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For 18,295 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: 15,344 out of 18295
  2. Mixed: 2,925 out of 18295
  3. Negative: 26 out of 18295
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ten Songs About Girls
    Ten Songs About Girls isn't only Tender Trap's best album; it's one of the best records she's [Amelia Fletcher's] been associated with.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Formerly Extinct
    It showcases both sides of the trio's prowess: Rangda's ability to improvise dynamically and also to compose compelling, creating mysterious tunes that cross genres with ease and acumen.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mauve
    In 2012, the album is still an impressive achievement and cements the trio's place as the absolute best band of shoegaze revivalists operating.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dead Silence
    Overall, the sound on Dead Silence isn't that different from the band's previous work, but is certainly some of the best work they've done.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Overgrown Path
    With songs this strong, it's an easy album to keep coming back to.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Walk the Moon
    The band's slick blend of classic new wave, tech-savvy dance rock, and mathy indie pop can be jarring upon first listen, but multiple spins reveal an impressively tight unit that understands the thin line between immaculately rendered electro-art pop cacophony and hook-friendly modern rock.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tempest
    It might be Tussle's most subdued music to date, but it works equally well as a hypnotic wash of sound and as riveting close listening, especially late at night.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Out of the Black
    Out of the Black works either on the dancefloor or at the workstation, offering beat nuts from the Front 242 generation to the Deadmau5 kids their deep, dark, and delicious fix.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Twins
    Twins is a bright moment in a nearly ceaseless evolution, and one of the most fluid and successfully ambitious in Ty Segall's catalog.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    First of a Living Breed
    It's an amazing, cool, and filling mix, and with Homeboy himself being that right mix of persuasive and challenging, First of a Living Breed is an easy recommendation for any lyric-loving hip-hop head.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All We Love We Leave Behind
    All We Love We Leave Behind, the group's eighth studio album, manages to summon that same level of intensity [as 2009's Axe to Fall] without the aid of a single mercenary.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shut Down The Streets
    Shut Down the Streets is as accessible as it is rewarding, and as refreshingly idiosyncratic as it is revealing.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unfinished Business
    Unfinished Business shows that six decades after her first recordings, that strategy [simplicity] still works, and she can still deliver the goods without a lot of needless fuss.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Long Wave
    When these sweet reinterpretations are combined with the straight-ahead rockers, Long Wave adds up to a blueprint in reverse for Lynne; by going to back to his beginnings, he winds up figuring out why he went in the direction he did.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pour Une Âme Souveraine: A Dedication to Nina Simone
    Pour Une Âme Souveraine is the best kind of dedication to Simone: it invokes her inspiration rather than attempting to re-create her character.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Free the Music
    Free the Music is skilled and adventurous, never succumbing to pretension thanks to Niemann's game sense of humor.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bootlegs [Live]
    Bootlegs may not be essential Sondre Lerche, but it's a thrilling document of his live set and a reminder that he's not just a brilliant songwriter, but a rocker too.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eraas
    While the duo might still be learning how to balance all the things they can do well into a cohesive whole, ERAAS' whispers and shadows offer a different and welcome take on dark sounds.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Department of Disappearance
    Dept. of Disappearance shows that far from vanishing, Lytle is making a claim to be one of the more interesting and consistent singer/songwriters around; willing to take sonic chances, but always delivering music that's as much about feel as it is about meaning.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Colored Emotions
    A promising debut and one more considered, nuanced, and realized than most bands achieve deep into their tenures.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tender New Signs
    Fortunately, adding more shape to their songs doesn't pin down their sounds too much.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Come Home To Mama
    It is a compelling, engaging, and emotionally powerful set of songs from a strikingly talented singer and songwriter, and this is her most intimate and affecting work to date.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran
    Johnson doesn't attempt to draw attention to himself, but instead, presents a series of excellent performances of Cochran's songs with himself as an anchor.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Two Eleven
    Months after scores of music fans went bananas over an opportunistic resuscitation of a deceased peer's studio scraps, Brandy, a superior vocalist ignored or disregarded by many of those same people, released one of her best albums.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unknown Rooms: A Collection Of Acoustic Songs
    Unknown Rooms is spare, gorgeous, and haunting, offering surprises for her established fans and likely winning her new ones in the process.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Scorpion
    Scorpion isn't an album for the good times, but its portrayal of dark days is gorgeous.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Parallax II: Future Sequence
    Rogers' guttural growls sound more menacing than ever, and what the album lacks in originality it makes up for with feverishly inventive riffs and melodies, making The Parallax II: Future Sequence the band's most inspired release since Alaska.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Payback
    While Payback's status as a concept album makes it a rarity in the hip-hop world, even rarer for that realm is an album that's more focused on a continued narrative than creating a breakout single, making the album something that's to be experienced in its entirety.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Numbers
    It's that line between accessible and alienating that MellowHype have so brilliantly walked, making Numbers an engaging album from some of Odd Future's best and brightest.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Information Retrieved
    Even though Information Retrieved is an excellent album, it won't do a whole lot to win over anyone who has already decided that Pinback isn't for them. For everyone else, the album delivers plenty of the gloomy/sunny/plaintive/happy pop that has made them one of the more instantly recognizable bands in the indie landscape.
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