emotions of desire and elation run strong.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    My Wild West
    Pondering the loss of innocence, rise of awareness and acceptance over 12 songs and 45 minutes, Lissie demonstrates resilience in the wake of California/stardom’s illusionary appeal.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    2019 [EP]
    Pop the bubbly. Buy that heart-shaped box of chocolates. Send that overly earnest card. Dacus has done it again, and that’s reason enough to celebrate.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Weather Diaries
    Whether the first sign of a late career renaissance or a corrective recourse to their shrugging split in the ‘90s, Bell, Gardener, Queralt and Colbert offer a comeback easily on par with their classic output.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Prettiest Curse
    The Prettiest Curse shows the band at their expected peppy standard, maintaining the youthful punk-cum-surf-rock vigor they’ve built their name on for damn near 10 years. They’ve grown up, whether they meant to or not, but they haven’t lost their edge. They’ve merely sharpened it with their best work to date.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Midwest Farmer's Daughter
    While she’s faced a number of setbacks to get where she is today, her talent beams golden bright on this album.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    New
    Now 71, Paul has delivered his tightest album in years, confirming that the streak of goodness that began with Chaos and Creation in the Backyard wasn’t a fluke.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Hills And Valleys
    The primarily acoustic Hills and Valleys, produced by Lloyd Maines, is the Flatlanders' third and strongest album since reuniting in 1998 for "The Horse Whisperer" soundtrack.
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