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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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    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Welcome To Mali
    The old formula, while rootsy, gains much from the injection of variety.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    A Sailor's Guide to Earth
    Overall, the album is strikingly intimate.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Bon Iver
    On Bon Iver, his second full-length, an emboldened Vernon achieves a beautiful fantasy all his own, backed by a full band and buoyed with horns and pedal steel.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    How I Got Over
    The venerable hip-hop band's first effort since joining NBC's late-night lineup delivers all the funk/soul/jazz vibes fans have come to expect.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Love & Hate
    References to that style [Morricone’s sound] may have become cliché, but Kiwanuka personalizes it through the individuality of his melodies, the dynamics of the instrumentation and his lyrical point of view.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Syro
    A startlingly accessible, possibly even pop-friendly effort. [3 Oct 2014, p.69]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Sep 29, 2014
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    blackSUMMERS'night (2016)
    It exudes enough confidence to let his heart show and to let his music grow in any direction his muse demands.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Estudando o Pagode
    A sprightly psych-pop disc overflowing with exquisite melodies and cooing female voices. [14 Apr 2006, p.86]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Robyn
    Fantastic all of the time.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Separation Sunday
    Bar rock for the smart set. [3 Jun 2005, p.82]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Process
    Over Process‘ 10 songs, Sampha executes a sonically adventurous vision that’s entirely his own and builds on his enormous potential.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Decline Of British Sea Power
    It's not all darkness: The Brighton, England-based quintet offers enough straight-ahead rockers to keep the CD from turning into dirge overkill. [Oct 2003, p.95]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Rings Around The World
    Unfortunately, that extraordinary core is at times marred by forced eccentricity.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Deacon
    Where Soil embraced the discord of romantic entanglements, Deacon, its follow-up, is a celebration of the opposite: the comfort and assurance that swells from deep connection. [Apr 2021, p.73]
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Thunder, Lightning, Strike
    Full of exuberant, childlike pastiche pop. [7 Oct 2005, p.76]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Welcome Interstate Managers
    Parkway didn't take Fountains of Wayne to the charts, but let's hope the Interstate will. [13 Jun 2003, p.92]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Beautifully Human: Words And Sounds Vol. 2
    She's as comfortable sighing like a muted horn as she is wailing in big-band fashion--though it's the infusion of tenderness in her homespun tales that seals the CD's lasting appeal. [3 Sep 2004, p.74]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    45:33
    45:33 deftly segues from the smooth funk favored by Levan to synth-pop and Talking Heads-style polyrhythms before opening into serious space-party territory.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Platinum
    On Platinum, an old-school country wisecracker that's one of her all-time bests, she's funny as hell.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    LCD Soundsystem
    Unites the club and indie-rock crowds in ways few have attempted since the '80s. [25 Feb 2005, p.100]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    3 Pears
    Yoakam's first release in seven years is a smashing return to form. [14/21 Sep 2012, p.141]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Sep 18, 2012
    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Koi No Yokan
    The album continues where 2010's Diamond Eyes left off, bonding streamlined mosh-pit daggers with floaty space-station distress calls. [23 Nov 2012, p.70]
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      • Posted Nov 21, 2012
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    LP1
    She exerts enough of a magnetic pull to lure listeners into some challenging territory.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Feast of Wire
    Songs full of Sergio Leone set pieces and Mexicali blues. [14 Mar 2003, p.66]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Stone Rollin'
    Stone Rollin' is old school for sure, spun fresh.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Futureheads
    Wisely keeps things short, sharp and shocked. [19 Nov 2004, p.85]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Locked Down
    There's no denying the vintage voodoo--or the palpable disgust--the Doctor summons with Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
    It seems like ideal film-soundtrack music, except that its gargantuan beauty would probably overwhelm any image you'd match it to. [Listen 2 This supplement, Dec 2003, p.18]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Transcendental Blues
    Winding through the psychedelic title track, the ''Rubber Soul''-ish pop, the garage rock, and the lovely ''Eire meets Tennessee'' ''The Galway Girl,'' ''Blues'' is his musical road map.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Chavez Ravine
    A ghostly meditation on the culture of forgetting. [8 Jul 2005, p.68]
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