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For 5,908 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: 3,626 out of 5908
  2. Mixed: 2,242 out of 5908
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5908
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
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    There are also moments of tenderness (“No Moon at Night”) and vulnerability (“Misunderstanding,” “In My Own Particular Way”) that make it one of her most compelling albums to date.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You're Dead!
    Ellison makes the boldest, most fully engaged fusion of the hip-hop-laptop era.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Remedy
    Basement Jaxx refine their broad influences into a creative energy you can feel: The art of their noise supples as much dance motivation as their beats.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Homegrown
    This is an album that proves something beautiful and enduring can come from even the most dire circumstances.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pacific Ocean Blue [Reissue]
    This double-disc set includes the first official release of Pacific’s follow-up Bambu, a harder-rocking but weaker set that Wilson never finished. Yet the reissue’s heart lies in tracks like “River Song” and the rollicking “What’s Wrong” — two raw, emotional highlights that are as moody as anything Brian ever composed.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    The push and pull of passiveness and assertiveness on My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross feels organic at every turn. Sometimes the music can be a little too loose, careening like an out-of-control car (especially on the discordant “Go Ahead”), but the slackness is worth the freedom of hearing Anohni’s voice fly like the bird she became years ago.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Indigo
    Indigo is an adventurous sonic portrait of RM’s inner world, the work of an artist who finds his voice by bringing together the influences that resonate with his soul.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blue Lips
    Part of why Blue Lips is compelling is that it seduces the listener enough to accept Schoolboy Q on his own terms.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Have You in My Wilderness
    All the world's indeed a stage on this enchanting fifth LP.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fleet Foxes
    A lower-dosage Animal Collective, the Foxes stuff their free-form songs with rich, swirling melodies; billowing clouds of organs, tom-toms, bells and assorted stringed instruments cloak group vocals whose secular-gospel, suede-fringed precision owes plenty to Crosby, Stills and Nash.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dirty Computer
    In its own way, its as artful, ambitious, determined, joyous and inspiring, as Lemonade or To Pimp a Buttery. It's a sexy MF-ing masterpiece.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Person Pitch
    A marvelous, hazy trip full of Beach Boys-inspired psychedelia.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    College Dropout
    His ace in the hole is his signature cozy sound -- dusty soul samples, gospel hymns, drums that pop as if hit for the very first time.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blackstar
    Blackstar is a ricochet of textural eccentricity and pictorial-shrapnel writing.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Something More Than Free
    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.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    M B V
    Despite the skull-crushing power, MBV is music that rewards close listening, music that takes its time to give up its secrets.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    U.F.O.F.
    Mostly you can hear the transcendence of Big Thief as they grapple with characters who come and go, not knowing if they will ever be back, bravely embracing death, and revealing a vulnerability that becomes their biggest strength. Though they travel through the darkness spellbound by life’s biggest mysteries, they manage to emerge more at peace than ever.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In These Silent Days
    It could just as easily be a message to any hard-working performer with a family at home as it could be Carlile’s urgent reminder to herself to leave the rockstar bullshit out on the road. Either way, it’s the kind of vulnerable, complicated statement that has made her such a relatable artist.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Javelin
    His intimate vocals are bolstered by the addition of celestial choral harmonies, and his production is immense, yet every layered instrument and rackety beat feels meticulously deliberate.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Silent Movies
    The record is most striking for its gentleness.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    More Love, Less Ego
    All told, these are soulful, uplifting songs by Afrobeats’ top artist. He’s all about dropping heat, even as he continues to evolve. More Love, Less Ego gives you more life.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mañana Será Bonito
    This LP is a testament to her place as one of Latin music’s true originals.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Argument
    In every skewed guitar note and crackling drum beat, every cello stroke and modulation of MacKaye's malleable voice, there's a passion for rigor - intellectual, political and musical.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Decoration Day
    The best new-school Southern rock you can buy.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Showtime
    These are Rascal's most accessible beats to date. [30 Sep 2004, p.186]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blonde
    The music is sparer than it was on Channel Orange--more mature, jammed less feverishly with ideas--but adventurous nonetheless.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
    It's not every goth-punk fiend who can celebrate his fiftieth birthday with an album as loud, filthy and brilliant as Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bright Future
    Bright Future’s recording style mirrors the listener’s experience: as time goes on, these songs and the emotions associated with them will inevitably deepen, transmute, and attach themselves to the memory of different people.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Southeastern
    Here, he mostly dials back the volume to plumb heavy emotions.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17: Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions 1996-1997
    Living up to the title of the whole series, those concert tapes often sound like bootlegs; here and there, you can hear people in the audience commenting as the songs start up and end.
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