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For 1,384 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Let It Burn
Lowest review score: 20 The Machine Stops
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 950 out of 1384
  2. Mixed: 427 out of 1384
  3. Negative: 7 out of 1384
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forever Sounds
    Forever Sounds (Shake It/Damnably) is a kaleidoscopic, sonic soundscape, engagingly recorded at John Curley’s (Afghan Whigs) facility, Ultrasuede Studios.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sukierae
    Taken as a whole, Sukierae is a much different experience, exhibiting a labor of love in the truest sense--a family affair that bridges the generational gap to offer a little something for everyone.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Debo Band
    It captures the band's rambunctious, not-especially-reverent approach to Ethio-jazz.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Conatus
    The operatics of her voice make it the most intriguing instrument on the album but the new exploration of violins and cellos that feminize the massive drum fills make Conatus even more astounding.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Vantaa
    He delivers a stirring counterpoint to Quartet with an atmospheric combination of organic and digital feels that offers a stirring dual portrait of the landscape of his motherland.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nepenthe
    The album is gorgeous, almost an abstraction of what musical loveliness could be.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Don't Weigh Down the Light
    This is one of the most beautiful albums you’ll hear this year or any other, speaking softly but resonating deeply and long after the last sounds fade away.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here Be Monsters
    There’s little doubt Here Be Monsters will one day be considered the album that ensures Langford’s legacy.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Marriage of True Minds
    The final outcome is the most intriguing and innovative Matmos LP since A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Personal Record
    An album full of fresh twists and turns, musically and lyrically, and a song cycle full of melody and surprise.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Barchords
    Jordanian remains pleasantly understated as a frontman, letting his voice and knack for raw melodies take the focus.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Fortune
    The real problem is that there’s little, if anything, to distinguish any particular track from the one that precedes it, omitting anything of hummable worth for vague, languid repose.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    World Boogie Is Coming
    Their latest, crammed with 17 tracks, will likely be a case of too much of a good thing for all but the hardcore fans.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Snow
    Instead of dramatic tempo shifts or sing-along choruses, the songs rely on subtle texture and tempo changes that, in context, wind up carrying far more weight than they would in another setting.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Electric
    Buddy Miller's production is fresh, tuned to the immediacy of Thompson's performances; any fault with Electric can't be laid at his door--only at the strangely stiff quality of the first few songs.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    We Still Love Our Country
    It may seem a somewhat unassuming entry, but regardless, We Love Our Country creates a favorable first impression.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Little Bird
    Simply said, this Little Bird soars.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Deer Creek Canyon
    It's only a matter of time before the rest of the world catches up and realizes she's one of our country's best songwriters.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Music for Objects [EP]
    This is the ordinary world made radiant, surreal and strange, its everyday objects glowing with internal light.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Elvis at Stax
    Elvis at Stax, discreetly packaged, replete with complete credits for musicians, singers, and studio personnel, and excellent (if fawning) Robert Gordon liner notes, is a nice corrective.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The World's Best American Band
    The World’s Best American Band is all about cutting loose and having a blast via the method of catchy guitar-based rock & roll tunes--simple, direct and oh so very effective.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Formerly Extinct
    False Flag was a raging, hairy monster of an album; Formerly Extinct is its subtler, more intricate, better groomed (but no less wild) cousin.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blue Moon: The New York Session
    Jamal continues to spin gold from the bench of his baby grand with Blue Moon.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pan
    With Pan the band has created an album that places them squarely amongst the pantheon of musicians they so obviously adore.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    O' Be Joyful
    O' Be Joyful would be their resulting--and across-the-board winning--entrée to celebrity chefdom.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Né So
    As with so much African music, Né So favors hope over despair, proud defiance over inchoate anger, and stands as the most trenchant portrait of the African musical spirit so far this year.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Antibalas
    How good is Antibalas the album, the band's fourth, on its own merits? The answer is: pretty good, but not as great as its inspiration.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Breakup Song
    Breakup Song is an electric, ultra-fun, frenetic carnival; but, it is most satisfying in its quieter, more spacious moments.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In the Morse Code of Brake Lights
    While Neko Case’s moonlighting from her solo day job allows her to enliven the proceedings, it’s obvious that the ensemble, as a whole, contributes to the richness and resonance that the new album exudes in its entirety.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Arc Iris
    Though the band seems to have packed all of its musical interests and abilities into the album’s 11 songs, this is a most likely only a sampling of their capabilities and of the colorful ideas yet to spring from the mind of Jocie Adams.
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