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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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beware of the Dogs
    Beware of the Dogs is a triumph on its own terms, going from high point to high point as she maps the pains, pleasures and anxieties of her personal patch of twentysomething bohemia.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mudcrutch
    The songs are mythic Americana: With help from his bandmates, Petty creates a vivid cast of road dogs, strippers and junkies that conjures Gram Parsons' Bible-haunted Southerners and Robert Hunter's cosmic Westerners.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rainy Day Music
    There isn't much music on your radio dial that sounds so quintessentially bittersweet; the Jayhawks' old-fashioned gift is that they can make being lost sound sort of nice.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Musicology
    As appealing, focused and straight-up satisfying an album as Prince has made since who can remember when.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gag Order
    13 scorched-earth tracks that present an artist pulling herself back up from the brink of madness. The most striking element of Kesha's latest is the sound. ... She has found a psychedelic middle ground between the sleazy synths of her 20212 breakthrough, Warrior, and the rootsy and Southern rock of her past two. [May 2023, p.73]
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Superunknown [Deluxe Edition]
    Even without any very particularly illuminating extras, though, Superunknown is a Nineties benchmark.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shootenanny!
    Lighter and more laid-back, with breezy melodies and fuzzy guitar-and-keyboard arrangements that sound built for a summer night's drive.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Faith in the Future
    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.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    reputation
    Reputation is her most intimate album – a song cycle about how it feels when you stop chasing romance and start letting your life happen. As one of the all-time great pop masterminds, she's trying something new, as she always does.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hope Downs
    Every amp tone on this album is just sweet enough, every jangling rhythm hits exactly where it should. Rolling Blackouts are playing an old game, but they're damned good at it.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Up All Night
    Up All Night is a brilliant mod explosion of scruffy pub punk.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    SelmaSongs: Music from the Motion Picture Dancer in the Dark
    An appropriate marriage of industrial clanging and symphonic melodrama... this album, although short, represents a particularly accessible career highlight for Bjork.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Friend Opportunity
    Most of Friend Opportunity... sounds like a pure expression of musical joy.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Future Nostalgia
    Future Nostalgia is a breathtakingly fun, cohesive and ambitious attempt to find a place for disco in 2020. Incredibly, Lipa is successful: the upbeat album that she decided to release a week earlier than planned is the perfect balm for a stressful time.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Life Death Love and Freedom
    Mellencamp teamed up with producer T Bone Burnett to create a whole new sound--a set of textured, atmospheric folk and country blues that adds up to one of the most compelling albums of Mellencamp's career.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jake Shears
    The result overflows with the opulence of orchestral Seventies pop--as if ELO and the Bee Gees got together to make a Muppet fantasia of Cajun rock.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Paranoïa, Angels, True Love
    The album is a full statement and requires a time commitment to appreciate it. The people who are willing to give themselves (and their precious time) over to Chris’ beatification are the only ones who will begin to understand its divine mysteries. And then they’ll hit play on it again.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Bones of What You Believe
    belt. Even when Chvrches are just competently mopey, their neon-Eighties visions are far from retro pose-striking.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sky Blue Sky
    Sky Blue Sky is understated, erratic, often beautiful, disarmingly simple music; it really sounds like six guys playing in a room, and no doubt that's how they wanted it.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Villains
    No Queens record has prioritized groove like this, and it reboots their brand nicely.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Copper Blue [Deluxe Edition]
    An album that cut through the grunge-y haze of 1992 with crisp Sixties melodies and... daring emotional clarity.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Zach Bryan
    Zach Bryan’s up-close realism means that this album is hardly an escape from those cruelties, but Bryan’s careful presentation of his obvious songwriting talents makes it a gripping listen.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Live at the Cellar Door
    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.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crack The Skye
    There will be naysayers among the band's extreme, tatted legions. But Crack the Skye is an awesome display.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Neptunes Present... Clones
    With appearances from most of the big-name rappers and wall-to-wall Neptunes beats, this should be the world's greatest hip-hop compilation -- and much of the time it is.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Syro
    Graying snobs once called this "intelligent dance music." Even now, few do it better.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Breakthrough
    What ultimately differentiates Blige's seventh studio album from previous discs is that its ballads truly matter.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nothing Was the Same
    The more melodic his flow, the slicker he sounds, allowing him to get away with some truly corny lines.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You're Dead!
    Ellison makes the boldest, most fully engaged fusion of the hip-hop-laptop era.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Black Parade
    The Black Parade... is the best mid-Seventies record of 2006, a rabid, ingenious paraphrasing of echoes and kitsch from rock's golden age of bombast.
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