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For 4,078 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: 3,642 out of 4078
  2. Mixed: 400 out of 4078
  3. Negative: 36 out of 4078
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Imaginary Man
    Mostly, Imaginary Man sounds like Baxter composing a conscious push to the mainstream. It’s just that his previous, strange, and wanderlusting alter-ego seems to capture more curiosity.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    1 Hopeful RD.
    Although the slower 1 Hopeful Rd. likely won’t affect Vintage Trouble’s exuberant live performances or reputation, they’d do better to return to their high-energy recordings.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Coda [Remastered]
    Like Jimmy Page’s previous deluxe remasters, these new sets are fitfully revealing, littered with extras that even obsessives will write off as fluff. But the albums’ scattered brilliance has only deepened in the past four decades. [Coda (Remastered Album): 7.5 / Coda (Deluxe Material): 7.0]
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Through the Out Door [Remastered]
    Like Jimmy Page’s previous deluxe remasters, these new sets are fitfully revealing, littered with extras that even obsessives will write off as fluff. But the albums’ scattered brilliance has only deepened in the past four decades.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Presence [Remastered]
    Like Jimmy Page’s previous deluxe remasters, these new sets are fitfully revealing, littered with extras that even obsessives will write off as fluff. But the albums’ scattered brilliance has only deepened in the past four decades.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Another One
    Even songs which seem at first like throwaways take turns which end up redeeming their back-to-basics structure.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Positive Songs for Negative People
    Turner leaves behind considerable wreckage with Positive Songs--in ways both cathartic and clumsy. And as usual, he goes down swinging.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Goes Missing
    What Kelly has summoned is a shot of the good stuff from the wellspring of material everyone has to work with, and in the process he’s produced one of the best albums of 2015.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Amused to Death [Reissue]
    The meticulously crafted music is bold and robust, with same panoramic sweep as The Wall, Waters’ magnum opus he created while with Pink Floyd.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Star Wars
    They make “tossed-off” and “slight” sound like the utmost virtues, and most of these songs sound like they were recorded in real time.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Watkins Family Hour
    That such a simple record, short on frills and long on naked aesthetic, offers such impact in a world of machined pop and beat-driven urban music speaks volumes for the power of stripping things back, then letting the talent shine.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Most Lamentable Tragedy
    Best of all, it’s very self-aware. Stickles puts it all on the table, ready to blame, excuse, forgive and destroy himself perhaps as an example for us when we’re trying to decide how to deal with our own imperfections.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    Works for Tomorrow
    The world needed a rough-hewn reminder of how achingly powerful two guitars pawing and scratching at each other while a rhythm section spars alongside them. Works For Tomorrow does just that.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Subjective Concepts
    With their excellent full-length debut, this savage young trio offers a stiff reminder of those bygone halcyon days when Chad Channing drummed for Nirvana instead of Dave Grohl.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    The Blade
    Heartfelt and engaging.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    White Reaper Does It Again
    Each song here is a lesson in catchiness. Every driving guitar onslaught, drum hop around, keyboard attack and vocal screed is a hook unto itself. The distortion is prominent almost as a laugh in the face of danger.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Pattern of Excel
    For an album with a swimming pool on its cover, it doesn’t exactly submerge you in its sonic layers. Rather, it’s a wade through the shallow water heading to the deep end of the pool.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Water for Your Soul
    Throughout, Stone maintains her soulful vocals without resorting to diva histrionics.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 94 Critic Score
    Currents
    Currents is a record you should be excited for, paying attention to and ready to consider the best of the year.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sing Into My Mouth
    While Sing Into My Mouth won’t likely make essential discography lists for either artists, this collaboration is an absolutely enjoyable and exciting listen full of new discoveries for fans of either band
    • 87 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Something More Than Free
    Isbell’s increasing skill as a storyteller, and the natural affinity he has for melody, combine to make Something More Than Free a masterful piece of work.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Ghost Notes
    After all these years, the members of Veruca Salt are like sparks banging into each other, their notes and beats still giving off heavy heat. And ultimately, that is what makes Ghost Notes work.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Glider
    Ffor all its textural beauty, Glide too often does what the title suggests, with songs that float by without really sticking.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    I Aubade
    An album of relaxed arrangements for serenades best performed in the dawn. Once the expectations for Perkins are flattened, the idiosyncratic album becomes a welcome entry to his untraditional career.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    The Monsanto Years
    Working with Lukas Nelson’s Promise of the Real, Young’s urgency is infused with youthful intensity.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Venus
    Using machined rhythm tracks, there is the distance of EDM on Venus--something not so blood and guts. Yet, in the detachment, a certain honesty arises.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    Teen Men
    Teen Men is about as kicked-back and comfortable as a debut LP can hope to be, seemingly confident that it will be making itself right at home in the ears of all who hear it.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Payola
    Though its 14 tracks were recorded sporadically across something like three years with co-producer Mike Mogis, you’d be hard-pressed to hear a lack of momentum or consistency.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 94 Critic Score
    Pageant Material
    At 26, Musgraves has kept her wonder, honed her focus and remained true to her core.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Dancing at the Blue Lagoon
    There may not be as many earworms on this release, but they’ve approached it with patience and a finesse that allowed the songs to flourish into deep sonic explorations that leave the listener eager for more.
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