For 5,918 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: 3,633 out of 5918
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Mixed: 2,245 out of 5918
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Negative: 40 out of 5918
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The Orpheus disc is quieter, and Blues is slightly more lewd, but taken together this may be the scariest album about panties, gorillas and bloody gods ever recorded.- Rolling Stone
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Even in duets with [Wainwright and Boy George], Antony is the dominant voice of solitude and agonized waiting. [10 Feb 2005, p.84]- Rolling Stone
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Ghostface's emotionally charged stream-of-consciousness flow is as off-the-wall and amazing as it's ever been.- Rolling Stone
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But if Life On Earth still felt intent on defining itself in part by what it was not, The Past is Still Alive achieves something even braver: Segarra has honed their craft into a cohesive, astonishingly realized singer-songwriter record.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 21, 2024
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This breathtaking EP telescopes the mysticism of 2007's Untrue into two 11-minute suites and a seven minute palate cleanser.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 30, 2012
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Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You can feel redundant at points, and might be a little much to wade through unless you already roll waist-deep with the Big Thief experience. Yet the cumulative sense of the open-ended, accidental, communal, and casual is worth any slowish spots along the way. This is a band that deserves the time you lend it.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 8, 2022
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The Hardest Part is the result of her stepping away and figuring out who she is — and the songs she wrote during that time sound appealing even as they’re digging into knotty, complex emotions.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 16, 2022
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There are also moments of tenderness (“No Moon at Night”) and vulnerability (“Misunderstanding,” “In My Own Particular Way”) that make it one of her most compelling albums to date.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Nov 7, 2018
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Ellison makes the boldest, most fully engaged fusion of the hip-hop-laptop era.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 21, 2014
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Basement Jaxx refine their broad influences into a creative energy you can feel: The art of their noise supples as much dance motivation as their beats.- Rolling Stone
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This is an album that proves something beautiful and enduring can come from even the most dire circumstances.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 16, 2020
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This double-disc set includes the first official release of Pacific’s follow-up Bambu, a harder-rocking but weaker set that Wilson never finished. Yet the reissue’s heart lies in tracks like “River Song” and the rollicking “What’s Wrong” — two raw, emotional highlights that are as moody as anything Brian ever composed.- Rolling Stone
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The push and pull of passiveness and assertiveness on My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross feels organic at every turn. Sometimes the music can be a little too loose, careening like an out-of-control car (especially on the discordant “Go Ahead”), but the slackness is worth the freedom of hearing Anohni’s voice fly like the bird she became years ago.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jul 10, 2023
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Indigo is an adventurous sonic portrait of RM’s inner world, the work of an artist who finds his voice by bringing together the influences that resonate with his soul.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Dec 2, 2022
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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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- Posted Sep 25, 2015
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A lower-dosage Animal Collective, the Foxes stuff their free-form songs with rich, swirling melodies; billowing clouds of organs, tom-toms, bells and assorted stringed instruments cloak group vocals whose secular-gospel, suede-fringed precision owes plenty to Crosby, Stills and Nash.- Rolling Stone
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In its own way, its as artful, ambitious, determined, joyous and inspiring, as Lemonade or To Pimp a Buttery. It's a sexy MF-ing masterpiece.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 30, 2018
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His ace in the hole is his signature cozy sound -- dusty soul samples, gospel hymns, drums that pop as if hit for the very first time.- Rolling Stone
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Blackstar is a ricochet of textural eccentricity and pictorial-shrapnel writing.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Dec 23, 2015
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This time around, he trades in that album's personal tales of crisis and redemption for a more nuanced, wide-angled form of storytelling, packed to bursting with evocative specifics.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jul 17, 2015
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Despite the skull-crushing power, MBV is music that rewards close listening, music that takes its time to give up its secrets.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 8, 2013
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Mostly you can hear the transcendence of Big Thief as they grapple with characters who come and go, not knowing if they will ever be back, bravely embracing death, and revealing a vulnerability that becomes their biggest strength. Though they travel through the darkness spellbound by life’s biggest mysteries, they manage to emerge more at peace than ever.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 10, 2019
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It could just as easily be a message to any hard-working performer with a family at home as it could be Carlile’s urgent reminder to herself to leave the rockstar bullshit out on the road. Either way, it’s the kind of vulnerable, complicated statement that has made her such a relatable artist.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 4, 2021
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His intimate vocals are bolstered by the addition of celestial choral harmonies, and his production is immense, yet every layered instrument and rackety beat feels meticulously deliberate.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 4, 2023
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- Posted Dec 16, 2010
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All told, these are soulful, uplifting songs by Afrobeats’ top artist. He’s all about dropping heat, even as he continues to evolve. More Love, Less Ego gives you more life.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Dec 13, 2022
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This LP is a testament to her place as one of Latin music’s true originals.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 6, 2023
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