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For 5,917 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: 3,632 out of 5917
  2. Mixed: 2,245 out of 5917
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5917
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Exposion
    While 'All You Really Have to Do' and 'Shake Shake Shake' support that rep, their debut full-length shows a more versatile outfit.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everyday Life
    It’s a band whose great talent has always been its aspirational one-world melodies, now sounding much more like the world.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Finding Forever
    His ear-grabbing command stands up to almost any MC out there.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rearrange Beds
    With drummer Damon Cox, Cooper turns the band's debut into relationship post-mortem, rehashing a split over fuzzed-out riffs, hummable hooks and snarling beats.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault
    Not all the material is top-shelf, and her voice is starting to show its mileage. But Nicks uses it to her advantage.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    We All Belong
    Even when a sense of agitation seeps in, as on 'Die, Die, Die,' We All Belong sounds truly inviting. Dig it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Return to the Moon
    Devoid of the crescendoing dramatics of the last few National records, the songs here simply simmer and sparkle, recalling the early pre-Boxer era before the band became meticulous studio virtuosos.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Moth
    This is a record where love, music and love for music come together beautifully.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Jaws of Life
    For fans looking for something akin to the hyperactive energy of “King for a Day,” the fast-paced “Death of an Executioner” comes close, while not hitting the same level of earworm immediacy. The album is just diverse enough to show some evolution, while harkening back to key moments from their past.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Free The Bees
    The Bees are quirky enough to avoid being anybody's museum curator.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Saviors
    It’s Armstrong’s alternating earnestness and sarcasm, combined with some typically hummable tunes, that make Saviors something of a return to form for the trio, which drifted a little too far into pop territory on 2020’s Father of All Motherfuckers.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ventriloquizzing
    This British-not-Japanese indie band has built up an impressive body of work, culminating in their smashing fourth album.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Different Kind of Truth
    If the songs are based on 1970s demos, that was a wise move, because wherever these 13 tunes came from, there isn't a single Waldo on the bus.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    At Crystal Palace
    EE utterly destroy the music that inspired them as surely as they reinvent it from top to bottom.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Afrodisiac
    Recalls Janet Jackson at her best.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Born and Raised
    As usual, his playing is restrained and elegant; he's a singer-songwriter with a session man's soul, so every breezy solo or sun-dappled acoustic spindle is comfy and luxe like a spun-silk blanket.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cannibal
    This EP proves Ke$ha would kick Gaga's ass in a freestyle battle.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Be Right Back [EP]
    Deals with similar themes [as her debut], yet with even more depth and confidence. [Jun 2021, p.77]
    • Rolling Stone
      • Posted Jun 2, 2021
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing
    Brass-flecked tracks like "Shine" and "Faster Car" show he's best when he skips the singalong arena choruses; leaner productions like "Stupid Boy" show he's accomplished in ballads, unafraid to scuff up his smoothness.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shawn Mendes
    Mendes' strength is in romance, and more than ever before, this teenager seems like he not only believes the words he is singing, but he's actually lived through the emotions behind them.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Narrow Stairs
    Gibbard's indie-rock blues still plumb emotional depths with remarkable literary detail.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    4
    4 might be her strangest rec­ord. It's a big-budget megapop album with an A list of guest stars (Kanye West, André 3000) and songwriter-producers (Tricky Stewart, the-Dream, Diplo, Ryan Tedder, Diane Warren). Yet it's as eccentric-- as unmistakably personal and quirky--as anything that Sufjan Stevens ever cooked up in his bedroom.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Body Music
    While Aluna Francis sings tart kiss-offs to foolish exes, producer George Reid keeps the digital activity as stylish and minimalist as a Helmut Lang showroom.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fighting Demons
    Fighting Demons, his second posthumous album is a tortured but overall grateful memento mori from a talented artist who left us all too soon.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Love is Dead
    "Deliverance" is spiky yet inviting, its lyrics poking at the hypocrisy of religion; "Never Say Die" builds its drama with swooning synths, with Mayberry's clipped "never-never-never" on the chorus providing an italicized exclamation point.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Souljacker
    From the blues-based grit and spit of the opening track to the messy distortion throughout, Souljacker launches an all-out attack on familiar Eels themes -- insecurity, loneliness, despair -- but this time from a more universal standpoint.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cuttin' Heads
    Mellencamp, as usual, writes strikingly about the heart ("Deep Blue Heart") and the heartland ("Crazy Island"), the twin concerns on an album that manages to be at once old-fashioned and very contemporary.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Halos & Horns
    Halos & Horns doesn't so much rehash bygone eras as showcase Parton's skills as an interpreter -- especially of herself.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Nocturama
    Most people this pretentious or literary don't rock so hard or write tunes so good.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bette
    On her new album, Bette Midler has gone into the studio with a master of makeovers, producer Don Was, and ended up sounding pretty much the same. That's a good thing.
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