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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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    • 89 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Miss E... So Addictive
    Elliott spends too much time dissing detractors, but the hooks come as fast as the reefer references, and for the first time since her debut, she sounds as if she's having a blast... [25 May 2001, p. 80]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 89 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    HoboSapiens
    An audacious marriage of restless experimentalism and eloquent melodic craft. [10 Sep 2004, p.165]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 89 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Bachelor No. 2 (or, the last remains of the dodo)
    A genuinely winning collection of sublime, old-school pop.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Coloring Book [Mixtape]
    Though it doesn’t eclipse the LSD-inspired brilliance of Acid Rap, Coloring Book affirms Chance’s place as one of hip-hop’s most promising--and most uplifting--young stars.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Big Fish Theory
    The full-length follow-up to his 2015 debut, Summertime ’06, surpasses expectations, with incisive lyrics and beats that spurn current trends for a set that sounds unlike anything else in hip-hop right now.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A Seat at the Table
    The album radiates universal beauty and truth in the tradition of Stevie Wonder and Minnie Ripperton--and the whole world could simply use more of that.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Last Exit
    Supple, stylish electro-pop so cool it makes glaciers jealous. [24 Sep 2004, p.106]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 89 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Pink Noise
    Pink Noise revels in the freedom of moving beyond stress for something peaceful, adding yet another layer to Mvula's already-rich tapestry of sound.
    • 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.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do
    It isn't easy listening. But it's worth it.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Merriweather Post Pavilion
    Merriweather Post Pavilion won't land the band the opening slot on a Coldplay tour, it cleaves closer to "Pitch's" more listener-friendly aesthetic, abandoning the self-indulgent impulses that sometimes muddied last year's "Strawberry Jam" for an album full of effervescent, transportive oddity.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Songs For The Deaf
    The year's best hard-rock album. [6 Sep 2002, p.86]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 89 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    12 Stories
    Clark keeps things edgy, singing about divorce, drugs, jail, and Jesus with matter-of-fact sass and ample twang.[25 Oct/1 Nov 2013, p.100]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Oct 22, 2013
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Sale el Sol
    Sale el Sol still demonstrates Shakira's boldly global mindset.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Hell Hath No Fury
    The best hip-hop album of 2006.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Push Barman To Open Old Wounds
    Irresistible. [3 Jun 2005, p.86]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 89 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Same Trailer Different Park
    On her confident, melodic major-label debut, Musgraves' vocals are pleasingly agile, but what Same Trailer Different Park continually showcases is her writing prowess.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    folklore
    Swift explodes the expectations of anyone preparing to call her music "diaristic," writing songs from different perspectives while putting her already-detailed work under a microscope. ... A content smile of an album on which one of the world's biggest pop stars, charts be damned, forges her own path and dares listeners to come along for the ride.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Yours, Mine & Ours
    Yours Mine & Ours has an easygoing vibe that gives Pernice's literate folk-pop ample room to roam. [11 Jul 2003, p.78]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 88 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Chutes Too Narrow
    Just the record you'd want: production a bit bigger, and songs more adventurous but no less indelible. [Listen 2 This supplement, Oct 2003, p.14]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 88 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hypermagic Mountain
    If what this drums-and-bass duo does with infernal noise is your thing, you're a pretty happy camper. [28 Oct 2005, p.89]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 88 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Future Nostalgia
    Lipa quickly established herself as one of pop's most compelling presences during her quick rise, and Future Nostalgia shows that she's going to be sticking around its upper echelons for a while.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964
    If there's nothing truly revelatory, it's still a dandy opportunity to eavesdrop on the future mouthpiece of a generation finding his voice (sometimes awkwardly).
    • 88 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Divers
    Joanna Newsom’s fourth full-length, Divers, haunts you like an unanswered question. That’s what makes it so engrossing. You don’t listen to it to figure out what it means. You play it to revel in the mystery of the songs and who, exactly, is the marvelous, mercurial creature singing them.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    30
    A surprisingly personal album that showcases how Adele has matured, both as an artist and as a person, since the middle of the last decade. She could have built on her blockbuster success in a cynical way, copy-and-pasting "Rolling in the Deep" and "Hello." Instead, she lets her emotions guide her, with triumphant results.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    69 Love Songs
    69 elegant observations by a pop master.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Ta Det Lugnt
    You'll swear it's a lost tape from a sweet Hendrix-Iron Butterfly-Cream jam session. [19 Aug 2005, p.145]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 88 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Bad as Me
    Without abandoning his classic formula--junkyard percussion, loose-limbed blues licks, and that unmistakable mouth-of-hell baritone--Waits keeps pulling switcheroos out of his porkpie hat on his 20th album.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A Moon Shaped Pool
    By nature, Radiohead albums will always be somewhat epic, but this one is more consistently grandiose than any of the band’s releases since 2000’s masterpiece Kid A.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Masseduction
    Five studio albums in, it feels more like another new beginning, and pretty close to a masterpiece.
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