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For 3,122 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: 1,692 out of 3122
  2. Mixed: 1,319 out of 3122
  3. Negative: 111 out of 3122
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Inevitable End
    Though the album doesn't skimp on potentially insufferable moments of bottom-lip-biting farewell (the final song is titled "Thank You," after all), the best tracks boast a fiercely renewed energy that suggests Berge and Brundtland still have much more to offer.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Undun
    If it's not as immediately galvanizing as, say, Rising Down, it lingers.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
    The album is a much bigger sounding, musically diverse effort than its concise, uniform predecessor, featuring cellos, horns, and mellotrons, as well as a renewed focus on the versatile fretwork of lead guitarist Chris Funk
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dear Life
    Ultimately, Benson’s impeccable melodic instincts justify Dear Life’s largely featherweight tone.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Adrian Younge Presents the Delfonics
    Adrian Younge Presents is intermittently thrilling, taking familiar genre signifiers and scrambling them within a less rigid context, but also eventually formulaic in a different way, setting a fixed eccentric template and largely sticking to it.
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