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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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    The Lamb
    West has, by no means, figured it all out or emerged victorious, but the point of The Lamb is that she’s trying and her efforts have resulted in a colorful listen and touching journey.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Love the Stranger
    Love the Stranger, Friendship’s first release with Merge Records, hits like a call out of the blue from an old friend, touching on the passage of time, its disappointments and humble victories, and the struggle to stay kind whether or not the world returns the favor.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Combat Sports
    They’re not doing anything new (as they said themselves with the title of their debut What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?), but there’s something about infectious melodies, sticky guitar riffs and relationship observations being made by an aloof Englishman that never gets old either.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Lux
    Sure, it's beautiful on its own, but without any visuals (that is unless you create your own), LUX meanders while the listener potentially zones in and out.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    200 Million Thousand
    200 Million Thousand falls somewhere between a riot and a soundtrack for a Sunday drive, too big for the garage but not quite ready for India, either.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 31 Critic Score
    A Woman, A Man, Walked By
    This new one is both harder to love and harder to fathom.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    There's Always Another Girl
    There's Always Another Girl isn't perfect, but it is an awfully focused effort coming from an artist that is doing it for the right reasons.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    Build Me This
    The authenticity that appeared in patches throughout his last record, The Sun Is Always Brighter, steers his latest.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    WAX
    It’s a well-crafted album with variety, conviction, skill and Tunstall’s husky, muscular, soulful voice navigating seamlessly between singer-songwriter, pop and fuller-bodied rock. She’s consistent, and there’s nothing terrible here--it’s just not terribly exciting either.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pyramid
    On close-enough inspection, it proves to be a gamble pays off, at least for listeners with the patience to allow the music to reveal itself over time.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Midnight Boom
    In less talented hands, the dozen songs on this record easily could have sounded like a failed, high-concept art thesis, and to be perfectly objective, not every track really kills.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    I Bet on Sky
    Their 10th album, I Bet on Sky, offers a shortcut through their solid, sonic history.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Know Better Learn Faster
    Know Better Learn Faster mostly sounds like a young artist coming into her own--in music and life and love.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Lost on the River
    Lost On The River is a joyful record, and everyone sounds like they had a lot of fun making it. And, for once T Bone Burnett seems to have been content to steer the proceedings without imposing his very recognizable production style on top of every recording.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Beginners
    While the similarities to both his contemporaries and those who came before him are impossible to ignore, there are few musicians who could pull off singing about an aspiring building inspector and make it so equally funny and sweet—but Hutson possesses a rare balance of critical wit and soul.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Youth Novels
    Even if a few experiments fall flat, on the rest of Youth Novels Li is as witty and self-possessed, even if most of her songs brutally document her emotional masochism.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Outside Love
    Where previous Pink Mountaintops releases sounded a bit tossed off and crudely drawn, Outside Love is an intricately illustrated affair, built out of druggy walls of guitar feedback, reverb-drenched male/female vocals, and leaden drum splashes.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Get Lonely
    This should go down in Mountain Goats lore as "The Quiet Album." [Sep 2006, p.82]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Forever Turned Around
    The songs may not be as individually memorable this time around, but it’s perhaps the better full album. And boy, will it keep you warm throughout fall into winter.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    After Robots
    Track after track is slathered in layers of horns and guitars and synths until the songs underneath are no longer discernible.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Crosseyed Heart
    Honor among thieves, love amongst scoundrels... Keith Richards has carved an encompassing survey of his own spirit and set it to a vast set of influences for all to see.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    Upside Down Mountain
    Upside Down Mountain is a great achievement and Conor Oberst’s best work to date.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Thank Me Later
    Thank Me Later may not have been the game-changing release everyone was hoping for, but we now have every reason to believe that the hype will ring true on his next album.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Absolute Loser
    In the end, anyone who’s tapped feet or nodded along to Fruit Bats in the past will find plenty to embrace with this new batch of familiar, comfortable tunes.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Life Of Pablo
    {A] scattered, contradictory work of an icon straining to keep up with his own brilliant pace.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    The Million Things That Never Happened
    His latest effort is in many ways subtler and even more subdued than much of his work, but it’s an album that sticks.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ten Silver Drops
    Its ideas tend to outnumber its hooks. [Apr/May 2006, p.102]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Consolers Of The Lonely
    while one can easily imagine smoke machines spurting during many of the album's 13 other tracks, there is no irony in the mix. Just fun.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Working Man's Cafe
    Producer Ray Kennedy delivers the tough, guitar/keyboard/ bass/drum sound you’d expect, with no gratuitous nods toward alt.country.... Welcome back, old friend.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Leave Your Sleep
    It’s an effortlessly elegant and pleasant ride that even the obvious hip-yuppie trappings of it all can’t obscure.
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