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For 475 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score:
Clockwork Angels
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Lulu
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 373 out of 475
  2. Mixed: 88 out of 475
  3. Negative: 14 out of 475
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    • Metascore: 79
    • Critic Score 80
    The Marble Downs
    A prayer of a record, despair turned into poetry.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Critic Score 80
    R.I.P.
    R.I.P practically begs to be handled, examined, shuffled and rotated in every direction, the better to identify each tiny grain of sand and dirt that's gone into its construction.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Critic Score 80
    Master of My Make-Believe
    Each track is executed to perfection as Santi morphs with chameleonic pizzazz.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Critic Score 80
    The Money Store
    A soup of electronic interference, exhausting percussion and smothering bass-cloud. It's stultifying like a bad case of screen fatigue; tangled and sparking - the sound of frazzled, short-fusing nerve ends.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Critic Score 80
    The Mind of Traxman
    Da Mind Of Traxman, rarely overly solemn and ever-playful, is still far from a middlebrow defanging.
    • Metascore: 71
    • Critic Score 80
    Vienna Blue
    With clicks, thumps and such acoustic subtleties, Vienna Blue unfolds like a rapid sequence of silver-screen freeze-frames: each too brief to comprehend fully, but collectively long enough to spark whole worlds of fantastic imaginations.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 80
    Radlands
    Miles away from the poppy happy clappy smiley lovey dovey vibes of Twenty One or epic choruses of Serotonin, Radlands displays a new direction and confidence.
    • Metascore: 70
    • Critic Score 80
    The Ghost in Daylight
    These are still audio waters containing complex depths worth diving into, revisiting, pondering over, dwelling over, dwelling in.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Critic Score 80
    Drokk: Music Inspired by Mega-City One
    The album is a lovingly crafted ode to Judge Dredd, urban alienation, the cinematic sci-fi masterpieces of the late 70s and early 80s, electronic music of both the past and present, and it all hits with the weight of a cadmium steak tenderizer.
    • Metascore: 77
    • Critic Score 80
    Standing at the Sky's Edge
    In Standing At The Sky's Edge Richard Hawley has forged his most fully realised and heartfelt collection of music to date. This requires your urgent attention.
    • Metascore: 71
    • Critic Score 80
    Mohn
    This new collaboration is a wonderful demonstration and crystallization of the best aspects of [Burger and Voigt's] combined canons.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Critic Score 80
    OFF!
    This is an album that knows just how toxically repellent it is and it's this self-assured ferocity that makes for such an enjoyable whirlwind of a listen.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Critic Score 80
    MMXII
    MMX11 is unexpectedly loaded with similarly bomb-laden gems.
    • Metascore: 93
    • Critic Score 80
    Loveless [Reissue]
    The reach of these records [Loveless and Isn't Anything] makes bands yet to form sound hopelessly out-of-date.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Critic Score 80
    Words & Music by Saint Etienne
    Words And Music By Saint Etienne is an album that reaffirms all that is glorious and brilliant about pop music.
    • Metascore: 77
    • Critic Score 80
    Oro: Opus Primum
    Their musical vision is one that's so obviously well-honed that they know exactly when to kick the music into overdrive before lulling the listener back into a state of sonic paralysis.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Critic Score 80
    Ram [Deluxe Edition]
    The sheer ebullience, the devil-may-care attitude taken in the construction of these songs, makes it an album to treasure.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Critic Score 80
    Heaven
    Personal, moving, poetic, humorous, and engaging.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Critic Score 80
    Third Mouth
    Alexander Tucker may not make folk music, but he can weave a magic spell.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Critic Score 80
    Celebration Rock
    Celebration Rock encapsulates the kind of affirmative, collective experiences that define an entire adolescence.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Critic Score 80
    Orkney: Symphony of the Magnetic North
    This record is both symphony for sufferers of that condition and a treasure map to the Orkney Islands, whether walking their beaches, or stopped in a traffic jam on the M25.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Critic Score 80
    WIXIW
    Once you allow it to sink in, WIXIW becomes a hushed collection of voices.
    • Metascore: 87
    • Critic Score 80
    Music For the Quiet Hour/The Drawbar Organ EPs
    The overall impression is of a lamp shone directly into the darkened corners of Shackleton's music, casting all its hidden detail in sharp relief.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Critic Score 80
    My God Is Blue
    For all the talk of madness, it would seem more than ever that Sebastien Tellier knows exactly what he's doing.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Critic Score 80
    Reeling Skullways
    Where Bridges felt like extensions of his legendary freeform live set, Reeling Skullways is far tighter in focus and execution.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Critic Score 80
    The House That Jack Built
    Lyrically The House That Jack Built is a masterpiece.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Critic Score 80
    Motion Sickness of Time Travel
    The sense of meticulous balance that dominates 'The Dream' permeates MSOTT.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Critic Score 80
    Slaughterhouse
    As an album that can trace its lineage to tripped out rock & roll of The Cramps' classic Psychedelic Jungle, this is a record that will delight the type of antisocial delinquent given to dabbing, dropping and freaking out.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Critic Score 80
    Swing Lo Magellan
    This is an album that seems to spring from an indoor world of cerebral textures and bedroom experiments, a headphone odyssey for an era in which the rock gig has become a corporate-sponsored burlesque.
    • Metascore: 87
    • Critic Score 80
    Fetch
    Part of the album's cunning is owed to the time allotted for disparate strands to develop and take form.
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