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For 1,453 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Fed
Lowest review score: 0 Encore
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 987 out of 1453
  2. Mixed: 361 out of 1453
  3. Negative: 105 out of 1453
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    100 Days, 100 Nights
    Jones simply feels more involved in the music on 100 Days.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Bang Bang Rock & Roll
    It doesn’t matter how well you can thrash or shred if it doesn’t sound good, and rarely does a section of Bang Bang Rock and Roll sound as if it wasn’t well thought-out and created with the intent to entertain.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Our Shadows Will Remain
    Watch out for this guy’s next album, because I can guarantee it will contain a Top 40 hit. Go ahead and listen to him now so as to impress your friends later.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    3121
    This is the Prince album we wanted Musicology to be.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    How We Operate
    There is very little on Operate that sounds like anywhere Gomez have been before.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Ce
    Ce is Caetano Veloso's 40th album—and the first in many years to make the hairs on the back of one's neck stand up.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Further Adventures Of Lord Quas
    Features some of Madlib’s most difficult and most accomplished production work to date.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Spirit If...
    Spirit If... may be the second-best record any of those associated with Broken Social Scene have issued--whether together, apart, or kind of both.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Akron/Family
    This debut will not be the record of their career and leaves me wanting more already, but it is the right record at the right time and a stupidly profound and convincing debut that is up there with the best releases of the year thus far.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Trinity
    Sean Paul is a gifted songbird, and on The Trinity his vocal gifts and Jamaica’s continued creative vitality are a surefire formula for thrilling music.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Comfort Of Strangers
    At 14 tracks long, Orton could have trimmed three or four cuts and left a near-flawless, efficient package that was all killer and no filler. As it stands, it is merely excellent.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Less Than Human
    The Juan Maclean takes the mechanized side of music, the Kraftwerk precision and automated bass, but injects it with a personal, human vision and unmet, unwanted desires.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Congotronics 2: Buzz'N'Rumble From The Urb'N'Jungle
    Congotronics 2 sticks closely to the sonics of the first volume, possibly because the bands do actually sound similar, or possibly because the bands have been recorded in similar fashion.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Warmer Corners
    A terrific and thoroughly enjoyable effort.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Fundamental
    Fundamental offers pleasure as rewarding as The Magic Mountain or Glenlivet 18--indulgences best enjoyed as you approach the half-century mark, when your imagination is keen to leisured elongations of familiar tropes or newly appreciative of exotic sumptuousness.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Volta
    As with much of her past work, it’s almost embarrassingly human, sometimes sounding too close to you to believe it’s not your own.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Multiply
    Multiply sounds like he picked up some ancient reel-to-reel tape from lost Holland-Dozier-Holland sessions and gave them a 2005 production spit-and-polish.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Campfire Headphase
    This record contains some of the most astounding music that Boards Of Canada have ever composed.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Return To Cookie Mountain
    TV on the Radio have crafted a work of immense, cataclysmic, almost overwhelming power and righteous fire.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    LCD Soundsystem
    After disappointing would-be breakthrough releases from so many of the discopunk frontlines, this is an album that’s more easily classifiable as “great” for what it isn’t, rather than what it is. It’s not inconsistent. It’s not a total deviation from what we know of the group. It’s never dull. And, most importantly--it is in no way a let down.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Human After All
    Portraying the state of pop as a series of predictable formulae long since exhausted by corporate superstructure, Human After All more than lives up to its name, rendering a metaphor for failure on the grandest yet simultaneously most personal of terms.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Infinity On High
    So when you see Infinity On High getting praised, don’t bother scoffing. This deserves to get praised. There's a lot on here that's great and pretty much nothing that's bad.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Roots & Crowns
    Califone has worked, skillfully, with all of these styles and sounds before, but they’ve never left the table with a more realized, delicate treatment.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Gulag Orkestar
    It's tightly focused, beautifully written, and totally without filler.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Tournament Of Hearts
    A slow burn may not be quite as exciting as a scorch, but this is a hotter flame than most anything else you'll hear this year.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Phrenology
    Mainstream and casual fans will remember them best for Things Fall Apart, but probably only hardcore fans will be able to see the value and dedication that much of Phrenology holds.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Open Season
    By adding textures, piano, acoustic guitars, and restraint, and losing some of the scowling and savagery, BSP have unleashed a truly unique pop creation, one with depth and feeling.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Plat du Jour
    For a high-minded piece of process, one that rests on the old trope that the good stuff is always bad for you--or in this case, for the majority of the world--Herbert packs a lot of snap, crackle, and, particularly, pop.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    One Way, It's Every Way
    [An] extraordinarily unassuming, gorgeous release.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    OK Cowboy
    What makes OK Cowboy worthwhile is not a greater emphasis on the chilly tones that made Vitalic’s initial singles so impressive and characterized some of his savage DJ sets, but the demonstration of a surprising degree of variety and even humanity within those seemingly narrow colonnades of rising and whiplash synths over soulless, mechanical drums.
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