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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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    • 86 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Harps And Angels
    Harps and Angels is another fine Randy Newman album, minimally produced by Mitchell Froom and Lenny Waronker.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Present Tense
    Present Tense marks a further refinement and features a band continuing to keep itself restless and uncomfortable.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    acts of rebellion
    On acts of rebellion, she maintains her punk, community-oriented ethos whether she strikes strongly, replaces guitars with synths or creates more introspective works.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rustin in the Rain
    Many of the genre’s most popular songs right now resemble its past more than its future (or at least what one would hope constitutes its future). The music of Rustin’ In The Rain is an exception—and best of all, there’s space in its world for all of us.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Simple Songs
    While these eight new tunes are more straightforward than much of his work, that is not to suggest they are lacking in intricacy.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Popular Problems
    Popular Problems is a fine addition to that legacy. At 80 years old, Leonard Cohen is just beginning to hit his stride.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    In Time
    The Mavericks understand the potency of a band that plays as a solid unit and embellishes that sound accordingly--not quite brazen, but flaring with machismo.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    American Dream
    It’s a beautiful work of art about aging, regret and an arduous search for meaning. It’s an expansive record that explores a variety of sounds and themes, but it never feels confused or lost.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    We Will Always Love You
    The LP is woven with otherworldly, alien sounds, yet there is an undeniable coziness to the songs—thanks in part to the cozy crackle of vinyl samples and stirring vocals—that combats the coldness often associated with outer space.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Beautiful Old Turn-Of-The-Century Songs
    Similar to the BBC’s fantastic Bringing It All Back Home soundtrack, The Beautiful Old further solidifies the root connection between Celtic folk and American bluegrass.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Meet Me at the River
    While Landes’ is lovely at best and boring at worst, the real disappointment here is the excitement caused by Foster’s production work, which, sadly, doesn’t quite deliver.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    David Comes To Life
    Sonically, this is Fucked Up's cleanest album to date.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Surf
    Whether Chance is billed as frontman or not, his thought-provoking lyricism and potent backing band has made for yet another life-affirming release that’s sure to propel the artist to even more impressive territory.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8
    Tell Tale Signs subtly makes a good argument that Dylan’s later work is richer than expected.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lost In the Dream
    Lost in the Dream pushes rock music forward.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Blue Rev
    These are all top-shelf tunes, and they serve as evidence that Rankin and O’Hanley are among the best pop-song writers working today.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    New Long Leg
    Some grin in the face of the absurd and rotten, and others reflect all the hot air back outward. Dry Cleaning make an art of doing both.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Happier than Ever
    Billie Eilish continues to rise to the occasion on Happier Than Ever, staring down critics, naysayers and whatever the future holds while carrying self-love and compassion in her back pocket.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    All at Once
    It’s bracing to hear one of the most original practicing voices in rock (musically, vocally, lyrically) speaking so plainly on every level. With some bands it would mean a capitulation or slackening. For Screaming Females, it is just another display of power.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Way Out Weather
    Knowing Gunn’s exotic inspirations, Way Out Weather is certainly only a snapshot of where his talents could lead him. Whatever you take away from it, it’s most certainly a step in the right direction.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    untitled unmastered.
    His harrowed and ongoing metamorphosis into a butterfly is the narrative he’s chosen and is the story he’ll likely will stick with for the foreseeable future, but untitled unmastered shows that the holes in his willed chrysalis might be more interesting than the beauty promised by the cocoon.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Sick!
    It is brief, for sure, but it is packed with densely packaged rhymes and rewarding musical numbers that are majestic.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
    An eminently pleasurable album that reveals more with each spin. [Apr/May 2005, p.148]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Shaking the Habitual
    It shouldn’t work--they went all or nothing. They got all.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Hitchhiker
    If we could go back to a time where we had never heard these songs before, Hitchhiker would more than stand on its own as a brilliant piece of performance art. Stripped of the subsequent mythology or knowledge of what these songs would eventually become, each performance remains beautiful in its own right.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lucifer on the Sofa
    It’s the sound of a band in peak form who are pushing to get better, go further and resist any temptation to slack off.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    The Agent Intellect
    On The Agent Intellect, Casey finds himself as more of a vocal stylist than a singer, and that’s good.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    Stranger to Stranger
    Without a doubt,Stranger to Stranger is a testament to an artist who refuses to be ordinary and pigeonholed. With this LP, Paul Simon has created his best work in many years.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
    Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers rejects conformity and leaves its flaws in on purpose, featuring some of Kendrick’s best and worst songs of his career.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    50 Words for Snow
    It's a linguistic lesson you never asked for, or even wanted, but also one you'll never forget.
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