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For 3,519 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 81% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 18% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 78
Highest review score: 100 The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do
Lowest review score: 0 Playing With Fire
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,085 out of 3519
  2. Mixed: 407 out of 3519
  3. Negative: 27 out of 3519
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    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Lemonade
    Her boldest, most ambitious, best album to date.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    A Sailor's Guide to Earth
    Overall, the album is strikingly intimate.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Human Performance
    Nearly every cut on Human Performance--from the quaking paranoia of the album opener “Dust” to the brooding resignation of the closer “It’s Gonna Happen”--finds Parquet Courts exploring fresh sounds and reaching new heights in the process.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Beautiful Lies
    Even if the Eastern influence isn’t overwhelming there, the rest of Beautiful Lies flows together smoothly, perfectly soothing, never quite reinventing the water wheel, but never quite having to.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cleopatra
    Cheesy at times? Maybe. Still, the Lumineers fill the mainstream roots-rock void left vacant since Mumford & Sons went electric.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Call It What It Is
    It’s a welcome homecoming. Recorded in separate sessions spanning the course of a year, the 11-song set is his most diverse collection in years.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    City Sun Eater in the River of Light
    City Sun Eater in the River of Light is another accomplished album that’s just strong enough to differentiate itself from the pack.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Wilderness
    The result is a record that sounds less like the remaking they billed it as and more like an explorative sidestep.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    We Disappear
    This certainly isn’t the band’s best album, but it might be their most Thermals-iest album.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Patch the Sky
    A lot of these songs address loneliness, despair, and relationships ending, which gives Patch the Sky an extra slug to the gut. It’s not as depressing as it sounds--lyrics take a backseat to the group’s joyful noise, after all--and the good news is Mould has found a silver lining in his music
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Mind of Mine
    He tends to keep his lyrical focus exactly where you’d expect any 23-year-old’s to be: on good girls, bad girls, hard-to-get girls, and the partying and videogames that fill the rare downtime in between.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Post Pop Depression
    Underscored by high-octane tunes, Post Pop Depression runs the gamut from quiet introspection to brash rebellion--and stands tall as some of Pop’s most essential work in years.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    This Is What the Truth Feels Like
    She wears her girlishness on her own terms, and here it feels truer--and sounds stronger--­than it has in years.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    ArrangingTime
    While Yorn’s simplicity hinders unobjectionable but unremarkable ballads like “Shopping Mall,” he rarely plays the weepy balladeer on ArrangingTime and keeps momentum relatively strong throughout.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend
    On her stunning debut album, All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend, the now-19-year-old channels a similar magical vibe as the art-pop superstar [Björk].
    • 78 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Painkillers
    Painkillers is a compelling second act.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Long Way Home
    She braids her voice, bass strings, and percussions together to create whole conversations.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    More Rain
    Rain is, undoubtedly, about feeling like everything’s gone to hell--and Ward handles such a bleak worldview beautifully, with earnest lyrics and bare-bones arrangements.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Ouroboros
    Ouroboros is a perfect throwback to the lost art of the album-length format.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    iii
    For Miike Snow, words are hardly the point. iii’s guiding principle seems to be style over substance--and Miike Snow have that in spades.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Dig in Deep
    The album’s best moments aren’t when Raitt & Co. get lost in a nasty groove. Deep also features some of the most personal songs Raitt has ever recorded.... And it’s on those tunes where Raitt’s signature rasp and world-weary perspective cut deepest.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Need Your Light
    Ra Ra Riot have persevered, and despite one ill-advised detour into electronic music (2013’s Beta Love), they’ve only sharpened and mastered their sound: their fourth album, Need Your Light, might be their most artful and catchiest set yet.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    SVIIB
    It’s a fully-realized vision of the dreamy shoegaze-pop they’d sought to prefect for years.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
    Healy may get lost in his head, but I Like It... is a delightful, overshare-y trip that celebrates a new era of boundaryless pop.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    This Unruly Mess I've Made
    While Macklemore wants to provoke thought, the album’s real strengths are its mindlessly amusing tracks.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Phase
    You could argue that Garratt applied unnecessary polish over what might be a prettier patina, but he deserves props for mapping out his own terrain, accessibility be damned.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Painting With
    Part of what has made Animal Collective so revered is their disregard for traditional song structure and melody. They’re still testing those limits on Painting With, but the product rarely feels as groundbreaking.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Life Of Pablo
    Like the man himself, the album is emotional, explosive, unpredictable, and undeniably thrilling.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Wonderful Crazy Night
    Rollicking arrangements conceal lackluster songwriting on Wonderful Crazy Night’s more upbeat cuts, but when the tempos slow, John’s music suffers. Still, his voice is intact (which is more than some of his peers can say) and his showmanship still shines.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Matter
    Sure, Matter is boozy brunch music, but it’s probably the best brunch record ever made.
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