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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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Fear Inoculum
    Granted, it’s a bit of a slog: six of Fear Inoculum‘s 10 tracks spiral past the 10-minute mark. However, these tunes don’t resemble multi-part, Yes-style “prog epics” as much as rock songs stretched into the longform vistas of post-rock, psychedelia, experimental music, minimalism, and jazz.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Norman Fucking Rockwell!
    Over its 14 tracks, Rockwell keeps its midtempo mood steady, whether Del Rey’s characters are rushing down low-lit California highways or hiding out in anonymous Valley suburbs. The songs tend to flow into each other, although Antonoff and Del Rey’s partnership does result in some lovely musical moments.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Let Love
    Important sentiments may abound here, but they're missing a solid follow-through. [Sep 2019, p.101]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Aug 27, 2019
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Iconology [EP]
    That Iconology wound up being a five-song EP, with two of those tracks having the same bones, was a bit of a letdown. But the material is still strong, with Elliott showing how she can flip and reverse even the most tired pop tropes.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Lover
    Lover is the latest proof that keeping tabs on her journey still yields its own fascinating rewards.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    I, I
    i,i, feels as confident as anything he’s ever done: a dense, richly layered showcase for his continued aversion to the standard rules of grammar and the deepening of his defiantly uncommercial sound.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    1123
    A few times, 1123 is too stuck in its own sensibilities for its own good — the inspirational, album-closing “Reach” is not much more heartening than any inspirational track you’ve heard over the past five years — but if BJ insists on staying within the margins, at least the borders are neatly kept
    • 71 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Big Day
    A master lyricist, a musical omnivore, Chance and his family of producers and instrumentalists channel all the big emotions of the big day in a swirl of bliss, marital and otherwise.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Lion King: The Gift
    The Gift leans on variety to express its love of blackness, yet a singular voice proves just as affecting.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Late Night Feelings
    Feelings all goes down easily, but Ronson’s own creative DNA remains a mystery. This isn’t his manifesto; it’s a mixtape.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    7 [EP]
    With 7, there’s too little conviction to tell if a full project is something Lil Nas X wants to do. At best, there’s a set of half-considered songs. At worse, you’re left wondering why anyone fussed over Blink-182’s Enema of the State in the first place. ... It's not the work of a star, but a timid upstart. [5 Jul 2019, p.42]
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Western Stars
    Placing intricately detailed portraiture on massive musical backdrops has been a Springsteen trademark for years, of course, and Western Stars continues this legacy, transforming the enormous into the intimate. [14/21 Jun 2019, p.104]
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Madame X
    She still has a lot to say on Madame X’s 15 tracks. ... But its global sounds and millennial guest stars, including rappers Quavo and Swae Lee, can feel more like obligatory flag-planting than organic evolution. As an artist, Madonna owes nothing to some ageist, retrograde idea of what she’s allowed to be; if only Madame felt like a more compelling rebuttal to all that.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Social Cues
    The album's introspection paired with its urgent energy make Cage The Elephant sound more passionate than ever. [3/10 May 2019, p.95]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Apr 29, 2019
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hurts 2B Human
    As with most Pink albums, the song-to-song shifts result in some misfires. ... But those missteps are raised up by the solid material that surrounds it.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Labrinth, Sia & Diplo Present LSD
    The album's mix of tropical vibes and experimental hooks give LSD a pleasant, lush, varied landscape of tones and tempos.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Free Spirit
    It's frustrating, then, that Free Spirit's sanded-down sprawl more often than not threatens to suffocate any presence of a personality imbued in the music itself.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    When I Get Home
    A stunning effort. Solange creates such fully realized art that even when she may be expressing uncertainty and doubt, she’s charging herself--and her audience--with finding possibility.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Canterbury Girls
    The sisters are truly coming into their own here, exploring new sonic avenues and expressing themselves with beautiful, and occasionally brutal, honesty. [1 Mar 2019, p.51]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Feb 25, 2019
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Father Of 4
    Offset often sounds drained in a way that doesn’t really invite empathy.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    thank u, next
    It’s a lovely, intimate collection that embraces its essential paradox of being both a grand pop statement and a bedroom-pop wonder.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Assume Form
    Though Blake’s music has a history of pulling you into a beautiful abyss of moody falsettos and dreary narratives, he had a point. The public’s reasoning behind “sad boy” subscribed to an old-fashioned way of thinking. On his new album Assume Form, Blake abandons that piercing despair--though not his emotional vulnerability--by choosing romance over sorrow. ... Concerned, happy, smitten--no matter the feeling, Blake is still willing to broadcast them all.
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Beatles [White Album] [50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition]
    It peels back the layers of a group diligently working to produce something special. [30 Nov 2018, p.51]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Nov 21, 2018
    • 97 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Electric Ladyland [50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
    Even if you've been to Electric Ladyland, this version is worth the price of readmission. [30 Nov 2018, p.51]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Nov 21, 2018
    • 59 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Delta
    Delta provides Mumford & Sons a wide range of inventive expressions, allowing them to stay true to their essence: blending the rustic quality of their past with a more majestic approach that underscores the heavier themes of the record. [30 Nov 2018, p.49]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Nov 21, 2018
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Caution
    On her 15th studio album, the breezy, pleasingly defiant Caution, she finds a freshness that’s been missing from her recent material.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Black Velvet
    Black Velvet reminds us how much we gained from the music of Charles Bradley, as well as what we've lost in his absence. [9 Nov 2018, p.54]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Nov 5, 2018
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Boygenius [EP]
    If the music here has the ebb and flow of more than one era, the lyrics wield sharper teeth. [2 Nov 2018, p.49]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Oct 31, 2018
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Anthem of the Peaceful Army
    Their sound is pure, uncut '70s: big, riffy blues-rock anthems built for screaming arenas and lace-front leather pants. [19/26 Oct 2018, p.96]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Oct 19, 2018
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Shake the Spirit
    Sassy yet surprisingly vulnerable. [19/26 Oct 2018, p.95]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Oct 19, 2018
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