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For 4,039 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Channel Orange
Lowest review score: 0 Revival
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,753 out of 4039
  2. Mixed: 1,215 out of 4039
  3. Negative: 71 out of 4039
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Hymns
    Even in Hymns’ clumsier moments, the band never try to be something they’re not.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Dystopia
    It’s political without being overt, the production is strikingly heavy, and the good tracks outweigh the bad. At this point in his career, it’s as strong an album as anyone can expect from Mustaine and his revolving door of performers and should pull Megadeth out of has-been status.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Coliseum Complex Museum
    The Montreal outfit sounds like they’ve run out of ideas and are starting to repeat their already expansive catalogue.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    New View
    The album’s weaknesses aren’t unforgivable; they just too frequently sound limp and over-saturated in storied traditions. The verve and unpredictability that so frequently fueled her songs are lost and sorely missed.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Death of a Bachelor
    Death may be messy, but it’s not necessarily the end, just another explosive event.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    HITnRUN: Phase Two
    While Prince is raging against the dying of the light, there exists no graceful innovation on HITNRUN Phase Two. Instead, Prince presents only an aped version of his one-time vitality.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    A New Place 2 Drown
    This is music created under the role of the supportive brother, and for much of it, he’s too focused on his sibling’s creations to fully flesh out his own work.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Skeletons
    Skeletons’ canned production is tolerable up to this point, with the riffs and drums serving as background noise to Danzig’s trademark voice, but it only dilutes a track like “N.I.B.”.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Head Full of Dreams
    No matter how overblown or nonsensical Coldplay have progressively gotten since 2002’s watermark A Rush of Blood to the Head, as long as they deliver one gobsmacking single per album, they’re kings--and rightfully so. That’s how you build a career. A Head Full of Dreams follows suit with first single “Adventure of a Lifetime”.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Wake Up!
    The music never threatens to eclipse the message. If anything--and this might sound like a strange criticism of a Christian rock album--it’s too reverential.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Monastic Living [EP]
    The end result plays like a record for the band much more so than the fans, who might be hard pressed to hang in there with it for repeated listens after the curiosity factor wears off.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Aquaria
    While AQUARIA is uniquely Asher’s and probably unlike anything else you’ll hear this year--a mix of heavy, grinding industrial beats and quick, nimble lyrics that whiz by like the view of the landscape from a train window--the truth buried at the bottom of the bass drop is that Asher himself isn’t yet magnetic enough to make his own material shine.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Early Risers
    The best things Soldiers of Fortune have going for them are a palpable sense of energy and camaraderie. But after that ["Campus Swagger"], Early Risers gets a little too loose, a little too freewheeling to stay interesting as an LP.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Delirium
    Ultimately, chunks of Delirium cement Goulding’s place in our current pop soundscape. However, the album doesn’t fit together as well as, say, 1989 or E-MO-TION.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us
    Music saves the misfit kids, but not every pain can be walloped into submission. Beach Slang sound less interested in ripping that pain open and exposing its insides than they are in shouting over it, and The Things We Do can start to sound like an exercise in emotional extremes.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Now I'm Ready
    Now I’m Ready plays like a collection of tracks that didn’t quite make the cut on the season’s coolest synthpop albums, familiar despite its unfamiliarity, pleasant if not exciting.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pylon
    The finished product is still strong and consistent, to be sure, but with the lack of variety, Pylon is likely to be remembered as an album that just kept a constant rhythm for 56 minutes.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Return to the Moon
    It’s undoubtedly healthy for musicians to step outside of their main project to spread their wings and create something new. But in the end, the project reads as only a slight tweak on Berninger and Knopf’s established voices.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    All We Need
    Raury’s simple, yet passionate rap delivery doesn’t fare all that well when forced into shared space with established stars of the genre.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tape Loops
    When listened to as ambient noise, the album adds a layer of elegiac beauty to its surrounding environment, but when listened to intently, it presents a frustrating experiment, a Möbius strip of perpetual return.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    As If
    The middle section of the album is stellar, and for a few fleeting moments, it all seems to work. Unfortunately, the rest of As If is much less engaging.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Color Before the Sun
    While many of the songs on The Color Before the Sun do fall into a certain post-hardcore formula that’s used over and over again throughout the album, the journey presented therein makes the difference.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Psychic Warfare
    Fans of Sult’s style and metallic blues riffs will find a few gems among these tracks, but this is merely par for a Clutch album.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Still Got That Hunger
    It’ll satisfy the crowdfunders who have already paid for it, and if it helps the band bring their classic albums to more live ears, then it has done its job. As a work on its own, though, the Zombies’ sixth studio album comes off more polite than hungry.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ruff
    If they want to pursue content, chipper, marshmallow song structures, then that’s fine, but it’s nearly impossible not to think they do hope, deep down, to make something more than that. If so, RUFF doesn’t lead them any closer.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Innocence & Decadence
    Active fans may be left underwhelmed and wanting more. So, while you’ll likely be tapping your foot and nodding your head, you might also be wrestling with the fact that none of this is new.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Better Nature
    Lee may be an expert when it comes to lush atmospherics, but he’s simply not interested in pursuing the small mistakes that give a song its personality.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    1000 Days
    1000 Days sounds like a Cory Hanson solo album and a stagnant development for Wand, who, instead of progressing toward a heavy psych sound patently their own, settle for a gentler, safer pop record.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Every Open Eye
    Every Open Eye goes down smooth, but it’s hard not to miss the moments of exhilaration that used to power the band.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Rattle That Lock
    Heartfelt, if not always inspired musings are scattered throughout the record.
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