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For 4,544 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 The Life Of Pablo
Lowest review score: 0 Graffiti
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,663 out of 4544
  2. Mixed: 771 out of 4544
  3. Negative: 110 out of 4544
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Idols Of Exile
    There are 12 distinct songs on Idols Of Exile, united by Collett's light touch and sense of snap.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Young For Eternity
    Broudie... supplies the record with more thrust and polish than some of these half-written songs deserve.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Everything Wrong Is Imaginary
    Everything Wrong Is Imaginary is loosely and playfully conceived, but the stylistic goofing can't hide the exposed, bloody vein that runs throughout.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
    There's a confidence here that carried over from Case's remarkable 2004 live album The Tigers Have Spoken.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Future Women
    Ultimately, Future Women's fractured personality gives the album drama.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Charm
    Creatively, he continues to exceed even the loftiest expectations.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    You In Reverse
    This is a real, classic rock 'n' roll record, with powerhouse production backing a set of songs that actively engage.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Animal Years
    An album that sounds simultaneously deeply personal and in tune with confusing times.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Skeleton
    The stuff indie-rock fantasies are built on, with a gripping, theatrical sound that's like a hybrid of early Built To Spill and pre-Soft Bulletin Flaming Lips, adorned with pieces of the old Neil Young albums that inspired those bands in the first place.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    We The Vehicles
    Compared to Maritime's ragged debut, Glass Floor, the new record is a fountain of confidence, forgoing its predecessor's fussy arrangements for simple structures and big hooks.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Catastrophe Keeps Us Together
    [Rainer Maria] drapes songs in atmospheric echo while maintaining a steady, urgent beat--all of which provides a stage for Caithlin De Marrais' earnest, fully engaged voice.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Pick A Bigger Weapon
    Boots fuses sexuality and celebration with naked politics just as seamlessly as he combines irreverent humor and heartwarming humanism.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Drift
    It's unlikely that any other album will sound much like The Drift this year, and even less likely that it could be forgotten if heard even once.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Obliterati
    As the price of success, The Obliterati faces significantly higher expectations. Once again, though, Burma succeeds and surprises by playing to its strengths while moving forward.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    News And Tributes
    A happily unpredictable record.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Mo'Mega
    Like The Coup's strangely simpatico latest album, Lif's frisky, humane Mo'Mega redefines what a political rap album can be.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Rather Ripped
    Rather Ripped is unmistakably a Sonic Youth album, right down to the snatches of amp-on-fire distortion, the tuneless speak-singing of Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, and an emphasis on guitar texture that includes amplifying each strummed string. But the conventional rock-song structures of "Incinerate," while not unheard of for Sonic Youth, here feel unexpectedly and warmly classicist.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Begin To Hope
    Even in its darkest moments, a humane glow envelops the album, which takes her already-arresting sound and expands it to widescreen.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Audience's Listening
    Strap on some headphones and enjoy the ride.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Alright, Still
    A great summer record it remains, even in the dead of winter.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Post-War
    Post-War is easily M. Ward's most accessible album to date, charged with a bouncy spirit.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    To The Races
    Most of To The Races is arresting and alive, filled with little moments--a snaky violin, a warm harmonica, a lilting melody--that serve as reminders of how important the concept of "performance" can be.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Game Theory
    Especially in its superior second half, the album resonates with casual ambition as it reconciles ?uestlove's effortless bohemian cool and sonic perfectionism with Black Thought's dark swagger, street-level sociology, and silver-tongued virtuosity.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    So This Is Goodbye
    These songs are complicated robots.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
    This is Yo La Tengo in full 32-flavors mode, but somehow, as with similarly diverse past efforts like I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One, they make it all sound cohesive.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Awoo
    The band's fourth album Awoo keeps the lyrical restraint, but restores some of the energy of The Hidden Cameras' early work, in more of a rock 'n' roll vein.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Information
    There's nothing here that Beck hasn't done before, but it sounds unexpected once again.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Boys And Girls In America
    The triumph of Boys And Girls is that it's full of the kind of songs that Finn's protagonists would crank up, relishing every power chord.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Trials Of Van Occupanther
    Van Occupanther's spell finally breaks a little more than halfway through its 11 tracks, when the songs begin to feel more fussed-over and conceptual and less organic, but the warmth never fades.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Under The Skin
    His hushed voice and intricate acoustic guitar work fill the space with reflective songs that sound little like anything he's done before.
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