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For 18,280 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: 15,329 out of 18280
  2. Mixed: 2,925 out of 18280
  3. Negative: 26 out of 18280
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Black Laden Crown
    Black Laden Crown is at its best when the band keeps it slow and low, as they do with great success on workmanlike candelabra-burners like "Last Ride," "Skulls & Daisies," and "Pull the Sun" and it's in those solemn moments of churning, Jim Morrison-esque torment and woe that Glenn Danzig sounds the most sinister and at ease.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fresh Air
    T the album feels like a coherent work rather than something assembled in different locations by a disparate cast of individuals. It also demonstrates that Péron and Diermaier remain fearless and vital, over 45 years after co-founding the band's original incarnation.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Song of Day and Night
    If you've been following him all along, The Song of Day and Night is something of a crowning achievement for a truly talented, truly idiosyncratic guy.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Resin Pockets
    While Resin Pockets might sound a bit lazy and very bummed-out at first, repeated listens reveal how much care was put into the album's construction, and it glows with a resonant beauty.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    BMX Bandits Forever
    It's one of the best records of their long run, and if Stewart and company keep making them this good, this real and this emotionally fulfilling, one can only hope they keep doing it forever.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A World of Masks
    This set is drenched in mystery; each track unfolds and transitions seamlessly as it builds and expands, enveloping the listener.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    8AM
    A worthy update of 7AM's tone poems, 8AM proves that seven years can feel like only an hour later when the music is this transporting.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pussycat
    Hatfield is protesting Trump because he offends her personally, and the specificity of her outrage makes Pussycat an unusually powerful protest album.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For Crying Out Loud
    Simply put, For Crying Out Loud works because the band knows exactly what its listeners want.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    United States of Horror
    United States of Horror boasts a sleeker and more crystal-cut produced sound palette than Ho99o9’s previous efforts; that’s not to say that the guts, grit, and feral nature of those releases are absent--they're very much here, breathing and festering from start to finish.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Following Mountain
    With the possible exception of that improvisation [the final track, "April"], by combining his appreciation of both free jazz and Appalachian folk music, Amidon seems to be creating a traditional folk for the future.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kids In The Street
    Kids in the Street doesn't sound or feel like a masterpiece, but it does suggest Earle was aiming higher than expected for this album, and he hit the target--this is among his very best work to date.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The King & I
    The constant recycling, along with the quantity and variety of other voices, detract from some of Evans' best, most impassioned performances, which are matched with some solid work from a roster of co-producers that includes Salaam Remi, James Poyser, and DJ Premier.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Kickin Child: Lost Columbia Album 1965
    Kickin’ Child not only ranks with Dion’s best (standing between career highlights "Runaround Sue" and "Abraham Martin and John"), but it's absolutely one of the greatest folk-rock records ever.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What's So Funny About Peace Love and Los Straitjackets
    If you've ever dug the cool but fiery retro sound of Los Straitjackets, What's So Funny... will once again remind you of their brilliant chops and sense of fun, while Nick Lowe fans will definitely want to give a listen to this homage to one of rock's best living songwriters.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Move Upstairs
    The presence of the Glorifiers adds an exclamation point as gospel music's past and present are seamlessly united. This is nothing less than essential for fans of American roots music.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Epithymía
    Epithymía is uneasy and sometimes painful, but it beautifully conveys dark, heavy emotions and is well worth the time.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Stop Mute Defeat
    Stop Mute Defeat is a recharge and a reinvention for White Hills, and is, by necessity, their most focused work.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Big Walnuts Yonder
    While a long way from perfect, Big Walnuts Yonder is overflowing with great ideas and imaginative execution--enough so that one hopes this foursome heads into the studio again someday, or takes this very special show on the road.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    She-Devils
    Despite all of its sonic busyness, the vast majority of which falls in the category of charming rather than challenging, the album ultimately comes off as a little goofy, fun, and full of promise.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Soulfire
    Little Steven may share the same sense of grandeur in his sonics, but he keeps his focus earthbound, and that provides a nice tension to Soulfire: it's big music about everyday things.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Parking Lot Symphony
    Ultimately, Parking Lot Symphony is one of Trombone Shorty's most balanced productions, equal parts New Orleans R&B sophistication and loose, block party fun.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Clipper Ship
    Clipper Ship feels like a standalone statement, one of powerful simplicity and masterful control. In stripping away almost everything, Toth's songs reveal cores of sometimes blinding beauty and unsettling honesty.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shake the Shudder
    Shake the Shudder is the work of a band that know exactly what works for them, while still being willing to try new things. It's a winning combination of past, present, and future that bodes well for !!!'s future making plenty more great albums like it.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dirty Pictures, Pt. 1
    What makes these moody moments striking is that Weiner hasn't renounced the power of rock & roll, nor his penchant for mischief; he isn't trumpeting a new direction, he's adding dimension to a band that already offers more than its fair share of surprise and pleasure.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    No Resolution
    Through it all, Kasher offers affecting material that's persistently tense but also loose and lively.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Party
    Party finds the sweet spot between raw and refined, and in doing so, feels very real.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Black Origami
    Black Origami is a monumental achievement, yet it still seems like Jlin is just getting started.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Green Twins
    The album's potent mix of soul-searching lyrics and spaced-out sonics lends itself to deep thought and accompanied stargazing.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Manic Revelations
    He may evoke old sounds but all his songs are about the present, and that means Manic Revelations isn't a stylistic exercise: it's compelling commentary.
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