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For 1,925 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 39% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Achtung Baby [Super Deluxe]
Lowest review score: 18 If Not Now, When?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,767 out of 1925
  2. Mixed: 139 out of 1925
  3. Negative: 19 out of 1925
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    God Don't Make Mistakes
    God Don’t Make Mistakes is a complete body of work, Conway’s best to date, and one of the best rap albums to come out in 2022.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    caroline
    This band are making aural marvels that are sporadic, reactive, and organic — disguised inexactness that will have listeners frozen in an undeveloped state, merely connecting on an emotional level that can hardly be rationalized.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    LIFE ON EARTH
    On Life On Earth, marginalized voices are amplified and given credence. Segarra is the kind of potent lyricist who can flesh out characters and scenes with just one or two lines, paint entire panoramic worlds within the succinct space of a song.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Small World
    Metronomy’s Small World shows us exactly what it’s like to take it easy but still deliver have a rewarding experience.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Prey//IV
    PREY//IV sounds like Crystal Castles, but it isn’t a copy of their three albums. This is how they would have progressed, taking influence from FKA twigs and Arca amongst others.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Heterosexuality
    The production by Hollow Comet is bright and clean, and the instrumentation is tasteful — almost too tasteful, sometimes verging on a lighters-in-the-air radio pop sensibility. ... Regardless, Shamir has delivered arguably his finest album yet, by engaging with his pain and his curiosities about life, and giving us the privilege of bearing witness to it.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Once Twice Melody
    By the time Once Twice Melody reaches its closing moments, it sounds like the band are taking a well-earned victory lap in a career full of wins.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    B Flat A
    While B FLAT A is unflinching in depicting stark realism, it also proves to be decisively light-hearted and generous in its unburdening from the absolute strife it inspired. What a thrilling, refreshing band.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    The Kick
    This is a worthy comeback for the singer that is fun, catchy, bright and ultimately another addition to the canon of necessary, escapist music we need to forget the world’s impending descent into madness.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Lucifer on the Sofa
    There are bright spots on Spoon’s 10th album, which indicate that Daniel’s bargain with Lucifer can still inspire him and his band to deliver the goods. It’s just that for now, it appears to be only a strong EP’s worth.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 64 Critic Score
    The Dream
    The Dream doesn’t feel like a failed attempt at reaching new heights of popularity. It feels like a lot at once, but in a way that makes one want to give it another shot.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Visitor
    Empath’s Visitor is the stunning follow-up most young bands only dream of creating.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Tongues
    She will turn heads with Tongues, and we would all do well to listen intently.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
    It’ll be hard to outdo this 20-track masterpiece, but at this point it’s impossible to bet against them.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    IRE
    There’s a constant fluidity, a continuum of becoming throughout IRE, and the band stubbornly, almost gleefully, refuse to return earthbound.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Glitch Princess
    Glitch Princess is consistently inventive, disturbing, and timely.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tissues
    This is pure sonic poetry, a titillating psychological adventure that takes patience and perseverance to appreciate. Let this album wipe away your memory for a bit. Indulge.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Pompeii
    Pompeii truly feels like a gesamtkunst rather than a collection of separate songs. The album reaffirms what makes Le Bon’s music such a useful prism to process thoughts and feelings that feel too immense to articulate within traditional means.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Time Skiffs
    It’s a great American psychedelic record that retains an outsider perspective. And in that, a decade of ambitious exploration has finally paid off.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    See Through You
    After numerous lineup changes, this album feels like Ackerman’s hitting of reset button has finally worked, and the project is continuing down the intriguing path started last year resulting in a hell of a comeback album.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    Ants From Up There
    This overall reduction in the reliance on guitar riffs allows for greater flexibility of sound, and as such BCNR wring out more staggering peaks of emotion from Wood’s lovelorn words.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Dissolution Wave
    The whole is not as majestic as its parts, including the often very evocative lyrics. But on the record there is little left of those initial spiritual ideas itself, and the creative drive of the opening salvo won’t carry onto the second half. And that is a shame, as the album’s individual highs suggest greatness.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Laurel Hell
    Despite Laurel Hell‘s unevenness, Mitski’s persistent vulnerability makes her music inherently beautiful and honest, reminding us all of how primal and painful the experience of being human is.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Runner [Original Soundtrack]
    In The Runner, Boy Harsher deliver variety for new listeners and for devoted fans, something new so they can continue to experience the band live but safe behind the big screen.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Aboogi
    The music feels traditional, yet modern and accessible.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Three Dimensions Deep
    Her pen excels in etching out the intricate wonders of the emotional spectrum in a way that shows an advanced progression of both musical and emotional maturation. Three Dimensions Deep is a wonder, and I’m sure we’ll be pointing to this album when we look back to what point the world knew Mark was a star.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Covers
    Though the nature of Covers makes it slightly scattershot, and nothing quite hits the heights of some of her past covers, it is decidedly more engaging and diverse than her last album, the lowkey-to-the-point-of-disappearing Wanderer.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    The Overload
    The Overload has enough interesting touchstones, but unfortunately, how Yard Act aim to utilize them within their songwriting MO is still a bit of a jumble. Many of the sounds and textures don’t really add much expressive gusto to Smith’s thespian qualities, and I feel the group can cover a lot of ground here on upcoming releases.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Night Call
    While it’s not breaking any new ground or causing any philosophical contemplation, it’s highly doubtful that the album is trying to be more than what it exactly is: a collection of songs about dancing your way out of the complications and snares that so often accompany love.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    W
    W becomes more than just ‘another’ Boris album. Like other albums that capture the sublime – be it Kid A, Loveless, Eskimo or On Land – it conjures a sense of presence that is somewhat alien, slightly haunted, certainly physical. It toys with ideas of memories we associate with certain sounds and atmospheres, how our emotions can be formed through sensory experience and time becomes illusory.
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