Pitchfork's Scores
- Music
For 12,002 reviews, this publication has graded:
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41% higher than the average critic
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6% same as the average critic
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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: | Sign O' the Times [Deluxe Edition] | |
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Lowest review score: | nyc ghosts & flowers |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 9,818 out of 12002
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Mixed: 1,877 out of 12002
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Negative: 307 out of 12002
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Nothing here is going to replace “Boys in the Better Land” in the alternative disco pantheon—but Chatten has made a bold claim here as a folk auteur, whose classical songwriting and tender, veracious touch resonates now and into the past.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 30, 2023
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Bain has crafted her share of evocative ballads, but the ones on In the End tend to zap the momentum. Bain is at her best when she’s embracing a sense of playfulness, winking as subtly as she cries, sashaying between humor and hurt.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 30, 2023
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Picture of Bunny Rabbit offers the chill of encountering more of a beloved artist’s classic work in the moment they made it. There’s something near-holy about overhearing Russell in this magic half-light again.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 29, 2023
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An expanded version of the Truckers’ The Dirty South that finally reveals the true breadth of their 2004 masterpiece.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 28, 2023
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Business Is Business, perhaps due to its nature as a cobbled-together collection from someone who can’t access a recording studio, even to comb through his vaults, frequently recalls Thug’s loosest, most apparently improvisatory work. It’s all the more compelling for it.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 28, 2023
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Life Under the Gun explodes out of the basement show without abandoning its energy and essence. The noise of their earlier EPs has become rich and lush, their rhythm section tight and crisp.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 27, 2023
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On Purge, Godflesh strike a balance between communal vulnerability and seething hostility that makes for the most inviting entry in their late career.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 26, 2023
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Some tracks are more compelling than others, but that’s to be expected when an artist writes by throwing ideas at the wall to see what sticks. The melodies on Hammond’s album are in ample supply; it’s the urge to self-edit that’s taken a breather.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 26, 2023
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Good emo music makes you feel their feelings; great emo music makes you see the world through their eyes. MacDonald’s lyrics render images like chewing on bread that’s turned to flesh, peeling a drunk driver off the asphalt like roadkill, feeding nickels and dimes to ducks in a pond.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 23, 2023
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Despite its razzle-dazzle, this is the rare King Gizzard release that actually sounds like it was composed as quickly as it was.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 22, 2023
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Michael is an origin story that works best when it examines how worshiping at the altars of sex, money, and Jesus created the man we know today. But when he petulantly doubles down on critiques of his public persona and status as a Black multi-millionaire, the album is harder to stomach.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 22, 2023
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While their influences are all over the map, it’s encouraging to hear Geese getting more comfortable sounding like themselves.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 22, 2023
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Although songs like “King of Hearts,” a pummeling Eurodance stomper, or “Castle in the Sky,” another pummeling Eurodance stomper, might allude to urgency in their lyrics and music, they still feel totally anemic and bereft of passion.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 22, 2023
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Sometimes the single versions here are superior to the album edits, 12-inch mixes, and other edits, but not always. It is also possible to imagine a more nuanced and inventively sequenced gloss of Pet Shop Boys’ career than this chronological survey. But there is particular value to this nerdy historicism.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 22, 2023
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Each song is a carefully constructed miniature, and the album itself is endearingly small-scale too—a record where life lessons aren’t preached, just lived.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 22, 2023
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The Omnichord Real Book is no less assertive, yet feels energized by grace and understanding.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 22, 2023
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The result is an album that is too vague to have much depth and too absorbed in real-life drama to have the feel-good vibes he wants to preserve.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 22, 2023
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While she has a reputation for making familiar songs sound utterly new, here she finds a way to make Bramblett’s songs tell her story, to let them speak for her. She rewrites his songs simply by singing them.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 21, 2023
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While exactingly played and produced, Speakers Corner Quartet’s songs don’t always push forward stylistically; a few tracks, like “Can We Do This?,” built around Sampha’s familiar coo, feel like songs you’ve heard many times before. But there are moments of breathtaking originality.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 20, 2023
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Here, Duffy is at their most instrumentally complex and collaboratively generous. The result of this free-for-all cooperation is Hand Habits’ most engrossing project yet.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 20, 2023
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On Guy, she takes time to steady herself to her inner metronome, finding her voice with her dad’s help.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 20, 2023
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With Work of Art, Asake understands that his winning formula needs no adjustments.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 20, 2023
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This is not an album of passages or movements or suites. It’s best understood and appreciated as a collection of songs, of which there are clear highlights.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 20, 2023
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The best songs on In Times New Roman… are hiding in the back half, resulting in an unusually lopsided experience.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 16, 2023
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Remotely self-recorded and produced across various Pittsburgh apartments, its 11 songs are oddball bursts of imagination, whimsy, and discord.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 14, 2023
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At its very best, Paranoïa, Angels, True Love captures this feverish lightning-in-a-bottle energy. But where Kushner’s many moving parts lock into place, spurring each other on toward a harrowing, rapturous climax, the songs of Chris’s album never quite cohere.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 14, 2023
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Even though many of the characters are heartbroken or wracked with anxiety, Williamson navigates modern life using timeless tropes that lend Time Ain’t Accidental an immense, gratifying confidence.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 14, 2023
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Joy’All has an amiable listlessness: It’s loveable, but I wish there was more to love.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 14, 2023
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Animals is a provocative proposition with flashes of inspired bricolage, by a likable veteran muso, but for something so fussed over, it’s a little half-baked.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 13, 2023
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The old anxiety and morbid fascination remain, but Powers has never sounded so confident, so at peace within himself.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 13, 2023
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