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For 18,280 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: 15,329 out of 18280
  2. Mixed: 2,925 out of 18280
  3. Negative: 26 out of 18280
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Remedy
    One of the most assured, propulsive full-lengths the dance world had seen since Daft Punk's Homework.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Science Fiction
    A lifetime away from the Long Island quartet's emo and pop-punk origins, Science Fiction is a complex and nuanced beast of introspective indie rock and detailed production.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Colder Streams
    The Sadies created something very special here, and Dallas Good was rightly proud of this work.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Homegrown
    Hearing these (sometimes very familiar) songs in this particular sequence is a journey, one that winds along a twisted road yet provides an experience as complete as its mid-'70s companion LPs. It's not a footnote but an essential part of Neil Young's catalog.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
    Unassuming yet frequently profound, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest is a gorgeous and much-needed return from an artist whose powers have only grown during the time he spent living his life.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Exit
    Ambitious as some of that may seem, Exit never feels like a show-off record--just a thoughtfully put-together one.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wait Til I Get Over
    Seemingly posed as a promise and threat, Wait Til I Get Over is a striking and poignant deviation..
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    12
    While White Denim's stylistic touchstones are certainly at play on 12, the album feels less like a band working through their influences and more like one coming fully realized into their own.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For Emma, Forever Ago
    For Emma captures the sound of broken and quiet isolation, wraps it in a beautiful package, and delivers it to your door with a beating, bruised heart.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Past Is Still Alive
    Underneath the burnished surface, the album is every bit as vital as its predecessors, examining situations fraught with private and political pitfalls.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Pacific Ocean Blue [Reissue]
    Beautiful, sprawling, peaceful, wise, and as tenderly romantic as the world is round, these Dennis Wilson gems are as revelatory as they are stunning.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Complicated Game
    The man who cut Complicated Game is the more mature McMurtry has figured out how to deliver the fine songs he writes and get their qualities on tape.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Filthy Underneath
    Shah's most exciting collection yet.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    A powerful return, My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross reaffirms that Anohni & the Johnsons' ability to confront the hardest issues and moments is as eloquent and relevant as ever.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Leaves Turn Inside You
    A unique, epic effort from one of the most inventive and dynamic rock bands in recent memory.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Plunge
    The journey to dive into commitment that Dreijer takes her listeners on with Plunge boasts more moods and colors than Fever Ray's debut, or any single Knife album; ultimately, it's some of her most powerful work with yet.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Indigo
    Indigo is an eye-opening taste of what RM is truly capable of outside the bounds of the K-pop powerhouse.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everything Harmony
    The hooks arrive one after another and the key change at the end pushes the song's catchiness over the top. The softer songs on the album see the Twigs return to some of the Baroque pop influences they built their earliest albums on, but clear away some of the extraneous sounds that could clutter that material.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Nothing's Gonna Stand in My Way Again
    Lydia Loveless has matured into one of the most compelling and consistently impressive singer/songwriters America can claim, and with Nothing's Gonna Stand in My Way Again, they have matched form and content with a skill that makes it their finest album to date -- no small statement given the strength of their catalog.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Lahai
    While this is far less downcast, the joy, wonderment, and fond reminiscences in the songs are complicated by worry, uncertainty, and longing.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    i/o
    What makes I/O unique, even special, is that the process of searching isn't central to the finished product. There's no restlessness here, only acceptance, a quality that gives I/O a quiet power that can't help but build over time.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blue Lips
    ScHoolboy Q flexes just how easy his craft is for him throughout Blue Lips, switching his styles without blinking while telling some of his most difficult truths.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Have You in My Wilderness
    While it's tempting to say Have You in My Wilderness is her most personal music yet, it might be more accurate to say that it's her most approachable: this time, her brilliance demands a lot from her listeners, but also meets them more than halfway.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fleet Foxes
    Throughout the album, the band sounds wise beyond its years, so it's not really that surprising that Fleet Foxes is such a satisfying, self-assured debut.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dirty Computer
    While this is easily the most loaded Monáe album in terms of guests, with Brian Wilson, Stevie Wonder, and Grimes among the contributors, there's no doubt that it's a Wondaland product. It demonstrates that artful resistance and pop music are not mutually exclusive.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Fetch
    This borders on sorcery.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blue Record
    This is a ferocious album that's not afraid to be genuinely beautiful. One of the best hard rock releases of 2009.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    YTILAER
    Along with delivering the abundance of colors, moods, and first-rate songwriting expected from a Bill Callahan album, Ytilaer is more exciting and engaging than his music has been in some time. This is how an expert singer/songwriter captures the tenor of the moment: with songs of timeless quality.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    GNX
    GNX is a pillar of reflective realness, a flag planted in the lineage of Black musical visionaries, a silhouette of the West Coast in the high beams of fame -- and Kendrick's most speaker-knocking set to date.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Person Pitch
    The sweetness is almost too gooey, and what should be providing a healthy contrast ends up dragging the best instrumental moments down more than once, almost literally getting in the way of the striking sonic collages. It may be heresy to some, but conceivably Person Pitch would be at its best if it were strictly instrumental.
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