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For 18,310 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: 15,355 out of 18310
  2. Mixed: 2,929 out of 18310
  3. Negative: 26 out of 18310
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.
    Lana Del Rey has honed a style so unique she’s almost a genre unto herself. Full of brilliant strides forward, Ocean Blvd. is a crucial chapter in Del Rey’s ongoing saga of heartbreak and enchantment.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love Sick
    An aptly titled set that's more engrossing and intimate despite its much longer procession of guest collaborators.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With Love From
    On With Love From, Aly & AJ establish themselves as first-class artists, and it will be fascinating to hear where they go from here.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Under an Endless Sky
    Under an Endless Sky is not the United States of America, nor does it need to be. This is music that confirms Dorothy Moskowitz is a seeker looking forward, and what she sees is well worth hearing.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Celebrants
    Where their previous record resembled the cozy reunion that it was, Celebrants is a more defining statement from veteran players whose chemistry remains undeniable.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Drag on Girard
    Drag on Girard isn't a minute too long or too short. It's another invigorating chapter in Purling Hiss' ongoing saga, and their scraggly guitar rock is in its finest and most exciting form for the album's entire duration.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    So Much (For) Stardust
    So Much (For) the Stardust is a gloriously welcome return to form.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yian
    A remarkable debut album, Yian's reflections on growth cement Chua's identity as an artist capable of deeply personal, honest, and beautiful music.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Art of Forgetting
    The sense of fun that buoyed Loner and Superstar is muted on The Art of Forgetting, but the intelligence and songwriting chops are very much there, and this music brilliantly merges form and content, an exercise in pop music as therapy that's intensely personal and easily relatable.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Billy Valentine & The Universal Truth
    Interestingly, five decades into his career, Billy Valentine & the Universal Truth may be the record that finally introduces him to a national audience, simply because it's the protest-soul album we need most right now.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Town That Cursed Your Name
    The Town That Cursed Your Name is yet another step forward in the rapid and ongoing evolution of the Reds, Pinks & Purples. Donaldson's songwriting is brilliant and intelligent as always, and its wry charm shines through no matter what new direction he takes with his tunes.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    the record
    Collectively, boygenius feels heftier and hookier than Baker, Bridgers, and Dacus do on their own, and this collective instinct towards immediacy pays great dividends: it's bracing to hear such introspective singer/songwriters embrace the pleasures of a united front.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Continue as a Guest
    While Continue as a Guest may not have the immediacy of career standouts like Twin Cinema or even Brill Bruisers, it succeeds more subtly on its own terms and begs for repeated listens.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Miracle-Level
    Miracle-Level is about seizing the opportunity to come together to create music and change -- a message that, like their other 2020s work, is just as eternal as it is timely.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Price of Progress
    If the Hold Steady sound a lot more polished and accomplished in 2023 than on 2004's Almost Killed Me, they're gained far more than they've lost in the course of their evolution, and The Price of Progress finds them writing and performing at the top of their game.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sundown
    The LP is another work of sophisticated simplicity with deliberation seemingly eschewed in favor of spontaneity. Due in significant part to Leach's active hands and the frequent presence of Hone's woodwinds, the material evokes gentle spiritual and Brazilian jazz almost as much as it does smooth private-press soul.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crash Recoil
    Pure techno at its most exciting.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    London Brew
    London Brew is wonderfully eclectic, strange and beautifully realized. In keeping with its inspiration source, it's a vanguard electric jazz album, abundant in communication, immediacy and imagination.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities
    Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities is perhaps the furthest-out release in a discography full of inventive, inspired music, and it's some of Holden's most exciting and impressive work.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blondshell
    Along the way, despite some familiar musical touchpoints, she establishes a personality that's all her own.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rides On
    While the Nude Party come awfully close to quoting well-known riffs, grooves, and vocal affectations here, the fun they have doing so is contagious, and they nearly always bring enough of their own wry, irreverent, working-class moxie to the table that contemporary concerns as well as sheer charisma overpower any potential pastiche.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cherry Stars Collide: Dream Pop, Shoegaze & Ethereal Rock 1986-1995
    Cherry Stars Collide is a worthwhile deep dive into the lucid, spaced-out realm of alternative music.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With a Hammer
    Even though With a Hammer is Yaeji's most cathartic work to date, it's still playful and optimistic, preferring joy, comfort, and creativity over rage as a form of release.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rat Saw God
    Their commitment to the people they write about and their instincts about crafting music to match make this a stunningly powerful work that may well turn out to be a masterpiece.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fawn/Brute
    Gately's meditations on mothers and daughters, and bodies creating and betraying, are fascinating, and Fawn/Brute's expressions of the darker corners of childhood and motherhood might be even more revealing than more conventional musical memoirs.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Higher than Heaven
    While it may not cull from her deep well of personal experiences, Heaven still ends up being one of the most immediate and compulsively listenable efforts in her catalog.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sremm 4 Life
    The songs that make up Sremm4Life are lean, purposeful, and to the point.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Face [EP]
    Balancing both his vulnerable and fiercely intense sides, he manages to reveal more of himself in 20 minutes than he has to date.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Came from Love
    I Came from Love is an informative, emotionally heavy album reminding listeners of the harsh realities and injustices of history, while encouraging resistance and change.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Glorious Game
    Some songs come across as organic as anything from Michels' past. Whatever the method employed, all the productions are worthy of the hard-boiled South Philly griot. Glorious Game does not dilute the Black Thought catalog, either. Thought switches subjects and vantage points with typical ease and is almost as piercing throughout as he was on Cheat Codes.
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