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For 3,119 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: 1,689 out of 3119
  2. Mixed: 1,319 out of 3119
  3. Negative: 111 out of 3119
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sing Into My Mouth
    More than simply a joint stopgap for these indie heavyweights, Sing Into My Mouth serves, like the DJ-Kicks and LateNightTales series, as a musical bibliography for curious fans, and a superbly entertaining one at that.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Amputechture
    Amputechture shows a band honing their eruptive sound and bringing it into tight focus for the first time, routinely pushing their music to the wall without ever risking a breach.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
    The album's adventurous musical scope serves to further expand the mythos behind Ebert's ego-fueled, drug-addled, socio-religious musical experiment.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    DJ-Kicks
    Despite its strict adherence to traditional and relatively straightforward dance aesthetics, the album is often showy, flaunting both its nods to authenticity and an impressive showcase of the genre's low-tech production style.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mirror Eye
    The band takes this gradual structure and spreads it over songs wreathed in recurring patterns, echo effects, and unintelligible chanting voices, resulting in music that's densely circular but moves, slowly and elegantly, with all the beauty of a wisp of smoke.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In The Maybe World
    In The Maybe World is an accessible, if lyrically opaque, work that should please fans of avant-pop that doesn't sound remotely like any of the other cerebral chanteuses out there.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bangerz
    Bangerz is a personal, idiosyncratic effort that finds equal rewards in twentysomething indulgence and inspiring "be yourself" mantras.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Push and Shove
    By and large, the more interesting tracks are stacked on the front end of Push and Shove, and the songs on the second half of the album are comparably safer, blurring together upon first listen.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    ARTPOP
    It's Artpop's most naked, straightforward pop moments that are the album's most redemptive.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Timez Are Weird These Days
    Timez Are Hard These Days is low-culture pulp with an unrealistic sense of its own sophistication.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Galore
    Galore makes for one of the most self-assured, strutting debuts in recent memory.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Thecontrollersphere
    thecontrollersphere may be an album of toss-offs, but they're proud ones, earning that status by virtue of robust exploration rather than any real deficiency.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sheezus
    Even when the songwriting is less than revolutionary, the performance holds your attention.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Worried Well
    31Knots deserves encomium for their daring and ingenuity.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Secondhand Rapture
    MS MR's knack for durable hooks, in fact, is what keeps the album's gloomy goth-pop anchored.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Limits of Desire
    Small Black successfully avoids a sophomore slump by harnessing their various sonic inclinations.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Uncanney Valley
    It's an album that, smartly, neither embraces the past as empty nostalgia nor ignores the events of the past 12 years.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Big Dreams & High Hopes
    While it's easy to wish that Ingram took the concept of artistry more seriously, this album makes it clear that he's comfortable with the compromises he's made. He may be capable of more, but Hopes certainly isn't bad for what it is.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blurred Lines
    If slower numbers like the Princely "4 the Rest of My Life" and the Billy Joel-reminiscent piano ballad "The Good Life" are forgettable by comparison, it's because they prosaically articulate the joie de vivre that's already been made abundantly clear in the uptempos. On an album that gets off to such an effervescent start, such blunt pronouncements only serve to kill the vibe.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Trágame Tierra
    Left to his own devices, Bates's skittering effects and big, cavernous soundscapes can leave a metallic aftertaste like a mouthful of antibiotics, but the album's female guests--including Norwegian singer-songwriter Susanne Sundfør--provide the blood for Trágame Tierra's big, beating heart.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Vision
    The Vision will reward your temporary suspension of good taste with a solid hour of instantly gratifying party jams.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wikked Lil' Grrrls
    Establishes her as the progenitor of what could be called electro-ethno-pop.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Spirit Indestructible
    Whether her strategy is to sing-song her way beyond the abrasive edges or to conversely turn her voice into an even more abrasive element, Furtado makes it all work.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Almost Everything I Wish I'd Said The Last Time I Saw You...
    When he calls on his rotating cast of collaborators and follows his creative impulses, Grubb makes Wakey!Wakey! a far more rewarding project than one might expect from someone associated with a show that once cast Kevin Federline in a multi-episode arc.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sweet Sister [EP]
    If such a broad spectrum of influences suggests a wicked case of ADHD, it also keeps Sweet Sister compelling for its entire duration, which isn't the backhanded compliment it might seem to be.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bleed Like Me
    If Version 2.0 was techno-pop perfection posing as rock, Bleed Like Me is its noisy, long-haired cousin playing metal riffs in the garage.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Weight of Your Love
    Although The Weight of Your Love doesn't succeed to the same extent as other, older European rock albums drenched in American influences, it makes for a nicely retooled, if occasionally misguided, formula.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Donda
    With Donda, he’s crafted his most unforgiving self-portrait yet, one that, like the best works that plumb a person’s inner depths, winds up reflecting our collective imperfections.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The DeAndre Way
    Soulja Boy's songs remain bizarre models of economy and naivete, wielding repetitive hooks that pivot on mesmerizingly circular beats.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Keys To The World
    For the most part, Keys To The World is a definite step forward and demonstrates that Ashcroft is finally hitting his stride as a solo artist.
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