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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    West
    There are certainly moments of well-crafted, spaced-out music, but West is not as overwhelming as it could be. And to be honest, even after several listens, all the songs in West still sound pretty much the same.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Drawn In Basic
    Drawn In Basic is an enjoyable electronic pop record, one well-suited to late, sleepless nights. With echoes of a distant club resounding in its subdued beats and hushed vocals, this is a dreamy record of lullabies for the dance-floor set.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Push The Button
    When all's said and done, too much of the album sounds dated and uninspired.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Host
    Much like the surrounding semblance, densely concealed behind a name with clear sci-fi connotations, the music on The Host can be difficult to really get into.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Black Mesa
    The album as a whole falls short of offering us anything new or of exceeding quality in relation to either Porras' other projects or the work of similarly-minded artists. Still, Black Mesa is an unmistakably effective, quality genre piece by an artist highly invested in the form.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tired of Tomorrow
    Nothing have definitely learned a thing or two in between albums about using crushing dynamics to great effect. Unfortunately, there are times when the combination of a particular note and lyric rob the band of its power.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Heligoland
    Sure, it's a logical progression from 100th Window, but because their progressions are neither commonsense nor predictable, it's difficult to predict how it will hold up in terms of posterity.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gorilla Manor
    Letting themselves go with greater frequency would turn what is a pretty record into one that actually breaks ground; it'd be sexier that way.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Belong
    The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have retained most of what we loved about them while also finding new ways to dazzle us, to make us swoon.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Visability is a Trap [EP]
    It takes its time in becoming a thing of familiarity and character, far from rushing to win you over.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Waves Are Universal
    Despite the pristine texture, though, many of the melodies find themselves veering into the frankly repulsive world of adult contemporary.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sequitur
    Sequitur contains powerful resonances with the past, and it certainly reorganizes some beautiful moments that have been left behind, but some of these moments were left there for a reason.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Black Sands
    With Black Sands, he's proven himself to be a skilled multi-instrumentalist who knows how to construct beautiful, arresting music with enough layers of complexity to hold interest for multiple listens. Nevertheless, if he wishes to avoid being the listening choice for those who don't actually want to listen, he's not quite succeeded yet.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tripper
    The fact that Hella are able to deliver the same thrills, same complexity, and same unopenable exploding package with two members that they do with five is both musically impressive and cognitively relevant to the experience of the music.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At.Long.Last.A$AP
    It’s a clarification--leveraging an assemblage of evocation, of presentation, perhaps of curation, but one that’s built from the fragments of the most beautifully uninteresting bits of what’s contemporary.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gordian
    Tending toward minimalism as opposed to shock musical tactics, Cosmin TRG doesn’t thrill with throat-grabbing statements, but of course that is far from his intention.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Little Heart's Ease
    Royal City don't have the arresting lyrics or delivery of the best Palace songs, nor is Little Heart's Ease the equal of genre-champ Magnolia Electric Company, but, as Riches might put it, there's some sparkles in the rough.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Take Me Apart
    For the most part, Take Me Apart is sonically more akin to a soundtrack, one for neon-tinged late-night driving. Or for bedrooms with ceiling mirrors--those slippery reflections.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blood Like Lemonade
    While Blood Like Lemonade offers nothing new, its depiction of a seasoned group reveling in their own nostalgia makes for good listening.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bubblegum Graveyard
    The Dropouts tend to the same dynamics and tones, and even at 30 minutes, it gets a bit tedious.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Reasons To Live
    Reasons to Live sounds like old summer afternoons.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gliss Riffer
    The morbid motivation behind it all looms like that skull, never far from the festivities, even if Gliss Riffer doesn’t always reproduce its glow.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fragrant World
    Yeasayer soar with sublime choruses that are everything that pop has been trying to realize: high-art dionysian bliss contained in three- to four-minute bursts.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Weight Is A Gift
    It's just another above average release from another indie band.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Greatest Gift
    The Greatest Gift may not contain all the insight and manifest artistry of one of Stevens’s studio albums, at the very least, it reasserts his perspicacious understanding of his complex emotions and propensity for self-evaluation.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The North Borders
    By no means is The North Borders sterile, but there isn’t a notably invigorating spark either--at least not of an obtuse or intense gesture.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Clipse Presents Re-Up Gang
    As fresh as the Re-Up Gang keep their rhymes and beats, much of the album has a cheap feeling--a "We Got It 4 Cheap," cheap, that is, as nearly half of the album is comprised simply of freshly mixed tracks from "Volume 3."
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Across the Meridian
    A bit more laidback than its predecessors and encapsulated by exotic shades, Across the Meridian sits somewhere between Les Baxter’s lovable cheese, the playful ingenuity of Pierre Bastien, and the more twisted corners of a 1970s European TV station library music.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hope in Dirt City
    Hope in Dirt City presents some of Pemberton's most complex material to date. Most of the songs still bear the characteristically breakneck rhythms that garnered a nod from the Polaris Music Prize committee back in 2006, but unlike Breaking Kayfabe and Afterparty Babies, this album is swathed with layers of full-bodied instrumentation.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Perfect Hair
    With Perfect Hair, Busdriver has once again crafted a fantastically immersive listening experience (arguably Busdriver’s finest work yet), only blunted by how profoundly it telegraphs its own ambitions and intentions, more than meeting my expectations as a piece of confrontational sound art, yet leaving its targeted structures a bit too comfortably in tact.
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