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For 2,396 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 The Seer
Lowest review score: 10 The Path of Totality
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,774 out of 2396
  2. Mixed: 543 out of 2396
  3. Negative: 79 out of 2396
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    My Dear Melancholy, [EP]
    Enjoyment for this sort of album can be derived from two factors: being, your toleration for pandering, and your toleration for complainers. Given the circumstances, I’d advise you simply look past either point and enjoy the music superficially, but if you’re finally sick of The Weeknd’s melancholy, now might be the time to look elsewhere.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    New Material
    New Material is an album that achieves a lot, but accepts failure as an option and takes it with a begrudging grace. So much can be made out of the stories told in the album's songs, but with the general lack of ideas, the role of the doomsayer is running its course for Preoccupations.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 46 Critic Score
    I Don't Think I Can Do This Anymore
    Every single song is still about smoking with girls, and every song is the same stale, tired, derivative indie/emo I’ve heard a million times.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    AmeriKKKant
    AmeriKKKant falls on its face pretty fast.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 52 Critic Score
    Felt
    Felt, in turn, is not Suuns going through the motions; it's Suuns putting down their guitars and dusting off the synthesizers and scrounging up less than stellar material.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 52 Critic Score
    A Productive Cough
    A Productive Cough should have refined and furthered those musical ambitions, but basically, it didn't--they're right back where they came from in a dying scene, idolising the genre's past and ignoring its future when they could have easily been the writers of it instead.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 54 Critic Score
    Black Panther: The Album
    This is an album of songs for a big idea before it was shrunken down and packed into the blockbuster money machine, and its well-intentioned attempt at bringing legitimacy to Marvel leaves Lamar and co. alone on a podium, broadcasting their passions through a megaphone to kids who just came to see superheroes do some backflips.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Man of the Woods
    To summarise, Man of the Woods is an astoundingly poor, inconsistent, and sloppily constructed outing from an artist whose defining feature has been his ability to cleanly reinvent his image.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Culture II
    Culture II sounds like a satire of every other rap album released by a major label these days, catering to the lowest common denominator of casual music listener. As a business decision, it’s genius; as a piece of music, it’s little more than an elaborate consumer scam.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho
    A competent collobarative tape that nevertheless proves that Quavo should stick to Migos and Travis to curating his own albums.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 54 Critic Score
    Double Or Nothing
    Truly, the blame lies at the feet of Sean, whose limp bars and flow make middling fare of ten reasonably well-rounded bangers.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 54 Critic Score
    Songs of Experience
    For about nine songs, Experience is good.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    War & Leisure
    Lyrically, it’s inconsistent, and doesn’t serve its title or occasional flirtations with current events very well besides a few references smattered in every other song. Musically, though, it feels more disposable than before, and less beholden to locking into deeper, more resonant grooves.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 56 Critic Score
    Gallarais
    At its best, the album embodies the curiosity of revisiting audio or video recordings, scanning for oddities which could possibly be the etchings of spirits crossing the veil between worlds. At its worst, Gallarais fools you into thinking its divination has lasting credibility.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Greatest Gift
    The discarded Carrie & Lowell tracks will not disappoint any fans who revere that album and should thus be acquired--independent from the whole album--if need be. As the remixes stand, they’re fairly inoffensive on their own, but will likely not sit well with those who have developed a personal connection to the original cuts.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    reputation
    Reputation is a hodgepodge of styles that have been percolating around the mainstream for years, repackaged into a shiny, expensive-sounding vehicle for Swift’s lyrics and sizable cult of personality.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Mirror Reaper
    Mirror Reaper is a challenging album to listen to on multiple fronts. On the one hand, it is oppressive and deep music, wrought with heavy themes and even heavier aesthetics. On the other hand, it challenges the listener's patience with overcooked ideas that threaten to spoil what is otherwise an immaculately produced record.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 56 Critic Score
    Younger Now
    At its worst, Younger Now is inoffensively bland, wasted Dolly Parton talent aside. Songs like "Love Someone" are dead on arrival with their lifeless energy and forgettable hooks.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Wonderful Wonderful
    The band is out of gas and has been for a while now. Wonderful Wonderful fills the same role as Battle Born, taking mid-tempo pop-rock with aimless verses and marrying them to one stab-at-the-radio chorus after another.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Concrete and Gold
    Sure, the lyrics are better, the songs aren’t quite as boring, but it’s becoming harder and harder to defend this band on the charge of being dad rock.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Luv Is Rage 2
    A lot of tracks start off OK, but his flow and style are so unfocused and muddled the songs become a chore to sit through.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    Good Nature
    Good Nature recaptures the brightness and pop sheen, sure, but it's a trip back to a treasured childhood location only to find that the palace in your mind was always just a fallen tree, and the river your dreams used to float along forever is just a kinda gross, muddy little stream.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    S/T
    S/T is a valiant try by a band that has a strong history of trying, but it’s neither an impressive return to form, a nostalgic trip back to 90s emo, nor is it a breakthrough in Rainer Maria’s sound, it mostly just exists.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    ...Of the Dark Light
    ...Of The Dark Light simply suffers from a lack of purpose, as if it was penned and recorded just to fulfil the band’s onus to Nuclear Blast. Entire cuts come and go without having done anything worth remembering, and the ones that stick in your mind often do for the wrong reasons.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Soft Sounds From Another Planet
    There are plenty of loveable moments, sure, but they tend to congeal like sand passing through your fingers.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 56 Critic Score
    Gravebloom
    Gravebloom is a fun album. Honest. But it’s also a rehash, plain and simple. Nothing done across its eleven tracks hasn’t been done on previous Acacia Strain records.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 54 Critic Score
    4:44
    JAY-Z tries to invigorate his musical career by connecting with himself for other people's sake. In total, it sounds like what it is, a business leader for whom the personal proves troublingly difficult to connect with.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Ti Amo
    Unlike past efforts, however, Ti Amo is jarring for how glossy and smooth everything sounds.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 46 Critic Score
    Witness
    In fairness, Witness isn't a failure, and its good intentions, both politically and sexually, aren't insufferable as much as they are listless and unsatisfying.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 44 Critic Score
    Wolves
    It doesn't help that the music in general is so stubbornly tepid. Sure, overall it's a step up from The Black Market, but there's nothing here that gives the hope of Rise Against vaguely recalling what they used to be good at.
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