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For 2,212 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 2212
  2. Mixed: 338 out of 2212
  3. Negative: 11 out of 2212
2212 music reviews
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Song of Love & Revolution
    You couldn’t call it ravishing (although the way the guitars trickle and scratch over sepulchral bass on Come Bring Your Love before exploding in distortion certainly is). It is, however, an unbidden delight: hypnotic, breathtaking and quite, quite beautiful.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Cooler Returns
    Arguably the most exuberant guitar pop alum of 2020. [Mar 2021, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Feb 3, 2021
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Future Bites
    Powerful and thought-provoking, if depressing, The Future Bites ultimately asks you to take a good hard look at what the hell you’re doing with your life.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shyga! The Sunlight Mound
    Exuberant throughout, PPC's trip has notched up a gear. [Mar 2021, p.84]
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Medicine at Midnight
    It's the zippiest Foos album to date. ... As a modern rock melting pot, Medicine certainly sounds like a spirit rediscovered. [Mar 2021, p.84]
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When You Found Me
    When You Found Me combines top-notch musicianship and expert songcraft with bags of brooding atmosphere, with Lucero clearly at the top of their southern-rocking game.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Hope List
    LTB’s woes have been rewarded with something remarkable: their best record yet.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fogerty's Factory
    This factory runs on goodwill. In less cataclysmic times the exercise might be mawkish, and while a cover of Lean On Me is well-meant it feels a little like eating too much cake icing.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wasteland: What Ails Our People Is Clear
    Wasteland's conceptual breadth, depth and complexity may challenge convention but offers rich rewards. [Feb 2021, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jan 12, 2021
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crazy Hearts
    Retains naive charm while delivering occasional brilliance. [Feb 2021, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jan 7, 2021
    • 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
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    White Pony (20th Anniversary) [White Pony x Black Stallion]
    This 20th-anniversay reissue is a reminder of just how great [White Pony] was and is. ... [Black Stallion is] a uniformly impressive feat of deconstruction and reconstruction. [Feb 2021, p.90]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jan 7, 2021
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    J.T.
    The results is at once joyous, poignant and heartbreaking. [Feb 2021, p.86]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jan 7, 2021
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    No Fun Mondays
    While something more adventurous might have been the way forward, the singer and his inspirations remain unscathed. [Feb 2021, p.84]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jan 7, 2021
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fuck Art
    The more abiding feeling we're left with, though, is that high-octane hard pop like this needs just a few more piercing hooks to really raise The Dirty Nil above all the other generic good-time rockers that will give you a fun half-hour in a festival tent but rarely capture your imagination. [Feb 2021, p.84]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jan 7, 2021
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dangerous Visions
    Reassuringly awkward. [Jan 2021, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jan 6, 2021
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The New OK
    Brilliant music to dream to as the ship goes slowly down. [Dec 2020, p.81]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Nov 18, 2020
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Two to One
    The result is a fun, no-frills album, and what it lacks in surprises makes up for with visceral thrills. [Oct 2020, p.86]
    • 92 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pylon Box [Box Set]
    These four coloured vinyls boast 18 unreleased gems. [Jan 2021, p.95]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 8, 2020
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Great Dismal
    Despite all the gloom, this is a deeply enjoyable album. [Jan 2021, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 8, 2020
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo
    A weirdly uncomfortable and exhilarating listening from start to finish. [Jan 2021, p.85]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 8, 2020
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Live Drugs
    Bottom line is that live they sound life-affirming. [Jan 2021, p.85]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 8, 2020
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Return to Greendale
    It's a little naive in its presentation and denotations of homely American Stereotypes, perhaps, but all the more powerful for that. ... Crazy Horse are in fine fettle. [Jan 2021, p.84]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 8, 2020
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR [EP]
    The haters will protest, but this is the sound of metal dragging itself into the future. [Jan 2021, p.83]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 8, 2020
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cyr
    It's a concoction that shouldn't work but does. ... Disarming. [Jan 2021, p.82]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 8, 2020
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    K.G.
    Their interplay of conventional instruments is unconventionally jagged, pastoral, abrasive, exotic, heavy and light in equal measure. [Jan 2021, p.82]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 8, 2020
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    McCartney III
    III is the sound of a less restless McCartney simply doing what he does best. [Jan 2021, p.86]
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wreckless Abandon
    In short: 13 hugely enjoyable songs that all sound like old friends. [Dec 2020, p.85]
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Live in Maui
    In some ways the club-sized audience helps Hendrix, who hated large open-air shows, and he’s positively chatty at times on the first set, which includes a feisty In From The Storm and a trebly-sounding Foxy Lady. The second set is looser and in danger of falling apart at times, before Hendrix wakes up and rips through Stone Free.
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