Pitchfork's Scores
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For 11,999 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: 9,815 out of 11999
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Mixed: 1,877 out of 11999
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Negative: 307 out of 11999
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I cannot remember an album that suffered from such an extreme case of risk-aversion, nor demonstrated so little faith in an artist’s potential, nor any notion that their fanbase might be willing to grow with them. If anything, it shrinks his already narrow proposition.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 19, 2023
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[Jarmusch] brings a rich history to the proceedings, experimenting with passerelle bridges, cigar box guitars, and radio static. Just as in his films, he spins strange yet strangely familiar stories from everyday stuff.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 18, 2023
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In Rubin—as much a guru as he is a producer—Kesha’s found a collaborator willing to indulge her spiritualist tangents. But neither the ideas nor the audio clips feel fully integrated into a broader theme of the album. Her ambivalence is more potent.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 18, 2023
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Romantiq doesn’t dispose of the past. It just situates old habits amid a more vibrant and fully realized present.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 17, 2023
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A decade later, RP Boo offers us Legacy Vol. 2, a sequel equally worthy of the title.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 17, 2023
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When he’s not over-intellectualizing his emotions, Caesar can be disarmingly raw. If only he didn’t write like a cyborg the rest of the time.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 17, 2023
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As a collective, the Impossible Truth maintains the spiritual minimalism of Tyler’s solo work while expanding the sound.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 16, 2023
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The album burns brightest on a pair of songs in which Marea recognizes the limits of his grace in the face of emotionally unavailable lovers.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 16, 2023
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There are moments when these elements come together beautifully, as with the nostalgic dreamscape that surrounds Lola Young’s soaring vocals on “Trying.” At other times, Fred again..’s songcraft struggles, and fails, to break through.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 15, 2023
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The Love Invention introduces “Alison Goldfrapp, house diva,” a pivot she doesn’t totally sell. ... The record’s best moments are its quietest.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 15, 2023
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Good Lies toes a fine and, yes, functional, balance. There’s beauty in all this precision too—like an Eames chair, a perfectly weighted spoon, or the cone of a 15-inch subwoofer pushing air out of the bass scoops.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 12, 2023
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Euphoric Recall falters when the band forgets that her voice is the main event. ... Braids may still be searching for a distinct identity. But what Euphoric Recall makes clear is that Standell-Preston knows her voice better than ever before.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 11, 2023
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Even if Live at Bush Hall wasn’t intended to be the next official entry in their canon, the accompanying soundtrack album certainly earns its right to be considered as such. Notwithstanding the occasional bit of stage banter that makes no sense without the film (“Happy prom night!”), Live at Bush Hall is as cohesive a statement as any other record in the band’s discography.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 11, 2023
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ATUM doesn’t necessarily suffer by comparison to past albums. Its highs are more modest. The ferocity is long gone. But in its own ponderous way, it is generous.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 11, 2023
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-, pronounced “subtract,” which responds to them much like its predecessor, 2021’s =, did to its themes of turning 30 and becoming a parent: with the usual beige palette, generic hooks, and vapid lyrics. The songs on - are almost uniformly dour, often slow, occasionally drumless.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 10, 2023
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An Inbuilt Fault becomes a faithful companion for anyone emerging from the trenches of an existential crisis—it’ll loom on the outer edge of your worst days.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 9, 2023
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The Rat Road offers no easy answers and—frankly—not all that much easy listening. But if you’re looking for a sometimes baffling yet often entertaining adventure, The Rat Road delivers.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 9, 2023
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With a more cohesive sound, some of the rhythmic quirks and time signature hops from their past output are smoothed out. On occasion, the music is so pristine that it’s easy to miss the evocative lyrics buried in the tightly wound grooves.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 8, 2023
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The pair’s songwriting is so inventive and electric that even the depths of the late capitalist abyss begin to offer pathways to freedom.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 8, 2023
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No matter how unambiguous the references, these don’t feel like imitations; they feel like Nathan Fake tracks.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 4, 2023
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Museum feels like a transitional statement—a small but powerful reflection on an era when everyone and everything ground to a halt. But at their best, these songs also offer hints of how Ákadóttir might start moving again.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 4, 2023
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It’s a discomfiting listen: In bearing witness to her agony, there’s a kind of transference of pain that occurs in her shredded screams—the sound of an artist stepping into her shadows in order to find her light.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 3, 2023
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- Posted May 2, 2023
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- Posted May 1, 2023
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The vibe is luminous pastels, elegant sway, adult-contemporary electro, and an uncombed, unselfconscious attitude that circles right back around to being cool, and Avalon Emerson’s got it.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 1, 2023
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Careful listening reveals that the album’s welcoming facade is an invitation into a tantalizingly complex world, like a perfectly manicured hedge maze guiding you through concentric pathways.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 28, 2023
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Overall, That! Feels Good! stays focused on a mission that never feels like a chore. In its relatively brief 40-minute runtime, Ware takes her task extremely seriously, but she’s unencumbered by its immensity; actually, it seems to unleash her.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 28, 2023
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- Posted Apr 27, 2023
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The chaos comes on the very next track, “Grease in Your Hair,” one of a couple songs that performs the National’s old sleight of hand: working the anxiety around until they pull an anthem out of thin air. As a way to address one of the primary tensions in their catalog—writing songs about dissatisfaction in spite of great conventional success—it’s a great bit. But as Frankenstein moves from wrestling to reckoning, the swells are tamer.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 27, 2023
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Abrams’ music moves through time gracefully, adjusting to the demands of when and where it is performed, and who’s involved. The awe that his music channels lies in its grasp of mutability, tracking subtle changes in repeating patterns—whether from moment to moment or year to year.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 26, 2023
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