For 4,060 reviews, this publication has graded:
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67% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points higher than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 76
Highest review score: | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [50th Anniversary Edition Deluxe Version] | |
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Lowest review score: | Songs From Black Mountain |
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Positive: 3,625 out of 4060
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Negative: 35 out of 4060
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There’s certainly a sense of urgency here, and also sublime moments on songs that overlay beauty with turbulence in a way that suggests an anguished soul reaching for solace amid turmoil.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 30, 2016
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The majority of I Had A Dream just doesn’t stick as deep, brushing past in a breeze of strained vocals and intricate arrangements.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 26, 2016
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That’s ultimately what makes Chapter and Verse unique--it’s not necessarily the Springsteen songs that soundtracked our lives; it’s the ones that soundtracked his.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 23, 2016
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There is certain clarity in Strange Diary that keeps the album cohesive, although it can become stagnant at times. The album’s slick production wards this off almost entirely, setting a strong foundation for Fein to recoup her poise.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 20, 2016
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Frontman Taylor Goldsmith experiments with R&B-style falsetto on songs like the title track, and the plaintive piano songs of yore now lean more heavily on keyboard synths and textural effects.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 20, 2016
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There’s a lot going on here, as required by any worthwhile slate of electronica, and Greene streamlines the grooves, tempos, beats and boom bap in a meaningful way.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 20, 2016
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AIM isn’t nearly as ambitious. It’s just busywork, M.I.A. watching the clock, scanning the news, occupied, but idle.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 19, 2016
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In the end, TUNS holds up just as strongly to any of the member’s legendary bands, and they are making their own legend along the way.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 13, 2016
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Ultimately, Sea of Noise is a powerful testament to the unflagging power of music borne from faith and conviction.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 13, 2016
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Cave fans may nitpick about how this album instrumentally stands against avant-garde classics like Kicking Against the Pricks and Let Love In. But there’s something to be said about Skeleton Tree and its starkness, which is as familiar as life and death, an elegy, and a hell of a thing to forget.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 12, 2016
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With No Burden, Lucy Dacus challenges the little boxes everyone seems forced into at one time or another, exposing them for the weak material they’re built from. In the process, she’s created a debut record with an abundance of heart that should speak to anyone with a pulse of their own.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 9, 2016
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Despite the stuffing of unnecessary transition tracks on this album, Drugdealer still makes a clean getaway with The End of Comedy.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 9, 2016
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Schmilco is an acoustic record but not a slow one--thank God--which proves the right vehicle for the band’s loosest, most unadorned set of songs since its debut. There’s electricity here, if not much electric guitar.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 9, 2016
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There are more than a few bands hell-bent on exhuming and reinventing the past. Few are as adept as the Allah-Las.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 9, 2016
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The relentless heat of My Woman can be exhausting over the course of 10 searing tracks--the addition of a throwaway would give a weary listener time to regroup. But Angel Olsen’s fearless and eloquent embrace of raw emotions in all their messy splendor ultimately feels oddly uplifting, the way it always does when you witness a gifted artist at her best.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 6, 2016
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You can’t separate this band from nostalgia, and although that might seem like a crutch to some, it can be a major point of interest for others, especially when it’s done as well as it is on Deluxe.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 2, 2016
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Though Mangy Love is well constructed, the album at times has a slippery feel, and some of the songs can just slide by without making the impression it seems like they should.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 1, 2016
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In the world of Prima Donna, black death is radical. Author Paul Beatty came to the same conclusion in his satirical novel The White Boy Shuffle, but Vince does it in 20 gripping minutes. Never has so much been done with one little light.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 29, 2016
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The Parrots supply their best tunes when they are having a good time, exactly why they act best to soundtrack the fun times under the sweltering summer sun. For The Parrots, all of the fun they have is just in a day’s work.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 29, 2016
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Beautifully more simple than any of our mythmaking delusions, Blonde is Ocean’s life as he experiences it: fluid and fluctuating, one man in motion. This is what freedom sounds like.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 25, 2016
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While this album is overall a winner, it’s not revolutionary.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 19, 2016
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Given the album’s August release date, this is one of the nearly perfect LPs for the last few hazy weeks of a brilliant summer.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 19, 2016
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Though Boronia lacks the imagination to separate Hockey Dad from the knockoffs, the band knows how to have fun in their music, and they know how to do so well.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 18, 2016
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A Weird Exits can be a trying album, requiring the listener to tumble through several disorienting sonic rabbit holes. The reward, however, is emerging from the other side of this wild ride with stories and theories as to what exactly went down between the channels of your headphones.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 15, 2016
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The fourth album shows the band pushing the barrier of mainstream music and aiming for a breakthrough outside of the Canadian market.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 8, 2016
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The band’s got a steady, comfortable grip on what’s make them sound great together, and Give A Glimpse of What Yer Not is, so far, perhaps the best distillation of this loud, glossy sound.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 5, 2016
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You can sense the solitude and fear in his warbling slacker-rock epics, and the solitude went beyond sheer internal turmoil: Fulvimar also played every instrument on the album.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 4, 2016
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It’s a textbook case of hiding in plain sight, pirouetting gracefully from one style to the next and deftly eluding precise meaning.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 2, 2016
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Tell Me If You Like To often finds the band kicking and screaming, both in downtrodden passion and in high spirits. What makes Spring King one of a kind is that they do not feel the need to differentiate the two.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 1, 2016
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Most poignant are the songs that offer something a little different from standard, because these are the instances where you can hear the makings of the band proper.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jul 29, 2016
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