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For 4,036 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: 2,751 out of 4036
  2. Mixed: 1,214 out of 4036
  3. Negative: 71 out of 4036
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Blue Banisters
    The accumulation of these ideas can become monochromatic, meandering, and repetitive; apt background music for loitering in the bath. The most pleasurable and moving, even unsettling, moments on Blue Banisters arrive when Del Rey breaches, however gently, her own boundaries.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Music of the Spheres
    [“Coloratura” is] the song that most resembles the free spirit of Everyday Life and how much they’re capable of pulling off in a 10 minute, sprawling odyssey. Even more, it shows how resistant Coldplay are to becoming Maroon 5. If the rest of Music of the Spheres is any indication, then unfortunately, that’s where they’re headed.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Juno
    Juno is bursting at the seams with pop idiosyncrasies, thirteen tracks of controlled chaos. ... It’s also a remarkably cohesive album.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Friends That Break Your Heart
    Love is messy, and friendship can be even messier. With this album, James Blake succeeds in tapping into the ways that these emotions can be tangled together, for better or for worse.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Love for Sale
    Gaga has always been an emotional performer, and she does quite a bit of heavy lifting on Love for Sale, but Bennett’s vocals remain crystal clear. The album (unsurprisingly) is at its best when the two are together.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Let Me Do One More
    Its feeling lingers long after her patient request. Despite the humor, wit, and sharp-edge of illuminati hotties, there’s a definable sense of sadness throughout the album, and its resulting resonance is a major success for Sarah Tudzin and Co.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    A Beginner's Mind
    De Augustine is the perfect match for Sufjan’s gentle vocal style — the two have very similar voices, to the point that sometimes it’s almost hard to differentiate them, but the similarity works in the album’s favor and lends each duet a feeling of tenderness and proximity.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Torn Arteries
    Torn Arteries has an absolutely rotten personality, but one soaked with black humor and charm — not to mention stellar riffs and performances — for those with the patience to get to know it. Those looking for unrepentant brutality can look to Cannibal Corpse, but those looking for something more complex need to taste this masterpiece of bitterness.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Montero
    Lil Nas X’s 15-track rookie album is filled with raw emotion, honesty, and a lot of insight.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Star-Crossed
    star-crossed is a definite departure from Golden Hour in many ways, but this effort still retains enough of that magic to feel like a connector from her previous era to the present moment.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Senjutsu
    The more valid question is whether Senjutsu is worthy of Iron Maiden’s illustrious catalog, and the answer is an emphatic yes. The LP stands out among the second Dickinson-era albums for its symphonic touches, memorable songs/riffs, and airtight mid-tempos.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Certified Lover Boy
    Drake’s new release may lack some of the variety of his previous albums, but its concepts and musical structure make for a solid body of work.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Donda
    Donda is Kanye West’s best album since 2013’s Yeezus. Those who stuck with him through thick and thin will love it, while the rest of us can safely dip our toes back in the water.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?
    Rather than worry about finding an answer, they’re enjoying flexing their musical skill sets, adapting them to artists who fuel their own creative energy, and bringing us along for the journey in the meantime.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Glow On
    Turnstile have already built a devoted following with their previous releases and legendary high-energy live shows, but Glow On takes them to a new level. It’s a fearless album that doesn’t bow to genre conventions, establishing Turnstile as the present and future of rock music.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Screen Violence
    Screen Violence contains cathartic moments, anthems in the dark, and they approach them with tact and enthusiasm.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
    On If I Can’t Have Love, there’s romance, there’s sadness, there’s plenty of trademark defiance, but some of the album’s best moments are the most intimate.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Solar Power
    Solar Power is pleasant background music, an album you might default to beside the pool, but it ultimately lacks the cinematic grandeur that made tracks like “Green Light” or “Ribs” so deeply moving.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Infinite Granite
    Infinite Granite is a stunning journey from beginning to end, as Deafheaven continue to refine, develop, and even experiment with their identity. Undoubtedly, it contains some of their boldest and most heavenly material to date, and it peppers in just enough heaviness to embody the other side of their sound.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pressure Machine
    The stark, stoic songwriting coursing through Pressure Machine tells a much more layered story however, and by the time that same train can be heard approaching in the album’s final coda, it’s up to the listener to decide whether it’s a harbinger of impending doom or an altogether different way of finding your way out of life in a forgotten town.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Model Citizen [EP]
    Model Citizen is a clear and cohesive step towards a post-Warped Tour, pop-punk-celebrating audience. And though some of their more specific reference points may be stuck in the MySpace era, Meet Me @ the Altar are proving that they’re right on time.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    King's Disease II
    The original was proof that Nas, a cat known to bathe in ’90s aesthetics, could spin gold with a producer known for the exact opposite. KD2 fulfills that idea, as the pair double down on what worked the first time, toss aside what didn’t, and find the perfect center between 2021 and 1991.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Happier than Ever
    With this collection, she proves that she was not just a shot in the dark or a blaze lighting up the sky for only a moment.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night
    The resulting effort is a largely uneven collection of songs that span everywhere from an actual Bruce Springsteen collaboration to subdued, orchestral ballads, from ‘70s-indebted heartland rock to ‘90s-inspired slow jams.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Sling
    Sling may not have the pop-centered style of Immunity, but it’s one that features Clairo’s impeccable ability to craft intimate, emotive songs. It’s a record that’s musically indebted to the past, but it’s done so in an adventurous, fascinating way.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Vince Staples
    Vince Staples is introspective without being isolating, thoughtful without being boring, and innovative without being pretentious.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Our Extended Play [EP]
    It cements what she does best: giving trends of the past a clever and useful update. Our Extended Play comes from a place of sincerity, relying on familiar comforts without ever feeling out of date.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Planet Her
    Planet Her maintains the versatility that Doja’s Hot Pink performances hinted at, but it all hinges on her knack for a singalong chorus, and fits cohesively in our ever-diversifying pop landscape. The result, while not terribly profound, is an album full of bulletproof bops, with the help of some well-chosen star collaborators.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Call Me If You Get Lost
    To Tyler’s credit, he didn’t rest on his laurels. Instead, he crafted a concise piece of work about a very confident adult realizing his own ego is both his best asset and indeed his worst enemy.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Death of a Cheerleader
    Death of a Cheerleader is a cohesive, emotionally affecting work. With this album, Mia Berrin solidifies her place among the newest class of indie stalwart songwriters, carving out this space in a fearless and vulnerable way.
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