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For 789 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 One Day I'm Going To Soar
Lowest review score: 20 Last Night on Earth
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 495 out of 789
  2. Mixed: 280 out of 789
  3. Negative: 14 out of 789
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Palermo Snow
    Not really "folk" at all but a programme of music for solo guitar (and occasional clarinet) drawing on three centuries of complex harmony; or at least the harmony which appeals to the gruff old Pentangle picker.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Gloaming
    They are awfully thoughtful, though the thoughtfulness does frequently give way--sometimes you feel with a sigh of relief--to the technical liberation of jig and reel.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Out of the Game
    This is jouncey, mostly R&B-derived pop with a keen ear for what supports a melody. It's good.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dead & Born & Grown
    D&B&G is delicate and unaffected but clever and soulful--a balm and an inquisition.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Election Special
    You might even argue that this and its predecessors, My Name Is Buddy (2007) and Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down (2011), represent the most cogent work of his long career.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gamel
    It takes a few plays to acclimatise to but, once won over, whatever you listen to next will seem pedestrian by comparison. Lovely, but wholly on its own terms.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Love This Giant
    Love This Giant is a skewed and funky instant classic.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    To the Happy Few
    While this may once have been filed under 'shoegaze', now we can call it 'noisy dream pop' and just wade in its wash of guitars.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The King Is Dead
    It's lovely to fall asleep to. Which is a compliment, not a complaint.
    • The Independent on Sunday (UK)
      • Posted Jan 18, 2011
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sonik Kicks
    His most enjoyable LP since Our Favourite Shop.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Through Low Light and Trees
    A close to fine debut.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Contact
    Contact is shamelessly allusive, never remotely challenging and characterised by a get-to-the-chorus immediacy.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hummingbird
    There is no shortage of shimmery songcraft here.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kiss Each Other Clean
    Here, Beam adds funky Stevie Wonder synths to the mix. And marimba. Lots of marimba.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Standing at the Sky's Edge
    A classy, well-made record.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Live/Remix
    The live stuff is consistently inventive.... Randomness dogs the remixes, but that's standard.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Power Punch
    You won't have heard anything like it before.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Liberation!
    Giddily debunking sacred falsehoods with good, honest scepticism, Bauer’s raucous rebirth offers the best of both worlds: intrigue and instant reward for Walkmen doubters and acolytes alike.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wise Up Ghost and Other Songs
    There’s something artificial and experimental in the project’s very DNA, but that need not be a bad thing, and it isn’t.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Food
    If music be the food of love, Kelis has cooked up something tasty enough to satisfy all but the hungriest of hearts.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Seeds and Stems
    Funny, warm, eloquent, dynamic, oddly soulful and technically delicious. An unremitting joy.
    • The Independent on Sunday (UK)
      • Posted Dec 12, 2013
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
    It's rather fine.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Canta Lechuza
    The impeccably hip credentials of HN's Roberto Carlos Lange are rather at odds with the wonderfully gloopy Latin-cheese of this Spanish language, old school synth-session's best tracks.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Something
    Somewhere between Ladyhawke and M83, it's 1980's fetishism all the better for the apparent lack of irony.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ashes & Fire
    While it may, at times, sound a little too familiar--A&F is almost good enough to banish the memory of the dozen or so albums--influenced by grams not Parsons--since.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Azari & III
    All diva froideur and drum machine snap, it nevertheless transcends pastiche via a pervasive air of murky ambiguity.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Glad Rag Doll
    Krall's smoky contralto lacks the pungency of Wilson's, but compensates with greater mobility.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Angels Without Wings
    It's a bright, optimistic, emotive world, Heidi's, and well suited to the neutral "roots" pop sound which frames it.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On a Mission
    Unless I'm going insane, On a Mission sounds like a modern pop classic.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Paper Airplane
    Fans of Raising Sand and O Brother...will find much to love. As – more surprising this – will fans of classic-era Fleetwood Mac.
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