Rolling Stone's Scores

For 5,894 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 6.2 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:
5894 music reviews
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's two discs of steady brilliance.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The most interesting stuff here is in the Blackberry Way Demos, some of which came out on a previous expanded edition of the album. ... Even the collection’s rough mixes — usually the most over larded part of a box set — offer new insights.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rosalía’s new album, El Mal Querer, is less rigorous than its predecessor, though even easier to like. ... It’s also extremely effective.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The album is an immediate gem in their still-expanding catalog; it’s a resonant reflection on pain, depression, love and home that forsakes some of their big, drum-heavy pop leanings for a smoother, more inward experience.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Even without any very particularly illuminating extras, though, Superunknown is a Nineties benchmark.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This lavish multidisc set is as eccentric and compelling as its subject.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The album showcases a songwriting voice you won't hear anywhere else in pop: young, female, downwardly mobile, fiercely witty.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Rarely does an act so flatteringly curate its own brilliance.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    But the real surprise is the music itself — the most head-spinning, heart-breaking, emotionally ambitious songs of her life.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Doesn't quite have the ragged charm or the wry humor of 2001's outstanding The World Won't End; the occasional dose of guitar bombast ("One Foot in the Grave") doesn't serve Pernice well.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    These days, they don't just crush--they hypnotize.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jordan’s second record proves that the singer is capable of oh-so much more.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's political rock that never confuses passionate commitment with smug certainty, asking more questions than it answers on a hero's journey into our darkest national impulses, and maybe in some small way, beyond them.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This one will make heads from Shaolin to San Diego happy.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Future Nostalgia is a breathtakingly fun, cohesive and ambitious attempt to find a place for disco in 2020. Incredibly, Lipa is successful: the upbeat album that she decided to release a week earlier than planned is the perfect balm for a stressful time.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ultimately, Divers, is about things lost with age and progress--wisdom, beauty, innocence, love, mystery. Yet this music always seems to look ahead.... Questlove, Kanye, Kendrick and all other curators of hyper-literate avant-pop: Ball's in your court.
    • 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.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Merritt's compositions have a tossed-off, barely produced quality and are held together by sturdily constructed melodies that hark back to Eighties synth poppers like Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You also get 132 pages of liner-notes-cum-memoir that can be just as entertaining as the music.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It might also be his most broadly emotional set ever; certainly it's his most sharply focused record since the game-changing tag team Swordfishtrombones and Rain Dogs decades ago.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    As always, it's Yorke's voice that holds the emotional center, and it's never been more affecting. Credit both his delivery and the production clarity, a statement in and of itself.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This album, a partnership with top pop whisperer Jack Antonoff, is a masterpiece of confrontational intimacy, and Clark lays herself bare as only a woman who has seen her life suddenly become tabloid fodder can.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There’s a new richness to Crutchfield’s voice that smooths out the emotional extremities.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dear Science is a brilliant balancing act between pop aspiration and music-geek aesthetics.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The three-CD set surveys their story so far, offers fascinating glimpses of roads not taken, and contains must-hear new music.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Might be the most oddly beautiful, psychedelic and ambitious [album] of the year. [21 Sep 2006, p.84]
    • Rolling Stone
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The rapper’s signature self-awareness has matured into some of the more compelling rap music being made today, and as such Call Me If You Get Lost proves to be Tyler’s best effort to date.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The tunes are tight and sticky; the guitars hit with real sizzle and bite, accented by flourishes like the garage-rock organ in "Debbie Downer" or the cowbell swing of "Aqua Profunda!"
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lyrically, there no lack of muscular skill-flexing. ... Run the Jewels can still detonate rhymes like a Molotov cocktail lobbed into a CVS, but now they're strategizing for the long war ahead.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    His album of Waits' penned-and-produced songs may be the masterwork of Hammond's long career, as well as further testament to Waits' unique genius.