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For 5,914 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: 3,630 out of 5914
  2. Mixed: 2,244 out of 5914
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5914
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Springsteen on Broadway
    The result is by turns audiobook, podcast, and live album, and at its most potent when it becomes a hybrid of the three.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Let England Shake
    Always an underrated guitarist, Harvey makes use of the jaunty rhythms of British folk music, but takes no comfort in the past. And you don't have to care about English history--or England in general--to fall under Harvey's spell.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Body Talk
    This disc cherry-picks from two previous Body Talk EPs while tossing in five new tracks.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
    Her first solo album shows that there are even more sides to this virtual-insanity innovator.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Who Kill
    It all hangs together thanks to Garbus' voice, which slides seamlessly from Joplin-esque howls to delicate coos.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Live at the El Mocambo
    By and large, it lives up to the legend, or at least what anyone would have wanted it to be. The you-are-there ambience of what we’d already heard runs throughout the entire album, as does the same bravado and ferocity, whether the band is rolling out “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” for the hundredth time or a cover of bluesman Big Maceo’s “Worried Life Blues.”
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Remind Me Tomorrow
    Her fantastic new album, Remind Me Tomorrow, ups her ambitions even further, pushing toward a grand, smoldering vision of pop that can bring to mind Lana Del Rey and St. Vincent (producer John Congleton has worked with both), and the New Wave warrior-queen spirit of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    thank u, next
    This is one of the year’s best pop albums so far, even in a 2019 that’s already turning out to be a great one for new music. Thank U, Next makes you suspect that the best Ariana is yet to come.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Complete Matrix Tapes [Box Set]
    It's a startlingly vivid picture of the artist as a young man.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Far from Over
    Far From Over might lack an obvious mainstream hook, but the sturdiness of its design and the passion of its execution make it 2017's jazz album to beat.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Sailor's Guide to Earth
    Sailor's Guide is classic album length--nine songs, 39 minutes--and best heard in one sitting; this is Nashville craft less as pop science than as expansive headphone storytelling.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mirrored
    Give Mirrored a handful of listens and you might just enjoy having your brains splattered against your speakers.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Are We There
    Her magnificent fourth LP grows her trademark examinations of romantic decay to cathedral-like scale.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bon Iver
    Bon Iver isn't quite a crossover move. Big-pop synths appear, but more in the way a radio hit sounds leaking out of your lover's earbuds.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    How I Got Over
    When they come back to Roy Ayers-style funk ("Radio Daze"), they prove nobody does it better. Let's hear it for steady employment.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Afrique Victime
    The biggest feat here, though, is how Afrique Victime feels upbeat and hopeful from start to finish. There’s no real sense of worry or anxiety in the love songs, and Moctar’s calls for unity are set to a loose soundtrack of unpredictable guitar. This is how free rock & roll should sound.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Syro
    Graying snobs once called this "intelligent dance music." Even now, few do it better.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    blackSUMMERS'night (2016)
    His most consistent set since his debut, Urban Hang Suite, in 1996. Maxwell anchors the cloud-eating sweep of these tracks with solid guitar and bass hooks.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Teens of Denial
    With or without artfully-cribbed melodies, the music is undeniable.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Estudando o Pagode
    Its dizzying counterpoints, seductive crooning and orgasmic yelps will definitely heat up your next cocktail party.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Robyn
    Sexy without being pandering, arty without being pretentious, Robyn is a public service: a record that can make indie-minded geeks dance without shame.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Separation Sunday
    His wordy narratives get hazy at times, but Sunday succeeds as a whirlwind tour through an overstuffed brain.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Process
    He's hook man to pop's most advanced megastars – see Solange's "Don't Touch My Hair," Kanye West's "Saint Pablo," Frank Ocean's "Alabama," Drake's "Too Much"--but his debut LP proves him their peer.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rings Around The World
    A widescreen musical masterpiece with a knowing wink. [28 Mar 2002, p.68]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 16, 1980-1985
    The overwhelming amount of material — 54 unreleased songs total — proves that even at Dylan’s lowest point, he was still capable of writing great music, even if the best songs often didn’t wind up on his albums.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Deacon
    It’s the cheekiness and humor of Deacon that really shines, without sacrificing the complex theatricality that has made Serpentwithfeet such a standout project.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Run the Jewels
    The vibe is somewhere between the coherence of an album and the casual flow of a mixtape.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kaleidoscope Dream
    He rubs his shadowy croon against electronic gurgles or electric guitar, keeping his tracks spare and unpredictable.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Once I Was an Eagle
    Her voice is the headliner: Miked so close you can smell the cigarettes on her breath, it's sultry, wise, rueful and unapologetic, connecting a 1960s singer-songwriter tradition to the ache of the now.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thunder, Lightning, Strike
    Thunder, Lightning, Strike was hailed as a pop masterpiece when it came out in the U.K. late last year, but clearing all the samples held up its U.S. release until now. Wait no longer.
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