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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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    • 80 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Running with the Hurricane
    Their punk spirit is still there, but has been buried a little under the weight of heartfelt emotion, bolstered instrumentation and sugary harmonies – all of which work beautifully for these songs. Camp Cope have made an album for themselves, to bring some unity through honesty and self-expression. They can certainly be proud of that.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Past Life Regression
    Past Life Regression doesn’t craft any new formulas for Papercuts, but it’s still consistent with what people have come to expect from the band.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Recordings From the Aland Islands
    At its most transfixing, Recordings From the Åland Islands sounds like music that might naturally arise from the landscape itself. Tranquil, bleary, and languid; ambient and gorgeous, but full of detail that makes the experience feel personal to Chiu and Honer.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Warm Chris
    The fragmentation of characters, the dislocation and purposefully disruptive sense of a core musical identity on Warm Chris make this a collection of disparate songs rather than a body of work – for some this will be a boon, for others problematic.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gifted
    Each track finds her motivation intact, with almost no trace of despair that isn’t equally met with perseverance. While it finds the singer consistently laid back, Gifted pushes forward constantly – displaying its creator’s unique resolve.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Labyrinthitis
    Labyrinthitis is Bejar’s best work since Kaputt. At this point, Bejar has several classics under his belt, so there’s no desperation here to create another one, but he manages to do it with ease.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Reborn
    Reborn often feels like traveling simultaneously to the past and the future in a larger-than-life overwhelmingness similar to watching a film in IMAX. It’s this complete immersion that wraps the record as a whole, rendering it as exciting as the newest sequel of your favourite superhero series.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sonancy
    This black abyss that Loop created is vast and infinite, and yes, even monotonous at times, but Hampson is shooting for the moon on Sonancy. He understands that it takes a rocket ship to get there – and those take time to build.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Melt My Eyez See Your Future
    With this album, Curry wants to let the world know who he is and what he stands for, and the music is all the better for it.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Diaspora Problems
    An essential and enlivening record from start to finish.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Present Tense
    As an experiment, the album hints at expansion but it feels restrained, afraid to really push hard. Even still, Present Tense has a little something for everyone and is a perfect launching pad for the next one.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In/Out/In
    The tracks are still unmistakably Sonic Youth, but in a period where each album had a particular feel and tone, these tracks feel too disjointed to sit together too well.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Only Love From Now On
    Even with guests and layers stripped away, she can still construct ambient moments that stick in your head.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Sink Into Me
    Sink into Me is possibly superior song-wise to Home for Now and at least equally cogent in terms of vocal performances. Going forward, however, Babeheaven might consider combining the matured skills of their latest work with the less self-conscious and more rangy aesthetic inherent to Home for Now.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Motomami
    With a little help from an impressive array of collaborators and producers that include heavyweights like Pharrell Williams, El Guincho and Frank Dukes, Rosalía takes clear and complete control of her voice by getting her ideas across without being too caught up in them.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Long Road North
    The album’s strength is in its sheer breadth, its teleological scope, its grandeur without pretence.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    CRASH
    Despite its minor detours, Crash is one of Charli’s better albums even if it will likely garner a polarizing reaction. She’s fully dedicated though, and it’s a testament to her commitment to crafting the big ‘sellout’ pop album, which she mostly nails.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Frank
    For a bunch of old tracks, then, Frank sits together quite nicely.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tana Talk 4
    Tana Talk 4 shows Benny the Butcher’s improving his rhymes, but doesn’t offer any more profound insight into the man behind the microphone – even as we return to where it all started.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Broken Equipment
    Instrumentally the record feels like a flash in the pan; the first few bites are crunchy and moreish, but it does become a little dry after a while. At times this doesn’t matter because the lyrics hold you, but then again that’s like having half a slice of pizza; good, but not quite satiating.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    SKIN
    Ho99o9 vividly express the anarchic impulse, conjuring the despair and volatility inherent to our postlapsarian age.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Classic Objects
    In its many guises, Classic Objects is that light, a profound statement from an artist bound by no traditions, and it is offered freely to those searching for all the questions they’ve yet to ask.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Topical Dancer
    Topical Dancer is a record for literally anyone. It’s a tool as much as it is an escape hatch. Play this album for your grandparents, your parents, your children, your children’s children, and children yet to be born. For it’s a spiritual palette cleanser as much as it is a physical one.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    PAINLESS
    Whether her words come from personal experience or not, Yanya’s able to swell with empathy in ways few current songwriters can convey. It’s audible how she places herself within the circumstances of a song, maybe to feel herself, but in doing so she connects with her audience on a different level.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Squeeze
    On the canyoning, Weyes Blood-sounding brooder “Not A Love Song”, she seems to find peace within her place in a corrupted world, realising the illusion that its violence inherent can be captured or neutered. Squeeze opts to bathe and contort in it with visceral theatricality.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Digital Roses Don't Die
    Digital Roses Don’t Die is a subtle, occasionally lightweight, jaunt through the realms of K.R.I.T.’s affections and motivations.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars
    While much of Lindeman’s recent work spotlights her knack for lush arrangements and declarative statements, How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars accentuates her nuanced artistry, including her gift for vocal and sonic restraint and lyrical precision.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Limbs
    Limbs is an arresting portrait of that mental state, one which is equal parts hopeful and harrowing. While each element has been particularly, even painfully, placed to present a certain image and mindset, there’s plenty of space left on the canvas to project one’s own thoughts and feelings, which is exactly the kind of engagement that an artist like Forsyth hopes to garner.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    The Tipping Point
    Anthemic, emotional, powerful – The Tipping Point is a very good record.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Angel in Realtime
    Outwardly, Gang of Youths’ third album is one about grief – specifically the grief stemming from the death of Le’aupepe’s father. But more than that, it’s a moving and deeply personal exploration of the innate flaws of the human condition; of failing the ones you love despite your best intentions, and of falling apart and beginning the slow and painful process of piecing yourself back together again afterwards.
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