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For 4,424 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 58% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Dead Man's Pop [Box Set]
Lowest review score: 10 Wake Up!
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,770 out of 4424
  2. Mixed: 623 out of 4424
  3. Negative: 31 out of 4424
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    New Material
    By the end of it, it’s very clear that this is a deadly serious record--not a parody, not even an homage, but a largely enjoyable marriage of the stodge with the airy and the old with the new which manages to retain an impressive sense of cohesiveness and consistency.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Born In The Echoes
    The Chemical Brothers continue to buck any notions of a creative burn-out with their strongest release in a decade.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ullages
    There's still a level of discontent that quietly rumbles along beneath the bass, but every cloud has a silver lining and it seems that Eagulls might have found theirs.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's No Leaving Now
    With a voice that creaks like well-loved furniture and lyrics telling tales of the lives and losses of others, this album represents a career highpoint.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Outer Peace
    The moments of nu-disco are superb, yet are weighed down by the sometimes-cringey segments of auto-crooning.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Give Me the Future
    ‘Give Me The Future’ achieves everything a pop album should and stands out as Bastille’s best and most expansive work. The narrative is compelling and successfully paints the picture of a universally relatable topic.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Under the Spell of Joy
    The best thing about the album, and there are a lot of good things to it, is just how simple it is. Nothing feels overthought, calculated, or insincere. The songs come across like gentle gusts of warming wind when you are out late without a coat.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Feel Alive
    Beneath its whimsical summery palette, lurks a repetitive sound that dulls the vibrant texture the lineup promises. In short, it’s an album that’s halfway there.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kidsticks
    It is the very definition of a grower, simply because there are so many little things going on in stark contrast to her elegantly sparse previous release.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    American Utopia
    A well-timed treat delivered by one of music's most beloved eccentrics. Go explore.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    2011: A Space Odyssey
    It's upbeat, unusual and accomplished, an Asian rock 'n' roll space odyssey indeed.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ecstatics International
    A fluorescent, gently psychedelic record with a fat vein of Eighties pop running through it.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Flowers
    Flowers is easily the Icelandic singer’s most accessible, prettiest record to date.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Love
    It’s exceptional stuff.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jungle Revolution
    Interjected with dusty dubplate samples, gun-finger shots and clashing MCs throughout, what Jungle Revolution lacks in variation it makes up with genuine spirit.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Absolute Zero
    There are moments of schmaltz, but these Little Green Cars exude a lorry-load of charm.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Push/Pull
    Beautifully crafted, eccentric and disturbing, but essential pop all the same.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dear River
    Dear River is an interesting collection but, while pretty, these songs sometimes sound a little too slick or obvious.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    III
    With an energy and ambience that ebbs and flows in waves rather than exploding in peaks and crescendos, this is edgy, kaleidoscopic lounge music for the Digital Age.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Natural Selection
    Solid if unspectacular then, yet you’ll find that, much like when in high school, it’s always worth checking out the Art Department.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Resort
    Breezy but not without substance, if Resort reveals anything about Tuff Love’s trajectory, it’s that they’ve become more contemplative over time, while refusing to forgo their shambling melodic impulses in the process.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Neptune
    A tense but rewarding debut--one that fits in nicely with the Clinic canon, while also giving Sherwood a starring role.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wrong Crowd
    Unmistakably catchy piano riffs and heart wrenchingly honest lyrics form the basis of the record much like Odell’s debut, however by amplifying the intensity on the new tracks proves that maybe, just maybe, more is more.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    LateNightTales
    The whole set is neatly balanced and a joyous listen.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Big Fugitive Life [EP]
    A few listens, however, will peel back a casing and find that every track has its own M.O and spans the curvature of the emotional kinsey scale.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Electa
    Though the record as a whole is weaker than its predecessor, there’s enough flashes of career-high brilliance to keep The Wharves on the right path of progression.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Burials in Several Earths
    As a musique concrète or experimental electronica album, Burials In Several Earths is an above average attempt that contains myriad intricacies and points of interest. As something to carry on a peerless lineage, however, it feels like an unnecessary move.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dua Lipa
    The final result is a debut album brimming with confidence, confidence not only in Lipa’s own voice and her eye for a chorus, but in the emotive quality of her lyrics.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Take Flight
    A solid album that despite getting into a more forward stride, does slow burner as patience tester.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rationale
    Rationale is a project which highlights Fazakerley’s vocal and songwriting dexterity, and is delivered with an impressive style and confidence.
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