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For 1,831 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 28% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Live in Detroit 1986
Lowest review score: 20 If Not Now, When?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,531 out of 1831
  2. Mixed: 293 out of 1831
  3. Negative: 7 out of 1831
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Americana
    It's the dampest campfire hoedown you ever did hear.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    What the World Needs Now
    It all depends where you stand on the group's painstakingly retro, sax- and organ-fuelled sound. If you love it and go the distance, these grooves are simply mesmeric.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    One Day I'm Going To Soar
    There is so much personality, poetry, vulnerability and resilience here that most other records sound like dry runs by comparison.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Banga
    Banga is the best Patti Smith album since Horses. No one else makes rock records as rich, poetic and sexy as this.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Orangefarben
    She's an undemonstrative talent, certainly, but there's understated to the point of blending into the background – which is where much of Orangefarben sounds disappointingly at home.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bending the Dark
    It's a huge, focused, and daring leap forwards.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Storm Corrosion
    Bonkers and beautiful, Storm Corrosion leaves one wondering what this duo will come up with next.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blood Speaks
    Sometimes you wish they'd let themselves go a little more, but there's much here to adore.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's a Corporate World
    The results occasionally jar, when Epstein's consistently elaborate productions overshadow the more pedestrian of Zott's compositions, but generally the sum of their parts is an equation to be savoured, and frequently produces magic.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Spirit in the Room
    It may be time to tinker next time around, but right now he's redeemed an awful lot of himself.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An Awesome Wave
    This debut offering is strong, addictive and enthralling, the perfect accompaniment to any mood, any moment, anywhere.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Flight
    Even though much of the album is inwardly gazing, there are repeated outbreaks of jazz toughness.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Celebration Rock
    An album wracked with spirit and a ferocious refusal to let anything slide away. Every track's an anthem; every second's precious, each breath as breathless as the last.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Cancer4Cure
    It's far ahead enough of that competition, intellectually and inspirationally, to exist on another plane of appreciation altogether.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Better Living
    Better Living, Flats' 34-minute debut album, is a commendably cacophonous outpouring which contains not the slightest germ of future commercial gold.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Boys Don't Cry
    Boys Don't Cry works superbly as a companion piece to Seasons.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heaven
    [An] impressive debut album.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Anxiety
    Anxiety is as tight and catchy as a baseball mitt.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    2:54
    2:54 have delivered a collection of deeply mature and addictive tracks. In avoiding their own hype they have created something almost naively unaffected, and purely affecting.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heaven
    Heaven is a record with the power to grab your heart, like an ex-lover you just can't shake off--no matter how many years you've been without them.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ram [Deluxe Edition]
    There's little coherence... but the best moments are breathtaking.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Kiss Before You Go
    Peculiar and unconventional, this is an album which constantly shape-shifts and surprises, but does so with a graceful, effortless ease that feels incredibly natural and utterly delightful.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This is PiL
    A curious mixture of rage and nostalgia.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    What We Saw from the Cheap Seats
    At times, Spektor can be too cutesy... More often though, her little idiosyncrasies are charming.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Valtari
    In some ways, this is one of their most beautiful releases in a career that has never been short of elegance.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Majenta
    As difficult as it is to take Edgar seriously at times, so earnest is he about his sexualised sonic seercraft that resistance is futile. In short spurts, Majenta's kosmische perv-core satiates.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Island Fire
    Ray is a shining example of creating your own world and inviting the listener in with tunes you can whistle after the first play.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Drokk: Music Inspired by Mega-City One
    It's perhaps a bit long, and there may be too much repetition for some – but persist and Drokk is quite the engrossing, and sporadically discomforting, listen.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Blue Slide Park
    Blue Slide Park ends up a charm-bereft everyman hip hop record merely ticking boxes required to shift units.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Magic Hour
    Scissor Sisters have rediscovered a magic touch lacking slightly on Night Work. Their progress is marked by a developed sense of reflection, which balances their familiar flamboyance – surely to resurface with their Fraggle Rock soundtrack – quite wonderfully.
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