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For 2,213 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963
Lowest review score: 20 What About Now
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,863 out of 2213
  2. Mixed: 339 out of 2213
  3. Negative: 11 out of 2213
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Synchronicity [Super Deluxe Edition]
    New remastering bolsters the album’s strengths, adding warmth and definition to King Of Pain, Wrapped Around Your Finger and Every Breath You Take. .... With an album’s worth of period B-sides and bonus tracks, the set’s two discs of unreleased material strike gold with Sting’s brisk, electro-pop demo of Murder By Numbers, and a slinkier, horn-driven funk arrangement of O My God from the Synchronicity sessions, both infinitely more enjoyable than the bland album versions. [Aug 2024, p.81]
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Devil Rides In: Spellbinding Satanic Magick & the Rockult 1967-1974
    The obscurities provide the real delight. [Aug 2024, p.81]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Aug 14, 2024
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Arctic Moon
    Arctic Moon is an album that works for both the long haulers and the novices. [Oct 2025, p.79]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Sep 16, 2025
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    House On Fire
    With Childish's standard acerbic lyrics, antagonistic vocals and bluebottle guitar buzz, House On Fire is Medway Delta blues-meets-psychedelic desert rock with a southern gothic vibe. [May 2026, p.74]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Apr 3, 2026
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    X: The Godless Void and Other Stories
    A consolidation of their strengths--muscular guitars that alternate from hardcore styling to more sensitive deliver--and a greater sense of melody. [Feb 2020, p.90]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jan 14, 2020
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Utopian Ashes
    Together they craft a devastatingly detailed fictional portrait of a married couple falling apart in a maelstrom of drugs, regret and the sort of silence that "murders the heart." [Summer 2021, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 29, 2021
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Americana
    The news is good though: Davies is in terrific, matchless voice, his storied career standing up to a sprawling treatment without too much drag.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Future Never Waits
    This album feels like musicians bouncing ideas off of each other in the same room. [Jun 2023, p.75]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted May 2, 2023
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    All Her Plans
    Cable Ties are invariably at their best when teetering on the very brink. [Summer 2023, p.79]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 28, 2023
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Airline Highway
    This is all quality stuff from a name you can trust. [Sep 2025, p.80]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Aug 26, 2025
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Spiral in a Straight Line
    It's the pace breakers that stand out most. [Nov 2024, p.78]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 11, 2024
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Swet Deth
    It's an assured slice of post-Loaf songcraft. [Apr 2026, p.81]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Mar 5, 2026
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kill or Be Kind
    Fish cherry-picks her favourite bits from the old masters and fuses them with Stax-flavoured brass, southern warmth, classy pop balladry in Fairwell My Fairweather and nicely sleazy swagger in You Got It Bad. [Oct 2019, p.86]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 3, 2019
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    How Did I Find Myself Here?
    You can hear it in the creepy, lovelorn surrealism of Filter Me Through You’s hazy dream-pop. Then the eleven minute title track, with its ruefully fated protagonist, spidery keyboards, jaggedly interlocked parts and mantric end, proves decisively that this Dream isn’t over.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Further
    Much of the mid-section is spent down in the bayou with an acoustic guitar. ... Sink in. [Jul 2019, p.82]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted May 31, 2019
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Beast Epic
    This is tender and meditative music that contemplates the complex tapestry of existence.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    No Home Record
    No Home Record is a masterstroke of intimate solitude, often boiling down to poetic, semi-spoken vocals and a drum machine. ... and noise, as fans of her old band would expect, is expertly corralled. [Nov 2019, p.85]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 15, 2019
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Stay Gold
    Each track is a short story, a beautifully composed snapshot of a moment in a life, all set to choruses masterfully crafted to slot in alongside the radio-rock classics of the 1980s.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Never Not Together
    It's clear that this form of musical self-help will have even the most mixed-up fan feeling slightly zen. [Mar 2020, p.89]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Feb 6, 2020
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Unraveling
    Drive-By Truckers have never been angrier, but, just as crucially, they've never been more musically eloquent. [Mar 2020, p.86]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Feb 6, 2020
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Reluctant Hero
    A divine meeting of minds, Reluctant Hero is a breathtaking trip unto the unknown. [Feb 2021, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jan 7, 2021
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Atlas Vending
    Well worth (re)discovering. [Nov 2020, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 14, 2020
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Songs of Resistance 1942-2018
    An inspirational fusing of avant-garde, jazz, skronk, clattering drums, blurting saxophones, heartfelt lyrics and stellar guest vocalists. [Sep 2018, p.93]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Aug 29, 2018
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Eldritch Dark
    More high-quality psychedelic-doom musings. [Sep 2013, p.93]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 23, 2013
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Desperate Man
    This Church is worth a visit. [Nov 2018, p.85]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 17, 2018
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Dream Is All We Know
    Every carefully arranged song is packed with indelible hooks, melodic invention and heavenly multi-layered harmonies - all recorded in analogue. [Jul 2024, p.80]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted May 23, 2024
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
    The Besnard Lakes might test the listener’s patience at times, but their commendable commitment to monumental scale and ambition often results in something thrillingly beautiful.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Black Age Blues
    There’s a warm, fuzzy familiarity to Goatsnake’s doomy, bluesy sound, with Stahl’s stirring, soulful vocals always elevating these southern gothic rumbles above the mundane, not least on the striking and rather beautiful seven-minute closer A Killing Blues.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lifeforms
    Despite lofty ambitions to write a letter 'from God to humanity' on Restless Souls, these are counter-attacked by Rebel Girl, an overstuffed, over-sweetened, male gaze-heavy, lovelorn confection that completely overrides the potential of its title. ... nevertheless, Lifeforms is beautifully produced and catchy as hell, earning itself a spot on any intergalactic playlist. [Oct 2021, p.73]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Sep 22, 2021
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Hard Quartet
    Weird, but adorable. [Nov 2024, p.79]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 11, 2024
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