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For 1,126 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 35% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 The Golden Age of Apocalypse
Lowest review score: 10 This Is Forever
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 856 out of 1126
  2. Mixed: 256 out of 1126
  3. Negative: 14 out of 1126
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Petits Fours
    The album may not be the most cohesive collection of songs, but it’s infinitely entertaining, delicate and precise in its construction, and a solid debut from a couple we can only hope to hear more from.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Future Will Come
    Taken as a whole, the album does have a certain cohesiveness that’s lacking in most dance “albums” but many of the tracks fail to break new or interesting ground, and it leaves one wishing their potential of last summer could’ve been realized.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
    With Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian, not only has the frustratingly prolific Guillermo Scott Herren delivered a blinding banger of a record, he’s upped the game that appeared indomitable on 2003’s "One Word Extinguisher."
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Two Fingers
    The only aspect that prevents this album from achieving flawless cohesion is the fact that each track sounds so distinctly different, so much that it’s almost a chore to readjust to the new sounds one is bombarded with from track to track.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    200 Tons Of Bad Luck
    The contrasts, themes, and sheer eclectics of the album make for something that any one person can listen to, and relate to.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Two Suns
    Two Suns doesn’t have to parade itself around as a concept album to prove that music has always been, and always should be, about telling a story, as Khan does here.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Jewellery
    Jewellery, their latest album, plays like an act in a high school battle of the bands.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kingdom Of Rust
    Doves succeed in giving fans their fix of new music that sounds fresh without altering the formula so much as to alienate any of their devotees.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Jigsaw
    Nothing lyrically spectacular or hip-hopfluential happens, but this release shows the sometimes troubled Sov finally putting the pieces together.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Begone Dull Care
    Devoted fans need not worry, though--the album still holds the melancholic flavor they’ve come to perfect, just with some added twinkling synths, hints at old-school R&B, and a splash of funk for good measure.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Repo
    Black Dice continues to produce highly interesting music, no doubt, but be warned that it’s not for the faint of heart or imagination.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Last Laugh
    If nothing else the lyrics are rich, although it gets tiresome to hear song after song of psychedelic fairytales over spaced out chimes and strings.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Living Thing
    For Living Thing, they ditch the comfortable confines of the airy, featherweight pop they perfected on Writer’s Block for more sonically adventurous territory and prove in the process that their prior success was not just a fluke.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Thunderheist
    The duo’s debut does not reinvent the wheel, but Thunderheist delivers a fun, funky dance set that should offer at least a few surprises.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Good Evening
    Good Evening is unbelievably catchy and vintage but at times is weighted down by its own obscurity, sometimes becoming far too much background noise and not enough of an active listen to provide enough distinction between tracks.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Welcome To Mali
    But if this is not a problem for you (there’s hardly a word of English), then you’ll enjoy the warm dialogue and glacial crooning of an ancient tongue presented over a psychedelic mix of some of the dark continents finest.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fever Ray
    Unyielding in its murkiness, but all the while strangely accessible, it is a generous full-bodied offering handed to us by these otherwise blurred figures.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bromst
    Right from the get-go, whatever "community" Deacon was aiming for seems to be established--the music is inclusive, it's warm, and it invites you in rather than thrusting itself at you, unlike previous Deacon works.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Junior
    Junior breathes new life into an already overpopulated genre of glitch and synth stab fury.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Born Like This
    Doom still holds some secrets, but his lyricism and feel for the funk sweat out of the this album as much as any of his previous, if not more. He clearly shows that he is here to stay, and if anyone was expecting change, they are looking in the wrong spot.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fist Of God
    Fist of God is surprisingly decent if you can manage to divorce it from its lame context.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Listening Tree
    Overall, Listening Tree is all about Tim, and his deep closeted skeletons and inner demons, which are far too abstract to be even remotely relatable or fun to sweat it out to their exorcisms.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Scream
    Scream may be the most compelling train wreck of an album in recent memory.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heavy Ghost
    Stith’s ability to combine sounds into a sort of post-modern tribal folk is what makes the album so enjoyable to listen to.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rockwell
    The music is fresh and rather hypnotizing.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Truth Is Here [EP]
    Ali's lyrics and Ant's production have more to say in a few bars than most MCs and producers are able to in an entire song.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ridin' High
    Every single solitary track on this record maintains a cohesive vibe that will keep listeners cruising in their rides until they run out of gas; or weed, which ever comes first.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dirty Bomb
    Dirty Bomb is a double-edged sword that will undoubtedly rip you apart--but trust when I say it won’t hurt.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    X Marks Destination
    Techno-oriented tracks like “Fire” and “Divebomb, while serviceable forays into the genre, sound out of place and disrupt the lilting momentum of the record. However, these slight missteps are are not enough to ruin a solid first effort from a band that is an undoubtedly promising addition to the dance-rock canon.
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