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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Belong
    Belong manages to strike a nice balance between San Fermin's musical theater/experimental rock predilections and their emerging pop ambitions, and while there's still a lot to chew on, the taste has grown significantly sweeter.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fujiya & Miyagi
    With a full set that rivals their best songs to date without significant reinvention, it's a must for fans and great place to start for the uninitiated.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Careless People
    Ultimately, there's nothing careless about Careless People, and Charlotte OC has crafted a smartly paced album that builds slowly and holds out some of its best moments for the latter half.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Assassination of Julius Caesar
    Through musical discipline, a poetic sense of self-expression, emotional honesty, and rigorous intellectual curiosity, Ulver reveal not only what remains possible in synth pop creatively, but the aesthetic abundance that was there all along.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Canyons of My Mind
    It's compelling stuff, and Combs imbues all of his characters, no matter how lost they may be, with humanity and humor, and it's that knowing nod to vagabond life that makes Canyons of My Mind so easy to get lost in.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Adios
    Representing the more countrified side of things, lead single "Imogene" and the warmly sentimental "The Vow" show some of Branan's other sides on this diverse and well-crafted collection.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Whiteout Conditions
    Whiteout Conditions shows they're already brighter and more satisfying than just about any of their peers.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hopeless Romantic
    Hopeless Romantic has an appealingly cool veneer in addition to a sturdy structure of songs. It comes on so smoothly, it's easy to overlook how the songs quickly sink into the subconscious.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Country Hustle
    The end result is a seamless whole that reflects Nichols' penchant for great melodies, vast melodic imagination, and signature vocal style.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars
    The dovetailing of a traditional Indian melody deftly arranged by Khan and Yorkston overlaying Thorne's reading of Roger Eno's drolly English "You're Just a Bloke" is the kind of offering that makes this collaboration so unique.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    August by Cake
    This is Guided by Voices sounding free and wild, and it's ultimately more satisfying than any of the "classic lineup" GbV reunion efforts that appeared between 2012 and 2014.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Swear I'm Good at This
    Their debut record doubles down--or triples, if we're talking about actual time--on those sentiments [of youthful fun and young defiance] and exposes a deeper level of honesty, although that same honesty might make it hard for anyone over a certain age to relate.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pure Comedy
    Pure Comedy is indeed a very grand record, an old-fashioned major statement designed to evoke memories of classic long-players from the '70s. Often, its stately march and decorated pianos call to mind early Elton John, suggesting the hazy vistas of Madman Across the Water.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's a Myth
    It's a Myth is a stripped-down indie rock/hip-hop hybrid that says plenty and makes its own cool, low-key fun at the same time.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Under the Pines
    Under the Pines is emotionally heavy, and its best moments manage to find warmth and comfort in crippling depression.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Song of the Rose
    Song of the Rose won't do much for your next dance party, but if you're looking for music that's intelligent and introspective but still revels in the beauty of the world around us, then Arbouretum have made an album you need to hear.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Undertow
    It's every bit as ugly, uncomfortable, and bothered as one would expect from Wolf Eyes, and it feels like the only logical way such an expression of confusion and paranoia could unravel.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Joy Comes Back
    She may have been through the ringer recently, but she's choosing to be positive--or, as she sings on Shawnee Kilgore's "Abraham," "When I do good/I feel good"--and that gives Joy Comes Back a relaxed richness that's quite restorative.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Wild
    The majority of the verses are, however, devoted to street survivalism. The more combative, the better.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kelly Lee Owens
    Owens' album seems a bit scattered and all over the place, but its sense of dream logic is intriguing, and its best moments are captivating.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In the Same Room
    Each of Holter's studio albums showcases her skill at transporting listeners into the worlds she creates; on In the Same Room, she brings all of these worlds together in performances that are equally intimate and spectacular.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crawl Space
    Loaded with vocal hooks, sassy, R&B-infused performances, and textured, groove-powered tunes, it's a hypnotic set that's definitely got its own thing going on.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Samurai
    Samurai is easily Joakim's subtlest album yet, and it's easy to see why it's such a personal, sentimental statement for him.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brand New Day
    They're demonstrating they can write and play as well as anyone in pop and country in 2017, and the album is a rich, thoroughly satisfying delight.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What in the Natural World
    Overall a more unsettling collection than his debut, Fussell still offers a unique experience and applies his distinctive take on Southern American music that is like no one else's.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bunker Funk
    Damaged Bug isn't just a great side project; it's almost as good as Dwyer's main gig, and Bunker Funk is one tiny tweak better than Cold Hot Plumbs.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What If
    Here ["My Kids Live on Mars" or "I Can't Express My Deep Love" ] and throughout What If, the ways Hauschka explores the possibilities of his music--and the future--make it one of his most intellectually and emotionally engaging albums.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bloodlust
    Bloodlust may be pugilistic to a fault, but whatever it lacks in poeticism it more than makes up for in raw power.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Interplanetary Class Classics
    A wild work of twisted genius and more fun than rabies, that's for sure.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Triplicate
    If Dylan learned anything from Sinatra, it's how to drill to the core of the song. Dylan does just that on Triplicate, finding the heart beating within some old warhorses and placing them within several great American musical traditions, and that's why this cements his place as one of the most distinctive interpreters of the Great American Songbook.
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