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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fever Dreams, Pt. 1 [EP]
    The electronic drive and mildly gothic atmospherics of 2018's acclaimed Call The Comet survive, albeit transferred away from songs of Trumpian horror and sci-fi utopia on to tracks about friendship and empathy (Ariel) and staying strong through the pandemic (Spirit Power & Soul). All These Days intrigues. [Jan 2022, p.82]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 8, 2021
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Still Willing
    Always surprising, entirely entrancing indie-rock ingenuity. [Aug 2024, p.77]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Aug 2, 2024
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fishing for Fishies
    This thirteenth album finds them starting to sound like a band who deserve the billing [at Alexandra Palace]. [Jun 2019, p.85]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted May 3, 2019
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    AVTT/PTTN
    This beautiful album will continue to reveal more with every listen, and those repeated listens will be irresistible. [Jan 2026, p.78]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 5, 2025
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bobbie Gentry's the Delta Sweete Revisited
    Sweete, and then, deliciously soured. [Apr 2019, p.86]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Mar 11, 2019
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blues of Desperation
    There are slower, less effectual burners as well, but there’s a raw authority not seen in his last couple of records; something that reinstates him as a gutsy rocker of flesh and bone, not just a virtuoso show pony.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Horizons/East
    More neo-prog than post-hardcore, Horizons/East is a grand statement of intent. [Dec 2021, p.75]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Nov 11, 2021
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom
    Mesmerises with tales of sobriety and redemption (it says here) that sound more unapologetically stoned and out there than ever. [Apr 2024, p.83]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Mar 11, 2024
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Evolution
    Crow redeems herself somewhat with the useful chorus of the I-love-my-kids closer Waiting In The Wings, but only somewhat. Some good singles, as always, but unfortunately a long way from career highlights Sheryl Crow and The Globe Sessions. [May 2024, p.79]
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
    Whichever level you enjoy it on, this folkie’s volte-face is less ‘Judas’, more ‘genius’.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lady in Gold
    All things considered, Lady In Gold is a more satisfying listen than its predecessor, with a host of truly great moments.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Resistance Is Futile
    The album concludes with Nicky Wire’s grainy lead vocal on The Left Behind, a charmingly offbeat detour into 1980s indie-rock. More of these eccentric tonal variations would have been welcome on an album that emerges as a solid exercise in arena-sized anthemics, majestic in parts but not a career peak.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lateral
    An ambient suite based on a two-note motif, as if homing in on a detail on Luminal, dwelling on it, tenderly bleeding it dry. [Summer 2025, p.76]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 20, 2025
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tell Me I'm Pretty
    Add one of 2015’s swooniest ballads in Trouble and you’ve got an album that’s not exactly pretty, but is definitely a keeper.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Century Plaza
    Sartain ramraids rinky-dink 80s US radio teen romps on the frenetic Black Party. His rare sense of mischief deserves to be encouraged.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    12
    12 is another gem worth unearthing. [May 2018, p.92]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 6, 2018
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Through the Out Door [Remastered]
    Listening to the earlier mixes accompanying 1979’s In Through The Out Door (7/10) is to be transported to an alternative universe where songs named Blot, The Epic and The Hook (I’m Gonna Crawl, Carouselambra and All My Love respectively) jostle with a scruffier, rambunctious Hot Dog and a sparser In The Evening, the drone intro truncated and Jones’s synths high in the mix.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lightning Bolt
    Lightning Bolt could do with a bit more of that hot-wired sound. But its brutally hard-won optimism is satisfying enough. [Nov 2013, p.88]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 25, 2013
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Invitation
    Predictably, there are strong shades of Buck’s old band too, not least amid the arpeggios of Any Kind Of Crowd (an R.E.M. track in all but Stipe). Elsewhere the greasy chug of Come Back Shelley carries fuzz-filled echoes of T.Rex in their prime.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dear Life
    Classic don't need varnish. [Jul 2020, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 17, 2020
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Doggerel
    After all this time, Pixies can still surprise and intrigue. [Oct 2022, p.72]
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bed & Bugs
    What they lack in scope is more than made up for by the physicality of their attack, chopping out jagged chords and rank fumes of garage-y noise. [Sep 2013, p.89]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 23, 2013
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mythologies
    Cheatahs create melodic miasmas of space marimba, psych pop and crystalline drones, while lyrically teleporting around the globe.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Sound of Music
    TSOM's strange, taut, heroic beauty invariably transcends irony. [Dec 2018, p.89]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Nov 20, 2018
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Liam Gallagher John Squire
    There’s a freshness in both words and attitude that’s more than welcome in a world of heritage and excessive respect. So until the long-awaited collaboration between Noel Gallagher and Ian Brown emerges, feast your ears on this hugely enjoyable album. [May 2024, p.78]
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Am Moron
    Album of the month. [May 2020, p.83]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Apr 8, 2020
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dropout Boogie
    Rock'n'roll in 2022 doesn't get any better than this. [Jun 2022, p.82]
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Corrosion of Conformity
    IX showcases a band with little interest in repetition. [Summer 2014, p.90]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 18, 2014
    • 73 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Brian Jonestown Massacre
    A disappointing mess. [Apr 2019, p.89]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Mar 15, 2019
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cahoots [50th Anniversary Edition]
    The live disc, a partial retrieval of a concert at the Olympia Theatre in Paris in May 1971, reminds, despite its rawness, of The Band’s unmatched on-stage brilliance and the legacy they’d already built up with the likes of Rag Mama Rag and The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. ... Among the out-takes, Bessie Smith is a further indicator that their sense of American ‘roots’ was fully integrated.
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