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For 11,975 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 53% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Sign O' the Times [Deluxe Edition]
Lowest review score: 0 nyc ghosts & flowers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,793 out of 11975
  2. Mixed: 1,875 out of 11975
  3. Negative: 307 out of 11975
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Swim
    Despite his chameleonic tendencies, Dan Snaith retains his singular identity as an artist--and Swim is a reminder that even at his most challenging, the man's compositional capabilities can dazzle.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Cross
    Cross is a harsh and mostly instrumental set that nonetheless plays like the ideal crossover electronic-pop record. Justice knows how to sequence a dance album to avoid drag and boredom.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Songs in A&E
    Songs in A&E is certainly Spiritualized's best work in 10 years.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Fossora
    With her 10th album, Fossora, she is grounded back on earth, searching for hope in death, mushrooms, and matriarchy, and finding it in bass clarinet and gabber beats.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    A Place To Bury Strangers
    A Place to Bury Strangers may not be easy for would-be record buyers to find--it's currently limited to 500 copies and put out by, um, Killer Pimp Records--but it's worth every effort.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Drifters/Love Is the Devil
    These records, steeped in reference and atmosphere, draw on memory but, being so textured and tactile, they bring the focus back to the present moment.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Acid Rap
    The structure is as expansive and freewheeling as any strange trip.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Crazy for You
    This record is carefree and instantly likable--even if it doesn't seem to care what you think of it.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Reward
    Her music speaks loudest in its calmest moments, and Reward is an album most remarkable for how it fills its space.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    The Regal Years 1997-2004 [Box Set]
    The Regal Years does a thorough job of not just compiling the Beta Band's recorded legacy, but underscoring the real reason why they're missed--it’s not just for the music they left behind, but for the infinite possibilities within it that had yet to be explored.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Rated O
    Oneida are the only band running that I could tell a listener with a straight face, yes, it's worth three discs, and it's worth your time.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Let It Come Down
    Granted, a few tracks here require perhaps too much patience, or never peak as one might expect, or are overburdened with sound. But even these lesser tracks contain the simple, yet stunning affirmations that make Pierce so engaging.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Gold
    Restraint, patience, trust: time and again they make GOLD sound like an incredibly wise record.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Singles 1978-2016 [Box Set]
    This is still a staggering monument all the same, an elaborately detailed portrait of a shambolic artist whose astonishing productivity, creative restlessness, and utter disdain for the niceties of civil society know no bounds.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Total Loss
    Total Loss uses the common tools of pop expression-- four-minute songs, autobiography, choruses, confession-- to create a work of poignant and devastating art.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Thank Me Later
    Thank Me Later presents its star as a bottle-serviced hip-hop headcase tirelessly searching for love and good times while caught up in his own thoughts.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    When I Get Home
    The album rewards repetition, in listening and in execution.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    A Sufi And A Killer
    Together [with producer Gaslamp Killer] they've created A Sufi and a Killer, one of the most fascinating slabs of hallucinogenic head-nod music to arise from Southern California's post-hip-hop vanguard.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart
    A testament to the influences of their youth; echoes of Lennon and McCartney, Simon and Garfunkel, Nick Drake, and Fairport Convention glide through the album before tiptoeing into a corner and reappearing a few tracks later.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    True Romance
    Like 90s pop stars turned 10s pop sophisticates Justin Timberlake and Beyoncé, Charli XCX stamps her personality across the entire project, and True Romance suggests she'll be worth following for a while.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Punk
    The Nagoya-based band’s second album, PUNK, is terrifically over the top.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Is All Over... The Map
    Some of the rowdiest Giant Sand music since the near-grunge of 1992's Center of the Universe.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Raw Power [Reissue]
    This reissue-- available in a 2xCD, budget-priced Legacy Edtion set and as a more elaborate $60 4xCD Deluxe Edition-- doesn't attempt anything quite so ambitious. Instead, the main impetus is bringing a remastered version of the original Bowie mix back to market.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Shine A Light
    Though not quite the slap in the face issued by their debut, even this album's very worst song shines a light on what's wrong with our landscape. Find it and follow.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Clark
    What’s always set Clark apart is his eclecticism, dynamism, and flair for the dramatic, all of which is on fine display here. His tracks don’t drop as much as they slip or swerve, forever off-balance.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Fuckbook
    As much as I'm looking forward to the next one from Ira, Georgia, and James proper, it's gonna have to work awfully hard to match the effortless blast that is Fuckbook.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Miss Universe
    Yanya’s songs reflect a woman who’s uncertain of how much of herself to reveal to the world. That is both the allure of Miss Universe and what augurs even brighter things to come.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Nostalgialator
    As much as Ladd continually references the past, from Dr. Livingston and Picasso to Minor Threat, Funkadelic, and De La Soul, he moves the air with a beat that's entirely his own, the sum of too many parts to reflect any one too prominently.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Front Row Seat to Earth
    As much of a throwback as Mering can seem, at her best she captures her era in her words.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Laulu Laakson Kukista
    Laulu connotes this youth, motion, and playfulness in various states of repair and construction, and it does so by alternating well-formed, multi-faced pop songs with abstract head-scratchers, each component as warmly evocative and strangely necessary as the last.
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