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For 1,109 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Biokinetics [Reissue]
Lowest review score: 36 Déjà-Vu
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 963 out of 1109
  2. Mixed: 145 out of 1109
  3. Negative: 1 out of 1109
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No Luscious Life
    The band's mix of disco, funk, new wave, dancehall and West African music would in most hands sound muddled or derivative. What happens instead is music filled with life and imagination of the kind described by Stuart Evans, the cofounder of the Green Door Studio, who once likened Golden Teacher to seeing "a robot dancing with a leopard."
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fountain
    It's in this border between a club setting and the divine that Fountain comes alive. Using her voice as a modular system, Pramuk suggests a ritual that's both folkloric and futuristic.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Possessed: Soundtrack to the Film by Metahaven & Rob Schröder
    Halo tackles these chunky themes and textual cacophony with a score that never sits still, folding synthetic sounds into acoustic recordings and darting across time and space with the efficiency of a jump cut.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fabriclive 59
    A diverse, compelling tapestry of 2-step, house and broken beats.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    We Stay Together [EP]
    We Stay Together isn't a retread of Passed Me By, it's a continuation--but there are signs of life this time.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It Is What It Is
    On It Is What It Is, Bruner—unlike Pastorious—finds a way out, channeling his pain into great, uplifting art.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    And Never Ending Nights
    The result is one of the most emotionally powerful synth albums in a time where they seem absolutely dime a dozen.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Will to Be Well
    It's a powerful formula, and Dall and Ander have basically perfected it here.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bring Me the Head of Kyle Bobby Dunn
    Bring Me the Head Of... will not win Dunn an army of new fans, you are either on his wavelength or you're not. It is, however, among his finest work to date and shows an ever-growing refinement and understanding of his chosen medium.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dawn FM
    It's invigorating, vulnerable and, at times, uncomfortably raw.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stadium
    Keszler has been able to turn the overwhelming nature of urban life into something beautiful, and it's one of his best records as a result.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Letter to Yu
    The album bops and bangs as he explores throbbing Detroit techno and bouncy Kraftwerkian synth pop, overlaying those genres with recordings of his time in Hong Kong to create a deeply spiritual album that fuses traditions, lineages and memories.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Source: We Move
    By drawing energy from Garcia’s abundant source, these remixers try to answer those questions in their own respective sonic languages, offering intriguing answers and new ways to hear Garcia's potent energy.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Edge of Everything
    Most of The Edge Of Everything is top-tier drum & bass with an experimental bent.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No Sun
    She's continuing the very tradition she's studying, ending her intimate and vulnerable album with a cover that finds new purpose by making someone else's words—and grief—all her own.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Power
    Morgan sings and raps on the LP, the first time they've used their voice on their records. That helps make Power their most accessible release. The singing is charmingly unpolished.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heaven Knows
    It keeps intact what makes her one of the most exciting UK pop acts of the 2020s, gesturing towards the mainstream while still keeping one foot in her musical hometown. It's the kind of record a promising artist puts out before they release something truly next-level.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Excavation
    He might have translated his sound into electronics with Excavation, but here Krlic's music feels more wrenchingly human than it ever has been.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mother
    It's a record that balances the hardcore continuum with emotion as she turns out club tunes touched by vulnerability.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    WOW
    Listening to WOW delivers genuine warmth, happiness and light. Within these settings, Shilonosova expands her ever-evolving and inquisitive personal soundworld of beautiful music for the body and the mind.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unpatterns
    Unpatterns is very now, yet by employing key electronic music touchstones it sounds classic as well.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gordian
    Gordian is a delightful listen, packed with plenty of rewarding oddities if you care to sit down and really take your time with it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beams
    Fleshed out with flecks of African-style guitar and tumbling bass...there's still the trademarked bedrock: that motor-fueled, machine-grind churn.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Soil
    serpentwithfeet is not a project that deals in restraint, but it's the mix of melodrama and newfound control that makes soil a great record.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Severant
    It's just Jamie Teasdale, an already accomplished producer, freely chasing his inspiration and coming out the other end with near genius in the process.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    House of Woo
    House of Woo may be playful and irreverent, but that shouldn't disguise its status as a potent exploration of sound.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Radical Romantics
    On the most fully realized vision of the Fever Ray project yet, Dreijer unspools some of their best lyrics and pop songs since The Knife's 2007 smash "Heartbeats.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You Are Eternity
    You Are Eternity is like a long and endless tunnel: for all its twists and turns, you're always in the same sensory deprivation chamber.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Further Out Than the Edge
    Further Out Than The Edge's vibrant cast of characters, lively experimental rhythms and rich improvisation underlines why Speakers Corner Quartet are so firmly embedded within South London's musical landscape.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beautiful Rewind
    Beautiful Rewind is an extended tribute to pirate radio, connecting the dots between jungle, garage and minimalist house music.
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