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For 823 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 An End Has A Start
Lowest review score: 0 D12 World
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 569 out of 823
  2. Mixed: 198 out of 823
  3. Negative: 56 out of 823
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Love
    'Love' is trying to be all things to all people and suffers for its lack of ruthlessness and direction.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Remote Part
    There is nothing groundbreaking about this LP; it's just classic.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Faking The Books
    The sheer enveloping bliss elicited by hearing the album in one sitting (especially in public – 'Faking The Books' is a headphone masterpiece and no mistake) leaves one wishing it were a whole lot longer than its taut 40-minute duration.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Good News For People Who Love Bad News
    It just feels that amidst his bare and heartfelt explorations of life and the old wooden box wherein we all end up, Brock has learned to dance, learned to allow himself a smile.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shine A Light
    It’s just a shame that after seven plays, it’s still a bit tricky to remember what any of the tunes go like.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Think Tank
    'Think Tank' is an extraordinary record that pushes boundaries and sets new standards.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Bang Bang Rock & Roll
    'Bang Bang Rock & Roll' is as clever as it is funny as it is entertaining. It's the most original independent album in years.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Grinderman
    There isn't a bad song on this album.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    You Could Have It So Much Better
    At the end of the day this is a bit more of a grower than the last one, but is easily as good.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Homesongs
    It’s an atmospheric and tender record, and although you have to wait for each line you never lose patience.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    23
    As with all Blonde Redhead albums, there is no real standout track to pinpoint. Instead, they've made a terrific progression from, and succeeded in the daunting task of following, 'Misery Is A Butterfly'.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Blood Mountain
    Put simply: there isn't a bad track on 'Blood Mountain', which will be seen as the metal release of this year, on whichever level you care to mention.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    ()
    Sigur Ros do this better than anyone else right now.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
    The trouble is, the much-lauded braggadocio of 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' is hollow.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Home Sweet Home
    A great release from a great new talent, Kano has the words and the beats to deliver.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bright Yellow Bright Orange
    It's every bit as essential as any of its predecessors; completely essential, in other words.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Broken Social Scene
    Like The Polyphonic Spree stripped of all their faux compound dwelling arse wittery, this is an unambiguous shot of serotonin straight to your head and heart.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Niño Rojo
    This is a record for the late night after a later one; the cauterised throat, the yellow of the reading lamp, and the restless shifts in twisted sheets.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Demon Days
    About as disappointing a follow-up as you could ever imagine.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Favourite Worst Nightmare
    The album sees the band moving on from the Libertines-aping chord structures of their debut and pushing in new directions.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
    If you like your dance music jerky, nasty and just a little bit angry, Death From Above are your boys.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Happiness
    Distant connections are subconsciously weaved into an undulating whole that fans of electronica, Tortoise and Mogwai will all appreciate - at least in parts.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You Are Free
    Mostly, it's Chan's wonderfully bold and understated piano and guitar work that makes 'You Are Free' what it is, a collection of shapely and becoming lo-fi oddities.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Great Destroyer
    Whether this is an album that actually suits them is another matter, but it actually makes them feel entirely relevant and, for as prolific a decade-old band, that’s high praise indeed.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rooty
    'Rooty' isn't going to change your world - 'Remedy' did that - but it is another indispensable, truly, properly, madly inventive and utterly enjoyable album of the sort that, at the moment, only Basement Jaxx make.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Panda Park
    'Panda Park' is a strange record, though whether you think it's any good or not depends on your tolerance levels.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    OK Cowboy
    A tour de force of infectious acid techno and head-rush-inducing electroclash and, as likely as not, this year's essential dance purchase.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Writer's Block
    If there's a main criticism of this record then it's the fact that it's not entirely cohesive.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Silent Alarm
    'Silent Alarm' is a brilliantly accomplished art rock record that immediately immerses you in a world of taut, late 80s post-punk, melodic indie. It rarely lets up.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    De-Loused In The Comatorium
    There are moments of prog rock, jazz fusion and freakydelia in this rush of ideas and if that sounds awful then don't be put off. Instead of the shambolic mess that this kinda influence normally entails Mars Volta have come strictly disciplined.
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