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For 3,080 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Not to Disappear
Lowest review score: 20 Let It Reign
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,176 out of 3080
  2. Mixed: 891 out of 3080
  3. Negative: 13 out of 3080
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Open Here
    When they strip things back and leave space for each element to breathe--as on the purely orchestral title track--Open Here can be a joy, a deeply astute pop album that’s also often brimming with fun. While pushing their boundaries as far as they can go though, it sometimes makes for a record that can feel frustratingly cluttered.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    She Said
    The LA quintet’s third album doesn’t quite explode as much as it hopes to, though a few songs threaten to, largely the acid-tongued, grinding ‘Roadkill’ and the vintage-sounding title track.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Future Hearts
    They’re never going to reinvent the wheel, and there are a few moments (halfway mark ‘Missing You’ springs to mind) that feel a little too much. But there is something intensely satisfying in their sugary hooks and their handle on catchy, unadulterated melodies.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Skip a Sinking Stone
    The rich swells of optimism that characterised earlier cuts such as ‘Skipping Stones’ or ‘Lost Dreamers’ have been replaced with a yearning melancholy.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    European Heartbreak
    Full of lilting indie-pop, often swelling with trumpets, string sections and a sense of wistfulness, European Heartbreak sounds nostalgic for a dream, the realisation of which has long since passed.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Waking Lines
    What it lacks perhaps in originality, it certainly more than delivers in getting, keeping and rewarding the listener's attention.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Messy
    For a record titled ‘Messy’ it could ironically do with being a little less neat and tidy.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Raw Data Feel
    It’s a largely hit-and-miss pop record.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rooms of the House
    As every track twists and turns, building upon their previous musical accomplishments, this feels like a band who have finally truly found their stride.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fever Dreams, Pts. 1-4
    His perfectly serviceable croon is not quite strong enough to carry it across 16 long tracks. If only he’d given ‘Lightning People’ to Liam Gallagher, it might well have been the soundtrack of the summer. Moments of greatness are plentiful, but ‘Fever Dreams…’ shines brightest when Marr lets his guitar do the talking.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fade Away [EP]
    Musically it's very much as you were, country-tinged alt-rock, a little punkier in places, a little less scared of making a racket.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Right On!
    Jam is all well and good, but this record is at times lacking in the bread and butter of music--songs.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    2019 [EP]
    2019 has a pleasing feel no doubt, there are some gems nestled in the 7-track run that are well worth a look, but it feels like a release that is there to keep the wheels turning ahead of a new album.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blood
    Blood, like ‘Woman’, is honest. It’s an endearing expression of sexuality.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    VIEWS
    Yes, at times it does drag a little and--though clever and often charming--the content isn’t particularly inspiring.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    FFS
    While some moments are clearly domain of a single entity, the truth is that the six-headed monster don’t always make it that easy, instead opting to blur their sensibilities into a playful, dance rock smear.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Luck
    More questions than answers, more problems than solutions, but with just enough moments of sheer brilliance to justify it as a release.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Appalling Human
    It’s sharp and serious but without the navel-gazing feel that sometimes makes ‘Appalling Human’ a difficult one to truly get stuck into.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Free Reign II
    The whole thing would have sufficed as a bonus disc rather than the standalone album it is.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's a Riot Going On
    The results are quietly overwhelming.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    She-Devils
    Drop your expectations of freak pop from another dimension, and there’s plenty to like.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Diagrams
    Paul’s commitment to trying new things is to be lauded, but it does mean Diagrams lacks cohesion; it feels less an album and more a collection of ideas, some thrilling, others less so.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Triad
    As far as Pantha du Prince standards go, those expecting bangers will find that this is a slower paced, subtler, more meticulously detailed album than ‘Black Noise’. Yet for every dark, dreary, wintery moment, there’s more than enough of luxurious, melodic techno bliss to make up for it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ones and Sixes
    While some may argue that Ones and Sixes sounds too familiar, it could be said that the trio are simply playing to their strengths.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mariachi El Bronx (III)
    As such a unique style of music in their field, there is no reference point to compare Mariachi El Bronx to, but if you’ve enjoyed ‘I’ and ‘II’, or you want to hear something a bit different then Mariachi El Bronx III is well worth a listen.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    No Shame
    She’s not quite there yet, but after a wobble that could have sunk lesser personalities, she’s found a sound that feels authentic again. And that’ll do for now.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lenses
    Lenses, despite its four-to-the-floor tendencies and impeccable imagery, falls flat.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot
    Teen Suicide’s final act is nigh-on impossible to categorise or fully digest, and its nature and length makes it at the same time a difficult listen, but one that brings rewards of all different kinds across its running length.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sweet Sour
    An album worthy of repeated listens but limited by its inability to adapt and enrapture a change of pace often just representing a drop in quality.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Peter Doherty & the Puta Madres
    Much here sounds as though it could have been unearthed from the treasure trove of old demos the singer sporadically unloaded circa 2004; great for the die-hards, fairly inconsequential for everyone else.
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