For 5,913 reviews, this publication has graded:
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34% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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62% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 67
Highest review score: | Magic | |
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Lowest review score: | Know Your Enemy |
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Positive: 3,629 out of 5913
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Mixed: 2,244 out of 5913
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Negative: 40 out of 5913
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Funeral for Justice is the band’s most forceful album yet, tailor-made to melt minds at massive festivals.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 30, 2024
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It’s music that evokes the terror we all share in just being alive, and the way that fighting through it is a form of constant rebirth we all share, too. That’s the kind of truth this album excavates and celebrates many times, and why this is some of Annie Clark’s most satisfyingly urgent music yet.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 25, 2024
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No matter how bleak Miller may feel, he’s ready to dance until the end of the world, and that spirit is infectious from the beginning of American Primitive to the end.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 23, 2024
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Sentiment is a place to jump right into her sonic world, with a proper pop pace: 10 songs in 37 minutes. The indie-rock tunes mix with orchestral interludes, synth drones, field recordings, found sounds from nature or the city streets, all full of raw emotion.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 22, 2024
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Like the Midnights 3 A.M., the second half of Tortured Poets: The Anthology is more acoustic, more delicate, more Quill Pen, much more Aaron Dessner. If you preferred 3 A.M. to the proper Midnights (“The Great War,” “Bigger Than The Whole Sky”) you might also prefer the second hour of the Anthology.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 22, 2024
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Stunning. .... Tortured Poets has the intimate sound of Folklore and Evermore, but with a coating of Midnights synth-pop gloss.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 18, 2024
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Not every swerve works though; the Ty Dolla $ign duet “Gracious” sounds rushed and not fully fleshed out. .... Still, the music continues to override any of the head-scratching behaviors Future, Metro Boomin, and all of their friends engage in. Just like on We Don’t Trust You, the guest features on this record are quite good.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 18, 2024
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- Posted Apr 17, 2024
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By giving themselves over even more to their concepts on Rampen — and no, everything will not be fine — they’ve created a new set of structures to explode.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 15, 2024
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As on her debut, Girl in Red really shines when she steps up the energy level in pissed-off songs where she’s getting her heart kicked around.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 12, 2024
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[Don’t Forget Me reveals] a rustic, more organic-feeling pop-rock sound. Upbeat tracks like “On and On and On” and “Never Going Home” are perfectly made for big-voiced sing-alongs in a way that brings to mind Michelle Branch’s early work. Meanwhile, the meditative high-note “All the Same” is raw and elemental. .... The sense of unguarded affection perfectly sums up Don’t Forget Me.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 11, 2024
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The album is full of moments like this, where the lyrical conventions of a hand-me-down genre are enlivened with genuinely personal urgency.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 8, 2024
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Marciology again demonstrates why Roc is one of rap’s most unique voices — no matter how many artists try to ride the wave.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 5, 2024
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Pivoting away from the brighter, jammier aspects of 2019’s Father of the Bride with a decided bent toward experimentation and surprising, often harsh, new textures. The results showcase a band that, nearly two decades in, is willing to issue a challenge to its fans and produce a soundtrack for a reality that is teeming with noise and discord.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 3, 2024
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This is arguably the sharpest collection of songs the Keys have come up with.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 1, 2024
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Some of Beyoncé’s best vocal work on record, produced flawlessly and at the forefront of each track. Her voice as an instrument is wielded superbly across the entire album but most strikingly at the top of it, as she glides across country and R&B inflections effortlessly.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 1, 2024
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Ditching the occasionally somber tone of some of her later records, she seems to have rediscovered the glories of a classic Sheryl Crow record. Working with producer Mike Elizondo as well as longtime collaborators like Bill Bottrell and Jeff Trott, she’s tapped back into what lured us into her music three decades ago: shamelessly big-hooky records that sound terrific blasting from a car stereo and remind you that only the likes of Tom Petty could match her in that regard.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 29, 2024
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Bright Future’s recording style mirrors the listener’s experience: as time goes on, these songs and the emotions associated with them will inevitably deepen, transmute, and attach themselves to the memory of different people.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 25, 2024
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Tyla’s debut, sure to be on repeat at better houseparties this year, shows she’s up to the challenge; amapiano probably couldn’t ask for a more effective ambassador.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 22, 2024
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Las Mujeres is a grab-bag of pop genre fusions, yet Shakira manages to hold court in every song with her incisive and enduring songcraft.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 22, 2024
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JPEGRAW is both a musically dense snapshot of an American stoner dad just trying to focus in a world that allows for anything but, and an album that amalgamates an array of sounds, influences, riffs, and samples while still finding room for the searing guitar solos that made his reputation.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 21, 2024
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Tigers Blood is an album that makes you marvel at how much Katie Crutchfield has accomplished, over all the miles she’s traveled so far. But it’s also an album that makes you excited for wherever she goes from here.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 21, 2024
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Nearly 30 years into his career, Four Tet seems to be finding new terrain within well-established sounds, many of which he pioneered. The result is a pleasantly surprising addition to the canon of electronic music.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 19, 2024
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Her rap style and World Wide Whack’s buoyant production make sure its heavy themes don’t weigh it down; instead, the beats build her character.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 15, 2024
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They show off their abilities throughout Invincible Shield, and occasionally they hit on new and surprising ideas with their songwriting. Although some Shield tracks feel like Priest-by-numbers, the songs that really hit feel like lightning striking.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 11, 2024
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Grande’s latest is a gorgeously exposed journey to the end of her world — or at least what she believes to be the end. It’s a divorce album that goes through all the stages of grief, and the singer navigates a new beginning with some of the most honest and inventive songs of her career so far.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 7, 2024
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Her goal on The Collective, as was her goal with Sonic Youth, is to subvert listeners’ expectations. Gordon will turn 71 next month, and she’s made one of the most daring albums of her career. If you want to get it though, you have to turn it up and submit.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 7, 2024
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The fourth, self-titled Bleachers record doesn’t veer too far from their previous LPs.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 6, 2024
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Part of why Blue Lips is compelling is that it seduces the listener enough to accept Schoolboy Q on his own terms.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 4, 2024
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That these intimations of progress come slowly for Webster is part of the album’s relatable charm.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 28, 2024
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