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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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    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Set The Tone (Guns & Roses)
    Granted space once more to create his own world, ‘Set The Tone’ is an enjoyable addition to one of rap’s core catalogues.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Things Are Great
    As they create their most on-their-terms album to date, Band of Horses manage to lift a weight from your shoulders you perhaps didn’t know was there.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Assume Form
    Assume Form isn’t a radical reinvention, but more a refinement. Live strings, for example, bring an organic warmth missing in some of his formative work.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wonderful, Glorious
    Everett has fought his well-documented trails and tribulations tooth and nail, and this gritty but ultimately joyous album stands as testament to that.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hope Downs
    It’s a road record to soundtrack a hazy journey across the outback in search of a lost love, contemplating the world whilst swigging on a beer. Hope Downs is far from perfect, but it has charm in abundance.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Non Stop Erotik
    Taking his muse from the voyeuristic photographs of Man Ray, each note drips with sex and death.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Aşk
    An urgency and classic rock vibe, noticeably missing from recent atmospheric releases, is back in full swing here, and it works to their advantage.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Our Pathetic Age
    Perhaps not one for the casual fan, but there’s plenty to unpack for the long-time admirer.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Man vs. Sofa
    The album definitely picks up where the previous effort left off, but delves even deeper into the left-field and draws from an ever-growing well of influences and ideas. It is this stylistic exploration that makes Man Vs Sofa all the more intriguing and unpredictable, but simultaneously renders it slightly less accessible than the duo’s debut.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Everything I Know About Love
    Every track demonstrates a beauty in the everyday; in the mundane; in our reality. And combining such observations with the sweeping sounds of orchestral talent and acoustic guitar, the end result, of the combination of these juxtaposing complex and simple elements, is one that feels familiar.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Theory of Whatever
    Not revelatory, then, but there’s enough on ‘The Theory Of Whatever’ to underline Jamie T’s status as a vital force within British music.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pedestrian Verse
    The production may be a little smoother but Pedestrian Verse just seems to prove how lasting, how devastating Frightened Rabbit can be.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cuts & Bruises
    A helter skelter 11 track run-through, ‘Cuts & Bruises’ retains everything that made INHALER’s debt so effective while adding some excellent new elements.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Dream
    A work of assured yet subtle transition, it re-engages with some of alt-J’s core tenets, while not being afraid to engage emotionally.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Soft Hair
    Ultimately Soft Hair is the sound of two musicians filling in each other’s blanks while only seeing the best in each other. When it works, it’s captivating.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Peter Gabriel Tribute Album: And I'll Scratch Yours
    The result is a slightly odd, somewhat disjointed response, and one that serves to highlight just how daunting it is to tackle a cover from the former Genesis frontman’s catalogue.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Prisoner
    Dragged down by a excess of melodrama, with some cutting and a dash of pop sensibilities The Jezabels would have a stone cold classic.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Apocalypse Love
    ‘Apocalypse Love’ is a primal cry, a maniacal love letter to their sonic anarchy and the unpredictability of the world we live in. It’s a discordant record, swerving through genres and emotions at breakneck speed, but that’s what the Black Lips are all about.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bandana
    Madlib continues to provide the backing that allows Freddie Gibbs to shine, choosing to predominantly stick to slower, authentically instrumental led soundscapes across the LP.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mirrors
    Some of the record suffers from being a little noodley--‘Shadows’ being the only standout example--but this can be forgiven both in the face of the scale of the task at hand and the otherwise great aplomb with which it’s been tackled.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Prestige
    ‘Prestige’ is an album guaranteed to soundtrack some upcoming sunny days, imbued with fun and genuine passion in equal measure.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Beginners
    Vulnerable, complex and beautiful, it is an album that gets richer with every listen, and cements Hutson’s status as a songwriter to take notice of.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    One Thousand Pictures
    The heavier, dirtier mood suits these Pirates--the spirit of 1979 burns bright.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Pieces
    It’s a functional entry in Chlöe’s already-impressive pantheon of works. Here’s hoping this release frees her up to lean more zealously into her production quirks when the next solo experiment beckons.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Screen Time
    A record that thrives on subtlety, ‘Screen Time’ is engaging but never simple, its quiet complexities taking time to truly unfurl amid Thurston Moore's painterly landscapes.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    HONESTLY, NEVERMIND
    A puzzle that will take a long time to fully unlock, ‘Honestly, Nevermind’ stands on these immediate listens as Drake’s most daring gesture, a devastating about-turn that will fascinate and frustrate in equal measure.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Times New Roman...
    With ‘In Times New Roman…’ Homme and co. have crafted a darkly seductive return, an intoxicating psychedelic record that drips with equal parts malice and renewal. It’s good to have them back.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lightning Bolt
    This set is teeming with energy despite its down moments, and demands to be played again in its entirety as soon as it ends.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    We Are Not Your Kind
    Slipknot make an unexpected impact with their newly-discovered tenderness, but it’s those instantly-recognisable throat-shredding roars that really shine.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR [EP]
    Their heaviest record since ‘Suicide Silence’. Well, maybe their heaviest record since ‘There Is A Hell…’. OK, almost certainly their heaviest record since ‘Sempiternal’. This is not to say that going back to their brutal roots is a bad move. Sykes recently described heavy music as the band’s ‘bread and butter’, and there’s definitely a sense that BMTH are playing on home turf with ‘SURVIVAL HORROR’.
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