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For 18,293 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 32% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 The Marshall Mathers LP
Lowest review score: 20 Graffiti
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15,342 out of 18293
  2. Mixed: 2,925 out of 18293
  3. Negative: 26 out of 18293
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Gives Way To Blue
    While they'll never be mistaken for a feel-good band, there is a palpable sense of relief that they get to play together again as a band, and what's remarkable is that they still sound like themselves, capturing that weird murk halfway between '80s metal and '90s northwestern sludge, reminding us that we were missing something in their absence.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Closer To The Bone
    If Kristofferson never cuts another record, Closer to the Bone will have been a proud note to end his musical career on.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Turn It Up
    Blessed with little of the showiness affectations of the X-Factor/American Idol generation, she can sell a song and inject it with age-appropriate enthusiasm that sustains her through the moments when Turn It Up glides by on its surface, while making the album--at its best--pretty damn infectious, too.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Poetry Of The Deed
    He's mastered the craft of writing tight and focused rock songs that transcend their beginnings but make no concessions to current sonic fashions.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Live From Home
    Shudder to Think's zest in their return is palpable, this live recording both a fan essential and a good starting point.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ashes Grammar
    Those who power through this album, though, will be richly rewarded by ASDIG's diaphanous, highly intelligent take on noise pop.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love 2
    Air remains a deceptively subtle band, but repeated listens to Love 2 reveal that Godin and Dunckel aren't just remaining true to their aesthetic here, but that even a smaller-scale album from the duo has plenty of wit and surprises to offer.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There Is No Enemy
    Besides connecting the dots between the chugging side of Neil Young and the slightly warped alterna-pop of the Flaming Lips, Built to Spill continue releasing some of the most affecting, beguiling indie rock of the 2000s.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Born Again Revisited
    For now there is enough energy and excitement in the sound and presentation to make Born Again Revisited sound just as fresh and invigorating as "Rip It Off."
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Exploding Head
    Exploding Head is a fine step forward for A Place to Bury Strangers, and shows they're among the best bands bringing shoegaze into the 21st century.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The List
    The List is a renewal and a testament to life, and it belongs to her father as much as it belongs to her, a beautiful restatement of her father's passions, only now, they've become his daughter's treasures, as well.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mountain Soul II
    Since 2000, every record she's released has been at least as good as the one that preceded it, and this is no exception.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bonfires On The Heath
    The warmth it conveys is immense, and along with the happiness it provides, the album also shows that the Clientele continue to be one of the best pop bands around in the 2000s.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This Is Us
    On This Is Us, the group sounds great for their age, and they sound like they're at their peak.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    At The Cut
    At the Cut isn't as great a surprise as "North Star Deserter," but if you thought the brilliance of that album was a happy accident, this confirms these musicians complement each other very well and hopefully will continue to do so for a long time to come.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forget The Night Ahead
    The delicacy and epic sweep of the Twilight Sad's first album is missed occasionally on Forget the Night Ahead, but the progress they've made is fascinating--and rewarding--to hear.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All In One
    Despite the large cast, All in One is a remarkably unified record; no one makes a larger impact here than Bebel Gilberto herself, while she and executive producer Didie Cunha create a record that's modern in execution but classic in its feel.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Childish Prodigy
    Childish Prodigy is split between drunken caterwauling and quiet hangover-recovery sessions, and both sides of the spectrum are fantastic.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crazy Love
    Easily the singer's most stylistically wide-ranging album, it is also one of his brightest, poppiest, and most fun.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Embryonic
    Little about Embryonic is clear-cut or straightforward -- these noisy, pensive, sometimes meandering songs take awhile to decipher and often feel like they're still in the process of becoming. These very qualities, however, make these songs some of the Flaming Lips most haunting and intriguing music in some time.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Family
    Family shows that Le Loup have really come into their own since the release of their 2007 debut.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Milwaukee At Last!!! [Live]
    kee is simply a fantastic listen that showcases Wainwright as both a showman and a deeply creative songwriter with a superb knack for live performance.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
    It's filled with engagingly warm-sounding tunes mating melodic accessibility with a winning lyrical evanescence powered by the same kind of poetic dream logic that's cropped up in Califone's concepts before.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Where The Wild Things Are [OST]
    Neither a straightforward score nor a collection of kid-friendly indie rock songs, it lies somewhere intriguingly in between--and it's just as good, if not better, than the music these artists make with their main projects.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tarot Sport
    A more hypnotic and lulling ride overall, Tarot Sport may lack some of "Street Horrrsing's" pure visceral impact, but it's just as satisfying on its own terms, as well as an impressive step forward for Fuck Buttons.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sunset/Sunrise
    Sunset/Sunrise shows that with a bit of judiciously placed accompaniment and a more ambitious use of the studio, the duo can add depth and gravity to music that was fine stuff to begin with.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dead Man's Bones
    Dead Man's Bones isn't perfect, but it's often fascinating and nearly always charming--and Shields and Gosling wouldn't have it any other way.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Somewhere Gone
    Somewhere Gone is a different animal from Cervenka's acoustic music of the late '80s and early '90s, at once simpler, riskier, and more confident, and it captures one of the great wild talents of her generation in strong and impressive form, still unafraid to take her talent in new directions after more than a quarter-century of blazing trails.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Logos
    These songs are nearly as wide-ranging and comprehensive as an actual atlas, but Cox keeps charting new territory.
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