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For 2,725 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Island
Lowest review score: 0 Scream
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,898 out of 2725
  2. Mixed: 751 out of 2725
  3. Negative: 76 out of 2725
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Sun
    The album also crammed full of innovative bleeps and squeaks - if you're familiar with Four Tet you'll know the sort of thing--which add more of a unique selling point which in the end isn't all that necessary, because this is a somewhat dazzling album from some great talents, and it has an abundance of riches.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wild Mountain Nation
    One thing the album does not suffer from is a lack of ideas. In fact, it sounds like the band has crammed each song with sounds, licks, rhythm shifts, basically anything they could come up with, hoping to manufacture inspiration from creativity.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Memory Almost Full
    In the end, Memory Almost Full is a reliable, easy record for a man who’s been far too reliable for his own good.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tromatic Reflexxions
    Ambitious, varied and unquestionably fun, this is one of the most joyously unpredictable records of the year.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Excellent Italian Greyhound
    The sound remains unmistakably Shellac: guttural, sarcastic, and chock-full of anger.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Boxer
    With The Boxer, The National has not only crafted a contender for Album of the Year.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Mirrored
    Powered by its fluid and seeming invincibility, Mirrored is almost frighteningly cosmic.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Plague Park
    It’s the lyrics that truly standout.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Five Roses
    Graham Van Pelt has provided us with us with the blissful whimsy needed to enjoy the dandelion tufts of summer with carefree trust.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sky Blue Sky
    Wilco has come up with 50% of a classic album and 50% of a merely decent one. Buy it for the moments you simply won’t hear anywhere else.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tio Bitar
    Certainly few guitarists playing today evoke the kind of mad intensity on display here, but like the Comets on Fire, the whole package rarely comes off as good as you think it should.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Our Earthly Pleasures
    It’s an engaging listen, sure, but sadly Our Earthly Pleasures lacks the euphoric punch to make a listener jump up and down vigourously.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No Shouts, No Calls
    It's a collection of tiny, almost unnoticeable changes that make this record so much more solid than its predecessors.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Magic Position
    Wolf sometimes succeeds in emulating Kate Bush’s knack for combining the utterly bizarre with godlike musicianship, but sometimes he falls short.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Beyond
    It kicks ass.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Reminder
    Just because something “sounds” like a classic record, it doesn’t mean it is.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tears Of The Valedictorian
    Lovers of schizo-rock will have plenty to revel in.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Twelve
    Not everything dazzles, but it’s truly shocking what does.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Favourite Worst Nightmare
    There’s a lot of bluster and enthusiasm here but I’m struggling to identify much in the way of true substance.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    We'll Never Turn Back
    Cooder’s playing is sometime perfectly suited for the project, but other times seems horribly out of step with Mavis’ intention.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cassadaga
    A pretty decent album with a lot of filler.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    23
    It’s mostly a collection of decent tunes, polished to a blinding sheen.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Jarvis
    A stunning collection of songs, in the grand Brit-pop tradition.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Because Of The Times
    Not quite a soaring rock masterpiece, but certainly a bold move that achieves a variable degree of success. Because of the Times proves that Kings of Leon have the ability to change move into new territory, as so many of their garage peers from five years ago have failed to do.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    From Here We Go Sublime
    It’s fair to say if you don’t find anything worthwhile somewhere in this record, you probably just don’t enjoy electronic music.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
    If you’ve yearned for a band that takes that dramatic indie-rock template but injects a bit of post-rock drama into it, then boy, have you ever come to the right place.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pale Young Gentlemen
    Overall, a fine album, self-released or not.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sound Of Silver
    I’d be surprised if the genre can produce anything much better than this.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Drums And Guns
    This is probably the hardest Low album I’ve heard to appreciate, but it’s certainly worth it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Living With The Living
    The songs are flat and unoriginal rock.
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