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For 4,423 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: 3,769 out of 4423
  2. Mixed: 623 out of 4423
  3. Negative: 31 out of 4423
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Neon Skyline
    The Neon Skyline is one of those albums that will probably never achieve the popularity with the influencers and loud crowds that one sometimes lazily associates with a “successful” artist. Instead, it’s more likely to be enjoyed by hardcore fans in a small venue eschewing the limelight for a communal lament of the lives of the narrator, Charlie, Rose and Claire.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Back Home
    Big Joanie makes their own home on the record, and in the process, their own mark on contemporary rock. In a nutshell: Big Joanie is a band that deserves your attention.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Evangelic Girl Is A Gun
    A collage of trip-hop, screeching guitars, and anguished vocals, ‘Evangelic Girl Is A Gun’ is a truly complete project, a series of vivid portraits well worthy of their own gallery.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Night CRIÚ
    The songs are slow moving wonders that gather emotional steam with each passing moment. The pay off to this is an album full of unflinching narratives, and thoughts, that, if you let them, have the power to stop you in your tracks. ‘Night CRIÚ‘ is an album to get lost in with this night crew.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Empty Hands
    With every track, she proves she’s an artist unafraid to test the edges of her sound – and to make them entirely her own.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Perfect Saviors
    What ‘Perfect Saviors’ succeeds in, however, it exploding those aspects ever outwards, renewing The Armed and emboldening their most ambitious, rewarding album to date.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Yuck
    Yuck is a satisfyingly catchy re-enactment of what would happen if J.Mascis, Kim Gordon and James Iha had formed an early Pavement tribute band.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Savage Mode II
    ‘Savage Mode 2’ matches ruthless entertainment to phenomenal artistry, a collaboration that works on a number of levels. Once more exposing fresh layers to 21 Savage and Metro Boomin.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My Name Is My Name
    The strengths of My Name Is My Name vastly outweigh its minor faults, and Pusha’s studio debut finds itself easily nestled into the year’s top five rap releases.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Glowing Man
    With a running time of just under two hours, The Glowing Man may prove too punishing for some but those willing to invest time in its fiery depths will discover yet another remarkable Swans album.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Gold-Diggers Sound
    ‘Gold-Diggers Sound’ is an effortless and easy listen thanks to the high production value, Bridges’ velvety-smooth vocals, and the strength of his songwriting, it’s set to be one of the albums of the year.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Loving in Stereo
    Despite having occasionally moments of deflation, ‘Loving In Stereo’ is more refined than past work. Loaded with retrospective jams and summery hits alike, the record leaves their growth open to further exploration.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Council Skies
    Surefooted, revelatory, well-rounded and emotionally deep, ‘Council Skies’ cements his reputation as one of the best songwriters the UK has ever produced.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ghost Culture
    From the flicks of tousled hair and being pale and away with the fairies, the end product sounds more masterful and comfortingly in control than other fashion zeitgeists and angular pouters with every listen.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hypersonic Missiles
    Hypersonic Missiles is packed with high octane hits, all of which translate into an impeccable record. Sam Fender’s debut is brave, confident and evocative.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Common Turn
    This is a gem of an album. Personal, honest and highly emotive, it tackles big questions; but most of all, it dares to be vulnerable.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sleeping Through the War
    Sleeping Through The War strikes the perfect balance of the familiar and the alien to distill 45 minutes of musical opium. Bliss.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
    A record that walks the streets of West Africa and West London with equal confidence, ‘Strange Timez’ offers respite from the dark clouds that swarm above 2020, a gateway into another realm.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thirstier
    Eleven years on from her debut, TORRES’ songwriting remains as infatuating as ever.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On All Fours
    This is proper modern pop music: fierce and intelligent in its explorations, defiant and cool in its tone. Wondrous.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Engravings
    This is mood-manifesting music of exceptional quality, experimental electronic fare of substance and, crucially, heart.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Crack-Up
    If 'Fleet Foxes' was an unbroken hike up from the foothills into the peaks of the Appalachians, 'Crack-Up' is more like the winding train ride home.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Try to Be Hopeful
    You might think punk bands berating the patriarchy is uninspired, but The Spook School do so with spirit, vibrancy and clever honesty, demonstrating how candid discussions of gender and sexuality in pop culture is still worryingly subversive.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fabric 91
    This won’t run as smoothly as her DJ-Kicks bow of 2015, and it’s not a mix you’re allowed to get comfortable with, the Siberian’s non-conformist stance playing fast and loose with the ideals of cohesion, and letting the faders lead punters astray.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Deeper Understanding
    However dreamy the music may be, mind, it's not all quite so heavenly. The main distraction is how overwrought it all is. This is especially prevalent in Granduciel's lyrics which he sings in whispered reverence.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Giant Swan
    Yes, at times it is ungainly and crosses over that line into sheer noise, but it never stays there too long as Giant Swan is all about the tunes, despite all the distressed window dressing.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Colourgrade
    The sonics are strange and hard to recreate: they are forward thinking but in some ways ageless, a natural fit for Tirzah’s magnetic voice.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Capricorn Sun
    Malleable, accessible but equally polished and bold, ‘Capricorn Sun’ will no doubt propel TSHA into new environments and challenges.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    ForeverandEverNoMore
    ‘FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE’ is nostalgic, melancholic, hopeful and hopeless, existentialist and nihilist. Brian Eno is one of the few artists who is able to convey the things he does by using so little, and ‘FOREVER’ is a prime example of his mastery.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Utopia
    ‘Utopia’ has its limitations. The retro/out-of-time musical architecture feels a bit familiar, although magical closer ‘Hireth’ is a singular highlight. Nonetheless, there’s heady magic to be found herein, if a touch less so than on its creator’s truly otherworldly previous works.
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