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For 1,927 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: 1,769 out of 1927
  2. Mixed: 139 out of 1927
  3. Negative: 19 out of 1927
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Constant Future
    Maybe Constant Future is the record to finally thrust this deserving outfit over the edge. Even if it isn't, it's still another damn good addition to a wickedly unheralded, but highly effective, library.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Family of Love
    None of it is forgetful and all of it is more than enjoyable.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Frontera
    Overall, Frontera retains the qualities that fans of Fly Pan Am always appreciated about the collective, but this time around they feel disconnected. That is not to say the album is bad, it simply appears that it cannot be properly appreciated without the aid of the dance performance by Animals Of Distinction.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Thing Called Divine Fits
    Rather than a cohesive structured debut effort that was the product of a cooperative band, you have a Frankenstein-ian melding of cast off parts.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Isles
    Isles is a headphones record as colourful as its artwork, and should be enjoyed to the fullest on its own terms, the work of an act in constant flux who refuse to rest on their laurels.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection
    With “Get Up! Come Walk with Me/Composition 7” – as with Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection in its entirety – White, Holley, and a cast of energized musicians question the post-human age while celebrating the creative process.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    The Terror
    As one of the most polarizing records in their extensive discography, this release is sure to divide certain fans, especially those who were disillusioned by the relative inaccessibility of Embryonic. For listeners looking for a noisy and thoroughly experimental album, though, The Terror is just what the doctor ordered.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    7s
    It certainly has a more present percussive beat than Eucalyptus, however its compositions are allowed to stretch out, with five out of seven tracks here passing the five-minute mark (only two of Cows’ 10 tracks did such). This approach lends 7s‘ centerpiece “Hey Bog” an epic effect, building slowly in tempo.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Lily We Need to Talk Now
    Even if this is her most ‘focused’ release yet, the lingering thought after the snappy 24 minutes of Lily We Need To Talk Now is the abundance of upside she still has left to explore. Though, to her credit, Lily Konigsberg has been doing that every time.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    We Are Love
    Okay, they may never reach the heady heights of Between 10th and 11th again, but we should just be grateful that they still exist and are still looking to move their sound forward in ways that many of their ‘peers’ seem incapable of. It doesn’t always hit, but when it works it’s a glorious thing.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Send A Prayer My Way
    The album is pleasant in every way you could want it to be, but it’s also a few truck stops short of their best and most memorable work. Still, it’s hard to deny it’s enjoyable to hear two friends play together and connect over an affection for a genre that was so formative for both of them.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Prophet
    Prophet is both eclectic and balanced, and the powerful imagination behind it makes it easier to forgive the occasional overindulgence.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Life Fantastic
    Though it may not be treated as an important album in the broader scope of music, it is an important album for Man Man, and one that is likely to age gracefully, just as Man Man appear to be doing.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    At the Down-Turned Jagged Rim of the Sky
    This is life At the Down-turned Jagged Rim of the Sky, which isn't a devastatingly beautiful one, but it's still engaging in its own deep, personal way.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Order of Noise
    Order Of Noise is one of the most worthwhile genre-defying oddities of the year.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Love What Happened Here [EP]
    Fans will be glad to accept this triplet and know that the creation of this style of music in his plans.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Galaxy Garden
    Lone doesn't reinvent himself on Galaxy Garden like he did with Emerald Fantasy Tracks, but the jump from one record to the next is made even more revelatory by the English producer's refinement and assuredness.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 52 Critic Score
    Never Exhale
    On Never Exhale, DITZ sound like they’re running on a treadmill at maximum speed, and in a bid to keep up, stumble into knee-jerk turns to some less-than-exciting tendencies perpetuated from their first release.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Refrigerator
    The brighter production MO works well as a contrast to the melancholy-slacker themes. Overall, the project is notably cohesive, wearing its influences like a onesie undergarment rather than on its sleeve.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 62 Critic Score
    Ö
    They’re a nostalgia trip of intertextual references. Ö will no doubt frustrate some, and delight many others. It is, after all, just a ride that doesn’t need to be taken too seriously.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Blood Oaths of the New Blues
    The album, with all of its imperfections and warmly textured moments, feels well-worn and comfortable-despite its often acerbic lyrical habits.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    W.A.R. (We Are Renegades)
    Pharoahe Monch crafts an LP that not only serves as a protest to the United States' handling of the conflicts in the Middle East, but stands alone as a more than competent hip-hop record.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Tamer Animals
    Bar a few tracks that outstay their welcome, there is a lot to love about this album.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Cellophane Memories
    A solid and polished record, a beautiful collection – not one to outlast time, but to chronicle its passing nature, and the melancholy released from that realisation.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    We Will Always Be
    The "point," if there is such a thing with this kind of music, is that even during its most trepidatious or lonely nadirs, there is a beauty to experiencing love that overwhelms the heart. Windy & Carl seem to aim to replicate that overwhelming sensation through their music.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    It's Been Awful
    It’s Been Awful boasts some of Rashad’s most immediately gripping and memorable hooks to date.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    New Decade
    New Decade comes across as bleak, but it’s deliberately restrained; its meditations cut through the real sentiments of our confusing years with the sincerity of a haiku. Especially amidst isolation and the uncertainties of modernity, we are reminded of the power of self-expression.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 52 Critic Score
    Museum
    Ákadóttir has made her own museum here, and each of the songs on the album are monochrome statues that we the listener get to walk around and view, but we leave the building indifferent to any real history and experience they represent. It’s like Night at the Museum, but without any of the magic.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Tension II
    Tension II is a fun continuation of what has been Kylie’s renaissance since 2020’s Disco album. It is not wholly without flaws as stated above but still manages to solidify that Kylie will always be someone we just can’t get out of our heads.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Get Sunk
    Get Sunk is not a flawless affair – it sometimes still feels a little torn between emotional poignancy and comfortable adult defeatism, and some moments almost demand a more aggressive, forlorn brevity. But Berninger’s second solo effort is a rich and satisfying listen, evading the generic bland arrogance of The National’s low points.
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