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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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    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Doris
    Though the narratives are harder to follow, and the refrains more verbose (or simply absent), this music is still full of youthful anger. The nature of it is simply more suitable for a recent-high-school-graduate-aged kid grappling with more knotty insecurities. It’s also probable that much of Earl’s younger audience has grown up with him, and will relate to this impressive record even more deeply than his first.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vampire Weekend
    Vampire Weekend’s debut comes across as a confident, precise, and, for better and worse, mature collection.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Wild Mountain Nation
    Part of the album's appeal is its lo-fi production values. These songs are clearly built on analog four-track recordings and then embellished with overdubs.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Parallax
    Parallax is easily Atlas Sound's best-sounding album to date.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Slowdive
    With such a hooky, immediate, and yet complex record, let’s hope it’s not the final fade out.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Field Report
    The result is 10 songs of lyrical brilliance that will have music listeners giving Porterfield the credit that's long overdue.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Honeys
    Honeys is the band's ultimate thesis statement, grounding their past triumphs in cruel reality that, if not buffered by their expert sense of humor, would hit too close to home too many times to count.
    • 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.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    King Of Jeans
    That restlessness and aggression make King of Jeans a visceral, honest mess of a record. This is all ragged glory.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Good Things
    Aloe Blacc's Good Things is a mature, well-crafted, and distinctive take on the basic blueprint of the neo-soul sound, the quasi-revival movement that embraced classic soul and funk tropes that had been abandoned by much of the R&B establishment.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Why Should The Fire Die?
    Unstoppable.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Slave Ambient
    Slave Ambient continues themes of wanderlust and searching that were all over the other records, but as Granduciel sings of friends gone, of calling loved ones home, of trying to find his place in the world changing around him, the music behind him seems to be searching too.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pattern + Grid World
    Instead of tossing off interstitial, between-album scraps, Ellison has done what most artists should do with the extended-play format: create a mini-album. Every song has its place and works together to form a tangible flow.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Painted Ruins
    They sometimes drift back to that comfortable space, and those moments make the record feel a bit longer than it is, but overall this is another interesting twist in the band’s sound.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    For the Ghosts Within
    On one hand, the enormity of said soundtrack can be appreciated by those with a palate for the peculiar, while others might yearn for a more streamlined recording.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Stage Names
    With his band's fourth studio album, frontman Will Sheff stakes a claim here for the right to be called the best songwriter working right now.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Learning
    Each song here, when attention is paid, is gut wrenching, honest and unabashedly sad while maintaining a sense of resigned acceptance... The arrangements and production, however, tend to drown out Perfume Genius's ability to juggle his subject matter, leaving songs that just don't quite break your heart.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Leave It All Behind
    With electronic and live sounds, emotional production and excellent vocals from some of the underground scene’s best, Leave It All Behind is an open and experimental take on hip-hop and soul, highly successful, at that.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Where You Go I Go Too
    Where You Go I Go Too takes the meaning of the term "full-length" quite literally, stretching his already epic electronic disco into works of effortless symphonic grandeur.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cut the World [Live]
    Cut the World, on musical merit alone, is a solid live recording, one that reminds us of the highlights of Antony Hegarty's career up to now, and hints at future success.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    La Foret
    The album relies less on hooks and more on a sparse energy, but the listening is engaging enough to keep the listener around to the end, focusing more on cohesion rather than theatrics.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Couple Tracks: Singles 2002-2009
    Damian Abraham's vocals are still the star of the show, but the cleanness of Couple Tracks shows how, with the right kind of engineering, Abraham's behemoth-unleashed singing, rather than alienate non-hardcore kids, ices the cake on an already great band.
    • 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.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Smoke Ring for My Halo
    It's easy to see Smoke Ring being remembered as the stepping stone to a transcendent piece of work in Vile's discography.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Rather Ripped
    To call the album the band's most accessible to date is no slur. There's nothing wrong with accessible indie rock when it's this pristine and polished.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    True Love Cast Out All Evil
    This is a great record, full with a daring, hard-earned hope, and a deep emotion. And that's something a lot of records could really use these days.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's Blitz
    It’s Blitz is representative of Yeah Yeah Yeahs tightening as an unit and delivering their best album to date.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    There Is Love In You
    There Is Love in You is expertly sequenced, played, and produced from start to finish. It's the work of a restlessly creative auteur circling back and turning out his most confident, definitive work to date.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An Letah [EP]
    It's been a captivating listen thus far, and will likely remain that way wherever he takes it next.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Brothers
    Brothers, meanwhile, proves that the Keys can still put a few more miles on their well-driven blues machine, regardless of what direction their non-Keys work takes them.
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