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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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Disaster Piece
    He should be commended for going light on the MC features--the bluntly-titled ‘Grime’ is proof enough that he can hold his own on a beat.
    • 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.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Delirium Tremens
    Typically for Gainsbourg, there's a real mix of things going on here, from relaxed fun laced with irony through to quirky takes on love songs full of the louche suggestiveness befitting of the most ardent romantic.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Dreaming Room
    The Dreaming Room is an enormously frustrating record, as Mvula clearly has it in her to be an incredible artist. But at this point in her career, she remains a orchestra in need of a conductor.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    LateNightTales
    The whole set is neatly balanced and a joyous listen.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    I, Gemini
    That a record so dark and ripe with nuance can also harbour such blatant pop sensibility belies the duo’s young age while serving as a testament to their rampant eccentricities.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Warm Leatherette [Deluxe Edition]
    A great album and a fascinating document undoubtedly, but there’s no need to spend your hard earned on a boxset when the original does everything you need already.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    DJ-Kicks
    The variations aren’t as wild, but that doesn’t mean you don’t notice them, the Glasgow zeitgeist keeping things moving as a supreme technician (ever the perfectionist, this final cut apparently took five takes).
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    32 Levels
    There’s nothing on this release to suggest that Clams Casino has ascended to the next level. In its own right, it’s further evidence of Clams’ special talents but for those who have followed his career closely, it’s hard not to think about what could have been.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Red Earth & Pouring Rain
    Undoubtedly this is a record which grips you, taking you on a journey and making you unwittingly invest all of your emotions just from one simple press of a button.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Hot Hot Heat
    This album demonstrates that the desire disappeared long ago and that they were simply prolonging their career to delay the inevitable. For Hot Hot Heat, the fire has definitely gone out.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ibifornia
    This album unfortunately lacks the depth of both the Mediterranean and the Pacific.
    • 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.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Operator
    MSTRKRFT themselves have quit trying to mask anything about their sound or approach, electing instead to deliver the turbo-aggressive noise record they’ve always threatened to make.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nothing's Real
    Sonically and lyrically, Shura is at her most urgent and incisive.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    IV
    IV marks a refinement of the BADBADNOTGOOD sound and as ever is filled to the brim with gorgeous melodies and impressive digressions.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Oddments of the Gamble
    More than simply a side project and definitely not just a collection of cast-offs, Oddments Of The Gamble is a remarkably cohesive listen for something assembled over time and without restrictions.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Love & Hate
    By working with a producer who sought him out and by letting the songs lead the way, he has delivered a timeless album.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    blackSUMMERS'night (2016)
    This is still an intrinsically Maxwell record, but he navigates familiar tropes through friction and distressed noir-soul, the cohesiveness of the record all the more commendable as a result.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Mountain Will Fall
    It still stands tonally a much stronger package than his last two releases and is filled with far more highs than lows.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Bride
    The Bride is a stellar soundtrack to the complexities of womanhood within the institution of marriage, a triumph of raw intensity.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Centres
    He has vision and ambition beyond the scope of most of us and he is able to bring it to fruition. Long may he find new fans for his challenging but deeply satisfying work.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Liquid Cool
    Soft, smooth and a breath of fresh air, if Liquid Cool is on the menu, I’ll have a glass too.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Daydream
    It’s not always entirely successful and moments of cliché are peppered across this album, but the moments of success are plentiful and Ali Shea’s distinctive voice ensures that Daydream is an endearing statement of intent.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blisters in the Pit of My Heart
    Martha are everything you want a great pop band to be: students of their trade, people with something to say and the vocabulary to do it, a distinctively joyous sound and a grand sense of humour.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mirrors
    Some of the record suffers from being a little noodley--‘Shadows’ being the only standout example--but this can be forgiven both in the face of the scale of the task at hand and the otherwise great aplomb with which it’s been tackled.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Digging Remedy
    The departure comes with tracks like ‘The Bee’, itself a pastiche of the trip-hop genre, while tracks like ‘Melifer’ fuse the distinctive Plaid sound with pretty Balearic guitar melodies to keep things interesting.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strange Little Birds
    There are a few moments that feel oddly dated or too by-the-numbers, but otherwise, this is an engaging return from the gothic dance-rock four-piece.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Summer 08
    Summer 08 is the banger-filled record Mount has always wanted to make, for fun, and we’re very much glad that he did.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Freetown Sound
    If Hynes had truly wanted to create an album about black identity as opposed to his own identity, he would have included the powerful ‘Sandra’s Smile’ and focused on the matter across all 17 tracks. He would have made a record dedicated to togetherness rather than individuality and it would have been equally excellent. Instead it becomes an underdeveloped aspect of what is otherwise an expertly tailored and politically-charged work of pop.
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