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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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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    World, You Need a Change of Mind
    Thanks to Zdar's sure-handed co-production, Bainbridge's skills at synthesizing the past and present, and a batch of songs that really stick to you after a couple listens, World, You Need a Change of Mind ends up being a very pleasing, very interesting record.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Memory
    Lazer Sword are in full command on Memory, an album that finds them coming into their own as well as exploring new territory.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strangeland
    Strangeland never really lives up to its mysterious title, as there's nothing on it that doesn't feel willfully nostalgic, but like any good plate of comfort food it satisfies in a way that more adventurous meals never truly can.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dr. Dee
    Perhaps it is a bit stuffy and hidebound for art rock, but taken as a theatrical production, it's adventurously cerebral, an album to ponder if not quite embrace.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Narrow Garden
    It is his most ambitious and focused work, and combines not only instruments and musical traditions, but cultural sonances and histories as well.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    1992-2012
    Like a lot of career overviews, this is somewhere between an introduction and a collector's item, but it initially retailed for the price of a single disc and holds an edge over the marginally less expensive A Collection.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Collection
    Even if A Collection is by the numbers, they are great numbers and rounded out by some intriguing collaborations (with Brian Eno, High Contrast, and such) along with powerful live cuts.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Marvelous Clouds
    A compelling and rich move toward adulthood from one of the underground's most prolonged and complicated adolescents.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Monolith of Inhumanity
    California death-grinders Cattle Decapitation will never be accused of subtlety, but there are moments on the typically grotesque Monolith of Inhumanity, their seventh long-player, that are unabashedly melodic.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Weather Systems
    Weather Systems stands with Anathema's finest work.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Evolution
    Think "winning formula" instead of "formulaic" and you're close to the value of Evolution, which along with Ferry Corsten's equally great WKND makes "trance ain't dead" the unofficial motto of 2012.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Different Ship
    Here We Go Magic move between more full-on hyperactivity in that vein from songs like "Make Up Your Mind" and "I Believe in Action" to the easier-going grooves of "Alone But Moving," but too often they don't do much with that.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Next Logical Progression
    A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, which is the great trick behind this persuasive album, offering a serious argument with plenty of hot buttered soul.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Stars and Satellites
    Stars and Satellites manages to find that elusive balance between workmanlike precision and 3:00 a.m. vulnerability.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lissy Trullie
    Despite the title, Self-Taught Learner was anything but the work of an amateur, and here Trullie is clearly the queen of her post-punk castle.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yesterday Was Lived and Lost
    Much more than a stop-gap substitute that will be forgotten by the time the next Hot Chip full-length comes along; Yesterday stands on its own terms as one of the finest dance/electro-pop records of the year.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Harmonicraft
    Harmonicraft finds Torche taking off at full speed with an album packed full of driving riffs and soaring melody that's going to have an easy time convincing fans that the band hasn't lost a step after losing a member.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Generation Freakshow
    Generation Freakshow is still an impressive return to form from a band whose members sound revitalized and determined to prove they're not a spent force.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Evans the Death
    Evans the Death is a stunning debut that may not change the way you think about indie rock, but the band plays with so much passion and the songs are so good, it doesn't matter that maybe you've heard it (in some form) before.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Adventures in Your Own Backyard
    Listeners willing to devote an hour--rather than a rushed five-minute scan of the first 30 seconds of each cut--to this unassuming little gem will likely want to revisit it again and again.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Master of My Make-Believe
    This is the kind of album that can fully define her sound, but is still multifaceted and well crafted enough to be exciting.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Out of the Game
    This album is one of his most classicist, not classical, pop records and in that sense, Out of the Game is definitely a winner.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Light Asylum
    It's not for the faint of heart, but anyone partial to heavy, brooding, uncompromising music will likely be gladly carried away by it.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Power Within
    While it may lack the dark, muscular, apocalyptic machismo that permeates the majority of metal's subgenres, it's more often than not a hell of a lot of fun.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Drokk: Music Inspired by Mega-City One
    Drokk: Music Inspired by Mega-City One is a completely satisfying project on its own, but it's also so good that it practically cries out for a film to be made to fit its cues.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Body Faucet
    Reptar aren't afraid to grow up but they're gonna have fun getting there, and with Body Faucet they succeed in doing both.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wallpaper Music
    With Novak's world-class sneer resting on top, this is a good set of bad vibes, and rock & roll malcontents should put this album on their want lists pronto.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strange Clouds
    This is bold pop-rap at an "Arena" level, and while partying like a rock star means cohesiveness takes a hit, Strange Clouds is still thrilling and persuasive.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blown Away
    She's meant to be be a superstar and she's never seemed as comfortable with her calling as she does on Blown Away.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Ghost in Daylight
    It's Talbot's most intimate collection of songs yet; even if The Western Lands was more overtly ambitious, this may be the best gateway into Gravenhurst's world--and it was well worth the wait.
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