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For 68 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 73% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 26% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 77
Highest review score:
M B V
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
I Am Not a Human Being II
Critic Score 25
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 59 out of 68
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 68
  3. Negative: 3 out of 68
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    • Metascore: 87
    • Critic Score 100
    M B V
    This is a new My Bloody Valentine and it is excellent.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Critic Score 100
    The Next Day
    The vast majority of The Next Day is vibrant, even delirious, roaring with Bowie’s heaviest rockers and teeming with guitar hooks that just beg to be lovingly re-appropriated by James Murphy.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Critic Score 100
    Modern Vampires of the City
    Nothing feels out-of-place or out-of-sync, everything clicks together in flourishes of simple brilliance.
    • Metascore: 87
    • Critic Score 100
    Random Access Memories
    It took exuberance, painstaking detail, and wide-eyed nostalgia for Daft Punk to create Random Access Memories, their best.
    • Metascore: 87
    • Critic Score 100
    Yeezus
    Kanye West doesn’t give the listener a second to realize the album is more a masterly response to a masterpiece than a masterpiece itself. With one sweep of the hand, West brushes away expectations. And then he sticks you squarely across the face
    • Metascore: 84
    • Critic Score 91
    Torres
    Torres is an album that is pulsating with life.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Critic Score 91
    Woman
    Woman works because it balances restraint and candor, presenting love in neither a chaste nor debauched light. Milosh, through his gossamer vocals, delivers a message of stunning clarity: despite the risk, love is beautiful.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Critic Score 91
    New Moon
    An album where the reminiscence of rock is revitalized by The Men’s gift of genre hybridization.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Critic Score 91
    Mosquito
    They have crafted a sound that is new for them and unique in its context, but that falls neatly into what we have come to expect from a trio whose power and creativity runs consistently unchecked.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Critic Score 91
    Ultramarine
    What truly makes Ultramarine penetrate beyond the passé realm of feel-good electropop, are the subliminal hints of evanescent existence scattered amidst the stardust.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Critic Score 91
    Monomania
    It is not a return to form, because how could we expect or want it to be? It is a return to the contextually avant-garde, and for Deerhunter in 2013 that means rock n’ roll.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Critic Score 91
    Silence Yourself
    Savages’ smart reorganization and shuffling of punk, post-punk, krautrock, and noise music into something brutal, jarringly confrontational, and completely singular is a breath of fresh air and an unignorable statement of power and resistance.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Critic Score 91
    Trouble Will Find Me
    A collection of remarkable songs by a group of musicians that compliment one another as well as any group over the last decade.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Critic Score 91
    Once I Was an Eagle
    Once I Was an Eagle is a singular achievement: a haunting record, peopled with aural ghosts that come gradually crawling from out of the grooves.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Critic Score 91
    Tomorrow's Harvest
    It’s the duo’s most sinister and fascinating collection of songs, enrapturing the listener with dystopian soundscapes and frustrating arrangements.
    • Metascore: 77
    • Critic Score 83
    Hummingbird
    It is this cycle of futility and human effort that makes Hummingbird so compelling, and so much more rewarding the second time around
    • Metascore: 80
    • Critic Score 83
    We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
    With We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic, Foxygen is a breath of fresh air, reviving a vintage style of songwriting in a new and creative fashion.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Critic Score 83
    FIDLAR
    FIDLAR will make you want to pound a case of the cheapest beer you can find with these guys, it’ll make you want to crank it up as loud as it will go in whichever of your friends’ cars.
    • Metascore: 73
    • Critic Score 83
    Almanac
    Under the wing of producer Kevin McMahon, the duo was able to flesh out arrangements and let their music mature.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Critic Score 83
    II
    With II, UMO remains humble in composition and production, creating an honest album that comforts in the strangest ways.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Critic Score 83
    Amok
    AMOK is a surprisingly unassuming album in that way; each song has worthwhile hooks and accessibility is favored over abstract experiments.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Critic Score 83
    You're Nothing
    The vocals on You’re Nothing, however, are much more emotive and indicative of a newfound acknowledgement of the singer’s vulnerability as a frontman. The result is anything but sappy.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Critic Score 83
    Clash the Truth
    Beach Fossils have delivered an album of shimmering guitars and an ebulliently bouncy rhythm that is simply a beautiful listen.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Critic Score 83
    Anxiety
    It grows beyond its deeply emotional roots, to become whatever you want it to be.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Critic Score 83
    Wondrous Bughouse
    Youth Lagoon’s sophomore record stands tall and sure-footed.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Critic Score 83
    Cerulean Salt
    What makes Cerulean Salt so enjoyable and so endlessly relistenable is that some of her snapshots likely resemble ones from your own lost photo albums.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Critic Score 83
    Overgrown
    Overgrown is not the enigma that was his debut, but rather it is a first-rate album from a musician that isn’t all that interested in being enigmatic.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Critic Score 83
    Shaking the Habitual
    Judicious use of the skip button to find the tracks on which Andersson’s transfixing voice is front and center, results in a much more rewarding, immediate experience.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Critic Score 83
    Ghost on Ghost
    Beam along with producer Brian Deck and a host of musicians including members from Dylan’s band, The Tin Hat Trio and Antony and Johnsons, Iron and Wine continues this evolution by crafting a lush album of AM radio pop—complete with funk and jazz grooves.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Critic Score 83
    MCII
    As an album set out to reappropriate pop rock, MCII succeeds.
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