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For 4,075 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 66% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 77
Highest review score: 100 Prioritise Pleasure
Lowest review score: 30 Supermodel
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,671 out of 4075
  2. Mixed: 389 out of 4075
  3. Negative: 15 out of 4075
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Teething
    Porij’s confident and assured debut delves into their love for not settling for one genre. Taking you on an adventure through emotions and soundscapes, it’s a fluid record that never stands still. It will appease long-time fans with its infectious and catchy grooves, as well as welcoming new fans to the party with open arms.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hovvdy
    While the record feels like a new iteration, it is also an evolution of a deeply familiar form. At the record’s core, it ultimately is more of Hovvdy and at their best, these songs envelop the listener in the same way Hovvdy songs always have.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hyperdrama
    Ultimately the album's uneven tempo and uncertainty at its heart make it unclear what Hyperdrama wants to be and to whom they still appeal.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nonetheless
    Nonetheless feels airy and welcoming, qualities that have sometimes eluded its more recent predecessors, it resonates emotionally in ways that befit elder statesmen who can look to the future while comfortably acknowledging the past.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All Born Screaming
    This is the sound of releasing a lifetime’s worth of strife and unease. That sounds, it turns out, is pretty damn excellent.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Forgiveness Is Yours
    It changes its arm in a myriad of directions, with only a few really working, but they remain a band set apart from those around them, even if here they stumble.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Light Verse
    Quirky yet profound, playful but often deeply moving, Light Verse is a record to savour in one sitting, its ten tracks comprising a seriously impressive whole that’s considerably more potent than the sum of its unfailingly impressive individual parts.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Your Day Will Come
    Amorphous and difficult to pin down, this undefinable hypnagogia is the lasting identity of Chanel Beads, and Your Day Will Come is the vessel from which it was formed.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT
    It's less playful than before but feels like an evolution rather than an adjustment. There's a more textural feel than before, edging closer to the muted space of Phoebe Bridgers' Punisher, or Antonoff's work with Lana Del Rey, and it suits Swift well as this point in her career.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    One Million Love Songs
    There are times throughout that Viscius appears at ease and elsewhere there are signs she’s simply exhausted and drained. All cried out. But as the album ebbs away with the hushed tones of her singing, “No one loves me anymore” on “No One” it’s as if a huge burden has lifted, finally.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This Ain't the Way You Go Out
    We’re left reveling in an album that is grand in ambition and execution – a sweeping journey of highs and lows worth celebrating.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Found Heaven
    On Found Heaven, the wreckage of love overstays its welcome; sadly, profundity gives in to frustrating familiarity.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Don't Forget Me
    It’s always charming, but in its best moments, Don’t Forget Me is often phenomenally well-written, a solid show from an artist who’s likely to linger in your memory for a while.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I'M DOING IT AGAIN BABY!
    The constant zigzag between tempos and moods is tiring. The album is a true testament to her strengths as a lyricist and melodic writer but should have been allowed to be as chaotic as it first seemed to promise.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    ABOMINATION
    On Abomination there’s a more cohesive sense of vulnerability even contemplation that the attention-seeking initial EP songs clamoured for so brazenly.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Search Of The Antidote
    Wrapping the messiness of post-breakup emotions into rule-bending pop cuts, it once again proves that nobody does heartbreak anthems quite like FLETCHER.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
    Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace isn’t an easy sell at a time thoroughly infested with quick thrills and instant gratification. Give it time to bloom, however, and these tracks are infused with plenty of the qualities referred to in the album’s title.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This Could Be Texas
    The album could be one of the finest debuts of the decade, with every band member shining in their ability and craftsmanship.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Our Brand Could Be Yr Life
    Ultimately these songs work their sly magic in subtle and nuanced ways and here may lie the risk for BODEGA. Their, at first seemingly modest, charms need re-evaluating when on the third or fourth listen it all clicks and you realise what appeared modest is in fact pretty sublime.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Silence Is Loud
    The album shoots its shot repeatedly to great effect, sometimes it’s better at hitting the mark than at other times but always seeks to embrace the euphoric and it’s obvious why Nia Archives has become a need-to-know name in dance music in a relatively short space of time.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A La Sala
    On A La Sala, Khruangbin prove their talent for making intricate instrumental music that is capable of casting an evocative spell, whilst also hinting at the potential downfalls of becoming locked inside the band’s mid-tempo comfort zone: more of the steadily intensifying drama of gently soaring first single “A Love International” would be welcome.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Older
    Overall, that combination of conversational, vulnerable lyricism mixed with impeccable baroque pop arrangements makes Older as unique for the pop world as it is beautiful. All in all, it’s a deeply honest album, both in its exploration of aging and in its rejection of pop cliches.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fabiana Palladino
    Fabiana Palladino is a near-effortless reinvention of retro pop, soul, funk, and R&B tracks with a glossy modern sheen, setting the stage for more grandiose statements in the future.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Sunset Violent
    If it doesn’t quite hit the consistent highs of 2017’s Love What Survives, The Sunset Violent is a clear next step for Mount Kimbie. With limited features and a cohesive throughline, they’ve never felt so much of a unit, embarking on a trip together.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love In Constant Spectacle
    It's this juxtaposition between strong experimental instincts and ability to weld them seamlessly to a keen interest in (and talent for) engaging and accessible songwriting that makes Love In Constant Spectacle (and Weaver’s previous run of solo albums) such an unmissable treat.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Only God Was Above Us
    To this extent Only God Was Above Us defines itself by a heady mix of retrospection and relinquishment to the future – a coming-of-age awareness writ large in previous phases of their career lent further prescience with the passing of each entry in their canon.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    COWBOY CARTER
    Dense and immaculately detailed, nothing about Act II is accidental, and no one could begrudge Beyoncé her moment in the centre of the rodeo ring. There’s no question that Cowboy Carter is a landmark record. Arguably, an inevitable one. But once the dust of its audacity settles, it misses the mark of a classic.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Evolution
    Whether Crow is tucking into the midtempo rock bohemia of “You Can’t Change the Weather,” or getting lost in the groovy R&B psychedelia of “Love Life,” she demonstrates that she is a musical everywoman, able to move from knowing convention to wider experimentation.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Big Anonymous
    It is easily El Perro del Mar's most impressive work to date. In lesser hands, such difficult topics might have been rendered in a cliché, one-sided way. But Assbring manages to deliver a heart rending, honest, multifaceted meditation on grief in a tightly-penned ten track album that demands nothing less than our full attention.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bite Down
    Bite Down, then, is a rare record. It excels both as a richly resonant, often deeply beautiful gem. It is singer-songwriter introspection and a high octane field recording from an unusually fertile and harmonious gathering of five likeminded musicians at the seam where hip country rock meets the wide-eyed extemporisations of contemporary cosmically inclined psych-rock.
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