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For 4,070 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: 3,634 out of 4070
  2. Mixed: 400 out of 4070
  3. Negative: 36 out of 4070
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Popular Problems
    Popular Problems is a fine addition to that legacy. At 80 years old, Leonard Cohen is just beginning to hit his stride.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Syro
    We’re going to be talking about this album for years to come.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sukierae
    Stretching past 70 minutes and shifting through a spectrum of moods, it’s a lot to digest--but well worth the effort
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Black Moon Spell
    This time instead of competing for the throne, if feels more like a party with open guest list.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Too Bright
    While Hadreas’ lyrics made the most powerful moments of Perfume Genius’s 2010 debut Learning and 2012’s Put Your Back N 2 It, Too Bright folds its words into startling, varied instrumental textures.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tyranny
    Tyranny plays out like an album-length version of that epic song, stumbling upon moments of success in the way that a drunk dart player hits a bullseye every once in a while.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Space Invader
    Space Invader is good rock album, and it’s an even better guitar record.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Worship the Sun
    At their best, the Allah-Las still conjure the tones and attitudes of bygone decades, but at its weakest, Worship The Sun degenerates to mono-tempo drone.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Songs of Innocence
    Once the controls for the album are ceded (mostly) to Danger Mouse, the album really starts to cook. The last five songs are the best batch of material U2 have played a part in for a decade, at least.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In a Dream
    MacLean and his collaborators have mastered some but not all of the familiar DFA bag of tricks.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Dead Man's Town: A Tribute to Born in the U.S.A.
    A bit of a yawn considering most of the bands employed make no efforts to cloak their blue collar core. They sound too much along the campfire-and-malt-liquor rock rolodex Springsteen nailed to breathe new life into the tracks.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Barragán
    Even with Barragán’s sleepiness and sparseness, the malleability of a band like Blonde Redhead--especially one that continues to make music for the art of creation--is the same strength that has kept them relevant for so long.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 93 Critic Score
    Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar
    For the ruminating about the world and wanderlust, lullaby’s potency comes from affairs of the heart, love lost and sought, and the jagged loneliness of failing to stay bonded.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Lateness of Dancers
    There is something that feels almost too comfortable on Lateness. Taylor stays in the same well-worn groove he has been grinding on for the past decade and shows no signs of looking for an exit strategy.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Crush Songs
    Despite its warbly lo-fi aesthetic and unfinished feel, Crush Songs does have an honest, classic vibe to it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    El Pintor
    El Pintor is ultimately more pleasurable than it is painful, enough of a distraction to recall how important Interpol seemed at one time and how they can still pull off the illusion of importance after all these years.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Ritual in Repeat
    On Ritual In Repeat, Tennis discovers new capabilities well, and it shows that a record doesn’t necessarily need to have a central theme for it to be an ambitious collection of songs.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Haven't Got the Blues (Yet)
    For the rest of the world, the album is just another notch in the man’s long discography that you can cherry-pick some favorite moments from and compost the rest.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    Single Mothers
    While the familiar ache still haunts Single Mothers, Earle treats it with new wisdom, choosing instead to ramble forward, rather than perseverate and drift waywardly back.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Ryan Adams
    Ryan Adams strikes the best balance between them [country and rock] that he’s found yet.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Richard Reed Parry: Music for Heart and Breath
    Ambitious, Parry conjures rather than creates in concrete. The fierce regimentation gives way to something watery, something that pulls things out of you.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Anchor
    Anchor proves to be just as the name suggests, a collection to cement Zammuto’s place in music’s past, present and future.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Lose
    It’s their most immediate album--but not necessarily their simplest.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Swimmin' Time
    Even though the ballads on Swimmin’ Time tend to float downstream, overall, Shovels & Rope’s sophomore LP manages to capture the duo’s raucous spirit and live intensity.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Lost in Alphaville
    Lost In Alphaville retains that fuzzed-out exuberance characteristic to the golden era of indie rock, but little else.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    After the End
    After the End is just the type of record that could remain on a loop far longer than its running time without wearing out its welcome.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Man Upstairs
    Overall, The Man Upstairs is an exceptionally well-conceived and well-executed project from Hitchcock and Boyd.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Tied to a Star
    Mascis molds yet another subdued prism through which to glimpse his rare genius as a guitarist and songwriter.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Junto
    If they’re trying to replicate the excess that sometimes comes with a night out, they’ve succeeded grandly. For home listening, on the other hand, it feels like overindulgence.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Brill Bruisers
    What subsequent listens reveal is the startling evolution of Newman’s songwriting.
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