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For 823 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 An End Has A Start
Lowest review score: 0 D12 World
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 569 out of 823
  2. Mixed: 198 out of 823
  3. Negative: 56 out of 823
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Hello Young Lovers
    Yes, it's a shamelessly arch and overarching achievement, and, make no mistake, some of you out there will hate this record and want to have at it with badly corroded screwdrivers.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Etiquette
    His most ambitious and diverse album yet.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Making Dens
    They have a habit of getting it very right and very wrong.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everything Is
    'Everything Is' is as frenzied as music gets, full of the energy that only comes with youthfulness, but also tinged with a world weariness that comes with being part of a hugely disaffected and cynical generation.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    OK Cowboy
    A tour de force of infectious acid techno and head-rush-inducing electroclash and, as likely as not, this year's essential dance purchase.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Leaders Of The Free World
    Few albums are this evocative, and 'Leaders of the Free World' is a thing of rare beauty indeed.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Last Romance
    With 'The Last Romance', a whole lot of people are at last going to fall in love with Arab Strap for the very first time.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sound Mirrors
    Any number of tracks here could easily catapult them back into the consciousness of so much more than the cognoscenti.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Life Pursuit
    A gloriously accomplished and very rewarding listen.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Comfort Of Strangers
    It's Emiliana Torrini, Cat Power and Nick Drake all rolled into one, and it's soothing enough to curl up and die for.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Destroy Rock & Roll
    'Destroy Rock & Roll' is exponentially more than the sum of its parts.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lantern
    This is music that never quite settles; it's in perpetual motion.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sexor
    Far from flawless it may be, but this is a fundamentally fabulous experience.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tales From Turnpike House
    Their most contemporarily relevant and best album since 'Fox Base Alpha.'
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Greatest
    Aside from one or two bore-me-ups, this is an album of understated perfection.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Amber
    Compared to their offerings to date 'Amber' has the hardest edges, but it wouldn't be Clearlake if it wasn't soft in the centre.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Standing In The Way Of Control
    To be honest this album has been down the pub all day; it doesn't care that you have to go to work in three hours time; it has just burst into your room and demanded the keys to your car and that bottle of Bombay Saphire you were saving for your birthday.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    First Impressions Of Earth
    Turns out what the world was waiting for really was those that saved guitars finally making a record that truly reaped the rewards of their efforts. Is this it? OH GOD YES!
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    One Way Ticket To Hell... And Back
    It may surprise you, but 'One Way Ticket To Hell... And Back' doesn't suck... at all.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Hypnotize
    'Hypnotise' is full on, paranoid, insane, intense, terrifying, and it's telling the truth too... dangerous stuff in other words.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Confessions On A Dance Floor
    She might not quite have made it through the wilderness just yet, but she's chosen the most glittering road to resurrection she could find, and it's one she walks with no small smattering of style.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Aerial
    'Aerial' towers over the vast majority of even this year's embarrassment of riches.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For The Season
    Gris Gris' practice of bleeding their songs together in dissonance creates a roller coaster that renders 'For The Season' over before you've really realised it's begun.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    These Were The Earlies
    As a headphone album, 'These Were... The Earlies' is something of a stunner.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lookaftering
    What makes Bunyan's return such an unqualified success is that, unlike so many of those she's influenced (Patrick Wolf excluded) she doesn't come within a country mile of the briar patch of cloying kookiness.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Campfire Headphase
    Unlike 2002's 'Geogaddi', it's a wholly gripping journey throughout.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Playing The Angel
    'Playing the Angel' is hardly the most essential Depeche Mode album ever, but it is Depeche Mode doing what they do best.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Hypermagic Mountain
    What blessed bastardry is this? It's bloody brilliant, that's what it is.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hey People!
    'Hey People!' dashes past in such a whippy blur that it's far from immediately apparent what on earth to make of it, although if you suspect it'd be fun going back to find out we wouldn't argue.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Mouse And The Mask
    Though not really getting the joke can somewhat divorce the listener from proceedings, the slick, masterful production and real-life cameos from the likes of Ghostface and particularly Cee-Lo on the majestic 'Benzi Box' make up for the feeling of exclusion.
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