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For 3,077 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: 2,173 out of 3077
  2. Mixed: 891 out of 3077
  3. Negative: 13 out of 3077
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Suspiria [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
    From micro passages like the 30-second ‘An Audition’ to the 14-minute swell of ambient vocal track ‘A Chorus Of One’, he successfully contrasts optimism and tenderness with hopelessness and terror, with an impressive breadth of emotion being evoked across each track.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Another Happy Day [Original Soundtrack]
    For the most part he minimally relies on keys and strings, but the effect creates a much more powerful setting and as a result, it's difficult not to be dragged into it.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Satis Factory
    Tackling interesting ideas and putting rock through an avant garde filter, Mattiel Brown’s powerful vocals once again impress too on what ultimately feels like a significant step forward.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Haiku Hands
    Their debut shows Haiku Hands doing what they do best - making huge dance bangers made for partying along to. However, the three-piece also have some surprises up their sleeves, adding in moments of calm amongst the party.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nobody's Home
    Between his emotive vocal delivery and brutally honest lyricism, Bakar has produced an impressive and accomplished debut, well worth the wait.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Warpaint
    Get taken away by the current, and float inside every melody. It’s more intoxicating than even the most lucrative bar deal on Jägerbombs.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Colour In Anything
    James’ voice remains the deserving centrepiece. Still fragile, but now sounding more confident than ever, those pipes sound warmer and thicker than ever before.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ullages
    Their debut documented pure, unrelenting struggle. Ullages finds a way out. Mitchell remains a captivating frontman, but he’s an entirely different blend to the one we knew before.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Electric
    More than three decades on from the day the pair first met in an electronics shop on the King's Road the Pet Shop Boys still manage to pack more ideas in an album than many others do in a thirty year career.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heart Tax
    ‘Heart Tax’ is much more expansive, and has her spreading her wings in a number of different stylistic directions whilst maintaining her trademark hypnotic rhythms as a through-line with which to tie everything together.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Muzz
    Those seeking another Interpol record won’t have much luck here, but ‘Muzz’ stands confident on its own two feet.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    And Then Life Was Beautiful
    Radiant, joyous record.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Be the Cowboy
    As a self-contained piece, just furthers her ability to create immersive worlds to fall into.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Never Enough
    This is an album which very much belongs in 2016, and an expectedly assured debut from a band who are by no means redefining the sound of New York City rock ‘n’ roll, but are laying claim to being worthy flag bearers of it going forward.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Medicine at Midnight
    With sticky melodies and a spring in its step, ‘Medicine At Midnight’ is an experiment that pays off, simultaneously adding a new shade to their sound and injecting a dose of fun and escapism when we need it most.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Darker the Shadow the Brighter the Light
    More so than some of his other recent material, the record has a sense of drama and occasion to it, as well as being the most musically seamless album he’s made in nearly twenty years, since 2004’s ‘A Grand Don’t Come for Free’.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Next Thing
    There are no answers, no solutions to any problems, and no gateway doors through escapism, but for half an hour the record shines a light through confusion, and just for a while, it doesn’t have to feel like such a loss to be lost.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Witch
    Packed full of genius--with a few dips that promised more--for the most part, this does play a little like a Greatest Hits. An impressive achievement from such a new band.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    California Nights
    Granted, they may not be reinventing the wheel, but the duo feel reinvigorated.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Conquering
    From the punishing storm that’s whipped up within the introduction of ‘Universal Chokehold’ through to the unflinching frenetics of ‘Set In Stone’, there’s a real sense of confidence that runs throughout the record’s 11 tracks. This is a band at the top of their game.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Death of the Party
    For the most part, ‘Death of the Party’ shows a band actively pushing themselves to grow. They might not be the same happy chappies as before, but not even The Magic Gang can stay young forever.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kveikur
    The result feels less like accidentally walking into David Attenborough's funeral and more like some incredible, unrealised score for an immersive, imagined Icelandic crime drama.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everything Else Has Gone Wrong
    A very subtle progression from what has come before, it remains to be seen whether 2020-era BBC will capture the hearts and minds of a new generation. But for those who’ve held on in hope of their return, the rewards are fruitful.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wenu Wenu
    It’s a crossover record rich with cultural touchstones.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Prettiest Curse
    ‘The Prettiest Curse’ is packed with grooves, hooks and riffs, and from the opening bass drum to the closing fade, not a single beat is missed.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Masterpiece
    This is an emotional juggernaut--an avalanche, in fact. Just when they look to have delivered their parting blow, in steps another moment that captures life’s ups and downs with perfection.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An Object
    Musing on “perfected harmonies” while unexpected string sections peer into the foreground, we’re witnessing a group confident enough to start afresh while giving forceful nods to their celebrated past.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crush Crusher
    This second LP Crush Crusher sees her grab all the promise of her 2016 debut and years at the heart of her hometown’s DIY scene and turn it into something great.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Something on High
    Something On High is earnest, intelligent and more than anything, sincere.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Muna
    It’s by far the happiest MUNA have sounded; a celebratory expression of queer love that loses none of the trio’s magic.
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