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For 5,913 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 34% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 62% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Magic
Lowest review score: 0 Know Your Enemy
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,629 out of 5913
  2. Mixed: 2,244 out of 5913
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5913
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Be the Cowboy
    There may be nothing explicitly political in the songs on Be the Cowboy. But there’s plenty implicit, from the DIY American mythology of the title, to the way the songs validate voices that are shaky, hurting, irrational, and damaged, while also being smart, wry, powerful, and deserving of love.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pleased To Meet Me [Deluxe Edition]
    The most interesting stuff here is in the Blackberry Way Demos, some of which came out on a previous expanded edition of the album. ... Even the collection’s rough mixes — usually the most over larded part of a box set — offer new insights.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
    Yoshimi isn't the end-to-end triumph that was 1999's The Soft Bulletin.... But the production is equally ambitious, with burbling electrobeats underpinning sci-fi orchestrations that sound like the brainchild of Esquivel and the Orb.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    First Two Pages of Frankenstein
    A remarkable reassertion of the band’s potency. ... Nine albums deep, the National find new energy by conjuring not just a great, suffocating fog but also the far light that guides the way out.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    PAINLESS
    A beguiling good time. [Mar 2022, p.71]
    • Rolling Stone
      • Posted Mar 10, 2022
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    God's Problem Child
    God's Problem Child is a tightly-woven, poignant collection of ruminations on aging and fading faculties that amounts to Nelson's most moving album in decades.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    How Do You Burn?
    Their third and most arresting record since their reformation.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Warmer
    If you liked Warm, you’ll like Warmer. It’s Tweedy at his most self-findingly laid back, low-key and ruminative, leavening intimate recreational folk-rock with offhanded guitar tastiness.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mr. Misunderstood
    Recorded in about a month and surprise-released to fans, it's full of casual stunners.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Little Honey
    While it shows that the 55-year-old barbed-wire country singer is wary of rock's trappings, Little Honey proves she's still crushed out on the music.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Way I See It
    With a supple tenor that glides up easily into Smokey Robinson territory, the former Tony! Toni! Toné! frontman has crafted a filler-free album that evokes classic Northern soul without sounding slavish.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Valentine
    Jordan’s second record proves that the singer is capable of oh-so much more.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Weathervanes
    Brutally beautiful. .... It’s Isbell’s strongest album to date.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heard It in a Past Life
    Rogers never once loses sight of that story [perpetual self-change] on Heard It In a Past Life, and the result is a laser-focused statement with nary a wasted lyric or synth line.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Loose Screw
    Everything here is all programmed refinement, stylish melodies and vocal fireworks.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Dreaming Fields
    The melodies and hooks remain as irresistible as ever.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Angles
    With its sudden-U-turn songwriting and curt execution, Angles is the best album that Casablancas, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr., bassist Nikolai Fraiture and drummer Fabrizio Moretti have made since 2001's Is This It, the cannonball that inaugurated the modern-garage era.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Saves the World
    Saves the World isn’t self-aware so much as frighteningly emotionally intelligent. The sensitive feelers that populate the group’s sadsack pop tales are sharp analyzers of the behavior around them, as quick to deftly psychoanalyze (see the devastating second verse of “Taken”) as they are to simply point the finger at themselves.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Up!
    Up! would be a knockout even if it were limited to its one disc of country music.... But the second, relentlessly kinetic pop disc is a revelation.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The RCA Albums Collection
    It is not overkill. It is the necessary account of a brilliant, wayward pop life still best known for tawdry and misleading reasons.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Live
    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.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blood Mountain
    Yes, sometimes more is better. [21 Sep 2006, p.82]
    • Rolling Stone
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Father of All…
    Father of All… is a bountiful act of recovered rock memory, an effortlessly affirming argument that the first mosh pit or car radio contact high you get when you’re 13 years old can be enough to sustain you long into life. It’s a deep, deep thing, and, in a sense, a defiant and subtly political statement, too.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Versions of Modern Performance
    Versions of Modern Performance doesn’t just revive a certain sound; it revives the idea of mystery and tension in rock & roll.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Feels Like Home
    The most heartening thing about Feels Like Home is the utter absence of fussiness, or second-album overthink. It extends the Come Away With Me template while never echoing the earlier songs.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Channel Orange
    When Ocean reins himself in, tucking his words and melodies into tighter verse-chorus structures, the songs have startling force.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Still Within the Sound of My Voice
    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.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All of Something
    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."
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Second Line
    The record feels like a culmination of all her experience, suffused into an album that threads decades of music and heritage into a thrilling, organic whole.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bitch Magnet
    Their half-formed debut EP is redeemed by a previously unreleased follow-up session. The LPs Ben Hur and Umber still stun.
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