The Guardian's Scores
- Music
For 2,634 reviews, this publication has graded:
-
48% higher than the average critic
-
3% same as the average critic
-
49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.4 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 67
| Highest review score: |
Critic Score
100
|
|---|---|
| Lowest review score: |
Critic Score
10
|
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 1,302 out of 2634
-
Mixed: 1,269 out of 2634
-
Negative: 63 out of 2634
2,634
music reviews
- By critic score
-
- Posted Feb 12, 2013
- Read full review
-
-
Critic Score 100
This album shows Wilson to be one of modern rock's most cunning and soulful protagonists.- Posted Feb 27, 2013
- Read full review
-
-
-
Critic Score 100
A genuinely remarkable album: self-obsessed but completely compelling, profoundly discomforting but beautiful, lost in its own fathomless personal misery, but warm, funny and wise. It shouldn't work, but it does.- Posted Mar 7, 2013
- Read full review
-
-
-
Critic Score 100
Stornoway make unconvincing space rockers--but that's the only caveat about a triumphantly expansive album.- Posted Mar 7, 2013
- Read full review
-
-
-
Critic Score 100
It succeeds because of the sheer quality of her singing and the thoughtful, varied songs from the light and then furious Kouma to Mélancholie, a highly personal reflection on sadness and solitude.- Posted Apr 4, 2013
- Read full review
-
-
-
Critic Score 100
It's the subtlety, and the self-awareness, that make this album exquisite.- Posted May 16, 2013
- Read full review
-
-
- Posted May 21, 2013
- Read full review
-
-
-
Critic Score 90
Strikes a near-perfect balance between the various facets of the band's history. -
-
-
Critic Score 90
These are tunes that twinkle and thunder like exploding stars, and show that there are still infinite possibilities in two guitars, bass and drums. -
-
-
-
Critic Score 90
Beyond his trademark agitated yelp and panic-attack rhythms are all manner of surprising and compelling sonic twists. -
-
-
-
Critic Score 90
The result is genuine alt-country at a time when the term has come to signify little more than middling acoustic rock. -
-
-
-
Critic Score 90
Another broadsheet rock critic waxing rhapsodic may be the last thing Wainwright needs, but here goes: Want Two is a stunning album. -
-
-
Critic Score 90
Manages to dabble with tension and still emerge with something life-affirming. -
-
-
Critic Score 90
Frequently magnificent, Blue Eyed in the Red Room offers up more with every listen. -
-
-
Critic Score 90
That Employment is derivative is both undeniable and irrelevant. It is so confident, so smart, so full of life, that a more enjoyable 45 minutes is hard to imagine. -
-
-
Critic Score 90
It's a triumphant lesson in sweeping gracefully towards the mainstream with your imagination and mystery intact. -
-
-
-
Critic Score 90
The trend for disappointing follow-ups bucked with enviable panache, You Could Have It So Much Better leaves you eager, rather than concerned, about Franz Ferdinand's next album. -
-
-
Critic Score 90
And whereas the dark era that began with a military coup in 1964 is now relegated to Brazil's history, the music it inspired sounds fresher and more provocative than ever. -
-
-
-
Critic Score 90
Rather Ripped may not have the cultural impact of 1989's Daydream Nation, but it contains some of the best music of their career. -
-
-
-
Critic Score 90
It's hard to think of another album that rocks in such an epic manner without sounding completely ridiculous. -
-
-
-
Critic Score 90
The spellbinding mix of shimmering folk and shimmying disco on Out of the Woods eclipses her past work. -
-
-
Critic Score 90
This is an album to savour when autumn leaves are falling--and through the rest of the year, too. -