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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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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Replica
    Replica recognises the value of disenfranchised pasts, but redesigns our barely-there reminiscences to imbue a singular vision with the subliminal effects of the lost.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Humor Risk
    He has made another (mostly) sublime record.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cole World: The Sideline Story
    Cole World reveals its maker to be a technically superb rapper with great production skills, albeit currently exploring rags-to-riches tales lacking in consistent vigour.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kinshasa One Two
    The resulting album is an intriguing mixture of the ancient and contemporary, with every track sounding different: electronica mixes with traditional African styles, reggae with funk and more.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wolfroy Goes To Town
    [A] sober, smart and his finest record since 1999's I See a Darkness.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Parallax
    Parallax being Cox's most coherent record to date, it's harder to spotlight individual tracks, but individual settings stand out.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Th1rt3en
    Not a bad album, but not one for the ages.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Vision
    This is a charmingly youthful and exuberant album, featuring a fine selection of vocalists.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Welcome To Condale
    Like Bashkirtseff and Pomeroy before them, Summer Camp's debut marks a sincere, wryly appealing turning point in the art of romanticised retrospection.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Live Music
    So far, so chin-strokingly barroom--but then things take a turn for the interesting and Live Music becomes a more-frills-than-you-might-imagine, no filler delight.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ambition
    Ultimately, the witty lyricism of Wale's early material is too few and far between, as this set leans heavily on misogynistic themes and self-centred musings.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Achtung Baby [Super Deluxe]
    Twenty years on, Achtung (German for "Attention") Baby still sounds zestful and compelling, with some of U2's all-time highs.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lulu
    Much advance word of Lou Reed and Metallica's excursion has been one of bewilderment and dismissal. It may well be, though, that in the fullness of time this is an album that is given the praise it deserves.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The SMiLE Sessions
    Memories are fuzzy, but the music now it's here is pure and gorgeous, the familiar mesh of brotherly voices exquisite as ever.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ceremonials
    This is all grandeur without any grace.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Very She & Him Christmas
    There's plenty to raise a smile over these 12 songs, and that's no doubt exactly what She & Him intended from them.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Is the World Strange or Am I Strange?
    Strange or otherwise, this is an intriguing but confused curate's egg of an album that will probably delight as many people as it repels.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mount Wittenberg Orca [EP]
    The suite's key strength, and one of the advantages of brevity, is its focus.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Smoking in Heaven
    They sound like they don't just have a warmth for the genres they plunder here: they know them inside out.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Acrobats
    A significant step onwards from their acoustic debut, Acrobats finds the trio developing a taste for the electric, which adds miles to their creative horizons.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Coracle
    There's more to digest, and WALLS' personality becomes more evident.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Turn in the Dream-Songs
    His evocative, heartfelt, pin-sharp lines hit compelling grooves, all twists and turns, grin-inducing couplets and weirdness.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ghost People
    From his eulogy of Detroit strings and deep beats, to London's ambiguous constant reinvention of bass culture, these are tracks that will hold their own in any city with DJs operating at the forefront of the shifting beat.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Emika
    It's the sheer intensity of the whole package that seduces.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Audio, Video, Disco
    With Audio, Video, Disco, the duo has created their own realm and progressed into a formidable force.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Glass Swords
    Glass Swords shows just the right amount of restraint to prevent total disarray.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Veronica Falls
    Despite the odd patch of fluffier filler, it's still filled with enough dark delights to send tingles up and down your spine.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Scintilli
    Over a distant wash of keyboards chords, Plaid create a multilayered drift of what sounds like piano and tuned percussion notes. The effect is, literally, scintillating.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bad as Me
    While this isn't a great album it's still a very good one, and even lesser Waits is worth a lot in any other currency.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fabriclive 59
    Hebden is right to think that presenting a distinct musical vision is more valuable than getting the listener from start to finish with as few bumps as possible. It's a decision that pretty much pays off, the result more a collage than a traditional mix.
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