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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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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bazooka Tooth
    There's no question Aesop Rock makes essentially no sense half the time. The other half, he's painting abstract art all over fractured soundscapes. The music is smart and progressive; it's also pretentious and challenging.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Showtime
    It's a disc in which Dizzee diz, lyrical wiz, is more forthright as lyricist, using the blank canvas of an "album" to sketch together a thoughtful, carefully-sequenced set in which his voice, and its elastic accent, ring clear.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Digital Ash In A Digital Urn
    Not as consistent as its de facto partner, Digital Ash still contains several euphoric highs.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cripple Crow
    Whether it's due to the backing band, or the better studio resources, Banhart seems more self-assured than ever as he sings his songs on Cripple Crow.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Reveal
    The album straddles R.E.M.'s past and their future, sounding fresh, assured -- and on par with their best previous efforts.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Apropa't
    Apropa't has a tendency at first to gently wash over you, striking no particular chord. But as you pay closer attention to the music, the melodic wash of it all becomes one of its addictive qualities.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Don't Believe The Truth
    It is, in fact, what almost every other Oasis album has been: Not nearly as bad as overhyped sufferers might fear, not nearly as good as its enthusiasts want it to be.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Isolation Drills
    Yes, it's fun rockin' pop. But, unlike a lot of today's pop music, Guided By Voices keep their depth.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tender Buttons
    The resulting sound is tougher and more insistent, a succession of incessant rhythms layered with fuzziness and distortion.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    ()
    The album coheres; it's a full body of work intended to be heard holistically, not simply as a collection of songs. But it takes some work. You must be an active listener to appreciate it fully.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Want One
    Whether you listen closely, for the sonic textures, or in a cursory fashion, scouting out the allusions galore, with each listen you'll likely appreciate something different.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Riot Act
    Sticking to a formula -- a formula that works for them -- the band sounds fiercer than ever on Riot Act.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
    Brings together the best parts of metal, hardcore punk-rock and dance-y post-punk for a sound that would be otherwise useless if it weren't for one thing: The boys got "it."
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Now You Know
    His best work since 1997's Built to Spill album, Perfect From Now On.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    New Roman Times
    While the dizzying mix of musical styles and absurdist lyrics is still there, Camper are a much more skilled, mature band.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    American III: Solitary Man
    Mostly downbeat, the album feels, at times, as if it were created beneath a black cloud.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Plans
    Never the hardest rocking of bands, Death Cab for Cutie sound positively muted throughout Plans, Gibbard's obsession with the temporary nature of relationships and life itself receiving appropriately somber accompaniment.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gods And Monsters
    No BIG message here; I Am Kloot simply made a good, heartfelt rock record and, without sounding like they had to try too hard, pulled it off.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Let It Come Down
    As if its size alone weren't enough to set the album apart from his preceding Spiritualized outings, Pierce has removed all the sounds he thought were immediately identifiable as Spiritualized -- delay, phase, Telecaster, Farfisa -- and left the songs as largely orchestral numbers.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Laughter's Fifth
    Laughter's Fifth finds Jayne tracking back to a groovier, sillier time in rock 'n' roll, peeling back the rough riffs and celebrating the peace-and-love beat.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Little Sparrow
    Little Sparrow proves that 1999's The Grass Is Green was no fleeting burst of inspiration; Parton hasn't been so consistently exciting since the '70s.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Eban & Charley [Soundtrack]
    The album is surprisingly consistent despite its unbalanced components.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sound-Dust
    Continuing an audio development from Dots and Loops, Sound-Dust is littered with a giddy array of hand percussion instruments — marimba, vibraphone and glockenspiel stir up a polyrhythmic stew, its busyness and complexity sounding like the product of painstaking studio assemblage.
    • 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.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bitter Tea
    Bitter Tea offers immediacy, but little reward for return visits; offers vastness -- at a dawdling 73 minutes -- but nothing in the way of big ideas.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ágætis Byrjun
    Ágætis Byrjun is one of the most sublimely immersive albums to come along in ages.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Machine [EP]
    Let's face it, no one else today is making music as cool and original as that of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    What's Next To The Moon
    Kozelek has delivered a wondrous collection.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    We Shall All Be Healed
    An odd, fascinating journey through the mind of a man who channels messages from horror movies, occult events, and other bewilderments, and turns them into songs.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Grand Don't Come For Free
    Even the grand indulgence in artistic artifice on A Grand Don't Come For Free -- its self-contained narrative -- seems like it's forsaking a long shelf-life, the downside of the story's "mystery" being that, once you've heard the yarn once, it's a little like you've heard it all, and all it has to offer.
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