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For 5,913 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 34% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 62% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Magic
Lowest review score: 0 Know Your Enemy
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,629 out of 5913
  2. Mixed: 2,244 out of 5913
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5913
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    • 94 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) [OST]
    Whether the performances are stark and embittered (Simone’s) or somber and haunted (the Staples’), the tracks communicate years of struggle and pain — a far cry from the sense of hope that ran through earlier calls to arms, like Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come.”
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strictly a One-Eyed Jack
    An urgent-feeling, musically rich record, one of his most memorable in a while. Whether life has much left to give him is his call to make, but he still has plenty to offer us.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Anaïs Mitchell
    Extends the murky, revelatory folk of [Bonnie Light Horseman] with wistful reflections on the passing of time and free-falling in love. [Jan 2022, p.71]
    • Rolling Stone
      • Posted Jan 26, 2022
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Age of Apathy
    "What Do You Want from Yourself," a title that sums up this album's self-searching power. [Jan 2022, p.71]
    • Rolling Stone
      • Posted Jan 24, 2022
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sick!
    On his most legible album, he’s actively engaged in dismantling what it means for rappers to go in, and to evolve as artists. Without punchlines, hooks, eccentric beats, and flashy flows, he finds ways to astound and delight, avoiding gimmicks as well as grandstanding.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Caprisongs [Mixtape]
    Caprisongs is her most buoyant, she doesn’t sacrifice her creative nonconformity or intimacy. She strikes a careful balance, akin to perfecting an arabesque on a razor blade, as she revels in production that’s carefree, cathartic, and completely life-giving.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dawn FM
    On his fifth album, Dawn FM, the Weeknd focuses those interstellar ambitions to anoint us with the most enchanting music to the portal through purgatory.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Raise The Roof
    Has a similar beauty and mystery [as 2007's Raising Sand] with covers of Calexico. [Jan 2022, p.71]
    • Rolling Stone
      • Posted Jan 5, 2022
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    kiCK iiiii
    An astonishing - at times overwhelming - four-album, 47-track, two-and-a-half-hour release. [Jan 2022, p.71]
    • Rolling Stone
      • Posted Jan 5, 2022
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    kick iiii
    An astonishing - at times overwhelming - four-album, 47-track, two-and-a-half-hour release. [Jan 2022, p.71]
    • Rolling Stone
      • Posted Jan 5, 2022
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    KicK iii
    An astonishing - at times overwhelming - four-album, 47-track, two-and-a-half-hour release. [Jan 2022, p.71]
    • Rolling Stone
      • Posted Jan 5, 2022
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kick ii
    An astonishing - at times overwhelming - four-album, 47-track, two-and-a-half-hour release. [Jan 2022, p.71]
    • Rolling Stone
      • Posted Jan 5, 2022
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Live Life Fast
    He’s in full-on floss mode, which makes this sophomore outing a fun, if slightly surface-level listen. But “Rollercoastin’” is a best-of-both-worlds boon.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fighting Demons
    Fighting Demons, his second posthumous album is a tortured but overall grateful memento mori from a talented artist who left us all too soon.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Dreaming
    On their second English-language album, The Dreaming, K-pop group Monsta X pays homage to boy-band culture, with Nineties-style harmonies, slick choruses, and head-bopping beats that come together for an infectious and joyous 27 minutes.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They Got Amnesia
    On They Got Amnesia, French makes sure we never forget that his bona fides are bulletproof.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Richer Than I Ever Been
    On Richer Than I’ve Ever Been, Ross proves that his highfalutin aspirations are a major part of his authenticity.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    KEYS
    While Keys’ sound is mildly refurbished, the overall sensibility isn’t all that new for her. Keys has been showing off her gift for bridging styles and eras since back when she was a breakout star combining classical piano chops with New York hip-hop and R&B. Unsurprisingly, Originals is the more self-assured of the two sets.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Barn
    On Barn, cut in just a few days at a log-cabin structure in Colorado, the thunderous and ornery side of Young and the Horse revs up again, and sonically, at least, it’s akin to running into an old friend you haven’t seen face to face since the pre-pandemic days.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    30
    Adele has never sounded more ferocious than she does on 30—more alive to her own feelings, more virtuosic at shaping them into songs in the key of her own damn life. It’s her toughest, most powerful album yet.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An Evening with Silk Sonic
    The result is the most enjoyable record Mars has been a part of — a glorious excuse to turn out the lights, break out the bubbly and let the sublime power of their almost troublingly uncanny retro verisimilitude work its mimetic magic on your soul and mind.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Red (Taylor's Version)
    The new Red is even bigger, glossier, deeper, casually crueler. It’s the ultimate version of her most gloriously ambitious mega-pop manifesto.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Things Take Time, Take Time
    Her brilliant third album, Things Take Time, Take Time, is her most reserved and thoughtful yet, full of everyday observation and wry wisdom — it grows slowly, but pay attention and you’ll grow with it.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Valentine
    Jordan’s second record proves that the singer is capable of oh-so much more.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Still Over It
    Listeners who gravitate to Walker for her intense honesty won’t be disappointed by Still Over It.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Future
    The Night Sweats often suggest a more wide-open, somewhat jam-band-y Rocky Mountain version of the Dap-Kings' funk-soul attack, and you can imagine The Future appealing equally to fans of Dave Matthews and Amy Winehouse.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Thank You
    The songs feel familiar, as if they’ve even assembled from parts of previous hits. ... All that said, there’s still an inordinate deal of pleasure to be taken in music that wants to sweep you up and revel in sonic bliss, whether you’ve emerged from a still-lingering pandemic or not.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Voyage
    It’s a surprise to have these Swedes back in the game. But it’s a bigger, sweeter surprise that they returned so full of musical vitality.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Kid A Mnesia
    Kid A Mnesia isn’t just a monument of Radiohead’s bravest, boldest music—it’s a tribute to keeping the creative fires burning even in the coldest of times.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Don't Live Here Anymore
    As a songwriter, Granduciel can’t quite fill shoes [like Bob Dylan's] that big. But when he steps aside and War on Drugs stretch out — piling on acoustic filigree and crisp leads on “Harmonia’s Dream,” for instance, or zoning out heroically during the anxiety-shedding folk rock of “Occasional Rain” — they create a rare world of bliss that’s a great place to kill some time.
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