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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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    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Shadows in the Night
    Every performance on Shadows In The Night expresses a level of vocal maturity and intuition that he’s never quite reached before.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blood Mountain
    A study in elemental force that rides the line between thrash and plod with enlightened originality and compositional skill to spare. [Dec 2006, p.89]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    On Your Own Love Again
    Armed with little more than a guitar, some rudimentary tape-tracking recording materials and a a treasure trove of inventive vocal harmonies, Pratt’s darkly ambitious compositions are fleshed out into alcoves of aural mischief, served mystical and with a kind of dark magic, vacillating as they do between optimism and pessimism.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blessed
    If 1998's Car Wheels on as Gravel Road stands as the high point of Williams' self-involved period, Blessed just as masterfully traces the bursting heart and smoldering soul of her humanity. This is as deep and true as the song form gets.
    • 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.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Thunder, Lightning, Strike
    Sounds like a mostly live interpretation of... The Avalanches' intricate party collages doubling as three-minute music history lessons. [#13, p.118]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Temple Beautiful
    It is the details that make Prophet explode.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Goon
    What Jesso has delivered is a record that needs no context, that can exist outside of time and place. Jesso, in short, has crafted a masterpiece, with the only connection of real significance being between him and his audience.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Marissa Nadler
    Marissa Nadler hints at larger tragedies and losses, implying an overarching break-up narrative that gives each song added force.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Promises
    There’s a timeless quality to Promises, an inscrutable sense that the album could hail from 30 years in the past or 30 years into the future.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    God Don't Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson
    This is the best Americana album of the year. It reminds us all the way out here in 2016 that Blind Willie Johnson’s songs are still alive, and there is no better way to pay tribute to one of the finest American artists who ever lived.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Saint Cloud
    When an artist completely and beautifully upends the conventions of an entire genre, they’re probably aware of their capabilities. Saint Cloud is the sound of Katie Crutchfield at her most conscious, comfortable and controlled.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ain't Who I Was
    For Bishop, who’d given up music, it is in that maturity her strengths shine. If Bonnie Raitt’s Nick of Time marked a momentous arrival, Bishop’s Ain’t Who I Was could be the 21st Century answer.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Local Business
    This collection is the band's tightest and most cohesive, and they do so without losing any of the grit.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Living With The Living
    Living With The Living rocks so much harder, spits more venom and cuts closer to the bone than just about anything else out there today. [Apr 2007, p.50]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House 1968
    Live at Canterbury House, the latest in a series of live recordings from his archives, is pretty simple-left track is voice, right track acoustic guitar. Simplicity, as is evident here, serves him quite well.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The List
    Although meant to honor?father Johnny’s musical tastes, The List better serves as an exquisite reminder of Rosanne’s own history of artistic rebelliousness.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Tug of War [Deluxe Edition]
    There are a lot of varying moods to digest over 40 minutes, but it gels well.... The demos provide a glimpse into the working process.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    American Kid
    Taking emotional truths and cutting to the quick, her razor-sharp sense of detail has never been sharper.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service
    We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service also frequently makes the strong case that it’s the best thing this group’s ever done, too.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Shattered
    A boldly traditional, and fantastically well-rounded album of rock ‘n’ roll.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Hair, The TV, The Baby & The Band
    There is much to be excited about here and virtually nothing to poo-poo.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Eye To The Telescope
    She combines a formidable voice with a rarefied command of phrasing. [Feb/Mar 2006, p.106]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Let the Good Times Roll
    Rock ’n’ roll has a knack for brute force, but these songs are never less than nimble, always full of electricity and a steady barometer of unfailing good taste.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Tigers Have Spoken
    She’s in perfect form.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
    The resulting album is as lean, rambunctious and snarling as its predecessor was stately.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Great Destroyer
    Songs like “California” and “Walk Into the Sea,” by far the sunniest, poppiest material Low has ever produced, shatter the mopey mold the band has so carefully cultivated, and to thrilling results.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    American V: A Hundred Highways
    From beginning to end, it's as heartwarming and heartbreaking an album as you're likely to hear this year. [Aug 2006, p.86]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dark Night Of The Soul
    The controversy nearly obscured the resounding triumph of the album itself; written and produced by Burton and Linkous, it's a breathtaking set of atmospheric ballads (plus a few rockers) that explore cosmic concerns, from the self-destructive trap of revenge to the possibility of spiritual renewal.
    • 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.
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