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For 18,293 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: 15,342 out of 18293
  2. Mixed: 2,925 out of 18293
  3. Negative: 26 out of 18293
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Department of Disappearance
    Dept. of Disappearance shows that far from vanishing, Lytle is making a claim to be one of the more interesting and consistent singer/songwriters around; willing to take sonic chances, but always delivering music that's as much about feel as it is about meaning.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Origin of Love
    While it's odd that The Origin of Love doesn't work as well in practice as it might have in theory, it still has enough bright moments to please most fans.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sunken Condos
    Long a master of obfuscation, Fagen plays it straight on Sunken Condos, tightening his songwriting and letting his music swing, and the results are an absolute joy.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tender New Signs
    Fortunately, adding more shape to their songs doesn't pin down their sounds too much.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Out of the Black
    Out of the Black works either on the dancefloor or at the workstation, offering beat nuts from the Front 242 generation to the Deadmau5 kids their deep, dark, and delicious fix.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Jiaolong
    At their best, Daphni and Jiaolong definitely have a vitality that some dance music--and even some of Snaith's other work--lacks, but its hyper-simple approach actually makes it more challenging to appreciate than something with a few more flourishes might have been.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mystic Pinball
    For a guy whose 40th year as a solo artist is appearing on the horizon, he's sounding as full of ideas and energy as a guy half his age, and Mystic Pinball confirms he's still delivering the goods in an impressive fashion.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Oblivion Hunter [EP]
    For enthusiasts or obsessive fans, this unpolished look in will be a treat, but for everyone else, the album is not without its highlights but little more than a glorified practice tape.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Former Lives
    With all its clean-cut melodies and smirky introspection, even Death Cab fans might have a hard time finding Former Lives more than a collection of melancholy, whimsical tunes.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Different Arrangement
    A Different Arrangement might not be the kind of album that one could cozy up to on a sunny summer day, but on a cold, wintery night it just might be the kind of sound you want to hear as you burrow under the blankets.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Connection
    In some ways, The Connection is perhaps the band's most contemporary-sounding album, though it still remains reverent to the nu-metal sound of the late '90s when it comes down to the overall feel of each tune.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eraas
    While the duo might still be learning how to balance all the things they can do well into a cohesive whole, ERAAS' whispers and shadows offer a different and welcome take on dark sounds.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Release Me
    It's hard to complain when the results are this stunning.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bootlegs [Live]
    Bootlegs may not be essential Sondre Lerche, but it's a thrilling document of his live set and a reminder that he's not just a brilliant songwriter, but a rocker too.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Afterman: Ascension
    The Afterman: Ascension is so ambitious it's actually a bit of a mess, but with so much here that works, this small lapse in focus can easily be forgiven.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sunday Run Me Over
    Fans of Golightly's earliest work might miss the garage days, but listening closely will reveal that the spirit of those days is alive and very much kicking.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Free the Music
    Free the Music is skilled and adventurous, never succumbing to pretension thanks to Niemann's game sense of humor.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Beacon
    There's nothing overtly bad about Beacon; it shows that Two Door Cinema Club still have a remarkable knack for winsome melodies and harmonies set to kinetic beats. It just doesn't have the spark that Tourist History had, even if it's a more accomplished album overall.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Diluvia
    Diluvia offers up a perfectly rendered snapshot of the cresting East Coast indie pop scene, conjuring up images of nomadic laptop studios, vintage bicycles, endless stacks of tattered Tor paperbacks, and heavily tattooed, non-smoking urbanites noshing on locally grown produce.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lonesome Dreams
    While it's a pleasant enough listen, the entire album falls short of the potential opulence hinted at by its best tracks.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Long Wave
    When these sweet reinterpretations are combined with the straight-ahead rockers, Long Wave adds up to a blueprint in reverse for Lynne; by going to back to his beginnings, he winds up figuring out why he went in the direction he did.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unfinished Business
    Unfinished Business shows that six decades after her first recordings, that strategy [simplicity] still works, and she can still deliver the goods without a lot of needless fuss.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shut Down The Streets
    Shut Down the Streets is as accessible as it is rewarding, and as refreshingly idiosyncratic as it is revealing.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All We Love We Leave Behind
    All We Love We Leave Behind, the group's eighth studio album, manages to summon that same level of intensity [as 2009's Axe to Fall] without the aid of a single mercenary.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    119
    For the majority of the other songs Lee Spielman runs the show, screeching street-sick lyrics about the crime-ridden area surrounding their Sacramento practice space.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    METZ
    The Toronto trio is just a ball of heavy genres, lumping together noise rock, post-punk, hardcore, no wave, or any style that might punish a pair of eardrums.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Twins
    Twins is a bright moment in a nearly ceaseless evolution, and one of the most fluid and successfully ambitious in Ty Segall's catalog.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Here We Are
    All in all, Here We Are is a promising debut, and Citizens! manage the impressive feat of borrowing from lots of different eras--'70s glam, '80s synth pop, '90s Brit-pop--without drowning in nostalgia.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Walk the Moon
    The band's slick blend of classic new wave, tech-savvy dance rock, and mathy indie pop can be jarring upon first listen, but multiple spins reveal an impressively tight unit that understands the thin line between immaculately rendered electro-art pop cacophony and hook-friendly modern rock.
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