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For 4,040 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: 2,754 out of 4040
  2. Mixed: 1,215 out of 4040
  3. Negative: 71 out of 4040
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Quarterbacks
    Though the 19-track, 22-minute album zips by at a Black Flag pace, the songs feel more akin to Calvin Johnson’s monotone confessionals. Engle’s voice is meek and exposed, though he still manages to assert himself over the pummeling drums and sharp guitar riffs.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Chasing Yesterday
    Chasing Yesterday, the second album from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, sounds an awful lot like Gallagher’s past efforts, which isn’t a bad thing at all.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Aureate Gloom
    If you’re a Barnes completist, it’s totally worth a listen. For everyone else, it’s hardly essential.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    O Shudder
    Since the LP’s 11 tracks always keep the listener at arm’s length, it’s best to treat them with the same indifference. Don’t be the reacher in this relationship.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    What Happens Next
    Gang of Four have always been emotional in their own way, but when the emotions are broadcast so loudly, they drown out the anxiety. They drown out the energy.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Let It Reign
    Save for the singles, it all feels inconsequential. It plays more like a young band who grew up worshipping Up the Bracket, rather than identifying with the songwriter who helped forge the sound.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    True Romance
    There are moments on this album that provoke genuine optimism for where a song might go, but then Estelle starts singing lyrics so genuinely bland and awkward that all hope is lost.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Whatever, My Love
    Even if not all these songs are memorable, many are still damn catchy.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sorry 4 The Wait 2 [Mixtape]
    It’s certainly not the worst Lil Wayne has done, especially with fluid performances on “Fingers Hurting” and “You Guessed It”. It’s that recklessness that’s absent.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Transfixiation
    It’s not a bad or poorly constructed release by any means, but it is emotionally monotonous, the sound of three incredibly angry dudes spewing their grievances about the world while impassably dense guitar distortion splashes around them.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Big Dark Love
    Big Dark Love is brilliant where many MBD albums also thrive: in setting a stage.... The problem is that watching the band set up the stage is still more interesting than the production that follows.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Uptown Special
    When it comes to Uptown Special, Ronson put so much effort into polishing the crown jewel that he let the rest of the album tarnish.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Range Anxiety
    Range Anxiety is an album of endearing earnestness and jangly charm, and it will stand on your doorstep asking to come inside and chill for a while.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Shake Shook Shaken
    ["Trustful Hands" is] an obvious standout, the track succeeds at melding the duo’s earthy past with its streamlined present. If only the rest of Shake Shook Shaken combined The Dø’s left and right brain as seamlessly.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
    Even with its stunning, heartfelt moments, it’s hard to think of Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance as a cohesive Belle and Sebastian album. The band manages to blend their signature brand of subdued indie pop with new, bombastic disco cuts, but sometimes the disparity can be jarring.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    American Beauty/American Psycho
    The band’s talent and the occasional strike of inspiration make it impossible to write off AB/AP entirely. Let’s just hope they eventually strike a balance that’s true to themselves and doesn’t come off like a mainstream radio retread.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Pale Emperor
    A lack of “oomph” prevents the album from landing a gut punch that would cover all of its flaws.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Words to the Blind
    Words rarely coheres into a legible sequence of rhythms or melodies, rarely evolves into more than textural noodling and atmospheric energy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Habitat [EP]
    At times, Habitat feels like a slapdash collection of tracks that didn’t fit anywhere else.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    A Better Tomorrow
    While the goodwill is obfuscated by a lack of direction, A Better Tomorrow is made further futile because of the misinformed goal of simply giving the fans another Wu-Tang album.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hood Billionaire
    For now, Hood Billionaire is a half-baked testament to how difficult it is to make great records in rapid succession.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Family
    The album’s 10 tracks are likely to frustrate as much as excite Thompson loyalists.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hypnotized
    While many of the ideas on Hypnotized are promising, many are also beaten to death.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Avonmore
    Some musical movements and bands age well, and others don’t. For the most part, the sounds that Ferry references here fall into the latter category, though the album does have its bright moments.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Inevitable End
    The Inevitable End doesn’t have too much to say that hasn’t already been said either by Röyksopp or their descendants. But when it does hit on something, it screams its lungs dry.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Antemasque
    For all of its bombast, the album’s last third fails to maintain much interest, especially the meandering “People Forget”, which sticks out in a group of otherwise tightly structured songs.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Other I
    There’s quite enough here to suggest that 2:54 will continue to develop and mature, but that may involve reaching out more than searching within.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Storytone
    Besides his inflexibly skeletal vocals being an awkward fit for a full orchestra --his phrasing has a hard time keeping up with the loose, big band swing of “Say Hello to Chicago”--some of his clunky lyrics become even clunkier when taken out of a more hushed, intimate setting.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Michael
    His abilities as a storyteller remain relatively unchallenged, an attribute that is almost wholly absent from the album’s 11 tracks.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Endless River
    As part of the greater whole of Floyd records, it’s an oddity, more relevant for its context in the band’s history than the music.
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