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For 2,391 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: 1,770 out of 2391
  2. Mixed: 542 out of 2391
  3. Negative: 79 out of 2391
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Know What Love Isn't
    The album is the result of its own thought process, and ultimately becomes the most revealing thing Lekman has written, even if it is his most succinct record.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ashes & Fire
    For an album heavily predicated on Adams' historically hit-or-miss songwriting, Ashes & Fire is surprisingly steady.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 98 Critic Score
    Primordial Arcana
    Thrice Woven may be credited with returning this Olympian outfit on the right path but ultimately, Primordial Arcana combines the band’s better features into one, defining release.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Who Built the Moon?
    Beneath the psychedelic bluster and cluttered production job, this is still mostly the same old Noel. The man's been doing one thing for most of his career, and continuing to do it well even post-Oasis.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Alchemy Index, Vol. III & IV: Air and Earth
    Air is a masterpiece of production and gives the best few tracks from the entire collection. Earth is a cool-down lap after the more developmental and progressive preceding discs, showing a Thrice that is willing to trade in all that has made them great during their niche period (1999-2004) in favor of pursuing a less challenging but equally viable sound
    • 76 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Rheia
    Rheia is remarkably and unexpectedly cohesive in sound, while still sprawling and thoughtfully arched.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Go
    What Go lacks in depth- yes it really is this cheery, eat your gummi bears- it makes up for in being honest. Go is the most candid, open look into Jonsi Birgisson we've ever received.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Conor Oberst
    Lyrically, however, the album is just another soul-searching journey, and while he may be getting too old to call a “boy genius”, he's not lost any of his wistful intelligence.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Traditional Synthesizer Music
    Traditional Synthesizer Music’s rudimentary way of coming to be has an added bonus in that it’s softer on the ears than pretty much any of its predecessors, making the points at which Funk wakes from his slumber all the more palatable.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Themes for Dying Earth
    Themes for Dying Earth is fragile, beautiful to behold, dazzling at times, and easily one of the best surprises of the year thus far.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blush
    The bare arrangements are a compliment to her voice, which is nimble enough to meander through all of the record’s introspective verses while also retaining enough power to deliver the occasional knock out chorus.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?
    In the long run, How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? will be remembered as a success of chemistry and careful balance. ... They sound confident and ebullient, and even the darkest moments are tinged with the hope that community and collaboration can bring: the sound of musicians reveling in the sheer, simple joy of making music, with brothers or with the family that they chose.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Awakening
    Despite the lack of any real surprises, Awakening easily stands with anything else Sacred Reich has ever done and shouldn’t disappoint any longtime fans that are still out there. For those that were too young to experience Sacred Reich back when they were originally active, just be prepared for some early nineties-style metal with a few songs that move back in time to a point when no-frills thrash ruled the metal landscape.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Dying of Everything
    For old school fans of the band, Dying of Everything would be more than enough. ... for newcomers, this might be an issue, as we're not in the 90s anymore, and to impress a new generation of metalheads that think this or that deathcore album “could use more blast beats”, Obituary would need to submit themselves to a change that isn't feasible or realistic.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Hard Cold Fire
    None of them break any new ground for the act, however, they are really tight songs overall.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Imploding the Mirage
    The Killers’ sixth studio album embodies the band’s liberated spirit and boundless appetite for the grandiose, all while beginning to make up for over a decade of below average material. Imploding the Mirage will finally have you smiling about The Killers again – and yes, this time, like you mean it.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A+E
    A&E is a record that has the propensity to entice fans old and new across the genre spectrum.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Scholars
    As Buke and Gase ebb and flow from one creative whim to the next, Scholars marks one of the oddest and most intriguing albums of the early year.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Two Suns
    Two Suns then is everything it could have been--a worthy follow up to Bat For Lashes’ Mercury nominated Fur & Gold... and so much more. Here and now, take a trip, you just may come out enchanted.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
    In its execution, the record is near flawless, an essential distillation of the sounds of Gonzalez's youth, nostalgia and melancholy and happiness all mixed up into a sparkling pop stew.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Lost Girls
    Overall, Lost Girls ends up as a fun record that luckily, doesn’t overstay its welcome. It has groove and substance as it takes its cues from the likes of Prince, David Bowie, Madonna, Cindy Lauper or Peter Gabriel to name a few.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Obsidian
    The music is more intimate this time around, and makes for an infinitely more telling description of who Baths is.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Real Emotional Trash
    Real Emotional Trash is a simultaneously funny and interesting record, shaped with just the right kind of meticulous care to strengthen its band-jam aesthetics.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Endgame
    No matter which extreme you believe it to favor, Endgame sees Rise Against as fiery, passionate and motivated as ever, when it comes to their wide-reaching social commentary.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Perfect Shapes
    This album is Madeline’s garden, a flourishing melodic/electronic progression from Night Night’s straightforward indie-pop, and a shell-shattering statement of confidence to boot. Kenney has come into full bloom, and Perfect Shapes will forever capture that moment.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 94 Critic Score
    This Wild Willing
    A standalone masterpiece. It’s the kind of album capable of captivating a new audience; an evolution from traditional Irish troubadour folk that is both dark and masterful.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    History Books
    This isn’t an album to convert the naysayers, but for the already initiated, prepare yourself to once more sing with your heroes, 33 rounds per minute.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Year Zero
    Make no mistake this is NIN as usual, but [it is] an effortless, inspired, and unaffected Trent Reznor the likes of which we may not have had the pleasure of knowing for almost a decade and a half.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Feed The Animals
    Feed the Animals, despite its tentative start, is chocked full of the same bombastic booty-shaking moments that defined "Night Ripper."
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Angel in Realtime
    This album is so pure, so deeply felt that cynicism and pre-prepared anti-hype will just slide off it like a light breeze; that even low points like the clunky, ridiculous "returner" - the band's worst song, as if that means a lot for a band who've never made a bad one – barely make a dent. It's the finest work by a band finally mature enough to trust in sound and texture and feeling, and in good time it will outrun any lingering reputation and be crowned as a masterpiece.
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