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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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    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Look Now
    Look Now is another solid entry into an already healthy and vital body of work. It’s not his absolute best, but it still earns a spot in the meatier part of his iconic recording arc.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    I Loved You at Your Darkest
    I Loved You At Your Darkest is another strong addition to Behemoth’s remarkable run, which has now lasted more than a quarter century. It reveals some welcome growth within a subgenre of heavy music that has often been resistant to evolution.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    C'est La Vie
    C’est La Vie has moments of real beauty and depth while reflecting on fatherhood and settling down. But Houck should keep pushing into the strange, uncomfortable places where his best music gets made; now’s not the time to shrug it off.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Star Is Born [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
    Yes, the listening experience would have been improved with tighter editing, but there are a great many sins in the world, and a soundtrack being too-faithful to the movie is hardly the worst. There’s real joy in this music.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Electric Messiah
    It’s more streamlined yet just as powerful as previous albums. Although the flow of Electric Messiah occasionally drags in parts, it’s a welcome addition to the band’s discography.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Wake
    If you’re already a fan of Voivod, then you know how incredibly unique they are, and the quality of songwriting on The Wake is top-notch, making it one of the strongest metal albums of the year. Voivod have progressed exponentially since their raw punkish days.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Wanderer
    Wanderer is neither as harrowing as Moon Pix nor as kaleidoscopic as Sun, but it shows a mature artist who rides the waves of tumultuous experience--no less excellent for containing her multitudes.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    It's About Time
    After this long of a layoff, we’d probably be satisfied if a new Chic record simply ticked all of the expected Chic-shaped boxes and nothing more. However, for its first two-thirds at least, It’s About Time never settles for a pure nostalgia play.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Piano & A Microphone 1983
    Despite its intimacy, Piano & A Microphone doesn’t feel like trespassing on Prince because it doesn’t truly expose him. This recording doesn’t reveal the nuts-and-bolts inner workings of one of the greatest artists of all time. How could it? We get to listen as a visionary works with simple tools--and in the end, Prince’s genius remains as mysterious as ever.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    For My Crimes
    Though compact, For My Crimes is far from slight and marks another welcome addition into what’s become one of the best runs of the 2010s.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Iridescence
    Iridescence is full-to-bursting; it’s like almost eating too much food, almost drinking too much booze; it’s getting close to too much, and still asking for more.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Art of Doubt
    Despite presenting a more interesting record after 2015’s tedious Pagans in Vegas, Metric undoubtedly falter on their latest release. Their emphasis on guitars has certainly helped them, but Art of Doubt feels lacking in creativity. It’s a safe album, but safety can be insipid.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Chris
    It’s groovy and funky and sultry, and it takes things seriously while still being joyful. It encourages freedom of form, in the sense of both body and art. It’s the perfect second album for Christine and the Queens.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cry Pretty
    For her sixth studio album, Carrie Underwood has taken some modest political risks without changing her full-throated style. She knows what she’s good at, and Cry Pretty is full of the kind of songs that made her one of the most popular artists in the world.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Room 25
    The pleasure of Room 25 is in hearing a master wordsmith turn words into feelings so that the feelings linger long after the words have stopped.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Render Another Ugly Method
    Lyrics that need to be read aloud to be understood, plus an unsettling discombobulation of tempos, dynamics, and various internal compositions, plus Leschper’s monotonous drone, all co-existing for nearly one hour becomes mentally exhausting and almost frustrating halfway through Render.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Collapse [EP]
    Collapse is another entry in a remarkable run of work that Aphex Twin has been releasing since his return from a long and clearly necessary hiatus. It may feel like he is on cruise control a bit, but James’ coasting is any other artist’s magnum opus.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Head Cage
    A more focused sonic direction would have been more potent and a more adventurous one would have been more exciting. Still, every track delivers a bruising and it’s hard to imagine anyone interested in the group being disappointed by the album.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    And Nothing Hurt
    It stands tall as a late candidate for the year’s best rock record. Spiritualized has added yet another chapter to its wild, dreamlike musical legacy, proving that rock isn’t dead and that maybe everyone else just isn’t trying enough.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Kamikaze
    As a whole, the album may not be impeccable, but it’s the best he’s released since 2010.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Egypt Station
    Egypt Station is a minor entry in a major catalog, a Paul McCartney record for people who like Paul McCartney records.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Bloom
    Bloom is a fun record, dreamy and vulnerable and urgently horny. Sivan has a fresh perspective, and his force of personality enlivens tracks that otherwise might sound conventional. His best songs perform a kind of magic, with sentiments that feel universal to all of us and as personal as a fingerprint.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Flow State
    This is great pop music with an edge, a record full of good vibes and bad attitude that somehow manages to work everything out splendidly.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Big Red Machine
    There are moments when it feels admirable in its scope and ambition, but ultimately, the pure intentions get lost in the noise.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Negro Swan
    Negro Swan is a grand work that gives credit to the pioneers of the culture while building a path forward within that framework, placing Hynes firmly in the canon as one of the most insightful musicians of his generation.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Rainier Fog
    While not the strongest of the band’s second-era output, it’s a nice addition to Alice in Chains’ impressive discography.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Marauder
    Marauder is still Interpol, and it’s still pretty good. It’s got mood and emotion for days. But because the album is marred by nonexistent bass lines and, most concerningly, production and mixing choices that run completely at odds with Interpol’s natural strengths and most beloved idiosyncrasies, it’s nowhere near great.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Sweetener
    It’s rare for an album with so many stunning moments to suddenly become so aggressively mediocre. Still, the highs of Sweetener outweigh the lows. But with such lofty highs, it’s hard to be content with the album that is and not think about what the album might have been.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Thank You for Today
    Thank You for Today is Death Cab for Cutie’s weakest album of the decade and either a transition towards something greater or the first harbinger of creative decline.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Be the Cowboy
    Be the Cowboy shows that love and loss can be grand and small at the same time. That two minutes is more than enough time to melt down emotion into a pure concentrate and nearly drown yourself in it. That every moment can be a epic love story, that every heartbreak can be as hard and small as a pearl and just as coveted.
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