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For 2,132 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 45% 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 Modern Times
Lowest review score: 10 Eat Me, Drink Me
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,576 out of 2132
  2. Mixed: 509 out of 2132
  3. Negative: 47 out of 2132
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The London Sessions
    Like every live album ever, this is pretty much for fans only. A newcomer isn't going to learn much from coming in this late, and casual observers won't find anything here they can't get on LCD Soundsystem's studio albums. But as Murphy seems content to head into retirement after this touring cycle, he's entitled to a victory or lap or two.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dreams Come True
    Taylor doesn't get caught up in making his sounds too big, too large, or too much. He could, but he doesn't. He maintains control, doesn't get lost, and the result are nothing short of terrific.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rules
    It's more like easy listening with a funk flare, and, like all easy-listening, there are times when it falls decidedly flat.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Album
    Girls are, at their most basic, a solid band of rock ‘n’ roll reappropriators.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kelis Was Here
    Kelis is one of the mainstream's most exciting artists right now, and she continues to defy expectations with Kelis Was Here.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Uproot
    The album is likely to find favor with clubbers looking for downtempo tunes to soundtrack their comedown. But Clayton’s knack for unearthing wildly disparate compositions, and seamlessly melding them together, will likely induce a few smiles in the blissed-out warmth of the post-club hours.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Heard It Today
    It is totally listenable and, to relay a personal anecdote, sounded highly appropriate at a recent social gathering.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Candidate Waltz
    It may not have the knockout highs that Dual Hawks or Flashes and Cables had, but it is just as consistent all the way through.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Case We Die
    The free-for-all collective sound can lend the music a cutesy air, but the intensity of the songs rescues the album from juvenility.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Old Days Feeling
    This collection of rarities is a window into the mind of a restless but inspired talent. She isn't for everyone, but she is a break from safe.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Paper Tigers
    Paper Tigers proves the Caesars are capable of releasing more than one memorable track.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Jazz Mind
    It has a known start and finish, with a middle that's tied together cleanly enough.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Blue Depths
    The Blue Depths can be a mesmerizing album to listen to. Tapscott's voice creaks with emotion, haunting these songs with a vital humanity that keeps their cold feel from being mechanical.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Press Play
    Save for the unnecessary interludes, the strength of Press Play is in its ability to employ so many different styles, sounds, influences and mold them into one extremely coherent package.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Show Your Bones
    Show Your Bones is much more accessible than its predecessor, but there isn't really a "Maps" to serve as a gateway.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Melted
    At times Melted falls into the familiar lo-fi production trap: lack of variety in sound and tempo. However, at its best moments, Melted's songs employ playful riffs and weighty guitars to create textures as varied as the ones in Segall's sweet treat analogy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wu Block
    It may play a little too closely to everyone's strengths, but in the moments here where those strengths are at full tilt, that's not a bad thing.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dear God, I Hate Myself
    Dear God, I Hate Myself packs enough of a wallop that it is worth sitting through some dross to get at the choice bits, which, as is the case with any of the best work by Xiu Xiu, are uncomfortable, uncompromising, and easily hummable.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Frankie Rose and the Outs
    On this album she proves herself as something more (way more, in fact) than an eternal scenester and competent drummer.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mentor Tormentor
    The album's midsection gets bogged down in songs that sound too similar: more lovely piano, more soft cooing, too many gimmicky studio effects.... To Espinoza's credit, he gets Mentor Tormentor back on track.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams
    This tribute has a back-to-the-future quality, a sad wave at a sensibility that has slipped out of our reach: lost, indeed.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An Album by Korallreven
    Like many of the instrumentals on this record, a New Age gauze covers most of these productions. It may not be every listener's particular cup of tea, but An Album is a dazzling song suite for an autumnal release.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In My Own Words
    Although it's firmly in the commercial-R&B camp, it's got much more energy than those slickly produced records, and at times, the record's production verges on dirty.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Live A Little
    Thankfully, on Live a Little, he... sticks to what he does best: creating lovely, literate pop-rock.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Parastrophics
    Parastrophics is a capable release that can soundtrack a Bacchanalian night in the city.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Standing In The Way Of Control
    Think Au Pairs or Delta 5, but filtered through Bikini Kill and the Rapture.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Loney, Noir
    Svanangen has a wholly human presence on Loney, Noir, easy to invest in and equally easy to reap rewards from.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Camel's Back
    With The Camel's Back, Psapp grows up while successfully eluding categorization in the quest for catchiness.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Observator
    You'd be forgiven to not have the hooks of these songs stuck in your head, or worse, confusing them for some other band.... Ignoring this, you have another quality catalog entry from one of modern indie rock's somewhat more surprising career bands.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Who Needs Actions When You Got Words
    B continues to acquit himself admirably on purely technical terms, wrapping a slow, slithering tongue around the quick stabs of his guitar.
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