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For 497 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 67% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 That's the Spirit
Lowest review score: 20 Bright Black Heaven
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 435 out of 497
  2. Mixed: 60 out of 497
  3. Negative: 2 out of 497
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Jasta
    Some of his vocal lines seemed rushed and out-of-sync with the American metal chug, but he proves his pipes on a fair number of spots.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It, There is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret
    For all its bluster, There Is A Hell is far more than the story of a man battling his self-perpetuated inner turmoil; it is the sound of a remarkable band establishing themselves as one of the finest of their generation.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Clouded
    Clouded is possibly the most beautiful record about heartbreak you’ll hear all year.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings
    Beach Slang’s second full-length does a stellar job of building on frontman James Alex’s knack for storytelling.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mariachi El Bronx (II)
    As soulful and finely crafted as their debut of sorts, II is a glorious record.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Big Biz Quadruple Single
    It's still heavy, still weird and Jared Warren still sounds like a water buffalo gargling turpentine, and while there might just be four tracks to be had they're still more kingly than 99 per cent of whatever else is calling itself 'rock' music these days.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In and Out of Youth and Lightness
    Free from the shadows of their past, it seems Young Widows have found an infinitely darker place to dwell.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Black Mile to the Surface
    Full of textured, wide-screen soundscapes, the record dips its feet in electronic waters, yet retains the emotional vulnerability that has always defined the Atlanta band. There’s an extra dose of sinister unease, too, especially on ‘Lead, SD’ and ‘The Moth’.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The House of Gold and Bones, Vol. 1
    [A] mightily ambitious, versatile record.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Near to the Wild Heart of Life
    While none quite make it all the way, they do end up nestling rather nicely among the planets.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cody
    A brief but superb collection, this cements them as one of the most compelling acts in their genre.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Knowing What You Know Now
    This long-awaited second album isn’t just thrilling from start to finish: it might also be exactly what rock needs right now.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Relentless, Reckless Forever
    Relentless Reckless Forever, the band's seventh album, is more of the same but faster and stronger.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Lost Forever, Lost Together
    Lost Forever, Lost Together is the sound of Architects finding and unleashing the buried treasure they’ve been searching for.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beast
    Ruthlessly combining technical brutality and pure fucking class, DevilDriver have finally come of age.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT
    Famously chaotic musical magpies Dana Janssen, Seth Olinsky and Miles Seaton have outdone themselves here in concocting an album almost as enigmatic as its title.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    What Day Is It Tonight? (Trans Am Live 1993-2008)
    That the record spans their 15-year lifespan puts the kybosh on continuity a touch; see announcing your last song in the middle of an album. However, that’s generally overridden by sheer dumb fun within cuts like synth-drenched supermarket ode "Tesco V Sainsbury's".
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Big Deep
    With The Big Deep they've taken a much more straightforward approach to things than ever before and ended up with a collection of solid, accessible rock songs.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Holy Shit
    A great introduction to a band destined for very good things indeed.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Stomachaches
    Born of isolation and introspection, Stomachaches is hugely likeable, and leaves everything on the table.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Reverie Lagoon: Music for Escapism Only
    The production allows the introspective oddness of Soto’s lyrics to show through better, lending them a really likeable, stand-out character.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sever the Wicked Hand
    Crowbar were always more reflective. And that's kind of what Sever The Wicked Hand is all about, corpulent down-tuned riffs and a sense of grizzled resignation articulated through Windstein's taut songwriting and sorrowful croon.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Darker Handcraft
    It sounds ferocious and is going to have you feeling filthy and dealing with tinnitus afterwards, but nothing's going to stop you from rocking.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Life Without Sound
    While they’ve ramped up the production values on this follow-up, its nine tracks retain the reckless zest for life that have defined their creators’ output.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Difference Between Hell and Home
    11 tracks with all the anguish that melodic hardcore thrives on, but with enough testosterone to keep it on the right side of whiney.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Other Side
    his is polished, assured pop-rock custom built for massive stages and even bigger singalongs, and both are no doubt in the pipeline.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gloss Drop
    Stripped down to a three-piece since Tyondai Braxton's surprise departure, Battles' sophomore effort may not have a nailed-on stand-out like their debut's Atlas but their dizzying electro-prog has a great deal more focus this time around.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In The Court Of The Wrestling Let's
    The Husker Du-lionising and strategic swearing of earlier releases might be absent, but Let's Wrestle's copious charms are otherwise very much in force on their full-length debut.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Summer Bones
    The Ohio pop-punks are on their finest form in years here.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Wasting Light
    The Foo Fighters may have ballooned in size over the past few years and if it took them going back to their roots to make an album this good then so be it, but when all is said and done Wasting Light is as an example of how to be a globe-eatingly massive band and still sound young, hungry and, above all, important.
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