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For 2,889 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Lost Wisdom pt. 2
Lowest review score: 0 America's Sweetheart
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,804 out of 2889
  2. Mixed: 961 out of 2889
  3. Negative: 124 out of 2889
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Evens
    While the Evens' sparse arrangements may lead the guitar-playing world to finally give drummers their due, an album that is too minimal runs the risk of being absorbed in too few listens, never to be returned to again. Of course, The Evens avoid that trap by going straight to the most obvious musical cliché, "excellent songwriting."
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Funeral Mariachi
    They go out not with a bang or a whimper, but with a wide-eyed and confident work tinged with sadness, knowing they were part of something truly unique and amazing that met an untimely end.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Terrestrials
    As each track unfurls, its glacial pace arrests the listener’s search for novelty, forcing attention to the profundities of the mix and the texture that the interlaced sounds create; and yet it also deepens the desire for what each step forward promises, the crisis that the procession patiently unveils.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
    On Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, rock, country, blues, and post-punk rhythms meld with Cave’s lyrics on sex, death, God, and America to create what could be one of his most perfect albums yet.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Nouns
    Nouns sounds as homemade as something released on a Warner Music affiliate could be. It’s crafted with a sense of pleasant haphazardness, gelling into one of those rare situations where everything that is thrown at the wall sticks.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Tommy [EP]
    Tommy is exhausting, refreshing, new.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Mirrored
    Mirrored is a marvel, dastardly and wholly original as it is, and one of the year’s finest.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Factory Floor
    Known for their micromanaged and micromanaging tracks, it’s fascinating to see that even their words about themselves are efficient, each phrase and constituent particular effervescent in their appearance and disappearance, yet wholeheartedly lunging themselves into place, forming a whole crystalline and formative structure.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Aviary
    It represents an astounding step forward in its scope and ambition. The claustrophobia of Loud City Song and the self-imposed aesthetic limitations of Have You in My Wilderness have given way to wide-screen, exploratory, celebratory triumph.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    R.I.P.
    On his masterful third album, Actress perfects a thrilling sonic aletheia that simultaneously reveals and conceals, opens and closes, remembers and experiences anew, giving some insight into the truth of post-rave electronic music as it has developed over the past 20 years, into both frame and artwork, stage and actress.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Seasons of Your Day
    Sandoval and her collaborators may never modify the melancholy torch that they bear, but they keep that fire masterfully for those of us who still have a yen for patient, no-frills sounds that happen to serve as a miracle balm.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Tip Of The Sphere
    The elusive details in the songs here are what bring me back, haunted.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Love vs Money
    Love vs. Money exists, much like its creator, [is] stuck somewhere between timely and timeless, kind of like a dream, the infectious, can’t-get-out-of-your-head variety.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    College Dropout
    College Dropout contains some of the most intelligent and clever lyrics hip-hop has produced in a while, be it mainstream or underground.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You
    The Worse Things Get is a no-brainer Album of the Year.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    On! Air! Library!
    Albums of this caliber just don't come around that often.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blood Bitch
    There are so many ways into Blood Bitch that it’s dizzying: Chris Kraus, Nino Nardini, the synths, the immensely pillowy hooks, black metal, menstrala. The themes run from menstruation to vampires to capitalism to loneliness to pap smears, and any thread you pick can take you to the core. You have been invited in.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Liberation
    Trans Am's Liberation is one of those rare albums that combine great musicianship, irony, sonic diversity, and originality. And to top it all off, the album rocks.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Suspended Animation
    This album is not going to win the band many new fans, but it is certainly a treat for the converted.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Be Still Please
    Oddly familiar but strikingly different.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Seven Swans
    Many of the songs continue to showcase Stevens' avid and passionate banjo-plucking, accompanied by similar harmonized vocals that resonate with beauty and commitment.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Power
    Overall, the songs are more accessible, with clearer melodies and less discordance. For many bands this would be a misstep, but it turns out that Q & Not U's penchant for the catchy is one of their best assets.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Grandfeathered
    All of the hallmarks of the band’s debut remain blissfully intact, and yet they’ve managed to engineer an LP with even more seemingly absurd outliers than minimalism and Radiophonic blips.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Centres
    Craig has become so good at his craft that one might be tempted to call Centres a magnum opus--it’s certainly grand enough.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bang Bang Rock & Roll
    It’s surprisingly comforting to hear a band like this come along and put everything in perspective, making you fall in love with music relating to your life, instead of becoming so grandiose and impersonal as most music has in recent years.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Frkwys, Vol. 15: Serenitatem
    Like a stew, this album takes energies and flavors from its components, each contribution blending and acquiring the vibrations of everything around it. The songs reverberate, flow into one another, sooth and intrigue.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Legacy
    All heavy-handed metaphysics aside, RP Boo proves on Legacy that he is truly a deft master of the drum machine, inspired by the potential in pure sound.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Engine Down
    Definitely a worthwhile buy for those new to Engine Down and certainly must hold a place in any Engine Down fan's CD book, iPod, or whatever it may be.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Reaching for Indigo
    Each song of eight on the album develops its own world of feeling, each in a different mode and with a unique musical setting.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Untilted
    With Untilted, it's apparent that Autechre are still on top of their game.
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