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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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    • 82 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Love Songs For Patriots
    Fleeting moments of genius flanked by sketchy songs... [and] curious, dense production burying Eitzel's amazing voice under layers of maudlin instrumentation.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    New Danger
    The New Danger is overambitious and undercooked, adventurous and bland all at once.
    • 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.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Summer In Abaddon
    Combining dramatic, ethereal pop vocals with moody guitar and piano theatrics, Summer in Abaddon recalls a tighter, smoothed-out Built to Spill, or maybe a Dismemberment Plan reunion.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    When The World Was Our Friend
    The disc is basically a more straight electro-pop variation on the Gold Chains angle.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Spooked
    Overall, it is clear that Hitchcock is having fun creating music with Welch and Rawlings, and that joy comes through in the listening.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Grind Date
    By corralling five hungry producers with a flair for the earthy funk and slippery samples that guided some of De La's best albums, the veteran trio have recorded the true successor to 1996's Stakes Is High.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Burned Mind
    Take[s] their haunted-house shtick to frightening extremes.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    SMiLE
    The magic of the album lies in the way Wilson's complex, challenging sonic vision can evoke the optimism, hope, and wonder that gave birth to this album decades ago.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    City
    A set doing less of the poker-faced electro revivalism and more of the palette-diversifying pop-song penning.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Niño Rojo
    It's easily the least convincing album from the three Banhart's offered thus far.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Trust Not Those In Whom Without Some Touch Of Madness
    Zedek is still shrouded in her aesthetic darkness, is still hungry, still driven; her music is still driven by the same ghosts that've haunted her throughout her career.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In The World Of Him
    While a nine-track, 30-minute-long album rarely begs for editing, what Timms has assembled here might have made better sense as an EP.
    • 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.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Midnight Movies
    The band doesn't quite manage to reconcile its mannered appropriation of a distanced, underground frigidity with its boisterous forays into abrasive, psych-tinged garage rock, but this is probably a good thing, because it's this resistance to homogeneity that gives them the sort of edge they'd otherwise lack.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Libertines
    It's basically more of the same sort of wistful, sometimes hard-charging melodic rock of the group's first and better release, Up the Bracket.
    • 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.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Juxtaposition
    Utterly modern and utterly compelling.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Half Smiles Of The Decomposed
    Too much of Half Smiles of the Decomposed, however, does not rock.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Winchester Cathedral
    A strong return to form.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    More Adventurous
    Basic but gorgeously textured pop-rock with a country tinge, Rilo Kiley's music is led by vocals that'll stop you in your tracks.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Whiskey Tango Ghosts
    Donelly shows a grace on this disc that a lot of people her age aren't capable of.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Homesongs
    A collection of slow, sad, stately songs whose obvious studio smarts are dwarfed by a big bleeding folkie's heart.
    • 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.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Together We're Heavy
    All those instrumental colorings are clearer, and the individual qualities of the voices in their choir shine through even when they're all belting it out together.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Soft Commands
    Transcendent and well-turned, Soft Commands is another exceptional recording from a talented, aware artist.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Out Of The Shadow
    Out of the Shadow is a meandering musical path, but one well worth taking.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Porcelain
    This is intense, serious music for serious times, and writing off Sparta as the "other," less interesting half of their previous group would be a major mistake.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    a ghost is born
    If Foxtrot's songs were fractured pop, then Ghost is just plain fracture, a soft and brutal self-examination that pulls no punches even as it manages to remain carefully elliptical.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    To The 5 Boroughs
    Part of the fun of the Beastie Boys is knowing that they're fucking with the rhymes and you; another part is knowing that they give a fuck about what's happening in the world. Those two things don't always work well together, though, especially when they say something watered down and deliver it as though they don't buy it either.
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