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For 4,081 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: 3,645 out of 4081
  2. Mixed: 400 out of 4081
  3. Negative: 36 out of 4081
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Clearing
    They've always had a rich, full sound. But now, it's larger, more grandiose.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    We All Raise Our Voices to the Air: Live Songs 04.11.08
    It provides a fine overview of The Decemberists' oeuvre, but this live set adds little to an understanding or appreciation of their music overall.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Strange Land
    While this might indeed be a coming-of-age record, it's very clear that this is an acknowledging age and existence experience.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wrecking Ball
    In some ways, the too-slick production on Wrecking Ball is a scrim that allows Springsteen to compensate for his social detachment from his working-class subjects while perhaps convincing himself that he's giving the people what they want-a big rock record.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Always
    Always is not an easy album to enjoy, but it's a harder one not to.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Rise Ye Sunken Ships
    Throughout the record, the songs' emotional undercurrent hinges on the subject and content.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Love at the Bottom of the Sea
    Love at the Bottom of the Sea is an endearing, comfortable offering from a band that will hopefully do 10 more albums.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Break It Yourself
    Andrew Bird is a highly skilled musician capable of crafting an album full of delightful little moments that make the album worth a fair listen, and more.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    All of Me
    A consistent-not-masterful album like All of Me would still do you some good to hear.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Soul is Heavy
    Even as Soul is Heavy struggles to balance the earthy and the abstract, Nneka's vocals prevent the album from curdling into run-of-the-mill radio r&b.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Release Me
    Release Me, his final album of an almost 30-year career for Curb, finds him resolutely steadfast in his excellence and eclecticism.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Ghostory
    It's an uninspired ending to what is generally a sharp, full-bodied collection of tracks from what is now an equally sharp, full-bodied duo.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    The End of That
    The End of That finds them sounding more mature and comfortable than ever before, signaling perhaps not an end at all, but rather a new beginning.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Hairdresser Blues
    Bogart takes his listener on a jangled journey that doesn't always make sense.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Temple Beautiful
    It is the details that make Prophet explode.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Let It Burn
    A woman who's hovered on the brink of the purist Bonnie Raitt/Tracy Chapman range truly comes into her own here.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Maraqopa
    Maraqopa's experimentations aren't those of a young musician set loose in a studio full of new toys. Rather, with this newest release, Jurado demonstrates that, at this late date in his career, he may just be hitting his stride.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    I Am Gemini
    For Cursive fans, Gemini is best served with time, a sit-down with the liner notes and repeat listens.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Mr. M
    With Mr. M, the countrypolitan grits-glam continues.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Reign of Terror
    Reign of Terror plays like a band with original ideas who got stuck in quicksand.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Voice of Ages
    Plumbs current indie folk and country, with varying degrees of success.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    1966
    Of these three reissues [Cotton-Eyed Joe, Green Rocky Road, and 1966], 1966 is arguably the best, by virtue of the setting itself.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    With Love
    Where lyrics are concerned, be prepared for plenty of eye rolling (or eye gouging).
    • 69 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Sweet Sour
    The bottom-line is that these guys do what they do very, very well.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Plumb
    Unfortunately it feels mostly like an over-concentrated mess of misplaced ambitions.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Animal Joy
    Animal Joy provides not only a well-developed and unique aesthetic, but it offers a way in for a number of listening styles, a fact that should keep the album rewarding.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Young & Old
    Songs like "Traveling" and "Robin" attempt to capture the same magic of Cape Dory but feel a bit out of place amongst all the displays of emotional angst elsewhere.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Arrow
    Wennerstrom has said that this is the most cohesive that they have been as a band when recording an album, and the evidence couldn't be more abundant.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Blues Funeral
    As a singer and songwriter, Lanegan's range is so much wider and deeper than anything the vast majority of singer/songwriters can touch, and his fearlessness remains devastatingly affecting.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Barchords
    Jurvanen's restraint can be winning when it's not taken too far.
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