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For 474 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Twin Cinema
Lowest review score: 20 Liz Phair
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 362 out of 474
  2. Mixed: 100 out of 474
  3. Negative: 12 out of 474
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Cannibal Sea
    Cannibal Sea is startlingly immediate.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Flat-Pack Philosophy
    While not as dark, muscular or streamlined as the band's excellent, eponymously titled 2003 album, Flat-Pack Philosophy grows better and better with each listen.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mr. Beast
    It is hard to say which side of Mogwai is more moving, the quietly beautiful or the transcendently loud, but the great thing about Mr. Beast is that you don't have to decide.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Etiquette
    Like previous albums, this one is full of sharp, sudden observations, rueful admissions of failure and surprising sweetness.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
    Despite dozens of listens, much of Whatever People Say congeals together like so much spent gravy, with only the clever couplets sticking out.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Destroyer's Rubies
    This is the defining Destroyer work because of its size and scope, because of its melodicism ("Painter in Your Pocket" the hottest pop song Bejar's authored yet), because of the caliber of its musical chops, and because of the shots Bejar continues to fire.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    The Humbucking Coil
    The tracks fail to hang together in a convincing way -- often giving the impression that they were more or less strung together on a whim.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    The Life Pursuit
    The Life Pursuit is an immaculate album; Belle & Sebastian craft pure pop perfection better than just about anybody.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Comfort Of Strangers
    The songs are subtle and powerful, full of pain and humor.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Lantern
    Exceptionally beautiful and assured.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Below The Branches
    It is quite possibly Stoltz's best work ever, and certainly one of the landmark releases of 2006.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Cadillac
    Lyrically Black Cadillac is exquisite. Musically it's far more than a country record, expanding into those mighty rooms of roots music and pop-rock where Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind and Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road shine and burn against their own dark palettes.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Indian Tower
    At their best... Pearls & Brass churn out hard-rocking sculptures of distorted sounds at buffeting volume, but with a meditative, trance-inducing core.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Omnibus
    I don't expect people outside the shadow of the Rockies to understand this music.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Full Of Light And Full Of Fire
    The earthy tones, accomplished songwriting and passion within Full of Light give Mendoza Line newcomers good reason not only to hear their new album, but also to dig into their back catalog.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light
    Their record runs through a range of instrumentalist archetypes and quietly surprising turns-for-the-worse, from electrified screech to tape-op minimalism, through pastoralism and soundscapery, to numbers where they knock out all manner of feigned sturm und drang.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Akron/Family & Angels Of Light
    A rare, perfect instance of collaboration, where two distinct sets of talents merge into something larger than its parts.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Aerial
    Over two CDs the music expands towards novel-like richness.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These Were The Earlies
    What's impressive is the way they bring all these elements together, the natural world leading seamlessly into a brighter landscape of surreal otherness.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rehearsing My Choir
    My feeling is that Rehearsing My Choir is an odd, initially indigestible album that is far more interesting than most people are willing to admit.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Feels
    Although surprisingly self-conscious at moments, Feels remains rife with a triumphant beauty, a bucolic sound that stirs and entrances the listener like a happy secret.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    The Campfire Headphase
    The spell is broken, however, by pieces like "Tears From the Compound" and "Oscar See Through Red Eye," which get lost in the marshes of their own hypnotic rhythms, sugar-sweet synths and lo-fi, breathy drones.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Hypermagic Mountain
    Listening to Hypermagic Mountain is like picking up the live end of a downed power line.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Tanglewood Numbers
    Berman's most accomplished album.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Tournament Of Hearts
    Their third full-length is their best ever, a passionate yet cohesive vault into outsized rock sound.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cinder
    This album more than any other swiftly dispels the notion that the trio are condemned to register wary introspection through brooding atmospheres.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Celebration
    An exhilarating take on rock-'n'-roll caught, torn, between striving for the light and reveling in the dark.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Thunder, Lightning, Strike
    What makes Thunder... such an easy-to-love affair is the schoolyard exuberance they ply their tunes with.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Magic Numbers
    The comparisons to the Mamas and the Papas are ultimately weak; there's a lot of blues mixed in with the folky pop, and traces of '80s British band Prefab Sprout, who also spun their troubles into melodic gold full of boy/girl harmonizing.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Extraordinary Machine
    Lacking both the musical and counter-cultural thrill of the Brion recordings, this album turns away from a certain artistic "rawness" in the original recordings, razing away counter-melodies and acoustic decay for a well-polished delivery that presents the photogenic songstress in a more "flattering" light.
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