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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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Red, Hot + Fela
    It is, obviously, a tribute to Fela’s lasting power and influence that so many different artists want to play his music, and not at all surprising that he was better at it than most of them. Still, no one wants to hear Fela’s fiery grooves diluted, slicked over, chilled out and made more commercially palatable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lost on the River
    Costello, James, Mumford, Goldsmith and Giddens put their disparate origins aside and pull together as a team. They clearly own these songs, and ply them accordingly. Both credence and comradery play crucial roles here, elevating this effort to that of an essential acquisition.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    True Love Kills the Fairy Tale
    The formula--and the tempo--never really varies, although some of the musical settings are craggier than others.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Choir of Echoes
    An admirable effort in terms of daring and experimentation, Choir of Echoes reverberates ever emphatically.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    4everevolution
    The problem with 4everevolution is that it takes too long to get to the good moments.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Heretic's Bargain
    This is a very good album, sure, but it adds not so much to the Rangda catalogue.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nothin' But Blood
    Darkly defiant, Nothin’ But Blood is turbulent and tempestuous to a manic extreme.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Grass Punks
    Brousseau possesses a certain spirit and shine, but a bit more spark would give Grass Punks more of a means by which to elevate the intrigue.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Into the Wide
    Despite all odds, Into the Wide is Delta Spirit’s most driven effort yet, a rousing, riveting attempt to create an indelible impression.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lola
    All in all, it’s Rodriguez’s way with both a samba and a sway that helps elevate this effort while making it one of her best yet.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blues Funeral
    Points in a direction that he'd almost certainly be wise to follow on future projects.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tooth & Nail
    With a reflective outlook worthy of Bragg’s now venerable stature, this weathered perspective serves him well.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Best Day
    In sum, The Best Day is the Sonic Youth album that Sonic Youth fans feared would never happen in the wake of the band’s split in 2011.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hardly Electronic
    Not all the songs on Hardly Electronic are as affecting--and some of them are just good bubbly pop fun. There are some misses--the country-ish “Bye Bye Crow” isn’t very good--but most are at least solid and surprisingly fresh, and a few are much better than that.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Us Alone
    Subtlety and finesse are the watchwords here, two elements that deliver artistic intrigue.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Father Creeper
    If this is his starting point, his future seems limitless.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Interstellar
    A progressive dance-pop album that, maybe because of her background, feels a heck of a lot hipper than what her new genre counterparts can offer.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wildlife
    Wildlife has the feel of both a consolidation and an introduction, as the band runs every permutation of the underground guitar rock it loves through the ringer of singer Joe Cardamone's singular vision.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An Appointment with Mr. Yeats
    In crafting an album that’s filled with largess, they give their fans a work that genuinely seems destined for the ages.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Trip to the Coast
    If you’re looking for that next hooky, guitar-pop record you could do a lot worse than this.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Soul of the Hour
    Gallon Drunk’s whiskey goes down rough on The Soul of the Hour, but the lingering after-burn is the best part.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Physical World
    While Davenport and his crew aren’t doing anything here completely out of the ordinary (for them, anyway) with a batch of songs this strong it might stand as his best.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Bright Side of Down
    Chock full of affirmation and illumination, Bright Side of Down is just the perfect pick-me-up for these frequently turbulent times.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Museum of Love
    Museum of Love is a nonformulaic, hard to pin down, quirky and danceable album.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    World War Willie
    Willie Nile, at 67, can still paint a picture with words and burn the house down from the stage. Savor it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Minor Victories
    If you’ve heard their main/prior bands then the sound of this won’t surprise you, but it’ll still feel like an old friend that you always pick up right where you left off.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Along the Way
    Along The Way sounds remarkably fresh and vital, in fact, the mark of a gifted musician trying to incorporate his philosophical yearnings into a concrete manifestation that can be shared at will.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tales of Us
    Tales of Us unveils yet again how talented Goldfrapp truly is as together Alison and Gregory continue to craft music that does not pigeonhole them into a set genre; they simply make exceptional music.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The North Borders
    Unfortunately, while the singers add some variety to the down-tempo dance stew that Green comes up with, they also fade into his lounge-like, bare-bones background all too well without adding much flavor, not to mention bite, to the proceedings.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wicked Will
    The album teems with strong songs and performances.
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