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For 4,422 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: 3,768 out of 4422
  2. Mixed: 623 out of 4422
  3. Negative: 31 out of 4422
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Visions
    Some may find 'Visions' consistently eschews the same ground of super slick, layered vocals over chrome digital structures but this reductive palette of sonics hears the album fly towards its peak of 'Nightmusic' - a collaboration with Majical Cloudz that is camouflaged electro pop that'll keep you muttering for months.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Be the Void
    When they're good, they are glorious and their enthusiasm is infectious, this band thrive when live but perhaps there's a little too much padding filling the, er, void.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love at the Bottom of the Sea
    The lyrics are as sharp and malevolent as they've been in ages.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Clearing
    The album does lose momentum towards the end but hey, here we have a relatively new band experimenting with the boundaries of their proposed genre, with generally impressive results.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Break It Yourself
    A cornucopia of ideas and influences, here, Andrew Bird has created a veritable treasure trove of a record, where to equal the bare sum of its parts is a momentous achievement.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Breakfast
    Far from dumbed down and more importantly, rap with a much-needed happy-go-lucky makeover.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Parastrophics
    Parastrophics is mischievous and atomised techno pop for listeners who think they've heard it all.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    http://www.itstartshear.com
    Unfortunately, the resultant package is very cleverly constructed and yet maddeningly dull.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Personality
    A hodgepodge LP bound skillfully by the starry-eyed aestheticism he's become so fond of lately.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Featherbrain
    This album is a rich Norwegian delight.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Toward the Low Sun
    An album that could be the soundtrack to the most fucked-up cowboy movie yet to be made.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?
    This is her strongest set of songs since 2000's 'Faith And Courage'.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Brief Crack of Light
    Therapy? have always exuded a commercial undercurrent and it's that ingredient that makes them compelling - equally now as then.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Keychain Collection
    It's a win for the bedroom door-locking crew.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nzca/Lines
    At times brilliantly cold and clinical, it feels like an album created for a man-made future but with Lovett's soulful croon adding the humanity, you'll feel every heartbeat.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Felt
    Melodic, melancholic, at moments almost celestial, it's simply stunning work.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Slideshow Effect
    They could do with a couple more uptempo nuggets like 'The Kids Were Wrong'.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Animal Joy
    As You As You Were already feels like a festival anthem in waiting. Stunningly good music.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rooms Filled with Light
    Always interesting, and with a deft use of traditional instrumentation alongside studio trickery, Fanfarlo have created another nugget of joy.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Put Your Back N 2 It
    This marvellous studio-recorded successor [to his debut album] is more expansive but no less affecting.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Six Cups of Rebel
    So many of the risks taken are either unevocative or plain annoying, particularly when the tracks are structured with so little sense of development.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon)
    Listened to while watching Georges Méliès suitably trippy sci-fi spectacle, it makes for a brief, but enchanting, experience.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kisses on the Bottom
    It's got a sweet, easy intimacy.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Freedom of Speech
    Armed with rich, booming backdrops, live analogue beats and rising string flourishes, she works the ever-awkward business of injecting nods to the sensitive and self-referential expertly, her words coming across more contemplative than indulgently pious... A solid return.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Young & Old
    Smart, soulful pop.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Young Man In America
    A sorrowful, yet captivating collection of songs, ensuring that Ms. Mitchell continues to snap at the heels of PJ Harvey in the female singer songwriter stakes.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Celestial Electric
    Lee ... continues his proclivity for sonic innovation with a plethora of funky grooves and drum lines - with no loops in earshot. AM's psychedelic guitar licks, basslines and vocals underpin an overriding '60s vibe.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hive Mind
    Take it as deep dance for when there aren't enough hours in the day.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Attack On Memory
    Mightily impressive.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Plumb
    An exhilarating and ambitious collection, it should bring Field Music a deservedly larger audience at last.
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