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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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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Can See the Future
    Immaculately produced and performed, I Can See the Future is chock-full of breezy, likable retro-pop that's made for people who like their nostalgia delivered through the wonders of modern fidelity, and while it may put off, at first, those with a predilection for Mandell's darker side, it won't take but a spin or two make them see the light.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wild Dog
    While much of Susanna's reputation may have been built on her skills as an interpreter of other people's songs, Wild Dog is a testament to the subtly haunting power of her own music.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Loma Vista
    The perfect blend of modern and classic, Loma Vista is an album with a unique vision that captures the spirit of modern alt-rock (with all the trimmings) yet is rooted in classic pop songwriting. It is an album that is honest, earnest, and entirely unpretentious.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Criminal Heaven
    This "less is more" approach shows off the wealth of songwriting these two have cultivated in their other projects, and makes Criminal Heaven a beautifully blissful debut that is warm, comforting, and typically Swedish in the best way possible.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dreamless Sleep
    The mood is thick and cloaking, and the album represents a continuing development toward the best and most captivating material of Caminiti's expansive body of work.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Awakened
    Awakened lives up to the reputation the AILD have built for themselves over the last decade or so of recording, showing their ability to find just the right balance between cathartic aggression and soaring melody while maintaining a velocity that seems more and more impressive.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Days into Years
    Mark Sasso's expressive lead vocals convey the anguish and desperation of the characters they sing about while the instrumental work of Stephen Pitkin on drums and percussion, and Casey Laforet's inventive contributions on lead guitar, bass pedals, and keyboards provide subtle, cinematic coloring to the tunes.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Vanitas
    They seem have found a sense of clarity amid the chaos at certain points.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Reach Beyond the Sun
    The demonic rage of this innovative band approaching 20 years in existence is in top form on these 11 unrelenting songs.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Migrant
    What makes Migrant interesting is that it's finally giving him the opportunity to simply cut loose and write whatever songs come to mind, and though fans might miss the conceptual hooks of his past work, the album is solid enough to stand all on its own.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Recommended Record
    Recommended Record is a super-stylized collage of sounds, clearly put together by big music fans, and it's ambitious palette of sounds only occasionally falters.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    13
    Produced by Suicidal frontman Mike Muir, the album includes 13 tracks of the type of petulant, cathartic, thrashy hardcore the band is known for.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Brothers of the 4X4
    These songs are fun, energetic, and full of backcountry outlaw attitude.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Psychic 9-5 Club
    Psychic 9-5 Club is indeed a new chapter for HTRK as they strip away nearly everything, finding unexpected strengths.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Strange Friend
    The Phantom Band's material is of a higher grade and their eclectic sonic blend only adds to this strength.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While You Were Sleeping
    With James' voice and nearly iconic harmonic sensibility as a guide, these genres flow into, rub against, and ultimately redefine one another. His creative reach, at least at this juncture appears to be boundless.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    No Time
    A deep, heady trip, No Time is a step forward for Soft Walls that builds on the debut's strengths and suggests even more potential for Reeves' future solo outings.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Breaks
    It's a welcome return for Car that shows how fun and powerful his music is when it's focused and direct.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    1979 Now!
    Every song has a brilliantly shiny chorus, chord changes that inspire deep nostalgic feels, and a snappy, tough-minded lyrical outlook that fit the era and still sounds right in 2014.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    SremmLife
    The coming-of-age and kinetic SremmLife reminds listeners that jumping into "poppa's chair" was a thrilling mix of pride and new opportunities, plus, the album doubles as a guaranteed party soundtrack.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Man It Feels Like Space Again
    Somewhat disorienting, MIFLSA is a messy, incredible collection of damaged pop, and shows a band that's been forming for a while stepping into its full capabilities.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nervous
    Like most of the delightfully bleak Nervous, it's both dense and impossibly airy, like a storm cloud about to blow.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Acorn Man
    nd. Acorn Man also delivers a classic Billy Childish rant with "Punk Rock Enough for Me," in which he offers an impressive litany of the things that live up to his standard of cool.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Boxed In
    Boxed In's approach isn't exactly new, but it's not nearly as confined as their name suggests--they've delivered a winning debut that's often more consistent than the work of their better-known contemporaries.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Beneath California
    On their second LP for Epitaph, San Diego-based hardcore act Retox continue to whittle away any extraneous trimmings, delivering a needle-sharp set that is brutal, fast, and rigidly concise.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Skullsplitter
    For all its sonic investigation and ellipticity, Skullsplitter is an intimate, even readily accessible offering that is quite human in its unhurried exposition of emotional depth and vulnerability.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sunne [EP]
    Ultimately, this short EP is an extension of Cheatahs' ambition as they seek to establish themselves as a musical force in their own right.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Soft Connections
    It's been a long time coming, to the point when it seemed it might never happen, but Soft Connections announces the reappearance of a major talent, one whom all fans of indie pop owe it to themselves to discover or rediscover.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jekyll Island
    Third albums are often career-killers, exposing a band's lack of ideas. No worries here, though; Surf City sound like they still have another few years of greatness left in them.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Banditos
    Banditos are one of the most promising roots music discoveries in quite some time, and this album is a genuinely impressive introduction.
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