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For 2,132 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 45% 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 Modern Times
Lowest review score: 10 Eat Me, Drink Me
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,576 out of 2132
  2. Mixed: 509 out of 2132
  3. Negative: 47 out of 2132
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Loud Planes Fly Low
    It's an album that sounds like it was difficult to make, as these two move from being the couple to being the players, and that difficulty yields some of their most beautiful moments on record yet, even if it also (and perhaps necessarily) gets in the way of the songs sometimes.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Attention Please
    It's poppy, it's quirky, but it's also shrouded in forebodingness and unease. When the group achieves that sort of balance, AttentionPlease is close to perfect. The album fails when there is too much dance, too much party.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    David Comes To Life
    It is an album based very clearly on a concept, an overall construct. Within that, Fucked Up once again morph themselves, moving further away from anything you could call hardcore (save Damian Abraham's voice).
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Arabia Mountain
    Mountain finds the band taking several huge leaps toward that end, resulting in a more cohesive picture of their sound and a band beating down a clear path for where they'd like to take their music.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Left by Soft
    New Zealand pop lifer David Kilgour's Left by Soft, his seventh proper full-length (and third for Merge), is a lovely addition to the veteran songwriter's catalog.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Diaper Island
    For much of Diaper Island, he hits his sweet spot of raw indie folk-rock, but for others he seems to be bending his personality to fit the demands of guitar noise, instead of the other way around.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Demolished Thoughts
    Demolished Thoughts is a consistent and strong record all the way through. In the same way Mascis turned his talents effectively to quieter tones, Moore gives us a new perspective on the talents we've seen from him for decades.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Heavy Rocks
    Despite the somewhat dubious timing of Heavy Rocks' release, there are still some awesome songs to be found here, and the album as a whole acts a great sampler platter of all of Boris' strengths.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Street of the Love of Days
    It's quiet but it gets your attention, surrounds you, and makes you feel a part of it all the way through.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tan Bajo
    It's unfortunate that Tan Bajo is so over produced by trying to be so under produced, but this is a document of a band experimenting with the hurdle of translating their famous live shows into a studio setting and over-calculating their sound in the process.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Am Very Far
    Okkervil River has never provided easy answers in their albums--unless you read the many interviews with Sheff, who always seems willing to explain what he can--and I Am Very Far is another fine album in an increasingly finer canon.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Life Fantastic
    While the songs may seem borderline psychotic at moments, the bright zeal of their delivery and the band's careful crafting imply some moving on.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dennis Coffey
    Assembling an impressive list of guests that understand his legacy (Paolo Nutini, Mayer Hawthorne, and the Dirtbombs' Mick Collins among them), Coffey sounds downright vital, unleashing dusted licks and stinging wah-wah over boom-bap breaks and buoyant horns.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Feel It Break
    While it would have been easy for Feel It Break to fall into new wave hero worship, it succeeds thanks to the singularity of Stelmanis' vision. Feel It Break announces her as a force to be reckoned with.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Helplessness Blues
    It comes down to what you're expecting here. Do you earnestly yearn for another album full of beautifully arranged, meticulously pored over harmonic acoustic folk? Then this is probably your album of the year to beat.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Goblin
    It's a lot to take in, but the simple, hypnotic beauty of the stark landscapes Tyler has created here reveals itself more with each subsequent listen.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Smother
    Maybe it's because we've come to expect these guys to knock us out with each album, but Smother can't help but feel like a misstep.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Burst Apart
    Thanks to his varied songwriting, there's nary a weak link in Burst Apart. It might not benefit from the easy hooks of a concept album, but if you stick around till the end, it is every bit as rewarding as Hospice.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dancer Equired
    More important than any commentary about the listening habits of internet browsers I could possibly make is the fact that Dancer Equired stands as the perfect gateway for new Times New Viking listeners, and definitely deserves to be enjoyed and not brushed aside.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Thao & Mirah
    As a result, Thao & Mirah is a nice side-project for two great performers, but not as revelatory as it could have been for either of them.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Magnetic Man
    Magnetic Man accomplishes its goal: make pretty for the spotlight.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Start and Complete
    While Start And Complete happens to have been recorded in just one day, lo and behold, it turns out to be album of relatively straightforward songs, staying largely within the musical and lyrical conventions of the pop/rock universe.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Born with Stripes
    With no clear-cut standout like "Nice Train" or "Dolphin Center," the record fights to find its footing on slacker-rock ground and never quite gets there.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Wit's End
    We get to peer deep into McCombs's mind, but with the benefit of coming up for air once the record ends.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
    Take Care, Take Care, Take Care is another beautiful record from the band, and another fresh track laid on their sonic landscape, a slight tangent from their other records that never loses their overall direction.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Share the Joy
    The overall result is pleasant yet hardly exceptional.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bespoke
    In spite of this second half lag, Daedelus continues to exhibit a tremendous capacity for distilling disparate ideas into something personable.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    In and Out of Youth and Lightness
    If there's one thing made clear by the satisfying catharsis and musical quantum leap of In And Out Of Youth And Lightness, it's that Patterson should ignore his earlier advice more often if it results in albums of this caliber.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Salon des Amateurs
    On a whole Salon lacks more of these emotional moments.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Sun
    The irony is Black Sun is better-suited for the club. The album's sounds and ideas are large enough to fill a dark, echoing room.
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