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For 18,337 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: 15,380 out of 18337
  2. Mixed: 2,931 out of 18337
  3. Negative: 26 out of 18337
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Welcome Oblivion
    Welcome Oblivion is not an album that comes on forcefully, and by many measures, it's the most measured record of Reznor's career, yet it's also his most melodic, showing that this former angry young man has a design to grow old gracefully.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Between Places
    The album sometimes amazingly sounds as if the Zombies had reunited in 1980 for an album produced by the Buggles' Trevor Horn, resulting in a joyful, 50-minute orgasm of chamber pop jubilation.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Naomi
    The band hasn't strayed too far from what made it successful in its beginnings, but with Naomi, they've shifted their energy into producing the aural equivalent of a cloudless summer day.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Beast in Its Tracks
    Less expansive than 2010's So Runs the World Away, yet still rich enough in atmosphere to make for a relatively seamless transition, Ritter doesn't just sit at the end of his bed with a guitar and emote into a tape recorder.
    • AllMusic
      • Posted Mar 4, 2013
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wondrous Bughouse
    Wondrous Bughouse is an undeniably impressive-sounding album that will please fans who loved The Year of Hibernation for its intricate sonics, but those who empathized with its emotions might feel a tad disconnected.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    People, Hell and Angels
    People, Hell and Angels certainly isn't the place to start your Hendrix collection, but collectors will surely want to hear this and it provides an interesting perspective on where Jimi's music was headed post-Experience.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Sun
    Black Sun is an infectious, dance-oriented release that summons the new romantic spirit, if not the moussed hair and neon blush, of such '80s bands as Duran Duran, ABC, and Spandau Ballet.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Chelsea Light Moving
    The album is fun, huge, and pleasantly confused (as evidenced in part by the out-of-place Germs cover that closes the album) but ultimately just another chapter in Moore's lifelong exploration of sound, poetry, and the darkest corners of American subcultures he helped build, and continues to add to.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Old Yellow Moon
    While this doesn't carry the weight of an "historic" recording, it is thoroughly enjoyable. Harris is in better voice than she's been in years and Crowell is a natural as a duet partner.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Raven That Refused to Sing and Other Stories
    The Raven That Refused to Sing and Other Stories is the best of Wilson's three solo projects; let's hope this particular group stays together awhile.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Late Great Whatever
    No matter how you feel about Pixies worship or Star Wars references, if you have an affinity for loud, fast, but brainy, punky pop that is fun and full of hooky jams that'll have you bobbing your head like a maniac, The Late Great Whatever is just what you need to make you happy.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Deathfix
    While somewhat brief with just seven songs, there's more than enough diversity on Deathfix to keep things interesting throughout.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Miracle Temple
    Miracle Temple is gorgeous. Its songs contain poignancy, pathos, pain, and desire inside gritty yet artfully played Southern gothic rock & roll.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Optica
    Thanks to the production, the overall strength of the songs, and the quietly intense energy the bandmembers put into their performances, Optica is a welcome return to form and solidifies Shout Out Louds' position as one of the best indie pop bands of their era.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Love Surreal
    As a producer and songwriter, Bilal has stepped up. As a vocalist, he remains supernaturally skilled and creative--swooping, diving, wailing, and sighing, all with complete command.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Highway
    Peacock's organic, sometimes, limpid production makes damn sure that nothing gets in between them, allowing the listener to have a direct, often powerful experience with both.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cross Culture
    The result is an album of exploratory jazz that is often more about group interplay on various musical themes rather than straightforward improvisation on melodic compositions--though there is that, too.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Antipodes
    Darker and more mature than any of the band's previous music, Antipodes sacrifices some of the quirky charm of Popstrangers' earliest work and Happy Accidents' firepower for a strong debut album.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    When It Was Now
    When It Was Now is a solid debut that proves Trojans wasn't a fluke.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Anxiety
    Moving toward more mainstream sounds makes this album some of Autre Ne Veut's most distinct and confident music yet.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thumbtacks and Glue
    Highly personal, heavily detailed, and brimming with wounded optimism.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Somewhere Else
    As it is, with the improvements, revamps, and overall more interesting arrangements, Somewhere Else manages to be the equal of Disco Romance, and the only reason it isn't better is that it lacks the surprise factor that made Sally Shapiro's debut so breathtaking.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Time
    To say this album is a return to form wouldn't be quite correct. It's an extension of it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Messenger
    One quick listen to The Messenger brings all his signatures rushing back--the intricate, intertwining arrangements, the insistent riffs finding a counterpoint in the elastic yet precise melodies, a romance with the past that doesn't negate the present.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Amok
    In other words, this is another Thom Yorke solo album, and it sounds really nice on decent headphones.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Donkey Punch the Night [EP]
    Though Donkey Punch the Night isn't the best place to jump into Puscifer's work, it's a well-crafted and thoroughly entertaining EP that will definitely keep Keenan's fans hungry for more.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rough Carpenters
    Welcome to 21st century Appalachian string band music. It hasn't changed that much. It doesn't have to, because it still works fine.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My World Is Gone
    Taylor's chameleon-like always-hiding-in-plain-sight aesthetic gives us a poignant, compelling recording that warrants repeated listening.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cabinet of Curiosities
    He's made an album that sounds so good and authentically psych-like, and one that wraps the listener up in a warm embrace of misty melodies and cobwebbed arrangements.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Allez! Allez!
    It has all the fire and fury of the debut, the same live-wire dual-guitar attack, and a similarly top-notch batch of songs that deliver plenty of rock-hard punch and are loaded with a nicely strutting power that has as much swing as it does thud, but also a few that show just the smallest bit of restraint and Spoon-like attention to sonic detail.
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