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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 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
    • 85 Critic Score
    Lay It Down
    Playing up his role as elder statesman, Green gets away with delivering the familiar back-in-the-day sermon because listeners expect it from an icon of the past. However, by infusing such consistent gentleness throughout the entire record, he pulls off the unthinkable in the early 21st century--a momentary respite.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    New Moon
    What makes New Moon succeed is something similar to what Shakespeare gets at in many of his sonnets: the ability of art to beat death.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Mr. M
    It is in this tension--the struggle to find hope and comfort quickly and the realization that you can't--that Mr. M exists and shines.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Quarantine
    There's still an eerie distortion saturating Halo's vocals, as has become her trademark. But the prominence of her singing here is almost jarring, raw, practically emotive.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Blood, Looms, And Blooms
    Like the return of Portishead and My Bloody Valentine, Leila’s reemergence is another welcome surprise in a year that’s been full of them.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Person Pitch
    Although it's certainly inventive in approach and execution, there's no denying that Person Pitch sees Lennox working within decidedly pop-centric parameters.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Everything Last Winter
    Everything Last Winter may be the most accomplished debut of 2007, and it will invariably be one of the best.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Hip Hop Is Dead
    Hip-Hop Is Dead... brings out the best in the emcee, who might have produced his strongest lyrical performance since Illmatic.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Josephine
    It's at times fragile, at times bolstering, at times bittersweet, at times even triumphant, but it's timeless all the same.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    I Learned The Hard Way
    Jones deserves special credit for treating her subject matter consistently and with an even hand throughout I Learned The Hard Way. She can express both hurt and her trademark, take-no-shit defiance.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    23
    23 is one of the more enjoyable musical experiences I have encountered this year.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    This Is It & I Am It & You Are It & So Is That & He Is It & She Is It & It Is It & That Is That
    The conviction in Stern's direct, bare voice is what turns the album into the kicking, clawing, emotional frenzy that we get.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    No Time for Dreaming
    It's in that strange tug and pull from which struggle springs passion and beauty that these men seemed to effortlessly thrive. And it is there with both a genuine, relatable sadness and an unwavering resolve so rooted in the broken concrete Bradley walks upon, that No Time For Dreaming also comfortably sits.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Let England Shake
    Harvey's singing delivers the material by juggling unwieldy emotions with care and empathy. And she makes the experience sound natural -- like a true no-brainer.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    FIDLAR
    There are moments when the ambivalence toward everything sounds like it might, just might, be giving way to genuine concern.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Held
    For all its delicate psychological workings and spot-on embodiments of that feeling's senseless, aimless guilt, it's completely mesmerizing.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Fade
    Nothing seems to rattle them, and hearing that Zen-like outlook on record is immensely refreshing and inspiring.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Coexist
    It's a collective of conjoined poems, meticulously attuned to shake both the earth and eardrums alike.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Swanlights
    Swanlights may not be the best of his works, but it is a welcome excursion along the path of his career.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Writer's Block
    In the end, Writer's Block isn't a life-changing musical statement, but it is a superb collection of finely crafted pop songs.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Santogold
    Santogold is sure to be one of the year’s best albums, with only one near-miss (“My Superman”), an album that may become unavoidable in coming weeks and months.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Cream Cuts
    The largely successful results characterize a risky proposition that in the hands of talent and artistic focus has yielded all sorts of adventurous delights.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Tha Carter III
    Tha Carter III soars because of Wayne’s to-date under-appreciated ability to turn himself down.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
    Smokey Rolls down Thunder Canyon may be his best so far.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Majesty Shredding
    Majesty Shredding is one of the finest rock records of 2010.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Era Vulgaris
    You can hear the band rediscovering its footing as one of the strangest, funniest, and best acts of the decade.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Bitte Orca
    Bitte Orca is the kind of album that is best taken from start to finish, where the songs and musical themes are allowed to grow, endear and impress.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do
    For all the foot-stomping vitriol that seeps out here and there, The Idler Wheel... is the sound of a brilliant songwriter putting away childish things, and waiting tensely for what comes next.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Offend Maggie
    Offend Maggie’s mellowness is not a lessening of Deerhoof’s strangeness. In fact, the emotional intensity of these songs may be even more pronounced than in songs from the past.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    (III)
    It is whole, undiluted Crystal Castles--and it's as haunting and raw as might be imagined.
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