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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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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    News of the Universe
    There’s generally less immediacy on this record than seen on previous albums, and this will no doubt turn off a few fair-weather fans. The flip side is a band pushing its boundaries, grabbing some serious Warp artist vibes, and evolving into something more cinematic and mature.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fatal Optimist
    ‘Fatal Optimist’ is, despite the content matter, enticing on first listen and a record that yields further dividends with repeated ones. Here her voice has space to breathe in a way does not always on her preceding albums.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    D
    An audacious, adventurous, unclassifiable fourth album from the newly expanded Austin natives: this is a seriously self-assured sonic experience.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Walking Like We Do
    By considering themes such as love, social injustice and all round perseverance, it is both mature and engaging. The Big Moon are constantly breathing new life into a genre which sometimes runs stale. For that we should be eternally grateful.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Consummation
    On ‘Nothing Lasts’, the final song on the album, Schleicher seems to find peace after what’s been a fascinating but intense journey.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son
    While Jurado’s music has, on occasion, seemed a little slight, this is an endearingly ambitious, somewhat unexpected folk-rock triumph.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Visions of Bodies Being Burned
    It’s been said that every era gets the monster they deserve. If this is the case then ‘Visions of Bodies Being Burned’ is everything wrong, and right, with the world distilled into 52- minutes of absurdist hip-hop. We’ve never had it so good!
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pain To Power
    “Absolute carnage” was how we described Maruja’s Glastonbury appearance earlier this year, and while no studio recording can capture that sort of live magic, ‘Pain To Power’ comes pretty bloody close.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ultra Vivid Lament
    While subtle, this album captures the evolution of a band in their element once more.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Late Developers
    ‘Late Developers’ is a fine piece of pop whimsy, delivered with self-deprecating panache.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Friends That Break Your Heart
    The LP’s home stretch is up there with Blake’s best, not just in the tense penultimate title track and wet-cheeked closer ‘If I’m Insecure’, but on the lead single. ‘Say What You Will’ shows off the magic trick Blake’s perfected by now. Vocally, he’s unsettlingly beautiful.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Inji
    Inji is a good album. It's one of the best albums to have been released this year, which says a lot about Dust's ability as a composer.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As Above, So Below
    The beautiful blends of genres and crisp production make ‘As Above, So Below’ an enthralling listen, and has Sampa raising the bar for herself once again.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Teens of Style
    It's one young man's proper opening salvo cast as an entire genre's dying breaths. But for a last gasp, it sure sounds vital.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here Lies the Body
    This isn’t a linear narrative, with our author bending the fabric of time to suck us deeper into the emotional life of the characters in his story. As devices go, it’s a sharp one.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Teenage Wildlife: 25 Years of Ash
    More than two decades on, the group’s era-defining work projects the same spellbinding urgency, continually taking guitar music to new places with imagination, force and creativity.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rabbit Rabbit
    ‘Rabbit Rabbit’ is a joyful listen. Its refusal to follow the norms is an inspiration, and an attempt at an act of defiance in an age when it is becoming harder and harder to go against the grain.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Love Letter for Fire
    This is a very strong album about love, written by two people who aren’t in love.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Heba
    Their carefully crafted, layered arrangements, and surreal lyric create a bit of a wonderland feel which is more than welcome as the day slowly grows brighter.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    2013
    Fabulously varied, at times unashamedly extravagant and with a consistently joyous urgency, 2013 may be a historical document but it points to a very bright future.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Love the New Sky
    Perhaps his strongest solo collection in some time, ‘I Love The New Sky’ holds true to an innate but rarely explicit sense of optimism. Softly uplifting in a very English way, it feels like a slow exhalation, a record that gently tugs at your sleeve. A low-key marvel.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Nostalchic
    Prone to playing one too many familiar games--the compressed vocals and the clunky convergence of beats ducking down--though as the sole Brit on Brainfeeder, you can’t knock him for being a team player.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hozier
    Hozier is an authentic portrait of an artist--soulful, spiritual and seductive – and is a deeply impressive first step.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Grim Town
    She’s now surpassed [her debut release] on its follow up Grim Town, which continues the themes of her debut, but with a new emotional growth.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wanderer
    An observing eye, everywhere the spirit of Chan Marshall lingers, on a textured, fascinating album, one that feels as though you have been let loose in an endless hall of mirrors.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    925
    An authentic and contemporary guitar sound, ‘925’ is a snappy and raw blend that bounces the listener into the more unexpected edges of the imagination.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hollow Meadows
    A comforting return rather than anything revolutionary, it is nevertheless a welcome addition to his formidable catalogue.
    • 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.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Be Strong
    Sounding like club music for grown-ups wanting a decadent summer of love return without wanting their troublesome kids tagging along... Likely to be a hit in the woods and beyond.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    American Interior
    A work of typically broad imagination, not everything on American Interior fully clicks into place. Yet when it does, there’s more than enough to suggest that Rhys need not cease his eternal voyaging.
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