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For 18,275 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: 15,324 out of 18275
  2. Mixed: 2,925 out of 18275
  3. Negative: 26 out of 18275
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Virgin
    On Virgin, she is transcendentally witchy, harmonizing with herself both literally and spiritually, a pop star in the throes of creative rebirth.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Different Talking
    A tight 17-track, 38-minute album that should be welcomed by all fans but especially by millennials (and elder zoomers) aging alongside the beloved songwriter.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    McCartney, It'll Be OK
    If you've been wanting to hear a band make a bunch of fractured noise and love every moment of it, UNIVERSITY is here for you and McCartney, It'll Be OK is their gift to the noise lovers of the world.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Oar On, Penelope!
    Oar On, Penelope! is the sort of spontaneously joyous record that reminds us it's a great thing he's still with us and making music. He more than gets by with a little help from his friends.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    do it afraid
    Do It Afraid is another impelling triumph from a thriving musical dynamo.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Raspberry Moon
    It's a throwback vibe, evoking the flannel-laden days of '90s underground pop guitar groups like Dinosaur Jr., Sloan, and Teenage Fanclub; unabashed touchstones for Anderson whose work on Raspberry Moon believably lives up to the comparisons.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    hopefully !
    Carner and his band create a warm, comforting sound on hopefully !, reflecting on life's trials but ultimately remaining confident and ready for the future.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fairyland Codex
    Upon deeper listening, however, it becomes clear that some of the album's most overpowering moments are those that first come on as slight and retiring but reveal their anger, disappointment, and frustration by way of a slow, steady boil.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    American Romance
    With American Romance, Nelson tunes into feelings of expectancy, newness, and a nervous uncertainty that's endearing.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Desert Window
    Desert Window is her first full-length, and it's a more fleshed-out expansion of her sound, incorporating more acoustic instrumentation as well as more complex choral harmonies.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Luminal
    Despite a few drastically darker moments, the majority of Luminal feels familiar and comforting.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Something Beautiful
    Cyrus' restless creativity and expert craft is a formidable combination, and at its best, Something Beautiful has a fearlessness and sensuality that could be the beginning of something exciting for her music.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Birthing
    Essentially, it's not that far off from The Glowing Man, which means that it's familiar territory for anyone who has spent time with the band's albums or experienced their concerts, but it's still an incredibly powerful record.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Strawberries
    It's much more daunting to continue making records that forge a new creative path or write songs that explore new territory. Strawberries does both of those things and proves that Robert Forster is no nostalgia act -- he's still creating records as intense, meaningful, and dangerous as anything he's done in the past.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Phantom Island
    The magic is sadly absent from this overly-upholstered, clumsily ornate, and intensely disappointing return trip into the realm of boogie rock.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    About Ghosts
    About Ghosts offers more proof that Halvorson's Amaryllis are among the most inventive, articulate, and creatively forward-thinking ensembles playing jazz right now.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    SOGOLO
    Together, they dig even deeper into the woozy funk rhythms and fuzz-tone electric guitar psychedelia of the band's '70s recordings. It's a vibe they bring to full fruition on "Queenless King," a kinetic, Afro-beat-infused anthem that sounds like it is pumping out of the speakers of a vintage 1970s van.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Talkin To The Trees
    Talkin To The Trees is another album of Neil Young doing what he felt like doing in the moment, and if it's flawed, after sixty years of record making, no one with any sense would want him any other way.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Remembering Now
    Morrison's been rambling in strange territory for the last five years, but this is proof that the restless wandering spirit didn't forget his Muse, or who he is.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Echo [EP]
    Echo delivers on the promise of Happy, surpassing that debut with improved production, more daring choices, and impossible-to-resist choruses.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I’m The Problem
    I'm the Problem sees Morgan Wallen deliver another sprawling double-LP.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tha Carter VI
    Lil Wayne exhibits glimpses of the brazen genius of his earlier self intermittently on Tha Carter VI, but the album feels like a battle between those moments of greatness and the rest of his weird swings and inadvisable choices.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away
    It's another quiet gem from an artist in the full bloom of his talents.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lateral
    The piece is essentially a longform space lullaby, and it's as soothing and tranquil as one could imagine.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ripped And Torn
    While relentlessly hooky and cathartic in addition to noisy, the album is submerged in a lo-fi murk deemed imperative by the songs themselves. In other words, after hearing it, it’s hard to imagine or want this album any other way -- and that’s a sign of something special.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Happy Birthday
    The only thing holding Happy Birthday back from being classic is its brevity and maybe lack of ambition; other than that, the quality of the songs, the impact of the vocals, the excellent production, and his ability to reference the past without aping it combine to make it a superb start for a promising solo career.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lotus
    On Lotus, the exceptionally gifted rapper is more vulnerable than ever, yet this only pushes her to be at her most self-empowering.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    More
    More is classic Pulp, aged to near perfection.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Never Enough
    Bookended by the rousing title track and radiant "Magic Man," it's a success from start to finish, offering a deft blend of surprise and satisfaction.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Death Mask
    "While My Machines Gently Weep" brings to mind the trippy, shoegaze-influenced techno of Daniel Avery, while others are closer to the stark, dub-informed tracks by Surgeon and the Sandwell District collective. "Roseville" is percolating electro-techno with snapping beats, and "Hazel" is akin to a bullet-train head rush.
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