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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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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ghostory
    Maybe if we had more records that shot to the moon this high for beauty and romance, we'd have a more beautiful world.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hello Sadness
    Hello Sadness is a thrilling success for the most part. Los Campesinos! have tightened up their sound but haven't lost any of the musical elements that made them successful in the first place.
    • 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.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Excavation
    Listening to Excavation is a profoundly visceral experience.
    • 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.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jinx
    The record hits you in the spaces you didn’t realize were blank, like that moment that is the sliver between thought and expression.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
    The end result is an incredibly ambitious and personal effort that shines, sparkles, and thrills.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Meltdown
    Mind Spiders' Meltdown offer upbeat rock n' roll in a short amount of time, with moments to breathe here and there, but ultimately leaves you breathless.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dear Mark J. Mulcahy, I Love You
    Dear Mark J. Mulcahy, I Love You plays like a love note to fans, blending Mulcahy’s singular solo sound with that sugarcoated Polaris vibe in 35 minutes of irresistible pop bursts.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On the Water
    Their dreamy, romantic and melancholy music is the perfect accompaniment to hope, the kind that can pull you through, and in a time of timidity, they are true believers.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Five Spanish Songs [EP]
    It’s simply a beautiful little record that anyone can enjoy.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Count Yer Lucky Stars
    Thanks to a dedication to old-school sounds and a timeless sense of songwriting, Gringo Star has established itself as a truly great act.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Man Who Died in His Boat
    Rather than be pulled into the darkness, Harris boldly searches for meaning in this gorgeously reproduced world.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Life is Good
    This is Nas' strongest album in 18 years and three months--yes, since his debut album Illmatic.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Standing at the Sky's Edge
    ["Before" is] one of many standouts in a nine-song collection that engages body and mind throughout.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Get There
    Get There is an intelligent, authentic alternative rock album that sounds as enjoyable to live in as it probably was to make.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Anxiety
    Ashin raises the bar. He relinquishes his inhibitions on Anxiety, an R&B diamond in the dense, desultory rough.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Overseas
    Perhaps unintentionally, perhaps not, Bazan, Johnson, and the Kadanes leave us in a solemn haze by utilizing little more than two tastefully composed guitar lines. They lead us from the noise and the pain of the previous nine and a half songs, credits rolling, reminding us that the best-written music rarely requires tricks to incite its intended affect.
    • 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.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Garden Window
    Garden Window is, by and large, a successful 11-track record that scrapes a wide palette to enhance each nuance tastefully, movingly, manically well.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shapeshifting
    On Shapeshifting, their first album for Paper Bag Records, Young Galaxy have found a sound that lives up to McCandless's compelling voice (it seems Ramsay has been reduced to a secondary role, save for opener "The Angels Are Surely Weeping"), and it provides an overall sensation very unlike their first two attempts.
    • 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.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Broken Dreams Club
    Broken Dreams Club may only be an EP, but if it's any indication of the future of the band, then Girls will sophomore soar, rather than slump.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Panic of Looking [EP]
    This music is mysterious and spectral. It's quite unshakeable.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Put Your Back N 2 It
    It's a fleshy album (in many senses), and every time Hadreas tip-toes away from maudlin piano-ballads and towards Xiu Xiu's experimental side of the spectrum, the album really lights up.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blood Pressures
    Compared to 2008's Midnight Bloom, Blood Pressures sheds the more pop beats and synthetic sounds and embraces a more simplistic, almost vintage-y blues punk hybrid.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Holy Ghost!
    Holy Ghost! may not be a game changer, but it's not redundant in an electro-pop scene increasingly dominated by progressive disco.
    • 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.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tron: Legacy Reconfigured
    It's by turns soft and loud, gentle and harsh, humanistic and totally machine. And it's very, very danceable. It's the album you were hoping Daft Punk would write last time, only Daft Punk didn't write it-but they did score a major assist from their friends here.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Abandon [EP]
    Even the sharpest pain, the deepest hell can be survived, and Abandon is a reminder of that.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cabinet of Curiosities
    Like those fables we so fondly remember, Gardner’s debut is unforgettable.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kindred [EP]
    Kindred as a whole is easily the most exciting Burial release since Untrue redefined dubstep way back in 2007.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Repave
    These songs demonstrate the absolute best of both of Volcano Choir’s sides, as well as the album’s way of operating in waves: washing over everything with vicious crashes, then peacefully receding, smoothly repaving everything behind them.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pacifica
    From word one to the closing synth note signifying The End, Pacifica is a literary and musical sensation worthy of true scholarly attention.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Metals
    The album itself is worthy of praise from any angle you choose to view it.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Slaughterhouse
    There isn't a whole lot of blood in Slaughterhouse, but it is a thrill ride, and an exhausting one at that.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No Kings
    No Kings, the second time Doomtree has stepped out for an all-crew release, is a triumph of musicianship.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Constant Sea
    Heliotropes show a surprisingly mature and focused control of their formula on A Constant Sea, luring you in only to eat you alive.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Life Is People
    Fay's songs sound as if they've simply been hanging out in the ether for all these years, just waiting to be put to tape.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Spooky Action at a Distance
    Showcasing his most straightforward songwriting yet, Spooky Action at a Distance solidifies for us what Pundt has always been: a vital element of Deerhunter and an understated conjurer of rock reveries.
    • 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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    R.I.P.
    Now that the percussive elements are conspicuously absent, however, Actress requires a more thorough listen–and those that give it full attention will be rewarded with layers upon
    • 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.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Live Love A$AP
    LiveLoveA$AP is worth nearly all of the incredible amount of buzz it's accumulated in recent weeks.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Carrier
    The result is an intricately variegated album torn between two countervailing threads: heartache and rejuvenation.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The 20/20 Experience
    20/20 succeeds because it’s groove-based, which is to say, it’s neither pop-based nor logic-based.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Twins
    Twins works to include both the bombastic noise that made Lemons a cult hit, and redefine any notion of what Segall is capable of.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ugly
    Indie rock albums with this uniquely developed a voice don't come around often, especially not when it's this much fun.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Next Day
    One has to dig deep and fight uphill to connect here, but that climb results in a rewarding, fascinating listen.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Breaks in the Armor
    These compact morsels of art-folk grandeur set the scene perfectly for one another.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pedestrian Verse
    Here, finally, is a Frightened Rabbit for all seasons: warm, buzzy tracks intersect with quieter, calmer numbers, and a few touches of the old acidic sadness, all tied together into a multi-dimensional package.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dead Reckoning
    Beyond the elaborate prose, the songs are outstanding and full of an energy that combines careful technique with rousing jams. Dead Reckoning is a unique and wild experience, one that's not to be passed up.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sugaring Season
    One of the strengths of this album is how Orton alternates moods while maintaining a sense of pace.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Let's Go Eat the Factory
    Factory may not be Guided by Voices at its very best, but it's certainly Guided by Voices at its, well, Guided-by-Voiciest.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Icky Mettle [Deluxe Edition]
    If anything, the extras better inform the choices eventually made on the band's debut, highlighting just how great a record it turned out to be (since, basically, they'd been doing it from song one). Put simply, Icky Mettle is a gem of early '90s rock worthy of a place in the indie Smithsonian.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    L'Ami du Peuple
    As always, Kinsella comes across as well-read, thoughtful, and concerned, reflecting the veteran musician’s early Cap’n Jazz days as much as his new fatherhood.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cancer4Cure
    C4C is something more sinister and involuted: It's El-P fighting El-P, but damn is it fun to watch.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Loud City Song
    Loud City Song is a sightseeing trip with a person fully able to portray the objective beauty of the sights, as well as her own take on them.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beyoncé
    The entire team delivers on the 32-year-old singer’s ambitious aspirations. There’s an incredible stylistic range displayed within the constraints of the album’s contemplative and darkly seductive tone.
    • 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.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Bravest Man in the Universe
    The Bravest Man in the Universe is the sound of that perseverance in the form of an album, but it's also Womack at his darkest and most vulnerable.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Put Your Sad Down [EP]
    Compared to Ghostory and its pockets of heat beneath a glacial surface, Put Your Sad Down exudes warmth, its playfulness invigorating the ever-evolving SVIIB and further pushing the boundaries of the "nu gaze" movement.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    (III)
    III is less playful than the duo's previous couple of offerings, but it's thematic mood is much tighter and more fully realized.
    • 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.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    TNGHT [EP]
    The duo's debut, self-titled EP may only span five tracks, but after repetitive listens, replacing your amps, and multiple refreshment breaks, be prepared for it to take up an afternoon.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bloodsports
    In a way, it’s the most honest collection of songs Anderson’s ever written.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Chronicles of Marnia
    On Marnie Stern’s fourth album, her guitar playing is as grand as her self-doubt, yet The Chronicles of Marnia is Stern’s most buoyant work.
    • 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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Get Along [Live]
    The 15-track live album is a testament to what a polished act they have become.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Both Ways Open Jaws
    In an era where music comes from literally every corner of the globe right to our fingertips, The Dø makes an alluring sound that is more integrated and effective than the UN.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Swing Lo Magellan
    Swing Lo Magellan is an album that will break hearts, bring joy, and deliver emotional notes that few others could.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    America
    This is a sonic representation of the grandeur of America as it stands, a classically inspired composition built with all the tools available.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Know What Love Isn't
    I Know What Love Isn't is an endearing and guileful extrication of the learning process.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    House of Balloons
    The Weeknd have brought something much more, something much needed: something real. Kudos.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    100 Lovers
    The music is second to none on this album, truly, and is only made more potent with wildly imaginative lyricism.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Outside Society: Looking Back 1975-2007
    She is an artist that defines edge, pulsing with an energy that no other musician could duplicate, delivering images and lines that no one else would have imagined.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Echoes of Silence
    Thoroughly compelling and impeccably produced.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Engravings
    Engravings is the sound of a man walking out into the coastline with his headphones on, the epic, Saxon past showing through the fog and playing with the Anglo present’s love of electronic music.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pearl Jam 20 [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
    All great bands evolve throughout the years, but what Pearl Jam Twenty shows is how they managed to grow out of their grunge beginnings without ever losing sight of it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Matangi
    Matangi is the best M.I.A. album since at least Kala.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mount Wittenberg Orca [EP]
    It's easily accessible and immediately enjoyable, something that can't always be said about these two artists who like to challenge their listeners.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Middle States [EP]
    Any listener that's ever heard a twinkly-guitar emo/screamo band and found its vocals a bit melodramatic and its arrangements boring should give The Appleseed Cast an honest shot.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Devil's Walk
    Devil's Walk is not an attempt at a new sound. It's an exposition of how to create a new sound and how to do it at a level that connects with the listener.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Those Who Didn't Run
    While it may not have the pop flourishes that the LP did, Those Who Didn't Run showcases Stetson's innovation and raw power.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nothing Violates This Nature
    There is a superhuman force and a willfully ignorant level of intensity involved in this band’s approach that simply places them in a realm almost entirely free of peers.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bliss Release
    Cloud Control's lyrics may not be revolutionary, but that isn't the point of Bliss Release. It is a demonstration of truly versatile, fresh talent, a debut full to the brim of completely absorbing, compelling songs.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cupid's Head
    A sentimental, succinct collection of independent tracks, all of which are raw, honest, and scrumptiously concocted.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Movement
    Futuristic and still visceral, even sexual, Movement's strength gleans itself from the subtleties.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    De Vermis Mysteriis
    De Vermis Mysteriis gets up in your face, and it never really steps back until it's over.
    • 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.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    El Camino
    El Camino distills its predecessor's high-octane fumes and high-profile influences into very nearly the Platonic ideal of rock and roll.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Return to the Ugly Side
    Much of what makes Return to the Ugly Side a success is its sincerity to the duo's source material.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Silent Hour/Golden Mile [EP]
    Silent Hour/Golden Mile achieves exactly what a debut solo EP from one of the people behind one of the most acclaimed indie albums of the past few years should.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Catch My Shoe
    It's got hooks and noise, songs to dance to and songs for fighting. The lineup change isn't the cause of this, though; instead, it's just further proof that Moor, Bornefeld, and Hessels were just as important and powerful as Sok in the band's mixture.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Wasteland Companion
    A Wasteland Companion finds the melancholic Ward in fine form, and with this effort, he only further establishes his legacy as one of our under-appreciated greats.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Replica
    Replica catches Lopatin at the peak of his powers, realizing his esoteric vision with a newfound brazenness, clearly helped along by the success of his recent work with future-pop outfit Games/Ford & Lopatin.
    • 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.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mala
    Mala may not stand as the zenith of the man’s catalogue, but it’s a highlight worth exploring and a dreamy journey for the taking.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Port Entropy
    It's a wonderful record of a musician and songwriter in his prime, but one that requires a willingness to go on a ride, with an open mind and a willingness to have some fun.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What the World Needs Now
    With each additional listen, this album opens itself up to being more than just an instrumental soul album, but one layered in blues and gospel, sunshine pop and the rhythmic groove of soul jazz.
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