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For 4,079 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 67% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 30% 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: 3,643 out of 4079
  2. Mixed: 400 out of 4079
  3. Negative: 36 out of 4079
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    The End of Comedy
    Despite the stuffing of unnecessary transition tracks on this album, Drugdealer still makes a clean getaway with The End of Comedy.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Schmilco
    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.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Calico Review
    There are more than a few bands hell-bent on exhuming and reinventing the past. Few are as adept as the Allah-Las.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    My Woman
    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.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Deluxe
    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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Mangy Love
    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.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Prima Donna [EP]
    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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Los Niños Sin Miedo
    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.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 93 Critic Score
    Blonde
    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.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    One Day All of This Won't Matter Any More
    While this album is overall a winner, it’s not revolutionary.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Roosevelt
    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.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Boronia
    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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    A Weird Exits
    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.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Morning Report
    The fourth album shows the band pushing the barrier of mainstream music and aiming for a breakthrough outside of the Canadian market.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
    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.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    This Is Gap Dream
    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.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Over There That Way
    It’s a textbook case of hiding in plain sight, pirouetting gracefully from one style to the next and deftly eluding precise meaning.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Tell Me if You Like To
    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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Viola Beach
    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.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Ambulance
    The record remains a close cousin of Picture You, and with its comparatively brief length, it’s hard not to hear it as an encore as much as it is a follow-up. Surely the group has earned a round of applause.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Daydream
    Daydream is a lot of fun, and even though it does what it does really at a high level, it ultimately can’t distance itself from the source style and succumbs to playing the part too well.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Wildflower
    It took a childhood-and-a-half to come to fruition, but Wildflower is another album that snatches elements from the past but sounds like the future.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Life in the Dark
    Recorded by themselves, in a garage, Life In The Dark is The Felice Brothers’ most consistent album, a potent showcase for band’s greatest strengths in both songwriting and performance.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Still Life
    The metamorphosis of her personal quest has undoubtedly spilled over into this ultimate blossoming of Young Magic. Still Life manages to feel like Indonesia and when artists seek to understand themselves with music as their driver for catharsis and enlightenment, the end result will show what they’ve discovered.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    True Sadness
    Alongside its distracting flaws, True Sadness contains some truly beautiful music--and a good measure of the joyous energy that The Avett Brothers employ to transcendent effect live--but there’s no guiding principle here, resulting in a dizzy mess of an album that doesn’t live up to the band’s talents.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    American Tunes
    Not all of those styles may be represented on this collection, but the love of the craft is contained within each note presented.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My Way Home
    This isn’t just a great gospel album to hear in 2016; it’s also among the must-hear albums across the musical spectrum.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ain't Who I Was
    For Bishop, who’d given up music, it is in that maturity her strengths shine. If Bonnie Raitt’s Nick of Time marked a momentous arrival, Bishop’s Ain’t Who I Was could be the 21st Century answer.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Earth
    Earth is an engaging, highly credible recording that burns with a fire of its own. From beginning to end, it is brave, uncompromising, cracked up and beautiful.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    case/lang/veirs
    Together, they’re a force, trading off on leads and joining together on backing vocals.
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