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For 1,396 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 29% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 77
Highest review score: 100 The Stand Ins
Lowest review score: 10 The Raven
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,197 out of 1396
  2. Mixed: 180 out of 1396
  3. Negative: 19 out of 1396
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Peace on Venus
    Given its largely austere terrain and relatively unvaried inclines, Peace On Venus is not ultimately a Bardo Pond album that lends itself to easy traversing. However, it still confidently captures a group holding its own against latter-day and more voguish heavy-psychedelic peddlers.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I'm a Dreamer
    Perhaps the only thing missing to complete the utterly charming and enveloping experience of I’m A Dreamer is being able to play it on a crackly gramophone with a shot of prohibition-era moonshine to sup on.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shulamith
    Poliça may have more to offer, especially if they can branch out from a blueprint that they rightly feel very comfortable with, but for the time being Shulasmith is a finely executed and thematically and emotionally rich record.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chelsea Light Moving
    As a whole this album evokes plenty of 80’s punk/hardcore styles, sex, drugs and rock and roll anthems and the always-welcomed unexpectedness that Moore seems to always supply us with.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Emancipated Hearts
    Wareham delivers Emancipated Hearts through a dark yet dreamy fog, honouring his past pedigree as well as finding fresh dimensions for his songcraft in the process.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tookah
    Tookah is a frustrating album because there are a couple examples of something fantastic happening in Torrini’s musical mind but it doesn’t quite deliver in the end.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Let's Be Still
    There is a hardy amount of sweet material on Let’s Be Still and it is a perfect accompaniment to a morning sunrise or a low-key soirée in the woods.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Chatma
    Whilst overall Chatma may lack some of the rousing freshness that made its two predecessors such heartfelt pleasures, it still respectably sustains the Tamikrest soul in all its nomadic questing.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sistrionix
    It’s a bit of a tightrope walk for any female rock stars though, retaining femininity while cranking up the amps and pushing the blues rock envelope right to the edge of the table, but Deap Vally sound and look like they know exactly what they’re about.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    AM
    In the end AM not only signifies a career-defining moment that neatly places the band on a proper pedestal for all to admire--this is where not only Arctic Monkeys have come but in many ways, how they’ve masterfully conquered and continue to simply win.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Electric Lady
    Stellar and superb, The Electric Lady is a fantastic journey filled with impeccable works of modern flair and skill, power up indeed.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An Object
    An album that finds them further exploring the depths of their palettes with another worthy album of expressive highs.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Apocalypse
    Bruner has elevated his game into something worth noting and more importantly, worth following.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Silence Yourself
    Ultimately, Silence Yourself is eleven songs of balanced, well-constructed rock music.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Modular Living
    If you’re only looking for a handful of records this year drawing-up from the seemingly bottomless Krautrock well, then make sure that this is one of them.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Slow Focus
    Slow Focus is a tremendously gifted album; one that remarks on what electronic music is still capable of, while knowingly realizing that the sky’s the limit.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fade
    With Fade, they’ve come across ten songs that all sound tight and of course, refreshing, against the backdrop of what might be their most consistent album to date.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    II
    It isn’t leaps and bounds better than its predecessor but within that time frame, they’ve all fine-tuned their act.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Run the Jewels
    In the end, it’s exactly what you would want and expect from the two skillful musicians. Run the Jewels is an album that was perfectly executed for the summer.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Impersonator
    It’s refreshing and still, a fine listen; Impersonator is in the end, its own refined identity.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Invisible Way
    The Invisible Way champions everything that is great about Low and realizes it through a neat and clear lens. It’s a formidable outing and at number ten, a remarkable feat met with solid results.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Overgrown
    Overgrown continues to build on a fantastic reputation: one that much like his music is aided by layer and layer of calculated additions that all together showcases one of music’s most gifted composers.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Still Smiling
    Their styles complement one another to produce a powerful combination on this album that captivates from start to finish.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    ...Like Clockwork
    It’s the kind of album we critics tritely refer to as a return to form but with the massively remarkable beast that ...Like Clockwork royally is, never has the phrase been more fitting.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bankrupt!
    The songs on Bankrupt! all still feature scintillating synths, gorgeous melodies and soaring moments of transcendent skill but with more of a flair for the dynamic tense of music.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Monomania
    This kind of hunger, this kind of uphill battle and this kind of gritty determination leaks out onto Monomania with tremendous results; the ending fruition is another gleaming winner for Cox and Deerhunter.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Yeezus
    Yeezus is the complete affirmation of an artist willing to try new endeavors and wholeheartedly nail it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Nocturnes
    While Nocturnes doesn’t have the immediate impact or supremely sticky quality of Little Boots’, AKA Victoria Hesketh’s, high-caliber dance-pop debut, Hands, it does display a slow-growing (Or is that glowing?) charm that rings true to the album’s muted title.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Random Access Memories
    With Random Access Memories, the duet has returned after a long hiatus from proper studio albums, with another triumphant winner.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dear Mark J. Mulcahy, I Love You
    Whilst as a whole Dear Mark J. Mulcahy, I Love You does perhaps miss having a few more mellow Mulcahy moments to give it a stronger balance of moods, its rapidly flowing melodicism is impressively infectious nevertheless.
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