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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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    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade
    Whilst we aren’t handed the next chapter of The Libertines story on a platter, the beauty and tumult of the band is in the subtext. It’s in John Hassall and Gary Powell joining Barat and Doherty’s mythic duo on vocals for the first time on ‘Man With The Melody’. It’s in the closer, ‘Songs They Never Played On The Radio’, which was born in 2006 and finished for ‘All Quiet…’, one of the most beautiful Libertines songs of all time.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Quakers
    Stuffed with bomb-ass beats and rhymes that will bang from Cali to Darlington.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    4:44
    It’s reality music, and while obviously tailored around the life and times of Shawn Carter, offers so many narratives that the common man can relate to in astounding measures.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Tape Two
    Everything suggests that, on the strength of this set, The Land of the Brave won’t need a referendum to prove its independence.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Send Them To Coventry [Mixtape]
    Stunning debut mixtape ‘Send Them To Coventry’. The 15-track project is a musical kaleidoscope, fusing elements of afro-swing, dancehall, grime, and rap. Sonically, it speaks to the fluidity of Black sounds.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Motomami
    ‘MOTOMAMI’ blows away the lingering strictures of lockdown, and finds a true modern icon bathing in personal freedoms.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Bones of What You Believe
    The Bones Of What You Believe is an exceptionally strong debut where every track is a potential single.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    I See You
    I See You is perhaps the bravest album of the band’s career, the one laden with the most changes, with the most prolonged journeys into the unexpected. Yet it also feels resolutely like The xx.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Grime 2.0
    Some of the tracks cry out for a bar or two to be spat over, but when you hear that hollow synth on Teeza’s ‘Rum And Coke’, you’ll be sold on the grime renaissance.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Long Goodbye
    The pacing can get interrupted somewhat by the sheer amount of skits on here, and a Jay Sean featuring ‘Any Day’ slams on the brakes mid-album, but other than that this is a tightly packed, lightning-quick swing at the racism of British society. Riz Ahmed might now be more famous for his acting, but he’s been making music since he was a teenager – and on this album, it shows.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Take Her Up to Monto
    This isn’t download territory--it’s a journey, and if you buy a ticket, you have to put the time in to get to the destination. But what a destination.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Confection
    Another impressive feather in one of the most versatile caps in Parisian pop music.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    All of Us Flames
    Cheeky, subversive ‘I Saw The Truth Undressing’ seems to sum up this wonderful, enlightening record.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Elephant in the Room
    Although 'Elephant In The Room' is not quite as diverse as his 2018 effort 'Pieces Of A Man' or as fresh as his breakout tape 'Wave[s]', there's a lot to love about the album, and it's likely to one that ages gracefully over time.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Angels & Devils
    All one can do is let the album play through again, though, is indicative of the great power this exhibition of completely engrossing, electrifyingly ambitious avant-dance(hall) possesses.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Night Land
    This preference for impulsiveness and reaction off of one another when making their music comes through in the warm, emotive feel of the whole record.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Lux
    ‘Lux’ is endearingly insistent on taking you away from the lethargy of modern life and transporting you to a surround sound, meta-textual dimension. It’s hard-won, but oh so worth it.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Invisible Forces
    ‘Invisible Forces’ is a complicated album, but not cluttered. James Heather’s elegant runs, and elegant is the only real word to describe his playing, are thought-provoking and moving. Throughout the pianist delivers emotion-heavy music that is oddly catchy.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Weather Alive
    Beautifully accomplished, ‘Weather Alive’ stands as an imposing career-high by a fine, fine songwriter.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Stay Close to Music
    ‘Stay Close To Music’ is, in all sincerity, a masterpiece that seeks to amplify the voices that have been pushed aside for far too long.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Songs of a Lost World
    With ‘Songs Of A Lost World,’ The Cure has not only produced something worth the wait but added another classic to their already sterling catalogue. This is a late-career gem from one of the world’s most idiosyncratic acts.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bando Stone & The New World
    This record feels like the perfect summation of Childish Gambino’s always-on, internet-driven data-overload experimentation. It’s a work of maturity and vision, out-pacing his peers to deliver something vital, and true to himself.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Defenestration of St. Martin
    A very welcome return.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ten Days
    Does ‘ten days’ elevate the modern dance album? It unequivocally does. It’s built from connection and collaboration. It explores the contours of the dancefloor whilst never forgoing its gushy, human centre.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    12
    ‘12’ is not an album to take lightly. It is an album to listen to intently as often as you can. With each listen you learn something about what it takes to be a great artist, Ryuichi Sakamoto is a great artist, but it also teaches us not to take things too seriously because one day it could all be over.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Embracism
    This one will grow and reward with every new listen, as you get to know the troubled character behind the barbed words.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    For Those I Love
    ‘For Those I Love’ is a truly exquisite achievement in which the redemptive hope that love and friendship provide is never allowed to sink beneath the waters.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Fever Dreams
    ‘Fever Dreams’ is very possibly Villagers’ most ambitious and endearing record to date.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    private music
    Deftly striking a balance between brutal and graceful, it’s a welcome reminder that Deftones are still more than capable of delivering the goods while showing us something new and vital.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Fabriclive 59
    He has fateful serenity tangling with rudebwoy pluck through crackly pirate radio reception, smuggling in head-scratching interludes - field recordings seemingly from the club's toilets/smoking section - and one '70s synthesizer pitstop.
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