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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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    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Thistled Spring
    Thistled Spring seems a really lovely idea; the lyrics are beautiful, the musical texture is auburn and wood-hued, smooth-sanded and multi-faceted. But there’s nothing that speaks to me.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ghosts I-IV
    Ghosts I-IV is a clear step forward while still managing to stay true to what NIN traditionally ought to sound like and represent.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Oczy Mlody
    In some ways, it is as an exercise in stripping away everything that makes The Flaming Lips such a truly special group, leaving only that which serves as decorative tinsel to their music, hanging limp and lifelessly in the air.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Journey To The West
    Albarn’s thirst for musical adventure is commendable, but unless you’re obsessed with his every move or have been dreaming of the day a former Brit pop king fuses the sensibilities of Eastern opera and Western pop, Monkey just doesn’t warrant your full attention.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Classics
    For all the technology they bring to the table, Ratatat are soulful and savvy, putting everything in its right place and locking the listener in.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Black Pompadour
    A classy affair all the way, Black Pompadour is sure to impress those who let it work its magic.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Music For Falling From Trees
    For fans of some of Broderick’s earlier material, then, these qualities, combined with the relatively narrow range of instrumentation and short duration of the album, may prove somewhat limiting and not as immediately immersive as some of his best work.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Holy Ghost!
    These guys are working within a fully-formed aesthetic; they've got hooks to spare and production out the wazoo, but right now, I'm just not feeling the soul.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Abandoned Apartments
    Despite the aforementioned darkwave influences, it’s not that his earworms get leechlike hooks into you--but that, while you’re caught listening and daydreaming, strands of ivy poke tentative tendrils into the eardrum, and deeper.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pattern of Excel
    Pattern To Excel emerges in fragments, almost painlessly, with every inch of space filled, all the darlings still written.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rock Island
    Disquieting but somehow quite familiar, the record contorts the warm sounds of yacht rock and island music into something primal yet alien. The end result is a sound that you’d swear has been done countless times before in the avant-rock pantheon, but in reality, its direct musical forebears are few and far between.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mysterious Phonk: The Chronicles of Spaceghostpurrp
    Mysterious Phonk feels extremely private in ways that are powerful but not entirely sorted out yet. Purrp finds numerous occasions to talk about smiling in the face of a cold world, but even a facetious smirk never really cracks, and the world is cold in only the most brightly-lit, fantastical, and dystopic ways.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Love Comes Close
    Eisold's delivery, as cliche as it might seem, is often hypnotically compelling, and the lyrics are slightly redeemed by the synthesizers.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Caer
    Caer is a magnificent oasis of feeling and reflection, where self-doubt, confidence, love, and lust live so comfortably alongside one another.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hive1
    It’s poppy and fun, but it doesn’t let you get too comfortable.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    So Divided
    Pick your adjective[:] Over-the-top, anthemic, epic.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Inside Your Guitar
    Its complete lack of anything unique just reeks of someone in the background, someone with a suit and a cigar, shaking hands with these fellows and telling them they’re “gonna blow up.”
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Nothing's Lost
    It simply lacks even the remotest kind of emotional weight, favoring that emo-lite, predictable kind of melodic progressions that make you swoon the same way a hot muffin on a cold day might.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Will To Death
    This is undoubtedly a stronger effort than Shadows Collide, and maybe that's due to [Frusciante's] ability to just let the music fly instead of attempting to overwork things.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tape Chants
    The very thing that animates the structure begins to ferociously explore, digging beneath its creations in order to observe itself. It is unclear whether the exploration of the structure’s depths is motivated by curiosity or by a need to undermine itself and to challenge its own creation.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hairdresser Blues
    Overall, the album is something of a grower.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Drone Trailer
    Drone Trailer is another fine addition to MV & EE’s ridiculously prolific, yet highly impressive output. Even with its scant six tunes, it’s unlikely anyone will be left hanging long if more music from these two is what they are after.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Somewhere Else
    Taken as a piece, Somewhere Else can’t live up to those giddy heights, but its sweetness is still to be savored.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Peace Queer
    The other two tunes here, the instrumental 'Ponce of the Flaming Peace Queer' and a once-again-relevant cover of 'Fortunate Son,' work fine, but, coupled with the album’s brief tracklist and tossed-off nature, they make Peace Queer little more than a focused stop-gap between proper albums.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    You'll Be Safe Forever
    From a purely musical perspective, You’ll Be Safe Forever remains a case of unfulfilled hope: an album that promises a great deal but attenuates halfway, eventually leading the listener down a path that’s disappointingly safe and familiar.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Everything Is
    Sure, Nine Black Alps may be a more "genuine" concoction of Nirvana's formula, but how can this be considered revelatory or of interest when it comes across as so faceless?
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Li(f)e
    His good intentions are largely undone by the occasional ideological confusion. The enjoyment offered by the instrumentation is unmitigated, however, which ultimately makes Li(f)e something of a positive-sum venture.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Exchange Session Vol. 1
    This CD is in itself a bold challenge to producers everywhere to step out from behind the laptop and explore the creative, spontaneous elements of live interaction.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Ghostdini: Wizard Of Poetry
    This project was D.O.A. from the moment Ghost announced it a year back, and hip-hop fans should consider themselves lucky that there’s at least a few salvageable moments in Wizard of Poetry.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Kunk
    Dope Body albums have been great in the past because they took familiar kinds of rock melody and put a sinister spin on them, reimagining American popular rock through a spit-smeared lens, reinvigorating it with the edge and causticity those songs could have conveyed in different hands. But they don’t do any of that here. On Kunk, they just screw around a bit.
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