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For 4,075 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: 3,639 out of 4075
  2. Mixed: 400 out of 4075
  3. Negative: 36 out of 4075
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Whole Love
    The Whole Love reveals itself as their finest album since Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    What Were You Hoping For?
    He sometimes comes off a bit like he's exploring the idea of a genre more than actually writing a song ("Eyes Like Pearls" get dangerously close to Kravitzing) but generally has enough enthusiasm and hooks to make his celebration of musical freedom worth riding along with.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 56 Critic Score
    Mockingbird Time
    Mockingbird Time suffers most in the songwriting, which too often relies on soft hooks and indistinct details that never quite add up to conflicts or characters.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Major/Minor
    Major/Minor is nothing short of very good (with emphasis on "very").
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An Argument with Myself [EP]
    This five-song EP is a pleasantly jumbled affair that shows Lekman's lyrical facility continues to improve, while his stylistic palette continues to broaden
    • 79 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Velociraptor!
    While Kasabian has proven its ability to construct impressive, tightly-wound songs that succeed on their own terms as genre exercises of sorts, they haven't been able to blend those disparate elements together into something they can truly call their own.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hysterical
    Hysterical definitely boasts more strong moments than weak.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Minnesota
    There are moments where Jennings deviates thematically and sonically from the boy-becomes-a-man-and-uses-all-the-pianos thru-line-some succeed, like the loose and likeable "Well Of Love," and others, not so much, like the synthy fairytale nightmare mess of "Witches Dream."
    • 78 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Covering Ground
    Covering Ground is an accessible, listenable peek into Ragan's vision of acoustic music, and it will appeal to the punks and the folkies alike.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    SuperHeavy
    Rather than synthesizing these various styles, they sound like they're working at cross-purposes, with every component so errantly fitted with the rest that SuperHeavy sounds schizophrenic.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Old Magic
    At 61 years of age-a time in life when many people begin to consider retirement-Nick Lowe has put out his best album in many years and more than three decades into his career, the British tunesmith may be just beginning to hit his stride.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dreams Come True
    Dreams Come True is nothing if not well-produced and lovingly assembled. Problem is: there ain't no soul.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Lenses Alien
    Out in the suburbs, the Cymbals Eat Guitars boys had plenty of room to stretch their legs and creative muscles, but it would have done some good for them to have been reigned back in, even if a little.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Mountaintops
    On Mountaintops, the band flaunts the dynamics of their past recordings while sneaking in layers of growth.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Panic of Girls
    In a place where post-Warhol art-as-disposability has turned into all Snooki/Britney/Lindsey/Khardashians all the time, Blondie strikes a blow for pop culture that's not stupid, wasted and empty.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Pajama Club
    Accompanied by wife Sharon, Finn sounds like he's having a legitimately good time, even if the slow shapeshifters presented here generally don't hang in the loftier heights of his classic work. Still, as an odd one-off romp, it's strangely fulfilling.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    A Creature I Don't Know
    She's closely attentive to the particulars of her folk songs, which allows them to reveal deeper and darker secrets with each listen and to resonate long after the record has stopped spinning.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Paradise
    Slow Club dials into emotions without having to be overbearing. There is plenty of substance to latch onto on this album that leaves you wanting more.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Strange Mercy
    St. Vincent reaches, and while she doesn't quite find it throughout, listening to the reach is certainly more interesting than listening to an album that answers just one of the questions again and again and again.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wild Flag
    These songs are like shit-eating grins from ear to ear, and you can simply feel that they're played with such happiness.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Father, Son, Holy Ghost
    This album not only surpasses its predecessor but raises the bar for any band, indie or otherwise, mining the past for inspiration.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Era Extrana
    Part of what makes Era Extrana a great follow-up to Psychic Chasms is that it features the same lazy summer feel that made Neon Indian's debut so popular.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    American Goldwing
    Sure, they may be well within their comfort zone, but that doesn't make it any less enjoyable.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ready for Confetti
    Ready for Confetti creates that bridge between the romance of gone and the reality of knowing what one does well.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    In the Grace of Your Love
    I will say In The Grace of Your Love makes the last five years without The Rapture seem a lot more empty, sometimes you don't know what you're missing until it returns.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Hurricane
    The new versions amp up the bass and echo, often sounding like the original album when heard from a particularly foreboding shower stall.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Tha Carter IV
    It's quite hard to get a grasp on Tha Carter IV; in its relentlessly schizophrenic assault, you might end up falling in-and-out of love several times.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Keeper
    Keeper gets repetitive at times, but Doe's passion never sounds rote.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Tassili
    The power of Tinariwen lies not only in their ability to communicate that idea musically, but most crucially in their ability to make such a simple idea sound fresh and profound.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    I'm with You
    All four members have referred to I'm With You as a creative rebirth. That might be a stretch. But judging by the flashes of promise, one might be waiting just around the corner.
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