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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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    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Last Night
    This mature, experienced point of view on the nation’s favorite pastime is bound to rock clubs this summer.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Live in London
    Live in London see as duo with chemistry stronger than ever. Let's just hope their busy schedules make room for the long-rumoured movie. If their past work is anything to go on, it will be gold.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Darkness Brings the Wonders Home
    By tweaking the American seasoning in their long-simmering stew of English folk, Smoke Fairies have finally delivered on their early promise to create an album you can truly get lost in.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Feminine Divine
    Held together by a singular sense of purpose, ‘The Feminine Divine’ is at times daring, at others anthemic. Both puzzling and entrancing, it refuses to be hemmed in by past success, reaching out instead for new challenges.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strange Burden
    The diverging styles can at times be overbearing but there is a sense of freshness and bold shifts that is hard not to appreciate and it will be interesting to see how their style evolves.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vie
    The album feels like an amalgamation of its two predecessors; the rap energy from ‘Scarlet’ and pop punch from ‘Planet Her’.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ritual Union
    Ritual Union is the rich vindication of Little Dragon's slow burning upturn.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
    There’s a vision and attention to detail here that’s led to an decidedly individual record that, like a new love, shares a little more with you whenever you spend some time together.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Life, Death And Dennis Hopper
    There is so much to unpack here across a myriad of styles from jazz to folk and blues but it all seems to fit the subject at its heart, Dennis Hopper. It may not all work but when it does it is mesmerising.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Waterfall
    The music has stark contrasts that work well to portray the emotions of singer Jim James.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Multi-Love
    Multi-Love undoubtedly reveals Unknown Mortal Orchestra's willingness to reinvent and innovate, yet it's still beset by some of the difficulties that have featured in their previous work.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Next Thing
    For all its touching and personal lyrical matter, Next Thing undoubtedly boasts improved production and more developed song-structures, as well as a more fluid use of warm synths and punchy snare drums.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Featherbrain
    This album is a rich Norwegian delight.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Breaks & Bone
    As a whole, Breaks & Bone is a little samey, but as a showcase of one of Glasgow’s finest musicians, it’s a gem.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    That's Harakiri
    His music marries complexity with club-ready thump, resulting in a dystopian dancehall of morbid booty shaking.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Inni [Live]
    The beautiful performances captured here, touching on all five studio albums, are more than enough of a reason to seek this out.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Flourish // Perish
    A rewarding evolution for the band.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sleep of Reason
    Chugging and thunderous, Stefanski’s debut set as Raffertie is self-assured: an expertly stitched quilt of textures.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sold Out
    This teaser [is] no doubt just the beginning of a new strain of avant-footwork coming our way in 2016.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In League with Dragons
    The most impressive thing about In League With Dragons is that it’s the 17th Mountain Goats album, and Darnielle shows no signs of running on empty. This is an album that should excite existing fans of the band. ... It also works well as a gateway for new fans as the songs are catchy, the music is well balanced and when the band hit that sweet groove its glorious.
    • 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.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Temporary High in the Violet Skies
    The “highs” are as potent and heady as ever but ultimately, they’re ephemeral.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Melodic Blue
    The amount of moments of contemplation away from the mosh pit benefits the listenability of the album, though its overall sequencing is blotchy and still more like a mixtape.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dimensional Bleed
    It carries a deeply insidious atmosphere, never revealing what is coming round the corner before exploding into either a flurry of motion or into a whispering, ephemeral moment.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Plastic Beach
    Best when he’s corralling others into out-of-their-comfort-zone creativity, it’s the Albarn-sung tracks on the second half of the album where the attention wanders and the album opening Snoop Dogg cameo seems a million miles away. Of course, there’s alot here to take in and maybe it just needs a fair few listens to fully digest it - the sign of any album worth its salt.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Don't Run
    I Don’t Run advances Hinds’ endearing charm and esprit de corps, which in turn makes this another totally enjoyable listen.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Isles
    It’s a brilliant pick me up, a dazzling set of songs that tap into our innermost impulses. A colourful way to remember those good times, and one that is perfectly prepared for our eventual return to the dance floor.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    6 Feet Beneath the Moon
    British music fans should gaze upon King Krule with great pride. Under immense expectation, he has managed to become the product of his far-flung influences, rather than a pastiche of any.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Merrie Land
    Albarn on Britain is a proven formula, but Simonon, Allen and Simon Tong combine to craft curious twenty-first century folk about curious twenty-first century folk.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Quadra
    The closest ‘Quadra’ comes to breaking new ground and entering unclaimed territory is the dramatic metamorphosis of Green’s voice during the nostalgic nu-metal hymn ‘Agony of Defeat’, not to mention the superb acoustic intro and the profane chorus of ‘Guardians of Earth’. More crucially, the samba drum-kit of ‘Capital Enslavement’ and the syncopated beat on ‘Raging Void’ shows that the idea of exploring percussive possibilities is slowly growing on them.
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