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For 4,420 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: 3,767 out of 4420
  2. Mixed: 622 out of 4420
  3. Negative: 31 out of 4420
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Overgrown
    Overgrown remains closer knit, and paradoxically less fragmented than its illustrious predecessor, ideas rotating core values guided by an affirmatively unseen hand. Which ultimately makes this an even better record.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Ascent
    There’ve been worse assaults on the ears, that’s for sure. But for fans of the original eski sound, it’s a shame that Wiley has his eyes fixed too intently on his Ascent.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shaking the Habitual
    Self-possessed and uncompromising, this is a record with regal bearing.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Seabed
    This is a beautifully blissed-out record, coloured by minimal rhythms and Lewis Rainsbury’s isolated vocals.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The North Borders
    The North Borders is a triumph--each listen is a revelation; seemingly it’s a breadth of work that marks a new, exciting era of electronic music.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Understated
    Compelling back-story aside, Understated--Collins’ eighth solo album--is a magnificent set of songs.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Delta Machine
    The freshness comes through in the delivery, which is as loose as electronic music permits, delivered with the bluesy rawness that frontman Dave Gahan wanted from the album.
    • 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Comedown Machine
    They’ve returned with their most thought provoking, strange and sexiest record yet.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Off the Record
    Useful, thrown-back fun, comfortable off the cutting edge.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Birthdays
    It will inspire obsessive fandom and moisten a few eyes, but Henson’s voice is something of an acquired taste.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Life After Defo
    With powerful juxtapositions of connection and disconnection, hope and despair, life and death, possession and loss throughout, Life After Defo is an absolute thesis on pop experimentalism.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bloodsports
    This is a photocopy of the original Britpop blueprint.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Pale Green Ghosts
    Rest assured, his remarkable voice and grasp of melody remain undimmed and while it may not sound exactly as you were expecting, it is a bold, distinctive and genuinely excellent record.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Muchacho
    A beautiful outing in hauntingly pastoral heartbreak. Impressive.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Exile
    A chilling example of naked ambition prioritising production style over songwriting substance.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sudden Elevation
    Somewhere between the elongated delivery of Joanna Newsom and the peculiarly soulful croak of Karen Dalton, this is a clear case of the voice as an additional instrument.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Big Other
    Despite a disappointing and fatigue inducing third act, standout tracks such as ‘Careful’, ‘Big Things’ and ‘Step Ahead’ reveal a level of innovation beyond mere nostalgia.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Exai
    As a body of music Exai lividly pulses, possessed by a half-life of disturbing magnitude.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Graffiti on the Train
    Everything about the record restores the belief that Stereophonics can remain relevant in a world of troubadours and try-hard indie bands.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Next Day
    This is a contemplative, confident record which will only strengthen with further listening.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Back into the Woods
    It's a gem for Harcourt fans and the sweetest of introductions for new listeners.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    No Compass Will Find Home
    It has moments of greatness, some bits even a bit Animal Collective, but as a whole it doesn’t gel into an album you can lost in.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Bunkhouse, Vol. 1: Anchor Black Tattoo
    Fionn’s great rocking out and full of energy, but here, just voice and guitar for most, he’s just so listenable.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Messenger
    Marr’s vocals are indistinctive, although his song-writing abilities are clear. What does stand out is how fine a guitarist he has become.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Amok
    It’s a dense work that’ll be discovered thriving equally happily in the niche of teenage bedrooms as in underground cults and a nebulous haze of mushrooming Mixcloud communiqués extending over the horizon.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Flowers
    Flowers is easily the Icelandic singer’s most accessible, prettiest record to date.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What the Brothers Sang
    As pure and rich as milk and honey.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Push the Sky Away
    Potent in its masculine restraint, this record has surely always existed, just waiting to be plucked from the surf; a mercurial, magisterial, stick of seaside rock.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Holy Fire
    There’s plenty to commend it, but with such high expectations, it’s perhaps inevitable that this album could never live up to them.
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