For 5,910 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 6.1 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 67
Highest review score: | Magic | |
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Lowest review score: | Know Your Enemy |
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Producer Fred Mollin provides atmospheric, country-tinged settings throughout Still Within the Sound of My Own Voice, lending consistency to the wide range of performers and material.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 12, 2013
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belt. Even when Chvrches are just competently mopey, their neon-Eighties visions are far from retro pose-striking.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 24, 2013
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With The Diving Board, Elton has regained his sense of musical possibility and taken a brave, graceful jump.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 13, 2013
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The more melodic his flow, the slicker he sounds, allowing him to get away with some truly corny lines.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 19, 2013
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Pure Heroine feels surprisingly real and fully formed, punching through sparse, cushily booming post-hip-hop tracks with vividly searching lyrics about growing up too fast that can seem at once arrogant and pensive.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 7, 2013
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More than a sentimental journey, it's an album that wants to be part of the 21st-century pop dialogue.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 15, 2013
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On this seven-song EP, Bethany Cosentino combines the sundown power-pop buzz of Best Coast's 2010 debut with the Hulk-hug melodies and emotional gravity of last year's The Only Place to make for something masterfully archetypal but utterly her own.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Nov 20, 2013
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He's playing his best character: the demon spawn of Trailer Hell, America, hitting middle age with his middle finger up his nose while he cleans off the Kool-Aid his kids spilled on the couch.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Nov 1, 2013
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The Beatles are enjoying the speed and lunacy of stardom here.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Nov 14, 2013
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This lavish multidisc set is as eccentric and compelling as its subject.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Dec 3, 2013
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This handsome solo acoustic set overlaps a few songs with earlier entries in Neil Young's official bootleg series. But there's no shortage of standouts.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Dec 10, 2013
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When he stretches out vocally, to match the high-register tremble of his guitar, Malkmus proves that he can come on like a soulman--even when he's wigging out.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 7, 2014
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- Posted Jan 15, 2014
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This expanded reissue adds Not Forever the 1989 demo tape that got them signed.... It shows a vision startlingly complete, and its scrappiness occasionally serves the songs better.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 28, 2014
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Little Red showcases her vivid R&B songwriting over chic, chilly electro beats.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 4, 2014
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"Hotshit player" doesn't begin to describe the underappreciated blues-rock figurehead, as this beautiful four-disc set makes clear.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 5, 2014
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St. Vincent is her tightest, tensest, best set of songs to date, with wry, twisty beats pushing her lovably ornery melodies toward grueling revelations.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 25, 2014
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A not-as-good-kid traversing the same m.A.A.d. city as Kendrick, Schoolboy complements Lamar's narrative distance with evocative, unflinching first-person dispatches from the front lines.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 24, 2014
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Girl is a simple, even slight record--and that's definitely meant as a compliment.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 7, 2014
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Say Yes to Love is a heart-punch of an album--eight songs, 23 minutes--where the words are mostly buried under guitar feedback and synth squeals. Yet the raw passion comes across loud and clear.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 18, 2014
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with fits of glam flamboyance and a raw rockabilly bluntness, Moz's third solo LP made clear what Smiths fans already knew: Here was a new kind of superstar. For more proof, check this remastered reissue's must-see bonus DVD.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 19, 2014
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Anderson's excellent second album builds on the stark confessional style of her low-fi 2011 debut, Past Life Martyred Saints.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 8, 2014
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The interstitial skits can get irritating, but the edits come fast, and when those sugar-shock beats drop, all is forgiven. Facebook- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 15, 2014
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The results can often recall Seventies Eno at his most meditative and Village Green-era Ray Davies at his most world-sick more than Gorillaz's bounce or Blur's guitar buzz.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 22, 2014
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Dalle lets her voice flicker to an airy glow, with jittery strings providing the tension guitars might have in the past. Clearly, she never really needed an amp to unleash her strength.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 24, 2014
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On this most Old 97's-ish of Old 97's LPs, the hard-partying twang-punk quartet throw a 20th-birthday bash for themselves.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 29, 2014
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Her third LP, cut with bass-minded partner Nate Brenner, suggests an innovator in for the long haul.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 6, 2014
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A sumptuous immersion in Seventies California folk pop, it is the most immediately charming album he has ever made.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 19, 2014
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Her magnificent fourth LP grows her trademark examinations of romantic decay to cathedral-like scale.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 23, 2014
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This set of 33 songs, 11 of which never aired, revisits both [MTV Unplugged] sessions, boiling their magical greatness down to two base elements: achingly sugared melodies and Michael Stipe's potent voice, in all its deep grain, swooning vibrato and radiant empathy.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 22, 2014
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- Posted Jun 3, 2014
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Mostly it shows how Lambert earned her throne: by singing top-shelf songs in the voice of a woman getting real. Listening to her records is like eavesdropping in a hair salon.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 2, 2014
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Lazaretto [is] literally a house of blues (the title is Italian for a lepers' hospital), with each room outfitted according to White's mood and trials.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 10, 2014
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Even without any very particularly illuminating extras, though, Superunknown is a Nineties benchmark.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 5, 2014
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Her knack for heart-swelling choruses shines through on a set of tracks you might play while winning a marathon.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jul 8, 2014
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The ample guilt Presley purges from his heart and head unfurls into an excellent set of songs that are equally suited for an aimless afternoon drive or a night of serious life contemplation.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jul 25, 2014
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Whether you’re looking to fall in love this summer or pine away unrequited, you won't find a better soundtrack than this.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jul 16, 2014
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This is the Heartbreakers four decades and a million shows later, deepening their attack with sturdy reliability.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jul 29, 2014
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Spoon's eighth album is an immediate grabber on par with the group's best work to date.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Aug 5, 2014
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You also get 132 pages of liner-notes-cum-memoir that can be just as entertaining as the music.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Aug 4, 2014
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It's hard to care about any shortcomings when the tunes are as masterfully crisp as they are on much of V.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 2, 2014
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Some of the most enjoyable music on This Is All Yours is the simplest, kindest and funniest.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 23, 2014
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- Posted Sep 17, 2014
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Graying snobs once called this "intelligent dance music." Even now, few do it better.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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This release buys Clark some time to refine his studio vision of modern blues. It also shows that wherever he chooses to go from here, he has what it takes to get there.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 23, 2014
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- Posted Sep 23, 2014
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All three subsets [songs about fatherhood, girls and the audience] contain songs that are profoundly odd and reliably catchy.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 2, 2014
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Yorke has written an album's worth of disarmingly straightforward pop ballads, dressed up with affectionately retro turn-of-the-century glitchcore effects.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 30, 2014
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Ellison makes the boldest, most fully engaged fusion of the hip-hop-laptop era.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 21, 2014
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Freedom, compassion, generosity--remain vibrantly alive for him, and on this superb, inspiring album, he once again stands waiting for everyman.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 16, 2014
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Deeply weird, feverishly emotional, wildly enthusiastic, 1989 sounds exactly like Taylor Swift, even when it sounds like nothing she's ever tried before. And yes, she takes it to extremes.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 26, 2014
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On their second album as Run the Jewels, noise-loving Brooklyn rapper-producer El-P and Atlanta's Killer Mike make the most explosive hip-hop you'll hear all year.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Nov 5, 2014
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Sucker is no retro gesture: Charli runs the album's rock & roll guitars and attitude through enough distressed digital production and thumb-type vernacular to make this the first fully updated iteration of punk pop in ages.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Dec 17, 2014
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- Posted Dec 17, 2014
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This brother duo from Elvis Presley's hometown of Tupelo, Mississippi, radiate an inescapable exuberance, shouting with the zeal of freshly minted stars.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 20, 2015
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Maybe because Meloy is now a published author (he's penned a trilogy of popular children's books), his songwriting wit seems to have grown sharper and less showoff-y.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 20, 2015
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The most exciting thing about No Cities is that Sleater-Kinney are one of those bands again--they sound as hungry, as unsettled, as restless as any of the rookies on their jock.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 12, 2015
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Whatever informed it, this may be the most heart-rending music she's ever made.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 23, 2015
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- Posted Feb 3, 2015
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Upping the spectacle from Fun Fear his 2012 debut, I Love You, Honeybear is an autobiographical set about love, marriage and derangement that's both ironic and empathic.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 6, 2015
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The 17 tracks that Drake released at midnight on a recent Thursday hit harder and hold together more cohesively than most big-budget event albums.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 17, 2015
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This timely set from four style-hungry producers recalls Elliott's turn-of-the-century heyday, with post-national street beats and an army of fresh MCs and singers. It feels like a genuine next-generation moment.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 24, 2015
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First Kiss presents few surprises, mostly because Kid Rock's journey from abrasive rap metal to unreconstructed heartland rock has landed him in a sweet spot: big guitars, big drums, big choruses and gravelly vocals.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 24, 2015
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Along with the new reissue of 1965's Freedom Highway, it's a worthy tribute to a gentle giant of American music.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 23, 2015
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Stevens strips his sound far enough to reveal his deepest anguish; neither the Disney-style orchestras of 2005's Illinois nor the synth-pop-as-craft-project of 2010's The Age of Adz peek through his acoustic fingerpicking and warm-milk voice.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 31, 2015
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The Pretties were impatient modernists, carrying that blues zeal to psychedelia (1967's "Defecting Grey"), rock opera (ahead of the Who, on 1968's S.F. Sorrow) and progressive rock (1970's Parachute) with spectacular if commercially dire results. This grand box takes that tale, across 11 studio albums and a feast of extras, up to the present day.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 20, 2015
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- Posted Apr 6, 2015
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These 12 songs map out a concise history of American soul, with a heavy dose of New Orleans strut.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 4, 2015
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- Posted Apr 28, 2015
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- Posted May 5, 2015
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The fourth live album to come out of Leonard Cohen's 2008-2013 world tour is a fascinating glimpse into his creative process.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 12, 2015
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What Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock" was to the hippie era, Jamie xx's solo debut is to British club culture: a wistful valentine conjuring a more innocent time.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 2, 2015
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The heart of the action in most of these songs is a chunky update of the guitar-bass-drums charge of Origin's "New Born" and "Stockholm Syndrome" on 2003's Absolution. It's what Muse do best; it's good to hear a lot more of it.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 9, 2015
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Wildheart is an even bolder move: an intoxicating master class in electro-porn R&B--the coin of the modern genre--that's also a soul-searching critique of same.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 30, 2015
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This time around, he trades in that album's personal tales of crisis and redemption for a more nuanced, wide-angled form of storytelling, packed to bursting with evocative specifics.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jul 17, 2015
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Her third LP imagines a 2015 mainstream by reflecting what it once was--Loretta and Dolly in the Sixties, sure, but also Emmylou in the Eighties and Reba in the Nineties.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Aug 12, 2015
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Three decades later, Coda is the unlikely closing triumph in Page's series of deluxe Zeppelin reissues: a dynamic pocket history in rarities, across three discs with 15 bonus tracks, of his band's epic-blues achievement.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jul 31, 2015
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It adds up to an album by turns confounding and enthralling. It's no Detox. It's something realer, and better.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Aug 6, 2015
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- Posted Aug 14, 2015
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Their fourth and best album plays up a dark, bracing urgency, especially on the explosive title track.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Aug 28, 2015
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Yours, Dreamily, takes what Auerbach does at his best, in and out of the Keys--confessional, texturally enriched blues propelled with garage-rock force--and adds a riveting jump in eccentricity.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 4, 2015
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The arrangements trump Finn's 2011 solo debut, upscaling that album's roots rock with choral backdrops and horn charts that recall the Van Morrison gestures of The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle. It's a good call for a literary songwriter who deserves, and earns, a broad canvas.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 24, 2015
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These Montreal post-punks write harsh songs for harsh times on their excellent second album, building on last year's debut More Than Any Other Day.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 22, 2015
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Whatever her intentions, they've led to her most genuinely thrilling music ever.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 18, 2015
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Cass County is meticulously crafted, sharply written and absolutely free of neo-country additives like reheated Seventies-rock bombast and Twitter-verse vernacular.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 23, 2015
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- Posted Oct 7, 2015
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Revival is an audacious name for a 23-year-old singer's second album, but from start to finish, Gomez earns it. This is the sound of a newly empowered pop artist growing into her strengths like never before.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 15, 2015
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Ultimately, Divers, is about things lost with age and progress--wisdom, beauty, innocence, love, mystery. Yet this music always seems to look ahead.... Questlove, Kanye, Kendrick and all other curators of hyper-literate avant-pop: Ball's in your court.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 20, 2015
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Subtlety and simplicity also define this set of acoustic songs. But like the verse, the terms understate the power and beauty of the subject at hand.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 19, 2015
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It's the best classic-rock record anyone under 50 is likely to make this year.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Nov 2, 2015
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Shepherd is among London's most sought-after DJs, known for marathon sets that span everything from disco's deepest cuts to feel-good hip-hop. But here he steps away from those club sounds in favor of a fully immersive experience that's unbounded by genre.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Nov 4, 2015
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Some of the 31 tracks will resonate only with deep Nirvana scholars, and the album could be seen as stretching an incredible legacy a little too thin. But it’s surprising how much of it is compelling, even revelatory.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Nov 13, 2015
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Lopatin has also called "Lift" a love song of sorts, and it's where his Garden most clearly bursts into bloom.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Dec 3, 2015
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It sure doesn't sound like a band that's hanging it up, because all four are on a roll musically, chasing the rock vibe of Midnight Memories and Four.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Nov 13, 2015
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Recorded in about a month and surprise-released to fans, it's full of casual stunners.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Nov 12, 2015
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All of Something is full of smart, sweetly slashing indie-rock that recalls peers like Swearin' and Waxahatchee, with wonderful tunes about wasting anxious hours on nervous boys, "biting my nails and biting your tongue."- Rolling Stone
- Posted Nov 19, 2015
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It's a startlingly vivid picture of the artist as a young man.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Dec 8, 2015
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[Chris Martin's] hinted that this could be Coldplay's last album; if so, they're going out on a sustained note of grace.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Dec 7, 2015
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Blackstar is a ricochet of textural eccentricity and pictorial-shrapnel writing.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Dec 23, 2015
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The Chicago-bred singer-guitarist works one of rock's finest faux-British accents, sounding like an early-Seventies prog-folkie. It's a perfect vocal vibe for music that can recall the very late Beatles and New Morning-era Dylan.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 22, 2016
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