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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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    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Barter 6
    Barter 6 feels like a step in the right direction rather than a destination, proof that Thugger can put together a complete package even if it’s less than adventurous.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Detour
    None of the songs on Detour are without at least some merit, though a few are without any discernible marketplace value, save niche kiosks along I-40 or the occasional road tripper’s Spotify.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Good Sad Happy Bad
    As a document of reunion between friends, Good Sad Happy Bad feels honest enough. On its own, it hits a note too lethargic and too muted to stick the way Levi’s past work has done.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Museum of Love
    Fans of the label and the genre will find many familiar elements to love, but anyone expecting the LCD tree to sprout an overwhelmingly exciting new limb will likely be disappointed.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Estara
    Like a Japanese cherry blossom, however, the impact of E S T A R A is instantaneous and powerful, yet ultimately fleeting.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Recess
    With Skrillex’s synth swipes holding it together, the album cannot help but become disjointed due to the numerous collaborators.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    What Went Down
    Taking a large musical step forward was the right move for Foals to make; smoothing the album out repeatedly until it becomes flat wasn’t.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    FWA (Free Weezy Album)
    Occasionally, Wayne sounds either torn about the kind of music he wants to be making or even just short on ideas.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Boy King
    There’s sonic beauty everywhere in Boy King. The arrangements are impeccable and frequently ingenuous, but the album doesn’t yield much on repeated listens. Somehow the humanity of Wild Beasts’ previous work is nowhere here.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    New Skin
    CRX might pride themselves on not focusing excessively on cohesion, but on the level of the individual song, a lack of unity can undermine otherwise powerful elements. With New Skin, CRX have defined the parameters of who they are as a band. Going forward, they will need to find harmony in the tensions between them.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    SR3MM
    On Sr3mm, Discs One, Two, and Three are all hanging out on the same street corner. There are plenty of interesting moments. But it would have been nice to go on a journey.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Scene Between
    If the record lacks the spunk and originality of past releases, then it more than makes up for it with the breadth of delightful hooks that flow through each song.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Southsiders
    Southsiders is an Atmosphere album, which means that it is going to be better than many hip-hop releases this year, but it’s also exactly what you’d expect from the artists and has moments that feel outdated.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Aquaria
    While AQUARIA is uniquely Asher’s and probably unlike anything else you’ll hear this year--a mix of heavy, grinding industrial beats and quick, nimble lyrics that whiz by like the view of the landscape from a train window--the truth buried at the bottom of the bass drop is that Asher himself isn’t yet magnetic enough to make his own material shine.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Super
    While Super is not indicative of the next big thing, and a few of the more club-oriented numbers sound more like remixes than actual songs, it’s an enjoyable way of catching up with the Pet Shop Boys while being served something fresh.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Before This World
    Before This World, though not a particularly remarkable album, reacquaints us with an old friend, one who we wish would visit more often.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Damage and Joy
    On the whole, everything proceeds much too predictably and with far too much caution and restraint.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Fallen Angels
    Dylan may naturally be better at the brooding that Shadows required, but these types of decisions equally prevent Fallen Angels from matching its predecessor.
    • 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.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Art of Doubt
    Despite presenting a more interesting record after 2015’s tedious Pagans in Vegas, Metric undoubtedly falter on their latest release. Their emphasis on guitars has certainly helped them, but Art of Doubt feels lacking in creativity. It’s a safe album, but safety can be insipid.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    With Light and With Love
    While With Light and With Love might sound more instantly accessible than previous Woods albums, it also shows that it might not be a good thing for Woods to tinker with their most defining quality: the intimacy of their songs.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Sweatbox Dynasty
    Closer “Let’s Get Worn Away” manages to be more anchored with its sonic goals, able to shift through six or seven different phases to make it clear that Fec is aiming for a collage-like final product. Elsewhere though, Sweatbox Dynasty is mostly just composed of individual pieces of a collage, a mashup, a pastiche, whatever you want to call it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Ellipsis
    Clearly Biffy Clyro see themselves as strivers, a band that charges relentlessly forward. But at times, listeners might wonder if they’re headed in any interesting direction.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Glasshouse
    Though Glasshouse has its fair share of misfires and middling material, it’s never for a lack of vision. Even when songs veer towards the pristine inoffensiveness of a Sam Smith, Ware’s affable personality is largely present.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Do To the Beast
    This reinvented band reflects Dulli circa 2014, and this record sparks fresh intrigue but sadly never quite rekindles what made the Whigs so unique in the first place.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Everything Now
    In a word, Everything Now finds Arcade Fire in a place they’ve never been. It’s unsubstantial.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Ghost Stories
    The balance is off, and some songs suffer from a lack of direction.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Neon Icon
    While Neon Icon likely won’t be the push that RiFF needs into the public consciousness, it certainly won’t hurt his reputation.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Process
    In the era of extraordinary machines, Yvette’s Process is abrasive yet still human to the core.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    For Those Who Stay
    When the record grazes the ceiling, the adrenaline is thrillingly palpable. But when it falls, it falls without grace.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Art Official Age
    Neither Art Official Age nor PLECTRUMELECTRUM aims to be a legendary Prince record, but both hit their marks anyway.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Savage Imagination
    Their many-layered universes, however, spiral without building to a truly dramatic moment, either within each part or between the parts of the whole.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    PlectrumElectrum
    Neither Art Official Age nor PLECTRUMELECTRUM aims to be a legendary Prince record, but both hit their marks anyway.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Dame Fortune
    The entirety of the record, in fact, feels like it’s trailing a few years behind. It frequently doesn’t quite grasp the soulful, jazz-adjacent vibes of the Brainfeeder crew and similar coastal cool.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Wildewoman
    The two women command their stage throughout, taking disparate styles in their stride.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Froot
    Jumping from intense outpours to cheeky pop, it’s an album of songs meant to be cherry-picked and passed on, not listened to as a whole.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Command Your Weather
    Command Your Weather is a passing blast--intriguing to devout followers and a punishing rehash for those who’ve already heard and digested the band’s best material.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Swimmin' Time
    The darker tone on Swimmin’ Time shows they’re able to change things up, but they may be too afraid of losing their momentum to really be daring.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Femejism
    Deap Vally are most compelling when they dig further than irreverently dismissing superficial, mainstreamed feminism, but rather go on to explore what makes modern womanhood disturbing or even terrifying, the omnipresent eye of patriarchy be damned.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    And the Wave Has Two Sides
    And the Wave Has Two Sides might functionally serve for constant, heady background atmosphere, but it won’t help in understanding what ON AN ON intend their music to stand for.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Held in Splendor
    What would be even more effective is more focus on spanning dynamics and intensity, which can come naturally when shooting for something a bit more personal, but that doesn’t negate Splendor as a successful sophomore step.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Paranormal
    They aren’t content to simply let Cooper’s past speak for itself. Rather they lard the album with references to his best-known songs and try to get his backing band to often ape the instincts of the original Alice Cooper Band. ... The album is, at least, bookended by some strong material.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Suck My Shirt
    Suck My Shirt isn’t a huge departure for a band that likes their place in the garage, but it’s enough to keep fans busy without dulling the edges.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Please
    Lerche’s playful expressions of heartbreak capture those [emotional] extremes with competent, if rote, poise, even if a few of his experiments fall flat.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Makes a King
    Makes a King, in comparison [to the Very Best’s early albums], feels a bit one-note, though they can still hit that one note hard.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Danger in the Club
    This is a professional album, but the Violets are known as professional rabble-rousers, not professional studio rats.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Hymns
    Even in Hymns’ clumsier moments, the band never try to be something they’re not.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin
    Despite the record’s production, some of the group’s most ambitious to date, it feels incomplete, seemingly ending five or six songs early. It’s a grower, yes, but there’s too much to unpack for it to sound vital to modern hip-hop’s equilibrium.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Musik, Die Schwer Zu Twerk
    Despite it purposely avoiding any links via nomenclature, Electric Würms echoes Flaming Lips. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing is purely subjective, but here’s hoping that Drozd will get to maintain the helm on future projects.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Harry Styles
    The missteps don’t detract too much from this ambitious, if slightly unfocused, debut.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    MC4 [Mixtape]
    It’s a diverse guest list, and as a consequence, MC4 is too disjointed to feel like a definitive statement.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    We Can Do Anything
    The band’s ninth studio effort ebbs and flows, but in the end, it has enough going for it to merit its existence, which is more than a lot of bands can say about their second-stands.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Television Man
    For now, with the biting and enjoyable Television Man, the band feels a bit stuck in a predictable art punk sludge.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    No, No, No
    No No No is agreeable front to back, but it’s miles away from the youthful, heartfelt, inspired work of Beirut’s past--a world that may be too washed over with sadness to ever truly pull exuberance from again.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Annabel Dream Reader
    It’s not that The Wytches aren’t capable of ballads or contemplative space, it’s just that they haven’t found a way to do so in a way half as uniquely or powerfully as they have the big, explosive stuff.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Anthem of the Peaceful Army
    On their debut, Greta Van Fleet proves their ability to resurrect the sounds of the past, but not necessarily that they’re ready to make those sounds into something they truly own.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Free Spirit
    On Free Spirit, Khalid sounds caught between wanting to play a superstar and wanting to be himself, with the result that he sounds like neither.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
    Yorke chose a modest delivery method for a modest album, hinting that the real goods have yet to come.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Eagulls
    The band surely know their strengths and have developed their sound, but the individual songs suffer when stacked on top of each other.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam [EP]
    Thundercat releases typically detail grand worlds, but The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam relies too heavily on unspecific, cliched lyrical pain.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    A Letter Home
    A Letter Home won’t in future decades be listed alongside the best or the worst of those offerings, but it might find mention as one of his oddest fleeting experiments, alongside Everybody’s Rockin’, Trans, Greendale, Living with War, or lord knows what else is still to come.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Ghettoville
    Considering potential downsides, the record stands decently by itself, but in no way akin to the power of the intermediate standalone albums; thus, Hazyville becomes necessary for a fuller appreciation of this release.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Ludaversal
    Ludaversal offers little originality.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
    There’s plenty of filler here, but at least it all works toward trying to inject some humanity back into the world of buzz-worthy pop music.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Neuroplasticity
    Neuroplasticity, at times, makes Spx sound out of place on her own record.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Emmaar
    For better and worse, surprises on Emmaar are scarce if there are any.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    This Is the Sonics
    They keep up with the kids so convincingly, though, that The Sonics fall into the exact same traps. While the lyrics largely aim for cheeky goofballery, they occasionally flounder in eyeroll territory.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Commontime
    The intangibles are all here in spades, and it’s obvious these guys have an exciting vision. Commontime is just arranged in such a way that the album’s contents are thrown into disarray.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Life Of Pablo
    West finds control on an album whose first half is uncharacteristically wild. The focus present on these tracks [Waves, FML, Real Friends, Wolves] are what is expected of West.... But the strength in these moments also highlight how rudderless the rest of Pablo often feels.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Ultimate Care II
    Ultimate Care II, then, is less an album and more a curio, perhaps better suited as part of an installation art piece at Matmos’ inevitable MoMA retrospective in 20 years than as a proper album.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    In the Lonely Hour
    In the Lonely Hour is inexpressive and hard to sit through despite being built for easy listening.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Wild Nights
    At times, Wild Nights can err towards being too cerebral and not visceral enough, especially in the case of ponderous songs like “Got It Bad”.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Remember My Name
    Remember My Name sounds a lot like a lot of other things.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Heydays
    At just 30 minutes, Heydays plays it cool, breezy, and quick without much weight to throw around.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Overjoyed
    Despite its goofy grin, squeaky clean production, and cheesy lyrics, Overjoyed is a good thing.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Blue and Lonesome
    In the end, the record feels like a copy of a copy, though produced on what may just be the world’s best copier. If nothing else, though, the record works as a pleasing re-centering for one of the greatest rock bands of all time.
    • 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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Instant Money Magic
    These dudes release albums to air out their childlike, messy, giddy punk spirit, and they’ll continue to do so, even if they drop a few meandering tracks into the mix.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Desired Effect
    An album that works best when politics and organized religion get the brush off.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Spend the Night With…
    Cheena offers something different enough to merit a listen, although it’s hard to imagine Spend the Night With... leaving the kind of footprint on the impressionable young artists of tomorrow that the bands and luminaries Cheena so dutifully reference have left on them.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Never Hungover Again
    The album’s heavier points tend to slant alternately intriguing and confusing.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Higher Truth
    Higher Truth ironically doesn’t strive for anything higher. It stakes its claim in the rich soils of the middle ground, a place that values intimacy above innovation, quiet truths above the ones that scream. And it’s all the better for it.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Tranquilizers
    Tranquilizers is a fitting companion piece to Velvet Change, providing two ends of the spectrum that Jones has found himself in. His evident comfort with this material is encouraging, but it’s clear that there’s still room to progress for Dog Bite.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Delusions of Grand Fur
    When it works, Delusions of Grand Fur makes a case as Rogue Wave’s strongest album, an expansion of sound anchored by the omnipresent sweetness of Rogue’s voice. But where it falls short, the ghosts of Permalight and Nightingale Floors loom ever larger, a haunting reminder of the growing distance between the band’s sterling Sub Pop debut and current quagmire.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Nabuma Rubberband
    Nabuma Rubberband is Little Dragon’s selfish record, and splendidly so. Some of the sweet moments in its strongest tracks, however, are lost in others, as is the nature of an album with standout tracks.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Teen Men
    As a debut, it’s fitting that Teen Men makes it sound like the quartet is still figuring out the dimensions of the “bedroom” aspect of their bedroom pop, picking out the figurines for the bookshelf and just how fluffy the pillows on the bed should be. It’s also clear, however, that they’ve got good taste and a promising decorating plan.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Black Market
    All told, it’s a mixed bag, but it’s a healthy, if occasionally wobbly, step into new territory.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Rattle That Lock
    Heartfelt, if not always inspired musings are scattered throughout the record.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Muzik
    This is a welcome step forward for a promising band, and a beautiful statement. However, in practice it becomes a bit laborious. Each song hangs in the same atmosphere, offering little variety but plenty of good vibes.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Extra Playful [EP]
    For the most part, Extra Playful makes a nice addition to any modern rock playlist, though there's nothing on here that will drop your jaw.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hesitation Marks
    By playing both to nostalgic sensibilities and trying to literally occupy the same territory he once did, Hesitation Marks is only welcome in that it puts Nine Inch Nails on tour. But, for the album itself, the good ideas seem to have been wasted on trying to revive something that killed itself years ago.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mac and Devin Go to High School [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
    This album is, in a single word, comfortable.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Need Your Light
    The results are mixed, surely, but not anything other than what they are.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Evil Empire of Everything
    The best of The Evil Empire of Everything simmers like the frank dinner table conversation afterwards-a dialogue that white America rarely gets to hear and one that gets cut tragically short on this record.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    O.N.I.F.C.
    Wiz doesn't often come across as having much of direction, but things like that are what make him strike as more lost than ever here.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Rubberband
    The finish is messy, the mixing hops from decade to decade, and the album flow is nonexistent. There are a couple of great moments, especially “Rubberband”. But without those finer touches, it often doesn’t even sound like Miles Davis, just some dude blowing a horn.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Weatherhouse
    The album is an interesting but probably forgettable footnote in the history of one of the most influential bands of the 21st century.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Talk That Talk
    This album is lacking fiercely in the big-time, gargantuan smashes Rihanna has made her career on. Even still, there are a few sonic creations on Talk That Talk that give the listener something to celebrate.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fain
    The album loses its confidence through multiple exhibitions of mundane excess, fracturing the dexterity to hold up over time, and proving that not everyone can focus in deep isolation.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Haerts
    Haerts is a frequently catchy mastery of tried-and-true sounds, but ultimately there’s not much that deviates from the sugary, straightforward formula that caused the group to explode in the first place.
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