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For 4,038 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: 2,752 out of 4038
  2. Mixed: 1,215 out of 4038
  3. Negative: 71 out of 4038
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lupercalia
    While he succeeds fairly well at ensuring that Lupercalia spends its every minute displaying his emotions on its sleeve, it's fairly safe to say that this record won't exactly storm the charts.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Treasure
    Yes, it's a live album, but not "this is what he's been doing recently." If anything, this feels more like a vault release of a new band with familiar faces. Above all, you can feel the exuberance that comes from playing raw, unbridled live music, and there are few from that generation who excel at this better than Neil Young.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sun and Shade
    While there's still a sense of DIY sound on Sun and Shade, the focus of the music has a much more communal feel.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Errant Charm
    The Errant Charm is, on the whole, immensely successful – a venture outside of a comfort zone, a triumph for an artist who has consistently put out quality music only to be instantly likened and compared to a list of formidable influences, and an excellent soundtrack to hazy summer days and introspection.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Loud Planes Fly Low
    The Rosebuds instead have limited themselves and recorded an album that's generally good while being limited in its emotional scope and thus utterly disappointing in the long run.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Two Matchsticks
    Two Matchsticks marks and forges a charm of its own.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Euphoric Heartbreak
    Album closer "Change", a quiet piano-led piece which experiments with spoken word is a poignant and welcome diversion which, if Glasvegas had looked to explore it more fully, could have furnished a much stronger and more wide-ranging sophomore effort. As it stands, this one slumps. Low.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Teenage Hate
    For Jay Reatard's followers, this is a great chance to look back in the past and discover where his music started and, with the benefit of hindsight, see how it evolved. It may not win over any new fans, but the ones who followed Reatard's career should be pleased with Teenage Hate/Fuck Elvis, Here's the Reatards.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ukulele Songs
    On their own, each of the 16 songs are mildly admirable. Altogether, they're incredibly grating. In fact, if you weren't paying close enough attention, you'd be convinced the same song had been spinning for nearly 35 minutes.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hit After Hit
    Most of the songs clock in at under three minutes, and the Sunsets definitely know how to make the most of the time they've chosen to take.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ninth
    Ninth may not live up to what one expects from early Murphy or Bauhaus, however it does do its job fairly well, and it's unlikely that Murphy will top this awesomeness alone (unless there's a reunion of his old band in the works).
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cults
    For a debut album, it works, giving fans a taste of what to expect from Cults in the future. But, the album could have benefited from swapping a few tracks around and sticking with the earnest catchy sensibilities and immediately favorable pop-like nature.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Suck It and See
    Even if Suck it and See didn't shape up to be as fine an album as it proves to be, the quartet behind it deserve major credit for their ensuring that any conversation about them has to do, first and foremost, with their music.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    David Comes To Life
    The missteps of narrative are easily paved over by the energy, power, and fun of the music. As such, rather than feeling constrained or overwrought, this is a concept album where you can forget the concept for a while and just dive right in.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Leisure Seizure
    How long before the next Vek release remains to be seen, but Leisure Seizure will be stuck in your head long after you quit listening.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a Corporate World
    A fair amount of the content on the debut can be summarized as dull or even expected. That said, this is a solid pop record, and one that should find an audience, namely the same audience that found the band's biggest influences.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gloss Drop
    As a whole, the album has a lot of impressive musicianship, outstanding atmosphere, and interesting composition. That said, it lacks a lot of the pure, frenetic energy with which its predecessor pushed and pummeled.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cannibal Courtship
    Slinky, sultry, sophisticated--the multidimensional Dengue Fever will make love to your inner indie rocker.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    All Things Bright and Beautiful
    Overall, All Things Bright and Beautiful isn't a bad album; it's just not very interesting.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sugar Daddy Live
    Buzzo will be Buzzo, the Melvins will be the Melvins, and we will all have to either love it or stop caring. But with more consistently impressive performances like this, it'll probably be the former.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Disc-Overy
    The album is a good listen, but it isn't anything the world hasn't heard before.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sketches from the Book of the Dead
    It's an album dependent on listener mood and one that can often feel droningly dark and unfocused.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Go With Me
    Go With Me is assuredly worth more than a few listens. The fact that this collection of sun-bathed rock tunes have arrived just in time for summer makes it all the better.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Circuital
    It's an album containing 10 diverse songs--all performed with near immaculate precision--that reward with repeat visits.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Codes and Keys
    That being said, though, while Codes and Keys is a pleasing listen, it ultimately does lack the depth to make it really memorable, and some of the sacrifices made to create its poppy aesthetic are terribly unfortunate.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Attention Please
    Here, the band focuses on building atmosphere and creating interesting soundscapes rather than high-volume noise. This is rare: quiet Boris.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Heavy Rocks
    Because Heavy Rocks can't seem to figure out what it wants to be, it falls short of other Boris albums.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Head and the Heart
    Even as singers Jon Russell and Josiah Johnson's voices flow together swimmingly over Charity Thielen's violin, the album never truly succeeds at living up to its name.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stone Rollin'
    Saadiq's genius spin on this sound is almost too fresh for its own good, occasionally finding itself in an over-indulgent state, but what's good about Stone Rollin' is great, as Saadiq succeeds in creating an album that almost any music listener can get into.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Give Till It's Gone
    He might lack a sense of direction personally (at least right now), but it's this lack of clarity that has produced a very focused record.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pala
    Yeah, you could tag Pala as any number of things, but there's no arguing that this is anything but pure, unadulterated fun.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Director's Cut
    Director's Cut can be seen as new work, because some of these songs are very different to their earlier versions in tone and scale; both sets of work are equally brilliant, but here there is even more clarity of purpose,
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Brilliant! Tragic!
    While the album is again principally focused on Eddie Argos, it's not exactly the same Argos. He has his quieter moments, his darker moments, even a rare, purely happy one. It's not a huge difference, not one that makes this seem like it's somebody else's album, but it's a difference nonetheless.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Born This Way
    By the end of it, there's little doubting Gaga's sincerity. For all of her schlock and posturing, it's hard to remember the last time a pop star was this sincere.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bury Me in My Rings
    The Elected's pop sensibilities are in full throttle for 42 minutes of glistening '70s AM bliss that never sacrifice the thoughtful melancholia that has always characterized Sennett's lyrics.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Paddywhacking
    Friley's crooning is the consistent attraction throughout Paddywhack, creating a warbled daydream for listeners to fall into.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Demolished Thoughts
    His fragility, his strong, intriguing lyrics, his textural mastery are all on display, but something more biting seems missing.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tan Bajo
    While wild, boisterous garage rock is hardly hip in mid-2011, the breakneck speed and balls-out ferocity of Tan Bajo would be welcome at any time.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Born with Stripes
    Musically, Born With Stripes could use a touch more diversity, but vintage chops, summertime hooks, and a lack of filler are all certainly something to be admired.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Turtleneck & Chain
    In the end, Turtleneck & Chain ends up being about on par with Incredibad--maybe even a bit better, regardless of the flaws.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Innings
    Nodzzz are best in small doses, their tooth-achingly sweet indie pop causing some trouble after more than a few tracks in a row. Too many songs sound too similar, and that use of "effortless" at the beginning proves to be a deal-breaker.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tha Funk Capital Of The World
    When Collins' distinctive voice and bass work have been limited to side projects and guest appearances on others' albums for this long, it's disappointing when he seems to be hiding on his own album.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Time Travel
    Time Travel has some stellar moments but is not quite the album to make a star of Alessi's Ark. The singer has time on her hands for that to happen, and happen it surely will.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Air Museum
    If Mountains deservedly rose to prominence with the critical acclaim of 2009′s Choral, then Air Museum should cement that praise. This album is a serious triumph.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Start and Complete
    Many of the tracks start out promising, but they don't have the excitement needed to keep listeners hooked.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Destroyed
    It's a jumbled mess that's partly aggravating in its derivative nature. Not coincidentally, you live up to the album's title by its end. Still, like any long, tiring trip, it's the moments that count. Moby continues to excel in that.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Double Cross
    The Double Cross captures the band at their best, with well-written, catchy, and smiley songs that still hold a lot of depth to them, but seem tailor made for summer listening with the top down.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Feel It Break
    The creative basis for the album's sound and feel are quite original (look no further than the two official NSFW videos released for the album here and here), but after about a half-dozen tracks, it seems like the Austra motor sort of sputtered and died in terms of creativity.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Aesthethica
    Plateaus are boring, flat, and the first act of Aesthethica is precisely that (though lead vocalist Hunter Hunt-Hendrix asserts they're on some higher plane).
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Moonlight Butterfly
    This album goes past relaxation, past tranquility, into a place that leaves me numb.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    White Fence Is Growing Faith
    In contrast to the Kinks, White Fence eschews the immediacy of hooks in favor of impenetrability.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    W
    It might be tempting for some to initially dismiss Planningtorock as weird for the sake of being weird, but W exposes an artist who is experimenting with musical conventions, with bizarre and often captivating results.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Moment Bends
    It's always admirable when an artist or a band attempts to create a piece of music that differs from what came before. Unfortunately for Architecture in Helsinki, their new work fails as a cohesive whole, salvaged only by two or three songs here and there.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rome
    For all of its glorious string flourishes, vivid visual allusions, and bursts of choral splendor, the best parts of Rome are truly left to the imagination.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Goblin
    All this underlying pathos ultimately makes for a sad and honest chapter in Tyler's career - his young, ground-breaking, fascinating, magnetic career that's only like, three years old. He'll get off that couch of his soon enough.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Smother
    The ultimate beauty of Smother, though, comes from its subtlety as Wild Beasts continue to transcend conventional pop music with yet another great addition to their catalog.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Move Like This
    Move Like This is indistinguishably a Cars album. Not since their breakup in '88 has anyone sounded remotely close.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Inclusions
    Through these tracks and beyond, Sollee keeps things interesting with his sonic creations.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eye Contact
    Even though this is the band's most accessible album yet, casual listeners should still beware. Like most Gang Gang albums, it first comes off as overwrought jumble. But with repeat spins, it gradually morphs into its true nature of earworm irresistibility.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My ______ Is Pink
    The gamble was worth it as they have improved as artists and presented an album where you never know what will come next.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Past Life Martyred Saints
    A record that is both magical and heartbreaking, Past Life Martyred Saints looks to be a beautiful start for Anderson, who has a small handful of live shows set up for the summer.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The January EP
    Its mischievous and fun with an undercurrent of sadness--definitely a charming release to add to their catalog.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dead to Me
    Girls Names have managed to take all that familiarity and bring it to a mysterious place, where seemingly disparate worlds of innocence, pain, dancing, and dreaming are encouraged and inhabited, taken back to the future.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Life Fantastic
    There are some moments of fresh maturity here (particularly "Shameless" and "Life Fantastic"), but none that top the mature moments on the last album ("Poor Jackie" and "Whalebones"), as well as not producing any fun jams as good as the last album's.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Am Very Far
    Part of the problem with I Am Very Far is that he's felt too much. It's impacting to the point of bruising.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hard Bargain
    Emmylou Harris has rightly earned a reputation as an interpreter of songs and as a songwriter. Most on this offering are her own and not all hit the spot.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Songs for the Ravens
    In the sense of everything common and respectively boring, the majority of Songs for the Ravens doesn't pull off anything new and exciting.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    XI Versions of Black Noise
    It's an added complement to the previously released Black Noise, with each track taking on a life of its own. Remix albums can sometimes fail to really serve a mass audience. XI Versions is good, but a casual fan might take the title literally--and mute it out entirely.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Helplessness Blues
    It's an album that makes you sad that it's not longer; sad that it can't just go on forever. This sentiment alone should indicate the caliber of album Fleet Foxes have created in Helplessness Blues.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Magnetic Man
    While Magnetic Man demonstrates their work candidly, you haven't heard the works of Skream, Benga, or Artwork until you've seen them live.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cat's Eyes
    Unfortunately, there are as many lows as there are highs on this debut.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2
    Every ounce of Hot Sauce spectacle comes from so many ridiculous angles, it's a wonder that a single arbitrary reviewer could just throw words about it onto one page.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thao & Mirah
    Thao & Mirah is everything a collaborative album should be: Two artists use their divergent, but complementary, approaches to push each other out of their comfort zones and into new musical territory.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Fishin' for Woos
    Fishin' For Woos, the surprising 11th studio album from the band, lacks just about everything a record needs to be taken seriously.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Silesia
    Silesia is certainly a pleasant listening experience but not quite a memorable one, stopping just short of developing its own unique personality.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Love With Oblivion
    In Love With Oblivion stands as a solid second attempt for a group with a promising future.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Paper Airplane
    If, like me, your hillbilly musical tastes lean toward bluegrass, you're likely to forget this one.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rolling Papers
    Rolling Papers may be Wiz Khalifa's studio debut and his breakthrough record, but as far as mainstream rap goes, it's far from it.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Death of a Decade
    Unfortunately, this formula grows tired by the end of the album and paired alongside questionable tempo decisions, Death of a Decade ultimately loses too much steam for redemption.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dancer Equired
    There's a glint of genius in these songs that's best realized if you turn this album up as loud is it can go and think about relationships and stuff. Even if noise/lo-fi/shitgaze is showing its wrinkles, its heart still beats strong here.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Thecontrollersphere
    While more or less a collection of bastardized leftovers from the False Priest sessions, longtime fans should rejoice as the band finally rekindles their longtime relationship with unpredictability.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
    Any questions as to whether they or their sense of artistry have had too long to coalesce are promptly answered and put completely to rest by album's end, as they prove just as able as ever to build tension to stunning emotional heights and bring it all crashing down in spectacular displays of cathartic release.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Vaccine
    Too often, Vaccine is overly intent on bouncing between genres and styles.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hanna
    Some tracks are pretty, some are ominous and haunting, a few are just plain fun, but all the songs on the Hanna OST are quality electronica from one of the genre's foremost acts.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This Modern Glitch
    The effort's as sweet as any candy and just as jarring as inhaling 11 inches of the stuff in one sitting.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Michel Poiccard
    There is a lot of flash-in-the-pan potential in the band, but I'm sure there will be some Williamsburg/Soho hipsters that will hang on long enough to give The Death Set a second or third 15 minutes.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Deep Field
    Like some of rock 'n' roll's most revered performers, Wasser likes to evoke a little bit of danger and grit.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Idle Labor
    The over-the-top mopey lyrics combine with the spot-on New Order impressions to come away as another solid, uninspired New Wave revival disc.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Creep On Creepin' On
    After listening to the Creep On Creepin' On, it's recommended that the listeners get some as well--the constant bleakness and nightmare-inducing weirdness warrant some immediate remedy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    GB City
    GB City might not be your cup of tea, but it could stand to help us who were around to relive the glory days of Geos and cassette decks.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Give the Drummer Some
    A whole album of subtly punk drummer-laced singles, compiled for his posterity, and lacking a hefty amount of rhyme skills or dramatic effect.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Thousand Heys
    It's a out of focus Polaroid, a soggy Pollock demonstration, or, to stick with the name, an unfavorable maze. Given its short time, it's unlikely you'll write home about this one.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Evening Tapestry
    The instrumental quality on Evening Tapestry is beyond solid, but altogether, it's a recognizably decent piece of retro psychedelic pop.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Something to Die For
    The Sounds' latest release is another attempt to gain entry into the world of success that eluded them when their contemporaries took off into permanent stardom.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Who Kill
    We just get to experience the full potential and realization of her creativity, which fortunately encountered technology apt enough to record it.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wit's End
    The meandering phrasing alongside the slew of instruments all work together incredibly well, resulting in an album that certainly is no soundtrack to a sunny day but is perfectly suited to a contemplative night alone.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Flux Outside
    Despite its flaws, Flux Outside is an album filled to the brim with energy, sincerity, and fearlessness of a music world overrun by genre conventions.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Trash Hit
    It's genuine in its apery, controlled in its messiness, powerful in all aspects; a fun, nostalgic listen throughout.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Meyrin Fields
    I'd like to hear Broken Bells at its strongest, not nestled into mediocrity.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Raven in the Grave
    Raven in the Grave is a step in the right direction, to be sure, but the melodies aren't quite as fresh on this album and the songs often lack the soundtrack-y emotional wallop that older albums relied on.
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