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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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    • 100 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    OK Computer: OKNOTOK 1997-2017
    OKNOTOK will be of little interest to a passerby in a record store; its main value even for the die-hardiest of Radiohead fans is that little peek behind the curtain, a crack of light closer to understanding the way one of the most elusive bands in the world works.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Tago Mago [40th Anniversary Edition]
    Can was light years ahead of their time, and the ideas they present in Tago Mago and sequential albums are still incomprehensible even in today's eclectic and varied music scene.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Greatest Generation
    The Wonder Year’s hard work and dedication has more than paid off with their newest album. I don’t see anything topping it anytime soon, at least not in the pop-punk spectrum. It challenges the limits of the genre.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 94 Critic Score
    To Pimp A Butterfly
    Every song possesses a distinctive identity, a different color fleshed out by its instrumentation. And the lyrical wonders Lamar works on top of all this is even more worthy of praise.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Ghosteen
    It’s another masterpiece that will forever be enshrined in his ever-growing legacy. Absolute perfection.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 96 Critic Score
    Tunes 2011-2019
    For those wanting Untrue levels of output, that album will forever be at your disposal. An album designed as worship has now entered that same vault of romanticized antiquity.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    DAMN.
    DAMN. remedies a lot of its predecessor's mistakes and gives us something better--a Kendrick not seen since Section.80, throwing tonally and stylistically inconsistent songs together in a desperate scramble to tell us just what the fuck he's feeling. It's slipshod, haphazard and rocky to listen to, and that's the Kendrick I've been missing for the past few years.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 94 Critic Score
    Skeleton Tree
    No one could have crafted this masterpiece quite like Nick Cave, and the staggering amount of material over his nearly four decade long career doesn’t prepare for what we have here. This stands as possibly his greatest achievement, as much a sorrowful exploration as a loving sendoff only for his fans, but more importantly, for himself.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
    It's totally different from everything he's done while still being perfectly, irrevocably Kanye.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Crow Looked at Me
    It illuminates very real, very constricting emotions that you know you’ll have to either deal with in true form, or kindle within someone you love upon your own passing.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    On the Impossible Past
    What results is another quality release that cannot help but make music fans excited for what this gifted outfit are to bestow upon us on their next offering.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Ants From Up There
    This newfound willingness, even ability, to just be nakedly emotional and let the melodies lead is the best weapon this new Black Country, New Road have at their disposal. Isaac Wood, who once seemed right on the edge of slipping into complete post-ironic-irony with his spoken word drawl, sings the entire album in a delicate quaver which is a perfect fit for this new vulnerability.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 94 Critic Score
    Sunbather
    Deafheaven’s second outing is wondrous celebration of boundless ambition and pure artistic vision.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Otherness
    One that sounds like a veteran band falling in love with playing music and being friends again. This newfound comfort outside the comfort zone yields some truly spectacular results in the album's staggering midsection.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lost In The Sound Of Separation
    When Underoath hits it they hit it well, and Lost in the Sound of Separation is still a very good record despite its faults.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    From Parts Unknown
    Change is what led them to write the album they needed to, and in turn, left us listeners with the album we needed to hear. Change reminds us that we didn’t know Every Time I Die like we thought we did--but they sure read us to a tee with From Parts Unknown.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Channel Orange
    With Channel Orange Frank Ocean has proven himself as one of the most significant artists in popular music today; his next effort will definitely have the potential to be a genre classic.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    The Satanist
    At the end of the day, there is little doubt that listeners will enjoy The Satanist, because it provides in copious quantities what has made Behemoth a staple in the extreme metal community for over twenty years, while keeping their shortcomings to a minimum.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Carnage
    You can chalk Carnage up as anything from a zeitgeist experiment to a flawed masterpiece, but there’s something precious and compassionate at its heart that I honestly believe will make the world a better place in its own peculiar way, beyond the scope of critical evaluation.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Melodrama
    A bold and colorful magnum opus that marks an almost unbeatable personal milestone for Lorde.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    COWBOY CARTER
    If we got 10-12 solid tracks in the vein of “16 Carriages” or “II Most Wanted”, Cowboy Carter could have been a slam dunk. Unfortunately, the record stands as a bloated mess that doesn’t fully know what it wants to be.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
    Set My Heart on Fire Immediately is an important album for Hadreas because it opens so many doors for the future – but if he really wants to set our hearts on fire, I’d advise him to once again unleash the bombast.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Red (Taylor's Version)
    Red – both in its original form as well as with these welcome additions – is an absolute triumph.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    Home, Like Noplace Is There
    It is all about being strong. It reaches out and tries to help make sense of it all. It's a comforting empathy. The stories are intensely personal but are so easily transferable beyond their original inspiration.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Myth of the Happily Ever After
    The Myth of the Happily Ever After serves as an excellent and shockingly ambitious outing from a band that seemed to be trending in all the wrong directions not long ago. With this album, they’ve reclaimed control of their story.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis
    It wouldn’t just be inappropriate to listen to Coin Coin Memphis casually, while playing a video game or doodling in the background, it would be impossible, so arresting and bracing is the experience.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Carrie & Lowell Live
    Without recounting every track, most of the highlights here come from Stevens’ willingness to tinker with perfection; not every live track is as haunting as its corresponding original, but he never fails to deliver that authentic live experience.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Hidden History of the Human Race
    There’s unhinged beauty meeting catchiness, a cabal that draws in its listener despite its inherent capriciousness. Hidden History of the Human Race is an irrefutable classic, dispelling any doubt that Blood Incantation are one of this generation’s leading death metal acts.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The ArchAndroid
    The Archandroid is everything her fans had been hoping for and then some; Monae has earned her place at the forefront of black music in 2010. This ballsy, funky, and furiously intelligent album is pop as everybody wishes it would be.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 94 Critic Score
    Blue Weekend
    Across all of Blue Weekend, one thing is very clear – this is Wolf Alice’s best offering to date, and clearly one of those albums that qualifies as an event. It’s emotionally stirring, sonically riveting, and just as unpredictable as always. It’s the full realization of everything Wolf Alice ever aspired to be: poignant and melodic, raucous and edgy, and certainly every possible shade in between.
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