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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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    • 66 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Come of Age
    There's nothing wrong with seeking to accomplish the same things your heroes did, but when a band tries only to imitate a few aspects–in this case, detached singing, jangly guitar interplay, and lyrics about teen angst–without offering many of the other aspects that made that band great–like clever storytelling and interesting perspectives--it's always going to fall short. Which Come Of Age does.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Animator
    Time and time again The Luyas set themselves up in a soft kraut-like groove and fail to progress the song into something different, allowing it to fizzle out after four or five minutes.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    House on the Hill
    What results is a more even effort, a more accomplished record, by all stretches of the imagination, but one that lacks a single truly brilliant track to elevate it above the legion of Brooklyn guitar bands.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Free Reign
    They've ironed out their eccentricities, and produced their silkiest and least combative record in the process.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Aimlessness
    Essentially, Aimlessness is a jovial affair that promises more in its first half than it can deliver in its second.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No Love Deep Web
    While No Love Deep Web is not the masterpiece The Money Store undeniably is, it still manages to be both a substantial step forward and, even more importantly, a work not easily forgotten.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Movement
    Though academic in its tone, and impenetrable at points due to it's uncompromising focus on experimentation, Movement looks inward, probing the possibility of humanity even through an album centered on electronic instrumentation
    • 75 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Lux
    Best to sit back and bask in the confident warmth of a job well done.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 52 Critic Score
    Free Dimensional
    It's shiny but fluffy, and sure to be a disappointment to those hoping that O'Regan could build on the promise of Special Affectations.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Smalhans
    At first glance, Smalhans feels exceedingly necessary as reconciliation for Six Cups of Rebel, but it's quite a reliable document on its own.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Unknown Rooms: A Collection Of Acoustic Songs
    While there are some issues with the feeling of déjà vu, Unknown Rooms doesn't really do anything noticeably off the mark.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
    Allelujah! seems more immediate and more organic, but instead of feeling blown away by it's unreachable drama and grandeur, with a decade of age behind us and the band, it feels inhabitable in a way Godspeed never has before.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Tender New Signs
    While Tender New Signs may not point you in any dramatically different directions than their debut did, it certainly displays a growing maturity in both Tamaryn and Shelverton.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Top Ten Hits of the End of the World
    An ambitious concept, but not fully executed, Top Ten Hits Of The End Of The World is stuck somewhere in-between.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Lonerism
    The way your patience is so handsomely rewarded is what truly makes Lonerism such an engrossing spectacle.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Dream On
    The record touches on new tonal and structural territories, however incremental, while maneuvering within the same basic framework laid out in Ital's debut.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    End of Daze [EP]
    They may be lumped in with the recent girl group pop fad, but End of Daze proves that there is nothing common or ordinary about this band.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Just To Feel Anything
    Just shy of magnificent and unprecedentedly accessible, Emeralds' latest is not their best work, but at least in terms of the group's development, it's among their most exciting.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 52 Critic Score
    The Wilderness
    The Wilderness isn't really a sum of its parts in that songs might sound okay, if not good on their own, but taken altogether it makes for an album that fails to make it off the ground.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Moms
    Moms is perfect evidence that Menomena are still more than capable of holding their own.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Rave Age
    Rave Age is an awkward half-step in a couple directions for Vitalic. It's texturally half-baked and predictable.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Daughter of Cloud
    If you can forgive Barnes' very unfortunate excursions into hip-hop and overlook what is hopefully the last few Georgie Fruit guest spots, you'll be amazed at the range of sounds that the band manages to successfully explore here.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Hands of Glory
    The majority of Hands of Glory is devoted to covers, though, and while Bird already has plenty of fine covers in his catalogue ("Don't Be Scared", "Trimmed + Burning", "The Giant of Illinois"), his efforts here are something near enough lacklustre and uninspiring.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Elemental Themes
    No matter who else we see in his work, this record stands on its own in terms of how it plays for the listener.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Long Slow Dance
    While the album may err one too many times on the side of caution and doesn't venture much beyond its superficial pop veneer–"Foolish Person" notwithstanding–it still shows a band attempting to, and generally succeeding at, conveying the warmth and exuberance of summer.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Luxury Problems
    It's a thoughtful and meditative affair with a meaningful and felt collaboration at its core.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    Local Business
    Local Business isn't a bad album, but it doesn't completely pull itself off either.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Negative Fascination
    It makes for one of the most challenging yet rewarding techno oddities of the year and we get the priviledge of seeing a producer honing his craft into something especially unique and cohesive.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Pink
    It's an intermittently engaging set of ephemeral longevity, ultimately a little too nonspecific and slipshod to be considered alongside the rest of his full-length catalogue.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Banks
    Banks is showing some desire to move beyond the design that his career has sustained itself on, but this album shows he's not quite ready to cut the cord.
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