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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 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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    • 100 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Pinkerton (Deluxe Edition)
    In 2010, when oversharing is the norm, Pinkerton can seem almost quaint for its willingness to hold back. All told, it's roughly 10 percent as confessional as the average overheated Tumblr post or Gareth Campesino! lyric sheet. Maybe that's why, to this day, "El Scorcho" is still the sort of song that lonely teenage boys vigorously lip-synch to when they think that nobody's looking. Its lyrics can be vague enough ("I'm a lot like you...") to fit all sorts of specific yearning.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Fully Qualified Survivor
    As expected, the album's highlights are its patient explorations.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
    Dark Twisted Fantasy is an album full off melodic ideas, copious guest features, winding songs, unexpected twists, and improbable pairings.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Icky Mettle [Deluxe Edition]
    When listening to Icky Mettle, you feel included, like they're the crew you've known your entire life. The fact that it's both very relevant today and a thrilling snapshot of the restlessly creative 90's underground is no small achievement.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition
    A mountain of shambolic, livewire B-sides and covers of heroes and influence ranging from the Fall to Echo and the Bunnymen, help add a sense of balance and ballast to Brighten the Corners. It makes for an expanded vision of the original while at the same time proving that the original’s vision wasn’t quite so narrow after all.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
    Orphans is something akin to taking a journey through a familiar yet entirely foreign dream-place.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960
    The one drawback to Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 is that, with the exception of “Light Blue”, its déjà vu nature makes it difficult to distinguish it from Thelonious Monk’s landmark albums.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Melodrama
    Still only 20 years old, Lorde could have been forgiven for floundering under the weight of expectation. Instead she’s reasserted her status as today’s ultimate alt-pop artist with a record that balances the contemporary with the classic in typically immaculate style.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
    Lamar's no impressionist, however; his lyrical gifts weave a complex, yet uniquely-West Coast set of influences into something that feels new and forward-thinking.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The ArchAndroid
    In spite of the album's potential obesity at 18 tracks of wildly different musical ideas, the three [Monae and her production partners, Charles "Chuck Lightning" Joseph II and Nathaniel "Nate 'Rocket' Wonder'" Irvin III.] keep the weight off by welcoming coherence and by evenly spreading out their interests.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Illinois
    Vast in scope and breathtaking in its beauty, Illinois may very well be the album that heralds Sufjan Stevens as one of this young century’s most talented artists.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
    Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty isn't just an expertly produced and performed slab of brilliantly odd, futuristic dance music. It isn't just the best rap album of the year so far.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Z
    By trimming thirty minutes off their standard record’s length, the members of My Morning Jacket have paradoxically managed to broaden their sound, cutting the fat to give us ten songs that jive, moon-walk and cock-rock in equal measure.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Modern Times
    Modern Times may not contain a single song that would rank among Dylan's all-time best, but it doesn't have to.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Big Fish Theory
    This is a very different record from Summertime ’06, both thematically and sonically, but it’s no less incisive, challenging, or flat-out excellent.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do
    For all the foot-stomping vitriol that seeps out here and there, The Idler Wheel... is the sound of a brilliant songwriter putting away childish things, and waiting tensely for what comes next.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Merriweather Post Pavilion
    Has the album of 2009 been unleashed in January? I can’t see anything else coming near it.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Hell Hath No Fury
    It's impossible to guess what kind of album would've turned out had this seen the light of day two years ago, when it was originally expected. Chances are, though, we wouldn't be talking about intensity or hunger or survival with the same emotion in our voices.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Push Barman To Open Old Wounds
    If you’re only going to buy one Belle & Sebastian album (and shame on you if you are), make it this one.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Greatest Story Never Told
    Don't consider Saigon's The Greatest Story Never Told his debut, but his farewell. It is a goodbye to the discarded first chapter of his career. The half-decade-in-the-making effort needed to be released in order for the rapper to move on.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    The Sound Of The Smiths
    It proves that with the same attention, wit, grace and intellect that these musicians gave to their songwriting, they can indeed construct a retrospective that not only reflects the brilliance of their band but heightens and intensifies it as well.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hypermagic Mountain
    Even with its brief lapses, Hypermagic Mountain is Lightning Bolt’s most accomplished effort to date, one-upping 2003’s Wonderful Rainbow with a fresh sense of maturity.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II
    Only Built for Cuban Linx...Pt. 2 is top-to-bottom brilliant, and it's energy and emotion is too infectious not to inspire a dozen great hip-hop records to come.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Bad as Me
    Throughout it all, it still feels like essential, singular Waits, like moody and manic are two sides of one very marked coin.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dear Science,
    Dear Science is another highlight from a band whose career has essentially been an extended one.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Return To Cookie Mountain
    Return to Cookie Mountain makes Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes look almost silly by comparison.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bay Of Pigs [EP]
    There may only be two songs here, but Bejar does a lot with them. He gives us both the clever tricks we expect from him and a whole new sound in which for them to swirl around.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Destroyer's Rubies
    Those who choose to fixate on Bejar's lack of a pretty singing voice are missing the point. Much like John Darnielle, everything outside of Bejar's verse should be seen as peripheral -- a means to deliver the lyrical ends.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Undun
    The Roots manage to craft another interesting hip-hop experiment with undun.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    In Rainbows
    This is a grownup album, made for grownups.
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