Pitchfork's Scores
- Music
For 11,990 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: 9,807 out of 11990
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Mixed: 1,876 out of 11990
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Negative: 307 out of 11990
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Fantasma offers a better introduction to Songs: Ohia than the last couple of proper albums.- Pitchfork
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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.- Pitchfork
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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.- Pitchfork
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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.- Pitchfork
- Posted Sep 30, 2022
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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.- Pitchfork
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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.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 23, 2013
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- Posted Jun 7, 2013
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This record is carefree and instantly likable--even if it doesn't seem to care what you think of it.- Pitchfork
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Her music speaks loudest in its calmest moments, and Reward is an album most remarkable for how it fills its space.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 28, 2019
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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.- Pitchfork
- Posted Nov 4, 2013
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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.- Pitchfork
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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.- Pitchfork
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Restraint, patience, trust: time and again they make GOLD sound like an incredibly wise record.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 1, 2022
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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.- Pitchfork
- Posted Dec 12, 2017
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Total Loss uses the common tools of pop expression-- four-minute songs, autobiography, choruses, confession-- to create a work of poignant and devastating art.- Pitchfork
- Posted Sep 20, 2012
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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.- Pitchfork
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- Posted Mar 5, 2019
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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.- Pitchfork
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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.- Pitchfork
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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.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 25, 2013
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- Posted Mar 15, 2019
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Some of the rowdiest Giant Sand music since the near-grunge of 1992's Center of the Universe.- Pitchfork
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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.- Pitchfork
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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.- Pitchfork
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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.- Pitchfork
- Posted Nov 7, 2014
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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.- Pitchfork
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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.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 22, 2019
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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.- Pitchfork
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As much of a throwback as Mering can seem, at her best she captures her era in her words.- Pitchfork
- Posted Oct 19, 2016
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