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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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Leaving Songs
    Leaving Songs sounds a lot like a Tindersticks album, one that eschews their more baroque offerings for mature balladry.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Bright Like Neon Love
    Bright Like Neon Love may be too rock for the dance heads and too dance for the rockists, but for those without ideological hang-ups, it should be merely one of the most fun and exciting releases of the year.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Lost Horizons
    Nick Franglen and Fred Deakin rarely miss with this album.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Armchair Apocrypha
    The experimental, lo-fi branding of his oeuvre is gone, but the originality of his sound continues to trump the nostalgic demons in his head.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    You In Reverse
    It is intermittently thrilling, the first record since Perfect to show any of that record’s gleaming promise, but it is nonetheless brought aground by some of the same problems that dogged the last two LPs.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Lost Tapes
    Separate, the songs all sound great, but together, they don’t make a real album.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Someone To Drive You Home
    The majority of these upbeat songs have howling vocals, scything guitar and, unusually for a current Brit group, a rhythm section that manages to be danceable without having to go out of its way to prove it--but it’s the slower tracks that end each side that turn the album into something cohesive.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Magnificent City
    When RJ sticks to the bounce aesthetic and Acey keeps his writing lucid and/or topical, the record becomes the most listenable of the emcee's recent output.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Set Yourself On Fire
    It’s not that the male-female duo vocals make it or even the moments where the group channels the Delgados in their sublime use of strings and horns; it’s more that Stars has gotten tighter since their last outing.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Damaged
    You could spend an age listing and describing the musical wealth of Damaged... Better just to listen to it, soak it all in, than fail with words.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Obliterati
    The Obliterati succeeds in proving that Mission of Burma is not only capable of a comeback and a return to form, but also has exponential potential to evolve and thrive as a working band.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Post-War
    It’s abundantly clear that Ward is an indie-rock songwriter--a pretty good one sometimes--who doesn’t bring a whole lot else to the table.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Melody A.M.
    Unlike the playgrounds inhabited by those chillout bands--and other post-Air types, for that matter--the rhythms aren’t just here to keep time. Instead, they add texture and purpose, swinging from chunky bass lines to dub soundscapes.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 54 Critic Score
    These Are The Vistas
    The cover of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” is pretty inventive.... Unfortunately for the group, the album doesn’t approach these moments of sublimity nearly enough.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Now Soon Someday [EP]
    It’ll take an adventurous set of ears and some headphones. Don’t worry, take a deep breath and relax. You see, Beans makes it easy for you by spitting with what is, perhaps, the most technically gifted flow in hip hop today.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast
    It’s both business as usual and their most complex set of ideas to date.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Shut Up I Am Dreaming
    The poetry is too good, the gloom too cached in symbolism and fine melodies to feel trite or melodramatic.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rubber Factory
    Rubber Factory is not as consistent an offering as Thickfreakness.... But make no mistake, the strengths here more than amend for the weaknesses.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    God's Son
    The nice thing about God’s Son, although it isn’t fantastic or at the level of Stillmatic, is that it honestly doesn’t feel rushed. Nas is responsible for the lyrical content of the album, and it, like his previous releases, is nearly flawless.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Milk Of Human Kindness
    Perhaps less transcendent, The Milk of Human Kindness may ultimately prove more enjoyable.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Gold And Green
    It is arguable that Gold & Green is the link between Super AE and the Bores’ much feted neo-psych masterpiece, Vision Creation Newsun.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Engineers
    Songwriting necessarily takes a backseat here most of the time, but it’s hardly missed when there’s so much gorgeous, woozy texture to loll in.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Anniemal
    If you come expecting a great album full of hit singles, you won’t get it. If you come with an open mind, what will greet you is the opening chapter of a tale about a girl living through music, remembering through music, exploring her art and herself, starting out to create something special and different.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Tanglewood Numbers
    Musically, he’s ditched the clean, plainly instrumented indie-country schlep of his previous efforts for something brassy, something downright soulful.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Wilderness
    Though The Wilderness is filled with stunning songs, by album’s end, they tend to meld together. Their uniformity is their greatest fault, though admittedly one that can be overlooked during its best moments.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    St. Elsewhere
    With “Crazy,” the duo hits its apex without really shrouding the rest of the album.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Drums And Guns
    It’s still identifiably Low, but richer and more diverse than before.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Through The Windowpane
    Guillemots are constructing their own universe and inviting interested parties to join them within it. I can’t remember the last time a band did that so effectively and so invitingly.
    • 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
    • 90 Critic Score
    Scissor Sisters
    With more concern for melody and rhythm than partisan politics, they use modern technology and an open mind to nimbly skip between the opposing camps of black 70s Disco and white 70s AM Radio, but in their songwriting methods The Sisters embrace the now mythic open arms party spirit of the early dance movement.
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