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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
    • 80 Critic Score
    Devour You
    A full-on rager, this one. Devour You knows what's up. [Nov 2019, p.82]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 15, 2019
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    ...Honor Is All We Know
    This is Rancid at their leanest. [Feb 2015, p.96]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jan 9, 2015
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Murder of the Universe
    Apologists will see it as a paranoic update of the doom-rock blueprint laid down by King Crimson and Amon Düül. Anyone else will be reaching for the paracetamol.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Walk Thru Me
    This, somewhat muted, first album in 20 years lacks much of the Beck-like shuffle and experimental pop lustre of that early era, but boasts a mature earthy seam thanks to Barlow lacing its noirish alt.folk, 80s-inflected crypt rock and melodic drone and dub experiments with touches of Middle Eastern instrumentation. [Summer 2024, p.72]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 26, 2024
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Great Divide
    The songs aren't works of staggering compositional genius, or bursting with heartbreaking lyricism. But as air-grabbing alt.rock fun instilled with a charming honesty, there's an ocean of possibility yet for these fine young fellows. [Sep 2014, p.94]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 18, 2014
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Everyday Life
    There is the occasional flash of pop brilliance - notably desert-rock nugget Arabesque - but for non-fans Coldplay this dose of Everyday Life will be one they can easily do without. [Jan 2019, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 10, 2019
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault
    As a project and as a reminder of a hugely talented lyricist this is a treat. [Nov 2014, p.96]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 17, 2014
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lion
    Trent Reznor's past production has leaned Murphy towards an industrial sound, which Youth's turn as producer adds techno overdrive to. [Summer 2014, p.91]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 18, 2014
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Third World Pyramid
    The result is the band’s most concise effort since Strung Out In Heaven.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Saviors
    For the most part, though, Saviors is the sound of reassuring rebellion from the midst of the 21st Century breakdown. [Mar 2024, p.80]
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rainier Fog
    By occasionally confusing drabness for darkness, they've fallen short of their own lofty standards. [Aug 2018, p.86]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Aug 23, 2018
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tired of Tomorrow
    With their warm, evocative, hot fuzz production, muted vocals and keening atmospherics that set them down somewhere between Slowdive, Mew and early Radiohead (see the surely deliberate echo of Creep in Eaten By Worms for evidence of the latter), they sigh their way through a set of tracks that are simply billowing with maudlin beauty.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Zipper Down
    Highlights are the punchy pop-metal of Got The Power and the greasy glamorama of The Reverend, replete with satisfyingly fuzzy guitar, but Zipper Down misses as much as it hits.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Millport
    Their punk training doesn’t quite lend them that particular grace. As a result, this can feel like a bit of a rough ride in places, albeit an intriguing one.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    MTV Unplugged [Live at Hull City Hall]
    Even when exhorted by chanting fans, Liam's solo hits can never quite match Some Might Say's enduring emotive appeal. [Summer 2020, p.89]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jul 6, 2020
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ullages
    This second album has the same sickening impact: 11 cold and merciless slashes of amorphous goth-pop that dish out sparse high-wire melodies, as on Harpstrings, Blume and the violent waltz of Velvet, like glimpses of sunlight to a basement gimp.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hitch
    While frontwoman Ritzy Bryan remains a force of nature, there’s a lack of eureka moments this time, leaving us with a slow-burner rather than an inferno.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Under the Spell of Joy
    While the hazy creep if bleeding skull candles still waft through DVG's music this is essentially a white magick album, pulsating with light and sunshine and bursts of raga-punk exuberance. [Dec 2020, p.81]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Nov 18, 2020
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Get Gone
    Get Gone is a tumble dryer full of retro ideas given a contemporary currency by their restless drive, which evades categorisation.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    American Utopia
    It's wise, but rhythmically, musically, it feels Byrne's age. [May 2018, p.91]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 6, 2018
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Earth Rocker
    Clutch are getting better with age. [Jun 2013, p.88]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 25, 2013
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Albatross
    Albatross is a step up, sailing closer to the crunch and proggy intelligence of their 1997 debut, with songs that manage to be both smart and visceral. [May 2013, p.91]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 27, 2013
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Palms
    Palms is a marriage made in post-rock heaven. [Aug 2013, p.86]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jul 23, 2013
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Rhythm & Blues
    Rhythm & Blues is a proper double album: each disc is notionally themed though, as you'd rightly expect, there's plenty of each. [Oct 2013, p.88]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 23, 2013
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rock & Roll Time
    The whole damn album's as sweet as a pecan nut. [Nov 2014, p.93]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 17, 2014
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rockabilly Riot! All Original
    This Stray Cat's strut continues. [Sep 2014, p.94]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 18, 2014
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mirrors
    This is a record to sink into, not to shock you into action. The Rev’s best.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Fall of Hearts
    More of the same, then, but for bleak Scandinavian beauty, Katatonia are still hard to beat.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beautiful Broken
    A fine album that’s more imaginative than reimagining.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    America’s Velvet Glory
    The Anglophile lingo (‘He’s such a dear boy’), opiated nursery drawl and woozy organ of Charlie’s Lips is deep in homage to Barrett’s Floyd, just as the Hammond in You Never Learn is to Al Kooper on ’65 Dylan duty. More interesting is the tendency to trancey, transformative repetition on the likes of the autobiographical, sick-bed sweaty Little Stars.
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