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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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    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Shattered
    A boldly traditional, and fantastically well-rounded album of rock ‘n’ roll.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Mandatory Fun
    Mandatory Fun is a good, humorous album that shows that Yankovic is not slowing down in the slightest.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    Complete Surrender
    Watson and Taylor still communicate better than most bands or friends could hope to achieve. But they’ve finally let the listener into Slow Club’s emotional core, making the kind of songs that aren’t just meant to score feelings, but actually make the listener feel.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Strange Weather [EP]
    Strange Weather is a brief look at an artist’s range and acts like a splash of cold water to pay attention to Calvi’s every note, as she continues to be one of the most slept-on musical marvels around. The strange fact that it might be a covers EP to do this undersells just how original these covers are.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    World Peace Is None of Your Business
    World Peace is None of Your Business may not pack the same jangly punch as Bona Drag, Your Arsenal or even You are the Quarry on first listen but its slight idiosyncrasies within the Morrissey catalog end up being very rewarding on repeated listens.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Endless Wonder
    Endless Wonder has a lot of great songs, but they aren’t among the best of what Say Hi has to offer.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    CSNY 1974 [Box Set]
    CSNY 1974 offers a deep and vulnerable portrait of band at the very height of its powers.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 62 Critic Score
    Heal
    HEAL ultimately sounds like a transitional album, and as such reveals both unexpected strengths and weaknesses.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    1000 Forms of Fear
    It’s an album that acts as if simply existing was success enough. Yes, it is successful in this light, but it could have still tried to be more.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Family Crimes
    If Skygreen Leopards still sounds like its surrounding environs--and it does, kinda--the group works to summon a Bay from times past, rather than portraying its current digitized state.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    No Coast
    Yes, Braid is still a guitar-forward post-punk powerhouse, and No Coast is a great addition to its catalog, even possibly containing some of the best material the band has ever written.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Can't Love
    Moving forward, Turn to Crime will probably find more success with continuity and more complete assimilation of its influences.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Remedy
    Eschewing Smithsonian properness, Remedy channels youth in all its freewheeling glory.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    High Life
    The six-track album (seven if you buy the digital, eight if you pony up for the vinyl edition coming out in August) has the internal warmth and jubilant spirit that its predecessor was lacking, with the music appearing to blossom before you rather than clacking by like a train.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    Familiars
    The album is ultimately the most cathartic and uplifting that songwriter Peter Silberman has crafted, indicating the demons he has long wrestled with may be tiring, if not nearing defeat.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Favorite Waitress
    Favorite Waitress excels in its extremes--its hardest foot-stompers like “Lion” and its softest piano ballads like “Silver in the Shadow;” it’s that passion and focused emotion that made the band so beloved in the first place. What’s left in between, however, risks sounding too mainstream.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    PHOX
    Although some tracks may blend together on initial listen, PHOX ultimately serves as a colorful debut from a promising young band.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    What Is This Heart?
    With What Is This Heart? Tom Krell has managed to indulge his experimental tendencies while at the same time achieve his most accessible sound to date.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Cruel Runnings
    Cruel Runnings is full of upbeat and catchy songs with melodies that’ll stay with you long after hearing them.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Led Zeppelin III [Remastered]
    From a purely sonic standpoint, these new versions are impossible to disregard.... The bonus material on Led Zeppelin II and III is more revelatory, showcasing the band’s creative process through assorted alternate takes and rough mixes.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Led Zeppelin II [Remastered]
    From a purely sonic standpoint, these new versions are impossible to disregard.... The bonus material on Led Zeppelin II and III is more revelatory, showcasing the band’s creative process through assorted alternate takes and rough mixes.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Led Zeppelin I [Remastered]
    From a purely sonic standpoint, these new versions are impossible to disregard.... The deluxe edition bonus material is more hit-or-miss. Since the Led Zeppelin vaults had basically already been emptied, Page tosses in a bonus Paris live show from 1969; the eight-track set has already circulated as a bootleg for years, and it remains inessential.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    Why Do the Heathen Rage?
    The results of these experiments can be on the nose, like doing a gender switch on Brazilian extreme metal act Sarcofago.... Others take a little bit of unpacking.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    CLPPNG
    This was, at least until two days ago, the most ambitious and powerful underground hip-hop album to be released this year. But leave it to Death Grips to drop a surprise record on us and steal the spotlight from their fellow Californians. We’ll have to wait before we find out which one stands the test of time, but for the moment, advantage: Clipping.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Zaba
    Produced by Bayley under executive production of Epworth, the album is bizarre, gorgeous, playful and dark--and it’s absolutely mesmerizing.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 53 Critic Score
    Love Me
    Barfod has more faith in his electronics, and when he’s playing something he trusts, he permits the songs to venture out and reach greater emotional heights. But that comfort doesn’t extend to his human players, and his hesitation to let go and explore permeates the album.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Stockholm
    Stockholm, produced by Peter Bjorn and John’s Bjorn Yttling, has the cutting lyrical tilt and raw agony that defined the Pretender, but its sheen beckons listeners.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of...
    Ultimately, Bird continues to prove himself to be a versatile musician who’s as capable at fresh adaptations of country-leaning tunes as he is forward-thinking arrangements of his own.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stay Gold
    Stay Gold features lush arrangements created by Nate Walcott and performed by members of the Omaha Symphony Orchestra. These layered sounds, so intricately woven to complement the sisters’ voices, create a completeness that realizes First Aid Kit’s musical maturity.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    House of Spirits
    Not all the songs on House of Spirits have as much personality, or so defined a sense of place.
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