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For 3,117 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 35% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 62% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Who Kill
Lowest review score: 0 Fireflies
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,687 out of 3117
  2. Mixed: 1,319 out of 3117
  3. Negative: 111 out of 3117
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
    Ultimately Hurry Up, We're Dreaming sounds much more like an M83 wannabe's poor imitation than the real deal.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Cattle Callin
    Hank 3 may be one of the most creative recording artists in music today, but Cattle Callin proves that not all of his ideas are good ones.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen
    Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen's most vital resource is Casiokids' boundless sense of playfulness, which enables them to effortlessly blend the familiar with the transgressive.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ashes & Fire
    Adams's songwriting may be as sharp as ever and better edited than it ever has been, but Ashes & Fire makes some terrific songs sound impossibly bland.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    How Do You Do
    Hawthorne just doesn't have the vocal chops to pull off an otherwise solid album.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Devil's Rain
    The Devil's Rain is the work of a band that aspires to give the genre little more than its answer to "The Monster Mash."
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Biophilia
    As much as the last four or so tracks do to redeem what is too often a failed and overly formal experiment in hyper-theoretical songcraft, the insoluble problem of Biophilia is that Björk has chosen to inflate what is ultimately one of her least essential musical statements to such spectacular proportions.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    TKOL RMX 1234567
    In the end, TKOL RMX 1234567 does a better job at delivering Radiohead's snowy ennui than its forebearer, suggesting that the band should have collaborated with these electronic purveryors from the get-go and skipped The King of Limbs altogether.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ghost to a Ghost/Gutter Town
    Williams made some pretty great records during his tenure at Curb, but Ghost to a Ghost/Gutter Town suggests that he's only just begun to showcase his apparently boundless creativity and breadth of his artistic vision.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Trans-Love Energies
    The limitations that define Trans-Love Energies are just as readily apparent here as they are on any other Death in Vegas effort, but by buckling down on their sound and ridding the album of outside distractions, they come up with an enjoyably pure synthesis of what they've accomplished so far as a group.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams
    That the album is so wildly uneven perhaps speaks to the underlying quandaries its concept presents.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Metals
    However gorgeous and warm Feist's voice may be, Metals is just too dull for her to overcome.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Whole Love
    The Whole Love easily represents the Wilco's most adventurous and fully realized work in years.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Music Is Better Than Words
    Sincerity marks a refreshing change of pace for MacFarlane, but it never transcends the gimmick of hearing the guy who created Family Guy sing like the Rat Pack.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sweetheart of the Sun
    While it may not be as perfect a pop album as All Over the Place or Different Light, the Bangles get an awful lot right on Sweetheart of the Sun.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lady & Gentlemen
    A few missteps notwithstanding, though, Lady & Gentlemen continues Rimes's run of top-notch contemporary country albums.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Neighborhoods
    It's admirable that Blink-182 tries to challenge themselves over the course of Neighborhoods, but their growing pains don't make for a particularly good album or a welcome comeback.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cole World: The Sideline Story
    Amply stocked with warmth and charisma, the only thing Cole World really wants for is the kind of out-of-the-park highlight that would pull the whole album together; as is, it shows off the scattered but considerable strengths of a talented rookie whose potential for long-term success is palpable.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Velociraptor!
    Even if Velociraptor! isn't quite the album the band promised it would be (it's practically impossible for Kasabian to live up to their own self-conjured hype), it should be enough to prolong their tenure as British rock royalty.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Hunter
    As a first stab in the direction of avant-garde pop-metal, The Hunter is pretty damn compelling.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ancient & Modern
    If Ancient & Modern can't stand up to the band's best efforts, it's more than a worthy addition to an imposing body of work.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Minnesota
    It's the handful of tracks on which Jennings stretches beyond familiar troubadour conventions that are Minnesota's best.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Megafaun
    Though they challenge genre convention with their choices of instruments and ambitious arrangements, Megafaun have made careful, spot-on assessments of what actually works within the framework of traditional roots music.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Night of Hunters
    Night of Hunters is a beautiful, smart record, but it's also, by design, an obtuse and insular album by an artist who already skews pretty far in those directions.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Relax
    Despite the many highs, Relax is still a debut, and at times finds the group struggling with the specifics of their sound.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    World Wide Rebel Songs
    His voice here, a husky and burly drawl not too far removed from Johnny Cash's, is a constant delight throughout and is seemingly tailor-made for launching his volleys of criticism and cries for activism.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gravity the Seducer
    Gravity the Seducer is by some measure more focused than Ladytron's previous efforts. Or a little more fatigued. It's sometimes a little hard to tell when the music is so resolutely detached and android-vague.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Spade
    The Spade is a riotous album that recalls '80s-era Springsteen and Mellencamp, and Walker is smart enough to know not to take any of it too seriously.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wild Flag
    Beyond comparisons to Sleater-Kinney's past work, the album functions as an intriguing first effort, jagged but routinely promising.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Strange Mercy
    Yet, far from a liability, Clark's bare, sedate St. Vincent persona is the highlight of Strange Mercy, reflecting all the terror, beauty, and allure of her music more effectively than any cantakerous narrator could muster.
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