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For 5,914 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: 3,630 out of 5914
  2. Mixed: 2,244 out of 5914
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5914
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Palomino
    There are numerous nods to classic rock throughout. ... Lambert’s more adventurous side comes out on “I’ll Be Loving You,” which combines echoing piano notes and thick coils of electric guitar into a booming anthem that’s more Arcade Fire than Alan Jackson. ... The LP’s final track, “Carousel,” is a breathtaking ballad of trapeze-artist romance and long-buried secrets.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Trendsetter
    Leray gives a vivid performance throughout Trendsetter’s ups and downs, even if a distinct portrait of her “pain” lies just out of focus.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's Almost Dry
    It’s Almost Dry, Pusha’s fourth solo album, adds levity to his troubled-conscious colloquies, presenting a well-balanced portrait of a complex man with some serious burdens on his heart.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Get On Board
    What could have been a tasteful salute becomes a record that’s bristlingly, viscerally alive; it’s like a ride in a classic old car with long-gone shock absorbers.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    (Watch My Moves)
    He stretches out and gets comfortable on his loosey-goosiest jams to date, handing out 74 minutes of mellow wisdom off the dome. He’s wisely stopped searching for the next level up, focusing instead on the beautifully unfocused be-here-now beatitude that’s always been his greatest gift.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    B.I.B.L.E.
    When Fivivo brags, “This is the town of the big drip, smooth talk, Milly Rock, Shmoney Dance, Woo Walk,” the vibes feel electric. B.I.B.L.E., for the most part, proves that he’s about keeping that same energy.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Chloe and the Next 20th Century
    Chloë takes many twists and turns around the movie set, pulling off the impossible feat of making sure its mellowness never grows tiresome.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ramona Park Broke My Heart
    There are a lot of great things happening on this record — trickier flows, piercing beats, and acerbic writing — that make it feel significant. But if you suspect it isn’t, I know how you got there.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ivory
    Across Ivory, Apollo slips from English to Spanish, singing in whatever language best serves the music. He eludes labels when it comes to his identity and sexuality; instead, he often lets the music speak for itself. He doesn’t hold back in his lyrics.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Broken Hearts Club
    Guided by Syd’s laudable ear and angelic voice, Broken Hearts Club succeeds in sewing a narrative of love grown and wilted.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal
    The extras are a feast for serious Pavement lunatics.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wet Leg
    The album is packed with hilariously nasty kiss-offs like “Piece of Shit” and “Ur Mum” — it’s got hooks for days, cheek for weeks.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Familia
    Familia is as raw as Cabello has ever been. She successfully laces the sounds of her Latina roots into a record that lyrically rips out the pages of her life’s diary — all its heartbreak, drama, and self-doubt — for the entire world to see.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fear of the Dawn
    Unfortunately, Fear of the Dawn — the first of two records White will release this year — feels like a hodgepodge of good intentions and so-so execution.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unlimited Love
    The result is vintage RHCP: a jammy, melodic effort that blends the wavy reflections of their 1999 triumph, Californication, with the expansive rock of Stadium Aracadium.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Humble Quest
    There are precisely zero churches or trucks on Morris’ latest. Instead, the Texas singer luxuriates in tasteful adult pop rock in the vein of Sheryl Crow and John Mayer, collaborating with producer Greg Kurstin, an A-list practitioner of the sound (Adele, James Blunt, Foo Fighters).
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mainstream Sellout
    For the most part, Kelly uses rock to express his pain and rap to escape from it, i.e., abusing substances with Lil Wayne on two fairly pointless tracks. He has a nice rapport with Iann Dior on the pleasant pop-rock exercise “Fake Love Don’t Last.” But whether Kelly deploys “rock,” “rap,” or “pop,” selling out and annoying people online are the least of his issues.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    7220
    Durk seems to thrive over lush productions.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Running with the Hurricane
    Despite the triumphs on Running With the Hurricane, the band has a tendency to meander and linger on similar ideas over the span of several songs in a manner that feels unnecessarily repetitive. This lack of dynamism is most apparent in the record’s midsection. Yet the album’s high points reveal the full potential behind Camp Cope’s newly honed sound.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Labyrinthitis
    From the first ecstatic strains of “Have We Met,” you get the sense that Bejar is still ardently dodging categorization. Here more than ever, he just seems game to throw everything against the proverbial wall and see what sound it makes.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gifted
    The album’s musical backdrops range from breezy to absorbing, but it’s Koffee’s performances that are consistently bewitching.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forever
    In Forever, we hear both a middle-aged man looking back on his successes and failures both personally and professionally, and an artist unknowingly confronting mortality and trying to make peace at the end.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    SZNZ: Spring [EP]
    Grading on a curve, the composition, “Opening Night,” deserves a solid B. It’s dorky, catchy, and whimsical. ... The rest of their springtime retreat sounds generally more Weezerish. ... As with the corniness of “Opening Night,” Cuomo’s strong knack for vocal melodies throughout saves a lot of otherwise half-baked or cliched lyrics.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Motomami
    What she offers is a dizzying, kaleidoscopic self-portrait — brash and bawdy at some turns, crushingly vulnerable at other points, and completely ridiculous when it wants to be.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In/Out/In
    In/Out/In feels less like a random collection of toss-offs and more like a lost Sonic Youth album before everyone figured out who would sing each track.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Crash
    She’s been honest about how much she adores the boldness of pop, and she’s been so good at crafting sticky, soaring blockbusters anyway. Here, she’s simply storming the gates head on.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Everything Was Beautiful
    Most of Spiritualized's ninth LP comes off intricate, elastic, and soulful. [Mar 2022, p.71]
    • Rolling Stone
      • Posted Mar 10, 2022
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wild Loneliness
    The result is an engrossing album full of stock-taking warmth. [Mar 2022, p.71]
    • Rolling Stone
      • Posted Mar 10, 2022
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    PAINLESS
    A beguiling good time. [Mar 2022, p.71]
    • Rolling Stone
      • Posted Mar 10, 2022
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Things Are Great
    Can sometimes seem too mellow, but they sound refreshed. [Mar 2022, p.71]
    • Rolling Stone
      • Posted Mar 10, 2022
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