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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
    • 91 Critic Score
    You Want It Darker
    On his 14th studio album, the songwriting maestro--still vital at 82--is a lion in winter, his lyrics heavy with God and sex and death and his legendary voice scraped down to a subterranean rumble.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Archives Vol. 1 1963-1972
    An impressive package, but fans will be paying big bucks for a lot of stuff they already own.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Channel Orange
    Ocean is less concerned with urban realism than with his own '80s-noir fantasy of what the city's like, and his music captures that vibe perfectly, pulsing with electro-soul grooves, vintage jazz-funk.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Elephant
    Not that there aren't hints of greatness on Elephant.... That said, ''Elephant'' also flaunts everything that's contrived about the band -- the gimmicks for which they've become better known than their actual music.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Melodrama
    It’s Lorde’s own storytelling that offers Melodrama‘s most rewarding twists.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
    [The album's] ambition flies so far beyond that of anyone doing rap right now (or pop, or rock, or R&B), awards shows may need to create a special category for it. [19 Sep 2003, p.83]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 91 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Live In London
    Live in London is a reminder that Cohen is as gifted a performer as he is a songwriter.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
    This Dr. Dre-endorsed phenom delivers on the promise of his rabidly beloved mixtape Section.80. [2 Nov 2012, p.68]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Nov 1, 2012
    • 91 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Grand Don't Come For Free
    Isn't likely to convert, say, your average Jay-Z fan.... Yet it works, and even seems refreshingly exotic. [21 May 2004, p.77]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 91 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Canto
    Several arrangements lean to the left, bringing to mind another Los Lobos side project, the Latin Playboys. [3/16/2001, p.68]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Renaissance
    The catalog of touchstones, samples, and cameos on Renaissance could double as a syllabus for a master class on the evolution of dance music as it has unfolded during Beyoncé's lifetime.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The ArchAndroid
    Does every genre suit her equally? Of course not, but most of Janelle Monée's mad experiments yield spectacularly catchy results.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Guitar Song
    The moody set mixes covers of legends like Vern Gosdin with originals that ring so true they might as well be standards. The 25-song collection feels longer than Johnson's infamous owl sanctuary of a beard, but it's unlikely any country purists will complain.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Is This It?
    ''Is This It'' bows down before all the trademarks of pre-1977 rock: off-kilter guitar solos, half-buried vocals (à la ''Louie, Louie''), attitude-heavy slurring (by singer Julian Casablancas), primitive tom-tom rhythms (shades of the Velvets' Moe Tucker), and the raw, muddy sonics of garage-band 45s.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service
    Luckily, We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service not only satisfies its lofty expectations, it often exceeds them.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Illinois
    Sounds quaint and even magical. [15 Jul 2005, p.71]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 90 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Carrie & Lowell
    With its quiet meditations on mental illness, God, and death, Carrie is a hauntingly beautiful bummer.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    No Cities to Love
    Even though they're no longer underdogs—their last album, 2005's The Woods, cemented their rep as one of the all-time great groups—that hasn't changed on their triumphant return.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Original Pirate Material
    By adding grit and gutter-savvy humor, Skinner also takes U.K. garage to a new level, making for the year's most striking debut.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Alice
    You'd be hard-pressed to find sounds this spookily evocative anywhere outside the grooves of scratchy old 78s. [Applies to both 'Alice' and 'Blood Money,' 10 May 2002, p.80]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 90 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Funeral
    For the most part, Funeral is a lovely, uplifting, and often pleasingly grandiose whirl through a panoply of sounds. [5 Nov 2004, p.81]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Faith: Special Edition
    He wants our sex, and he can have it.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
    The fact that this album feels so complete even without any words from his old partner reinforces just what peak form Big Boi is in.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    the record
    It's never a guarantee that a collaboration from talented soloists will work, let alone multiple times. The Record navigates that hurdle deftly enough to suggest that none of these artists have reached their full potential. Neither has Boygenius.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Live Anthology
    With all the hits plus an enjoyable assortment of rarities and covers, The Live Anthology is a comprehensive portrait of a perpetually professional live act.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    græ
    græ finds him trying to be, well, everything, and through a convergence of folk, jazz, classical, and art-rock, along with his probing lyricism, Sumney has managed to produce a sonic marvel.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Z
    They evoke the musical essence of various titans while achieving a wholly distinctive sound of their own. [7 Oct 2005, p.73]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 89 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    St. Vincent
    Crackling, uncanny and compulsively listenable. [28 Feb 2014, p.71]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Feb 26, 2014
    • 89 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Since I Left You
    When the technique works, the results are exhilarating. [9 Nov 2001, p.111]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Modern Times
    Intriguing, immediate, and quietly epic, Modern Times must rank among Dylan's finest albums.
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