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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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    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Introduction
    Listening to Introduction is like viewing the world through someone else's glasses, skewed, disturbing and perhaps causing a bit of vertigo.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart
    There are no shocks or surprises, but instead, How I Long... thrills us softly, its tiny layers and details all intricately woven together into a cohesive and aesthetically delightful tapestry.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Out of Season
    On Out of Season, Gibbons' voice takes the spotlight. There's a quivery sound, similar to Billie Holiday's, which gets lost amid Portishead's stops and starts.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Meltdown
    If you're a fan of tuneful, American-influenced pop-punk, Ash are waiting to burn a hole through your heart.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heroes To Zeros
    Heroes to Zeros, in spite of a few uneven tracks, makes the cut.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Real New Fall L.P. (Formerly Country On The Click)
    So while not breaking new ground -- a near impossible expectation given the amount of ground The Fall has already broken -- The Real New Fall LP is a strong indication that Mark E. Smith is nowhere near finished.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When It Falls
    Superior to its predecessor in just about every respect.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Is A Woman
    Lounge-rock for world-weary sophisticates.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Change
    This is pop music pushing the boundaries of what pop music should be, without having to resort to overproduced and mass-marketed gloss.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bows & Arrows
    Even with a couple of missteps, this is a solid album that will likely stay in heavy rotation on your stereo for months to come.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Time (The Revelator)
    Time (The Revelator) is ostensibly a solo album, but gives every evidence of being a near-telepathic collaboration between Welch and Rawlings, in which every element is carefully balanced to give the songs maximum impact.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Master Of Disaster
    Hiatt delivers a batch of songs that powerfully evoke certain places, certain times, certain characters, with an eye for detail and an understanding of the complexities of human behavior seldom seen in songwriters these days.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Girls Can Tell
    Spoon's most ambitious album is also their best.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Medulla
    This disc may have a wilder sense of love-and-adventure about it, and may offer the thrills of an unpredictable ride, but, in its capriciousness and incongruousness, the thing Medulla rarely feels like is an album.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Grey Album
    Each of the 12 tracks on the Grey Album is finely tuned -- the precision cut-and-paste sampling DM exhibits is often mind-blowing.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Noah's Ark
    With Noah’s Ark Coco Rosie have truly come into their own, delivering an eccentric sound so one-of-a-kind it could have come from no world but their own.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    More Parts Per Million
    They are pop and punk and rock and indie and a combination of all these things, but, more than all of the above, they are Harris' personal songs and they are incredible.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Haha Sound
    This whole is a sum of 14 songs that adds up to an estimable artistic much, the kind of album worthy of nestling in for months.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eternal Youth
    Eternal Youth is broad and ambitious. Merritt's singing is missing; his baritone would have added a male perspective, not to mention an added playfulness. But Gonson suffices.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When I Was Cruel
    Ultimately, I suspect Costello non-devotees will find that too much effort is required to get into these songs and there may not be sufficient emotional payoff to justify the investment.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Apologies To The Queen Mary
    From the first few seconds of the album, you're hooked.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Honeycomb
    Honeycomb is a coherent and listenable collection of songs.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blueberry Boat
    Their inventive, experimental-leaning music dances through history, passing from blues to rock 'n' roll to pop to experimental to something uniquely theirs.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nextdoorland
    Nextdoorland is one of the rarest of things: a reunion album that captures the spirit of what made the band special in the first place.
    • 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.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All Is Dream
    Orchestral swells, kaleidoscopic tones and childlike fragility imbue All Is Dream with the theatrics of a trip through wonderland.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The End Is Near
    They combine the angular dread of Joy Division with the slow burn of the Velvet Underground (circa the third album), underpinned with some sinuous rock dynamics and topped off with laconic, sometimes languid vocals.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No More Shall We Part
    Cave's latest finds the singer in perhaps the finest voice of his career, armed with a set of melodic ballads and mid-tempo rockers which exemplify his dedicated, traditionalist's approach to the songwriter's craft.
    • 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.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vespertine
    Björk continues to mine the fine line of minimalist lushness that her last album gave birth to; with tiny, crackling, skittery beats weaving open-toned ambient beds in which her breathy, pushed-forward vocals lithely lay, the closeness and drama of her every syllable commanding attention.
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