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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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Ceremonials
    Ceremonials abandons so many of the musical avenues she mapped out on Lungs and focuses instead on a monolithic sound that is certainly affecting but is becoming increasingly conventional in 2011.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The SMiLE Sessions
    The Sessions are a great listen when you have time to sift through it all, and the package gives hardcore fans more than enough material to immerse themselves in.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Lulu
    It's not an especially good album, but its failures are noble rather than ignoble-byproducts of ambition rather than hubris.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Long Live the King [EP]
    Intellectual? Yes. Visceral? Absolutely. Accessible? Oddly.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 52 Critic Score
    Audio, Video, Disco
    While † threatened to alienate with its sheer abrasiveness, its long-awaited follow-up succeeds in boring with its sprawling and unfocused Queen-meets-Skrillex mashups.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mylo Xyloto
    It's a moment of stirring calm amid a sea of blaring showiness, and this well-intended mixed bag, despite its lovely surfaces, could have used more of that variety.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Tarot Classics [EP]
    If that debut was an all-you-can-eat buffet of tight power-pop nostalgia, Tarot Classics is the savory after-dinner mint you snatch on the way out the door.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Smoking in Heaven
    This album will please fans of the vintage stylings of Adele, Duffy and the late Amy Winehouse.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Bad as Me
    The whole thing is a bit ramshackle, but when he listens to his wife, Bad as Me is as good as anything Waits has ever done.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Divine Providence
    It's a freewheelin' LP that features all of what we've come to know and love about Deer Tick without feeling like a rehash.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    He Thinks He's People
    People is a consistent album filled with great songs that are no doubt written by Crow himself.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Rapprocher
    For the most part, Rapprocher is a tight little album full of melodramatic pop tunes dripping in '80s loving.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
    Coming from a band that derives a certain amount of its notoriety from seeming jaded and indifferent, Gallagher's solo flight is actually stunningly pure and beautifully rendered.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    All Things Will Unwind
    It's a heady and abstract album that feels more like it should be studied than enjoyed.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
    With any dreams there are ups and downs, and the same can be said about Hurry Up, We're Dreaming.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Ashes & Fire
    Ashes & Fire, is pretty damn good.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 62 Critic Score
    Breakers
    Most often, Gem Club seems content to wallow in its pretty tones. Sometimes, that's enough.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Eponymous
    Depths hide in both the party music and the comic lyrics, but Roberts & Lord don't limit themselves to formula.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Life Sux [EP]
    Free of filler, and with the beneficial addition of cameos from Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino and Fucked Up's Damian Abraham, Life Sux is hands down Wavves' best statement.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 47 Critic Score
    Enough Thunder [EP]
    There are flashes of the brilliance that made the youngster such a trendy buzzname, but it's hard work wading through the awkward muck.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen
    What's left then is a large number of effective, tightly constructed tracks that are sure to please a wide range of indie/synth pop fans, regardless of the language they speak.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Deeper into Dream
    Deeper Into Dream shows incredible growth in Lee and an exciting new direction to his usual style.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    New Blood
    Nothing feels even remotely stale, and many of these tracks manage to actually improve upon their original counterparts--no small feat, considering the fact that these are some of the finest songs ever written.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Biophilia
    More than anything else, it makes you think.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    On the Water
    Gorgeous and personal, the band has delivered a record that is not only the product of years of trial and error, but also the rarity of a truly talented storyteller.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Conatus
    Despite its uneven spark, the best bits sting like cigarette ash in the cornea.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Working in Tennessee
    The album won't rope in new listeners, but those who've loved him all these years will find plenty to sink their teeth into.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Beauty Queen Sister
    Beauty Queen Sister will please fans that already love Indigo Girls, but the repetitive nature of the album might struggle to bring in new listeners.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 62 Critic Score
    Hall Music
    Where Dear John hinted at cinematic grandeur and prayer-like melody, Hall Music is a spacious and somber affair.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Metals
    The music, however, remains sophisticated and rhythmically feisty (pun thoroughly intended) even when so thoroughly keyed down.
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