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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
    some kind of peace
    It’s a truly delightful experience that delights in its unexpected and uncompromising approach to positivity. The art work and overall feel of the compositions may speak to a chilly, typically Nordic solitude, while the music of this record is anything but. A late year treasure that shouldn't be overlooked, it is as timely as it is timeless, and as needed now as any musical work of the last year or so.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God
    'Extinction Level Event 2' is often bloated and monotonous, making its one hour (plus!) run-time challenging to endure. What could be a colourful and important album is unequivocally tarnished by the tedious, repetitive, and needless opening seven tracks.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    DISCO
    As an ode to the pleasures of the dancefloor, Kylie has delivered her most unashamedly fun record in almost a decade.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sour Cherry Bell
    'Sour Cherry Bell' doesn’t quite come out of the blue in the same way as its predecessor. Even so, there is a sense that the artist has once again quietly stepped out from the shadows to deliver this, her second record - apt for someone whose music has an absorbing habit of unfurling before the listener into full bloom from seemingly nothing,
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    E3 AF
    Sure, there’s a few lyrical clunkers on show, but taken as whole ‘E3 AF’ finds Dizzee Rascal navigating the perilous landscape of 2020 with remarkable assurance. Few other UK rappers can genuinely say they’re making some of their best work 20 years in the game.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Great Dismal
    Haunting, visceral, and often beautiful 'The Great Dismal' is a record well worth checking out.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR [EP]
    Their heaviest record since ‘Suicide Silence’. Well, maybe their heaviest record since ‘There Is A Hell…’. OK, almost certainly their heaviest record since ‘Sempiternal’. This is not to say that going back to their brutal roots is a bad move. Sykes recently described heavy music as the band’s ‘bread and butter’, and there’s definitely a sense that BMTH are playing on home turf with ‘SURVIVAL HORROR’.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wachito Rico
    Boy Pablo has once again crafted a concise, beach-worthy, summer bedroom rock set of songs, perfect for any indie kids’ “at the beach” playlist.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Maya
    Frusciante has managed to pay ode in a way which sounds original, yet adheres to the formula... all in all making for an impressive electronic album.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Music Is the Weapon
    Major Lazer’s best songs have always acted as overstimulating sugar-rushes - but the formula that was once fresh and boundary-pushing for mainstream pop now sounds outdated.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Earth To Dora
    For all of E’s melancholy brooding, ‘Earth to Dora’ still has a tender and vintage vibe. Although E seems to have adopted the role of a hapless romantic that is unlucky in love, this record is still strangely upbeat.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
    It is a personal, self-referential record, then, but one of the tenets of radio is the shared listening experience it provides, the sense of togetherness. It isn’t too much of a reach to say that listening to this album helps to process and make sense of these times and, especially, of the state of play of pop-adjacent electronic music.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Positions
    While the album is pretty much removed from her usual major pop moments, it’s more refreshing that way, and there’s more of a connective-unit feel to Positions than much of her previous work. After all, Grande has always been an album artist, and this one is yet another to whistle home about.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Love Goes
    In ‘Love Goes’ Sam Smith has produced a flawed but decent return that mirrors the introspection of this strange, difficult year.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The View From Halfway Down
    An artist who scarcely slows, Andy Bell offers a fine blend of psych-pop, folk finger-picking, and home made electronics, all within the familiar confines of his shoegaze day job. More, please.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Featuring Ty Dolla $ign
    The rapper fails to assert creative delineation over this sprawling mesh of music. That said, ‘Featuring’ is peppered with career highs.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo
    The crisp, contemporary production is a revelation with the finer details bursting out at every moment. It’s a stark contrast to the original demo, which sounded like they were playing in your neighbour’s flooded garage and hurriedly recording everything direct to tape before the C45 ran out.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    songs and instrumentals
    The sparse palette - Lenker’s acoustic, incidental percussion, reassuring tape hiss - serves to isolate the quiet brilliance of the melodies, setting their winding, spontaneous beauty against angst that spans existential questioning and the nuts and bolts of severing ties with someone you care about.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Moral Panic
    Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, ‘Moral Panic’ perfectly shape-shifts into its new context in the midst of the current climate. The band achieve another phenomenal album which might have benefited from one or two fewer songs - but nevertheless demonstrates their dramatic range of capabilities with a spattering of radio hits.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Karma & Desire
    The music is engaging, yet thought provoking. It sounds unlike his previous three releases, but there is a continuation of ideas throughout. It’s an album from an artist who doesn’t pander to trends and goes his own path.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Burden of Proof
    ‘Burden Of Proof’ pushes Benny The Butcher back to the forefront, and offers further evidence that Griselda is one of the most vital labels in North American hip-hop right now.
    • 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!
    • 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.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Only for Dolphins
    ‘Only For Dolphins’ is the sound of free-flowing sonic travel, and it’s depiction of Action Bronson in full flight underlines the conception that this is an MC who is back to his peak.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Letter to You
    As a whole, ‘Letter To You’ is a wonderfully warm experience, perhaps Springsteen’s most human for some time.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Someone New
    Some fans may be disappointed by the more subdued nature of ‘Someone New’. Yet her ability to combine woozy guitars with killer synths and endlessly catchy melodies hasn’t disappeared, only softened and matured, as the title track, the brilliant ‘Pale’, and ‘Dog’ prove.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Morning Pageants
    A beautifully crafted, nuanced record, bursting to the brim with ideas and not afraid to test the listener with its expansive sound pallet.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Anime, Trauma and Divorce
    Remarkable. ... The 12-track project explores the collapse of a marriage, financial turmoil, anxiety, self-doubt and self-care. A lesser rapper might sink in the mire, but Open Mike has always been dope on the mic, and ‘Anime, Trauma and Divorce’ find him at his best.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    SIGN
    ‘SIGN’ is an album that doesn’t just get under your skin, but in your head. If you give it enough time it will own, you and you will feel better for it. Autechre have returned and the wait was definitely worth it.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Untitled (Rise)
    It’s a phenomenal record, undoubtedly one of the finest to be released this year – in its mood, kineticism, and an adorned darkness, ‘Untitled (Rise)’ captures something truly remarkable about this chaotic era.
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