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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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    • 67 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    High Life
    You can applaud them for chasing a creative high, but from two artists of their caliber, listeners should expect something better than High Life.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Shaken Up Versions
    It’s best to approach The Knife’s Shaken-Up Versions with caution, even though the blade has dulled this time around.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Donker Mag
    Die Antwoord’s bombastic concerts and larger than life stage personas are not to be missed. However, this wild energy and devil may care attitude yield weaker dividends after being bottled and pasteurized in a studio that appears staffed by a cadre of rejected Saturday Night Live sketch writers.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Government Plates
    The focus is less on total mayhem and more on creating droning dystopian soundscapes that MC Ride might occasionally hop on to yell over.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Supermodel
    Equally appropriately, with increased attention comes increased expectations and increased scrutiny, neither of which are met by this sophomore release.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
    What The Cautionary Tales needs is a prudent pruning. This album struggles to appear deeper than a common puddle.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Sweet Disarray
    For someone who records under his own name and not that of a collective, Croll remains a mystery, a patchwork of influences content to blend in, not to stand out.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Teeth Dreams
    From the sloppy production and uninspired arrangements to the fact that Tad Kubler hasn’t written a memorable guitar lead since 2008, Teeth Dreams sounds like the characters in its songs: past its prime and just trying to get by, but with the past creeping back in and not letting anyone forget it.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon
    Maybe it’s because we’ve grown accustomed to Cudi’s style and the influence it’s had over other artists, but at this point, it just sounds a little bit stale.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    Angel Guts: Red Classroom
    The songs that are okay sound derivative; the songs that sound new are oozing messes that rough up everything that’s ever made Xiu Xiu work.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    After the Disco
    The songs, sonically and structurally, don’t sound contemporary at all. At best, they sound like disco by way of these two artists, both of whom have been making similar songs for five, maybe ten years.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Because the Internet
    Rather than provide a solution, or even insight into the Internet reality, Gambino simply adds to the frustrations. The big reveal at the album’s conclusion is that he was (likely) trolling all the trolls, but what about the fans?
    • 65 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Nina
    Of course, it doesn’t make sense for Stewart to try to stand toe-to-toe with Simone’s vocals, but the close-mic’d, barely there vocal performance offered on Nina is a tragedy for a man who is a talented singer in his own right.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Talk a Good Game
    ["Dirty Laundry" is] so raw and visceral that we finely see her as intended: vulnerable, flawed, and totally real. She tries replicating that authenticity, but there’s only the uber-cliché “I don’t care; we’re over” anthem “Gone” and the album’s superficially enjoyable title track, which Rowland approaches with some intriguing level of nuance.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dogs Eating Dogs [EP]
    DeLonge's forgettable chord progressions feel like an afterthought to lyrics that try too hard to fit into Blink's more morbid adult persona of late.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Medicine
    Despite the occasional glimpse of colorful ingenuity, Medicine is an utterly sour experience.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Information Retrieved
    All Information Retrieved provides is leaking creative inertia.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    North
    It's unclear what the band has been doing during its lengthy hiatus (their last full-length was released in 2002), but keeping up with current music trends was evidently not on the to-do list.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Based on a T.R.U. Story
    The album is at its best when guests take the microphone and falls short nearly everywhere else.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Living Things
    Breaking down barriers is not the forte of Top 40 rock music, but when you can't tell the difference between a Linkin Park track and something produced by a plebeian confusing dance beats for real drums, something has to give.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    POP ETC
    Rather than bursting forth with something new and unique, they wind up rehashing stale sounds and leaving the listener with an entirely unmemorable experience.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
    While it's a whopping 19 tracks, half the album is nothing more than bargain-basement pop knockoffs of everyone from Beyoncé to Keri Hilson.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Kids in the Street
    Kids in the Street is uninspired, '80s-laced material.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Anarchy, My Dear
    Parts of Anarchy, My Dear feel so unedited that it gets a little embarrassing for the listener, but when Say Anything collects itself, it has something to say.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Giant Orange
    An album desperate for texture, flavor, and risks, Giant Orange is the aural equivalent of middle-of-the-road musical tragedy.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Some Nights
    Skimming the top, fun. gets credit for its positive attitude and pocket full of catchy melodies, but on the whole, Some Nights remains forgettable.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Six Cups of Rebel
    [A] superficial lack of organization and purpose.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Unexpected Victory
    Victory isn't going to blow your mind by any means, but it's the first time in a long time a Wu-Tang brother has stumbled.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    This Means War
    A deluge of whining that's lyrically incomprehensible and becomes sonically dull after one song.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    BAYTL
    Just another unnecessary, forgettable mixtape.
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