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For 1,238 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 77
Highest review score: 100 Hit Me Hard and Soft
Lowest review score: 20 Killer Sounds
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 882 out of 1238
  2. Mixed: 354 out of 1238
  3. Negative: 2 out of 1238
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
    It's surprisingly exhilarating stuff.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Ashes & Fire
    Underneath the almost soporifically smooth old-soul and country polish, Adams's ear for a delicate melody and feel for the shadowy nuances of emotion give this latest chapter beautiful depth.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Reverie
    It's a fully-acoustic affair (guitar, piano, upright bass, drums, etc), with a luxurious, live-combo presence and some gruff musings on time, humanity and music.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    New Blood
    There is an avant garde boldness here that is, at times, quite amazing.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Purpose & Grace
    It's simply a great album from start to finish - wonderful tunes, superb musicianship, star guests and a unity of purpose about delivering a fitting tribute to the music he loves that raises this album to such a high level.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Steve Reich: WTC 9/11
    The performances are superb.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wild Flag
    It's a fun-loving, tune-heavy indie/punk/pop romp, with girlie la-la harmonies, a none-more-cheesy organ sound, and welcome vocal echoes of Britpop femmes Elastica and new wave heroine Lene Lovich.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Biophilia
    It's surprisingly accessible, hypnotic and beautiful if you give it time and concentration.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    An Appointment with Mr. Yeats
    From the clarion call of The Hosting Of The Shee to the haunting The Faery's Last Song, the result is a fabulous feast of words and music.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    You Are All I See
    It's all precisely mixed and impressively textured, but lacks Blake's more raw, emotional connection.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tomorrow's World
    Business as usual, then, with few new thrills.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams
    The album is a beauty, none the less, the care put into it confirming Williams's exalted position in the tower of song.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Metals
    Nothing on this, her fourth album, rivals that hit [1234] for toe-tapping immediacy, but it is rich in atmospheric beauty.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Nevermind [20th Anniversary Edition]
    It's an album undiminished by time, that can still make me want to throw myself around an imaginary mosh pit or curl up in a fetal ball.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Less You Know, The Better
    A guest spot for Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagano adds spice to this unexpected feast.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    4everevolution
    His fifth album, however, finds him still in peak form, voicing socially aware hip hop and outré electro-disco, all with an eloquence which often eludes the newer generation.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Duets II
    It's a heart-warming who's who.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Velociraptor!
    Their fourth album is their best yet: bright, poppy and exciting.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    SuperHeavy
    The quintet's debut is pretty good fun, fusing Stones-y raunch with brash Caribbean rhythms.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Killer Sounds
    Set against jarring synths, the macho, sexualised lyrics sound seedy--or worse, menacing--and what prosaic hooks exist are obscured by the dirge.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Old Magic
    Nick Lowe is pop's master of pastiche, and this delightful collection of country bar-room and lounge ballads sounds like a game of spot the musical references.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Strange Mercy
    Her approach is confident and challenging, but not arch – several direct, haunting love songs are as delicate and affecting as any Adele tear-jerker.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Junk of the Heart
    Sparer instrumentation and slack tempos mean that singer Luke Pritchard dominates, and his reedy voice fails to enliven trite lyrics about lust and fame.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A Creature I Don't Know
    The song kick-starts the album's powerful sense of forward motion, of a woman struggling to wrestle free from expectations, relationships and religious convention.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ghost on the Canvas
    The air is predictably valedictory, freighted with reflections on love, faith and intimations of mortality. 'Don't go to any trouble/You know I won't be here long . . . ' he sings in Westerberg's Any Trouble - in a voice as strong and clear as a bell.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down
    The sound of the album is deliberately vibrant and varied.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tassili
    This fifth album trades their signature Fender Stratocaster rock sound for hard-plucked acoustic guitars and lutes, conveying a majestic sense of space, the feeling that the music will unfold at its own pace, however long it takes.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I'm with You
    14 songs over an hour's running time is a lot of nonsense to digest. For the Chili Peppers, songwriting is a medium without a message, unless it's just to let your inhibitions go and dance.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nothing But the Beat
    As packed and punchy as Black Eyed Peas on steroids, this is the sound of the overground.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Better Day
    The melodies aren't as strong as those on Backwoods Barbie but Dolly Parton's wit, sincerity and plucky pragmatism allow her to get away with simplistic advice like: "Lead the good life, just treat this planet right and try to all be friends" and icky lines about painting pretty rainbows in the sky.
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