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For 811 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 86% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 13% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 81
Highest review score: 100 Harmlessness
Lowest review score: 5 Fashionably Late
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 757 out of 811
  2. Mixed: 48 out of 811
  3. Negative: 6 out of 811
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Ghost Stories
    Some will deplore the record for its relative lack of pop appeal, but for a massively popular band that has so often been derailed by its own lofty ambitions, there is a huge pleasure in hearing something that succeeds on such a small, modest, and humanized scale.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's Album Time
    His propensity for pushing boundaries is carried over onto an album that devotes more than a third of its runtime to previously released songs. Terje took the remainder of that time and expended it on bold, successful new iterations of his aesthetic.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Flies in All Directions
    Not only does Flies In All Directions combine the best elements of American Art and The Cosmic Drama, it exceeds them, resulting in what's bound to a genre-defining staple for years to come.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Loom
    Loom is just the band's first full-length, even though it sounds like a band's third or fourth album--a testament to the band's ambition and skill, which will ultimately place Frameworks in the same room with genre-pillars Touché Amoré, Pianos Become The Teeth, and La Dispute.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Quack
    It’s cheeky, groovy, and it always sounds as though it’s teetering on the edge of being a genuine irritant.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    The New Classic
    There's nothing to really chew on here, nothing to keep you coming back.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sheezus
    While there’s a healthy dose of filler on Sheezus, there’s still plenty of charmers.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Most Messed Up
    Those who soak up the sex-addled, beer-swilling rockstar lifestyle will find plenty of kinship with Most Messed Up, but don’t for a second call it their best work though, it’s far too narrow to be given that glory.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Holy Vacants
    From front to back, Holy Vacants is a visceral, fist-pumping cornucopia of rage, terror, disappointment and instability.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Devil
    Even though this isn't peak Chiodos (yet), Devil has the band on the right path to reclaiming the the top spot of the scene food chain sooner rather than later.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Undefeated
    Easily digestible, wholeheartedly inoffensive and very much DIY, this is an album that makes the forty minutes more than worth the investment. If only every disc could be this much fun.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Honest
    The album is, on face value, yet another rap record about the artists success in overcoming the hobbling obstacles of the drug industry. Stale as the concept is, Future breathes life into it by twisting it into his own image and owning it fully.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Lucky
    To call it a triumph is putting it mildly. Lucky is a clarion call to contemporary country music, a beacon of hope that proves just how much can be accomplished with just a voice and a vision.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Till Midnight
    Easily his best album to date, Till Midnight is a beacon of a record that will be looked at fondly come year’s end.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Rented World
    While Rented World may not offer the thematic comforts that fans of Impossible Past will be searching for, the album is stacked from top to bottom with can’t-miss tracks.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Happiness Is
    Happiness Is showcases how much each member of Taking Back Sunday has grown as an individual and a musician.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lights Out
    Lights Out is a more-than-satisfactory entry in the singer's solid discography, and easily one of the best pop albums of the year so far.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Try Me
    One of the most unique, reflective, darkly humorous, and brilliant records to grace ears in a while.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 93 Critic Score
    Reverie Lagoon: Music for Escapism Only
    Seahaven lost themselves at sea (figuratively) and emerged with the most surprising and refreshing album of 2014.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    My Krazy Life
    For such an expansive, detailed album, it can be hard to forget this is just his debut record.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Oh, Common Life
    Oh, Common Life offers up more layers than any past Fireworks release to dig through, but it does so in a way that can be gratifying at face value as well. It’s a record that gives a little at first, but can continue giving.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Teeth Dreams
    Teeth Dreams fits squarely in the band’s wheelhouse, generating the same sundrenched feel as their past records while simultaneously cultivating a sound and direction that is new for the band.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Waterfall [EP]
    The unrelenting force of these songs almost becomes too much, but Waterfall is over before you know it and somehow leaves you begging for more.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Cope
    What we end up with on Cope is not only an album that’s worth the wait, but one that seems to be pretty distinctly illuminating a path: soft-to-loud, simplicity over complexity and emotional release through power chords.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Wolverines
    Just like the three-eyed beast that graces the cover, Wolverines is a mean and lean punk rock record that sets the bar once again.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ledges
    Ledges is the kind of record that sounds great from the very first listen, but over time, as Gundersen’s words begin to cut deeper and take root, it transcends the mere prettiness that is so often the bread and butter of singer/songwriter records.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Issues
    Issues' debut album is not only a more cohesive effort, but it's the immediate answer to naysayers who say claim the band will immediately fade away into irrelevancy.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mastermind
    This album may be a step up from his previous outing, 2012's God Forgives, I Don't, but Mastermind hints that the Rick Ross story may have nowhere else to go.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Forcefield
    It's incredibly insular and sure of itself, but it's also smartly innovative.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Rooms of the House
    Rooms Of The House is an album that refuses to be pigeonholed or boxed in by someone's standards of "what post-hardcore should be." Instead, La Dispute span multiple genres, tempos, and inspirations over the course of LP3, resulting in an album that's equally exhausting as it is enchanting.
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