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For 18,299 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: 15,348 out of 18299
  2. Mixed: 2,925 out of 18299
  3. Negative: 26 out of 18299
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Remember Her Name
    Guyton is broadening and expanding the genre-bending sounds of 1990s country-pop, both through production that weaves in modern elements and her distinctive point of view. She does all this within the framework of pop music, managing to maintain her own strong personality within familiar settings without quite reinventing the form -- and that's quite an accomplishment for a debut album.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Our Blood
    Our Blood, with its tattered, frayed grace, reflects Buckner's compellingly listenable, weary yet stubborn poetic journey, for answers to questions -- both past and and present, elliptical and enormous --that lie just beyond his grasp.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mount Wittenberg Orca [EP]
    A brief but powerful statement, Mount Wittenberg Orca brings remarkably creative artists together for a good cause, and ends up bringing out the best in all of them in the process.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Flowers for Vases/descansos
    Largely acoustic with a limited amount of overdubs, Flowers feels somewhat more minimalist than the aesthetically varied Petals -- which isn't to say it's any less impressive. There is a sense that Williams is celebrating her influences.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Glowing in the Dark
    As a whole Glowing in the Dark is a mostly solid, well-built album with enough standouts to keep it fresh without venturing too far out of the band's wheelhouse.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Guider
    Concise yet ambitious, Guider finds Disappears firing on all cylinders and going far beyond Lux's promise.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dolls Of Highland
    Taken together, Craft delivers a fun and loose breakup album replete with colorful characters, memorable tunes, and an even more memorable vocal delivery--a noteworthy debut.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Accelerate
    As comebacks go, that's relatively modest, but the very modesty of Accelerate is what makes it such a successful rebirth as R.E.M. no longer denies what they were or what they are, and, in doing so, they offer a glimpse of what they could be once again.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jump Rope Gazers
    Filled with bouncy riffs, sweet harmonies, anxiety, and kindness, Jump Rope Gazers confirms that the Beths are good at slower, more reflective songs, too, though there's plenty of spark to carry listeners through.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Deer Creek Canyon
    Deer Creek Canyon is a work of modest genius that, like falling in love, manages to be simple and richly complex at the same time.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tell the Devil I'm Gettin' There as Fast as I Can
    Ray Wylie Hubbard is making music that's tougher, more effective, and better crafted than most artists a third his age, and Tell the Devil I'm Gettin' There as Fast as I Can is yet another striking example of his casual brilliance.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Could It Be Different?
    Could It Be Different? is an exhilarating album that hits hard on the emotional front while making sure to move feet at the same time. It's a small step up from their previous works, with stronger sounding and with sharper hooks that help make it even clearer that the Spook School are one of the most exciting and important bands of their era.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Night Time, My Time
    The most shocking thing about the album is how consistently good it is.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Black Metal
    A large portion of Black Metal resembles the kind of lo-fi, quantity-over-quality, solitary works of eccentrics who would have been at home in the mid- to late '80s on labels like Factory Benelux, Creation, or, well, Rough Trade.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Orphée
    On Orphée, Jóhannsson expresses the need to let some things and people go to let new ones in with remarkable nuance, as well as the affecting beauty fans have come to know and love.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nouns
    No Age turn noise into gold on Nouns.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cats & Dogs
    Such a well-built slab of indie rap that a four-year wait seems well worth it.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Bad Wind Blows in My Heart
    Measured, melancholy, and mysterious, Jones' debut as a singer/songwriter is as subtle as it is striking, skillfully marrying the sedate melancholy of Elliott Smith with the sly, darkly comic lyricism of The National.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hollywood's Bleeding
    More well-executed than his previous releases and undeniably catchy, Hollywood's Bleeding is a huge step forward for the guarded superstar, one that doesn't sacrifice the essential elements that made him such a surprise hitmaker, and pushes him even further into the pop-savvy landscape where he belongs.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Is
    There isn't much on is that My Morning Jacket couldn't have done on their own, but having a neutral observer on board certainly appears to have helped them up their game as a recording act, and it's one of the most purely satisfying albums they've delivered since they changed their game with Z.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pull My Hair Back
    It's a variation on the JBs' dubbed-out compound of synth pop and post-disco, and it suits Lanza's voice to enticing effect.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Supper
    His last two albums also reflected his ongoing growth as an artist, but Supper's settled but intriguing warmth is an even bigger step forward.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    When The Pawn...
    Pawn is immediately grabbing, and instead of fading upon further plays, it reveals more with each listen, whether it's a lyrical turn of phrase or an unexpected twist in the arrangement.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lead Us Not Into Temptation
    Byrne leaves behind all the international rhythms that have dominated his solo work and turned in an album of moody, subtle beauty.... This is one of the strongest albums of his solo career.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Permission To Land
    Even though Permission to Land isn't quite as metal as its singles suggested it might be, the album is surprisingly good, especially considering how bad the band's '80s metal revival could have been.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Greater Wrong Of The Right
    Get ready for the hardcore fan backlash but Greater Wrong Of The Right at least makes up for The Process and with stunning structure from Key it beats most of the current industrial music competition.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Night Works
    The album is as streamlined as a mix set.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    House With No Home
    the two carve up each track like master craftsman, finding the perfect middle ground between the sparse, reverb-laden landscapes of the Great Lake Swimmers and the orchestral, aching beauty of Hem.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Real Estate
    June. Though half of Real Estate was already released by the band as singles and EPs, that just adds to the album’s instantly familiar feel--which is a large part of this unassuming debut album’s appeal.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cat's Eyes
    Cat's Eyes is an intriguing album of heartbroken, shadowy pop that transcends its influences when it aims directly for the heart.
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