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For 793 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 65% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Humming By The Flowered Vine
Lowest review score: 10 Fire
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 654 out of 793
  2. Mixed: 119 out of 793
  3. Negative: 20 out of 793
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Spine
    The Johns (Linnell and Flansburgh) are firing on all cylinders here, wrapping their suitably obscure and sometimes ethereal humor in the most capable songwriting of their careers.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Out Of The Shadow
    Despite the band's penchant for uneven electronic dirges, Out Of The Shadow is a very accessible work -- perhaps too accessible for indie enthusiasts who thrive on innovation and sonic exploration.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Cover Up
    IATWTC do '80s-influenced dance music the way '80s dance music artists wish they could have.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    In A Safe Place
    A gorgeous work of art.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love
    Magic is liberally scattered throughout the album.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Houses of the Molé
    It's as enlightened and as interesting as Ministry has been in years.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ta Det Lugnt
    It takes Ta Det Lungt a while to lay down its grooves in your head, but once it does, they stay there.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Real New Fall L.P. (Formerly Country On The Click)
    The Real New Fall LP is as solid and interesting as anything the group has released in the last ten years.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Revolutions
    Revolutions is pretty breathtaking.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Winds Take No Shape
    Winds Take No Shape's compositions are not as varied as their debut, but it's a more atmospheric, cohesive and significant work because of it.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Slow Wonder
    True to its title, The Slow Wonder is a much more relaxed and toned-down, yet no less complete listen than Electric Version or Mass Romantic.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brother Is To Son
    This is utterly original, honest, intelligent music that sounds like nothing you'll hear elsewhere. It's not an easy listen, but it's well worth the time it takes to get to know it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    God Bless Your Black Heart
    [Congleton's] studio wizardry shows in the bolder array of sounds he's plundered and the crispness with which they're delivered, while his improved songwriting shines through in bolder arrangements and a tighter instrumental focus.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Russian Doll
    Russian Doll is defined by beautiful tones, imprecise boundaries, world-weary subject matter and a Phil Spectorian sheen that obscures as much as it illuminates.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love And Distance
    Their music is interesting, intelligent and exciting, and it'll make you smile really, really big.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Louden Up Now
    This is the smartest fun music (and the most fun smart music) I've heard this year.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Catching Looks
    The resultant songs encapsulate the pop-rock aesthetic that made The Strokes' debut so much fun; every tune is tailor-made for dancing.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Com
    I Com proves that this talented singer/producer is as adept at making her own music as she is playing around with others'.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sung Tongs
    Sung Tongs resembles the freakiest of '60s psyche, the outward fringes of Elephant Six-dom, the craziest excesses of Tom Ze -- yet it is a warm, deeply human work that winds its way into your heart.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Printz
    There's a fragile beauty inherent in Printz's slapdash slop-hop that belies the duo's goofy profile and bodes well for their future endeavors.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Achilles Heel
    Write good songs. Record them simply. Don't preach. There's a concept that works.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hopes And Fears
    A pretty and meticulously-crafted collection of songs.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Long Gone Before Daylight
    A sensitive, fully mature contribution to the pop music lexicon, it proves that, like the rare child actor who actually works well into adulthood, The Cardigans have weathered a difficult transition.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    La Increible Aventura
    The band's most realized effort to date -- a brilliant amalgam of dense future-primitive soundscapes and heartbreaking twilight flourish, bolstered by curveball arrangements and a sense of unified purpose.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hotel Morgen
    Hotel Morgen doesn't change a thing, and really, with results this consistent, it shouldn't have to.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The End Is Near
    The New Year's sound is fraught with contradictions, soft melodies and pretty strumming stretched over tricky rhythms and acerbic lyrics.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Red Bedroom
    Like Hot Hot Heat with a less annoying singer, The Fever offer a glimpse of everything that's good about dance-punk.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Faded Seaside Glamour
    Though Faded Seaside Glamour proudly wears the jacket of its influences for all to see, the band stitch it up so well that you could never accuse it of being a knockoff.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Elk-Lake Serenade
    It's definitely nothing like the laid-back experience of listening to him live, but it's his best album yet.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fuckin A
    It's almost as though, by writing what can be experienced as one long, explosive track with pauses, they have created a different way of hearing small variations. While this trick has been used to good effect in any number of electronic albums over the years, it has rarely worked this well in a rock context.
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