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For 2,628 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 SMiLE
Lowest review score: 10 Amazing Grace
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,177 out of 2628
  2. Mixed: 431 out of 2628
  3. Negative: 20 out of 2628
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    10th Avenue Freakout
    Imagine cLOUDDEAD jamming with Wilco, with David Lynch producing, and you're only halfway there. [#257, p.70]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Angels Of Light Sing 'Other People'
    If Brian Wilson had crashed a motorcycle and holed up to recuperate at Big Pink with The Band, this is how The Basement Tapes would have sounded. [#256, p.49]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Akron/Family
    Immaculately interwoven electronics and the care with which each beautifully recorded track unfolds recall Chicago post-rock. [#254, p.53]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Exquisite Corpse
    The slippery polyrhythmic music is a difficult terrain for MCs to conquer. [#253, p.57]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blue Eyed In The Red Room
    One imagines Blue Eyed In The Red Room might serve as an alternative soundtrack to Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. [#252, p.47]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Frances The Mute
    [An] overstuffed sound hurricane. [#255, p.58]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Earth Is Blue
    The Earth Is Blue has a glorious, spacey innocence that inspires affection. [#253, p.57]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    LCD Soundsystem
    LCD Soundsystem's gift is to forge iron from irony, show that cleverness need not be enervating. [#252, p.46]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Negrophilia: The Album
    Ladd's eclectic and downbeat montage of samples creates a rootless soundscape, seemingly geographically transient, restless, impatient and unsettling. It is the perfect backdrop for Ladd's soul-searching reflexes and rants. [#251, p.54]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Healthy Distrust
    The record makes you marinate in Francis' omni-loathing, and the effect is one of catharsis rather than exhaustion. [#254, p.57]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    I Am A Bird Now
    This could have been camp on a Himalayan scale. Its strength is that it's anything but. [#255, p.51]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Superwolf
    The collaboration has had the effect of sharpening Oldham's focus and yielding one of the most gripping collections to bear one of his many pseudonyms. [#252, p.48]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    School Of The Flower
    Their most beautifully conceived and ambitiously extended work to date. [#252, p.59]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    MM..Food
    Lyrically, Mm.. Food is the best of the three albums released by Daniel Dumile this year. [#250, p.73]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tiger My Friend
    Such unashamed prettiness in a production is rare, and it's rarer still to achieve this without sliding into a quagmire of tweeness or an insufferable knowing smugness. [#252, p.62]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This Island
    Le Tigre make a convincing case for synthpop as an instrument of liberation theology. [#248, p.58]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Frank Black Francis
    Black's pleasure at rediscovering these old songs in new company is infectious and makes the exercise engaging and worthwhile. [#252, p.62]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When The World Was Our Friend
    The sound has a new depth. [#249, p.65]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Real Gone
    A set of powerfully written and unfussily executed songs. [#248, p.50]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Grind Date
    The best thing they've done since Stakes Is High. [#250, p.73]
    • The Wire
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Burned Mind
    A genuine sense of danger and trepidation stalks through these tracks. [#249, p.63]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Young Prayer
    Think of Young Prayer as the demos deemed too spectral, too elusive, to be revisited for [Brian] Wilson's new take on Smile. [#249, p.61]
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    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    SMiLE
    The music has an originality that sounds remarkable even now. [#248, p.52]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Niño Rojo
    Another charming collection. [#248, p.51]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Trust Not Those In Whom Without Some Touch Of Madness
    A defining album that should lift her out of the 'sounds like' territory. [#248, p.65]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fast Future Present
    A scattering of influences have been streamlined into tightly focused songs, with a keen sense of melody and an impressive grasp of agitated, Gang Of Four-style rhythms. [#247, p.70]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    HoboSapiens
    Hobo Sapiens is a confident and consistently rewarding record, and some of its songs rank alongside Cale's best. [#236, p.56]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Medulla
    Possibly the most daring record she's ever made... [but] Medulla is not a complete success. [#247, p.53]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Juxtaposition
    Theirs is a terse music, but purposeful, and it's that quality which makes this a more engaging listen than the equally abstract cybernetic fusion of To Rococo Rot or Mapstation. [#247, p.62]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blue Album
    Marks a return to the kind of intricately interleaved rhythms, seamless progressions and aching harmonies that characterise their earlier sound. [#245, p.69]
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