Pitchfork's Scores
- Music
For 12,007 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: 9,823 out of 12007
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Mixed: 1,877 out of 12007
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Negative: 307 out of 12007
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- Posted Mar 27, 2024
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None of it’s bad, sometimes it’s good, but why now? .... They take the easy way out by evoking past memories rather than building new ones. Understandable because remembering the old days is pretty sweet, well, until it hits you that they’re gone.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 27, 2024
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For Your Consideration thrives on the elasticity of the human voice, while its lyrics turn from underhanded lovers to the flush of new affairs.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 25, 2024
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Real Power plays like the jovial, carefree sound of friends enjoying each other’s company; they just happen to have instruments in hand.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 25, 2024
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The music—bubbly, nebulous, free—seems to have a mind of its own.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 25, 2024
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Ultimately, what’s different about Glasgow Eyes is not the form but the tenor. As they advance into middle age, the tension between the Reid brothers has dissipated, giving Glasgow Eyes an unusually congenial spirit.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 22, 2024
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Her mind is alive and humming, and her language leaps out at you with its hunger.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 22, 2024
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The free-flowing and intuitive nature of the sessions is apparent in the recordings, which have the amiable looseness of first takes. You get the sense, sometimes, that they are figuring out a song’s ideal arrangement as they track it.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 21, 2024
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In tone and mood, Three is the opposite of Hebden’s stadium setlists. But within the carefully thought-out parameters of what makes a Four Tet record, he’s finding new, quieter ways to surprise.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 19, 2024
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This vulnerability World Wide Whack puts on display is truly affecting, but for a convention-busting artist as Whack, her directness feels strikingly ordinary.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 18, 2024
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- Posted Mar 14, 2024
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Deeper Well is sympathetically fame-agnostic and focused on steadying Musgraves’ axis, but its emollient balms also aren’t particularly satisfying when you know what she’s capable of.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 14, 2024
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If you love Burial—particularly the maudlin turn of his work over the past decade—you’ll love the outsized pathos of “Boy Sent From Above” and the high drama of “Dreamfear.” If you feel like you’ve heard enough pasted-on vinyl crackle to last a lifetime, or aren’t particularly invested in the hagiography of rave music’s formative years, you probably won’t find anything new here.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 13, 2024
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Smith may have abandoned his trench-coat persona in favor of a more honest self-portrait, but the line between the authentic self and the larger-than-life character remains provocatively fuzzy.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 12, 2024
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Like John Coltrane, Freitas has learned how to approach his compositions with the same confident, wildly adventurous spirit he brings to his instrument. In doing so, he’s left behind some of the accessibility of his early records, but in its place, he’s forged something transcendent.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 12, 2024
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With Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom, Ubovich offers a resounding reaffirmation that psych-rock is forever, even if the escape it provides from our cruel world is ultimately temporary.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 12, 2024
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Drawing on a sumptuous palette of classic synth pop and leftfield electronic music, Pupul imbues his songs with personality and soul, unearthing complicated truths about his relationship to his heritage while finding welcome release on the dancefloor.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 11, 2024
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sunshine is a slightly scattered, but emotionally generous collection of music that cycles compassionately through the collapse of one relationship and into the hopeful beginning of another.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 11, 2024
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On Bleachers—especially on the singles-heavy first half—the band is simply playing for each other, much to the songs’ benefit.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 7, 2024
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The cacophonous, vexing, endlessly fascinating The Collective represents the experience of logging off and finding that your perception of the real world has been forever altered. Few are better equipped than Gordon—who, at 70, is still cooler, smarter, and more fearless than most—to guide us through.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 7, 2024
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As usual, the feeling of her vocals is more compelling than its literal meaning. These opening songs are strong enough. .... However, by the time we get to these songs towards the end of the album, the fatigue of listening to familiar riffs and howls starts to set in. Playing Favorites is at its best right in the middle.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 7, 2024
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Pissed Jeans haven’t overhauled their sound or reinvented themselves or “matured” as artists so much as they have amassed a new inventory of modern miseries to turn into scuzz-punk tantrums, from catalytic converter theft (“[Stolen] Catalytic Converter”) to crippling medical debt ("Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt").- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 6, 2024
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This is a brutally loud album, its low end practically steroidal; downstrokes are accompanied by walloping thwacks, rendering the guitar a percussive instrument as much as a tonal one. Few records—certainly few records that take their cues from the heaviest strains of metal—can boast such a vast dynamic range.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 5, 2024
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As a listener, you pay attention not just to those steps but to the overtones that fill the air in between. Each chord is a burr of wonderment.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 4, 2024
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The album is spritely, frequently bright, as intensely melodic as Ex Hex’s triumphant Rips and more playful than a record this heartbroken probably should be.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 4, 2024
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Few MCs, on his label or elsewhere, are capable of firing in so many different directions and hitting this many targets at once without sounding out of their depth, but Q corrals the ups and downs of his lavish lifestyle into a deliriously entertaining joyride.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 4, 2024
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If you, like Webster, feel most at home in the warm glow of a band in the pocket of a groove, Underdressed at the Symphony delivers just under 40 minutes of gentle melodies and extended jams, a soft landing pad after the end of a romance.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 1, 2024
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I Got Heaven moves with an intuitive grace that makes it feel stadium-sized without losing its nuance or its grounding in the scene that birthed it. It’s easy to love, and it knows it.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 29, 2024
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There’s no disco excursion on Daniel—they already pulled off that trick on 2020’s The Main Thing—but it’s the cleanest and leanest album they’ve ever made.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 28, 2024
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The Past Is Still Alive’s fantastical yet sharply observed writing and revival of a more traditional sound feels like a homecoming.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 27, 2024
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