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For 1,772 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Art Angels
Lowest review score: 2 Rain In England
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,444 out of 1772
  2. Mixed: 270 out of 1772
  3. Negative: 58 out of 1772
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    July
    This is a break-up album, a cohesive work embodying a singular mood, and Nadler, like any great artist, sets the scene with such careful, immersive depth that it can be difficult to the seams in her work until you explore every inch.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lose
    LOSE is captivating because it uses all the right tricks.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    City Wrecker [EP]
    Aside from its musical merits--like, it’s really beautiful--the City Wrecker EP is interesting in a typical kind of meta-Krug way.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Diaper Island
    He uses his guitar and ghost-like warble to render the ephemeral as concrete as cantaloupe.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Our Heads
    Taylor and Goddard's pop impulses and the dance music they've always been exploring have finally cohered, yielding a collection of songs with the potential to be as efficient on a dance floor as it is in a bedroom.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    A Sufi And A Killer
    There may be more pop structure and less willful wandering than, say, cLOUDDEAD, but there is still something strictly subconscious about the album at its most gripping, even as it consistently engages over repeat visits.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Adventures In The Underground Journey To The Stars
    South have an ear for melody, uniformly excellent production values, and a good sense of dynamics; all of which manifests itself in some very satisfying melodic Brit-pop.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    The Knot
    The Knot may not be a full-out Great Album, but it does contain a lot of moments that are dangerously close, and taken as a whole it is surprisingly well-developed for a band still getting started.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Pink
    If Pink’s more evolution than revolution, it still stomps all over most of its close genre surroundings, leaving maybe Tiger Bear Wolf and The Woods as far as 2005 goes.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Meadow
    Increasingly abstract or not, Richard Buckner’s a great songwriter.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    The Russian Wilds
    The Russian Wilds is a demonstrative bid for being taken seriously, and these guys simply exhibit too much enthusiasm to be relegated to mere also-rans in the long shadow of Miller's previous band.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Jim Noir
    It is Noir’s skills for arrangement and sequencing that allow the narrative to successfully play out.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Origin: Orphan
    The point is that all of the Hidden Cameras is in here, but it’s not all shined to a high polish and adorned with neon lights, and that works an interesting effect.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Mr. Beast
    The result is that we have a transitory album, but also a typically beautiful and subtle one.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    No Said Date
    Together, “School” and “Silverbacks” make the best Wu-Tang one-two punch that I can recall.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    These Were The Earlies
    The album still holds together with a surprising cohesiveness, which is essential when crafting a debut that relies far more on the effect of its ambitious whole than any specific genre-bending tracks.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Imikuzushi
    As is scene tradition, these three don't make it easy to find the proverbial diamonds in their artistic rough, but dispatches such as Imikuzushi make a frustrating journey seem that much more satisfying.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Nootropics
    A welcome new start for this talented band.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    The Grand Theatre, Vol. 2
    Old 97's have maintained a kind of winking positivity, which is perhaps the key to their longevity. The Grand Theatre Vol. 2 embraces this unashamedly.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Glacial Glow
    The second half of the album is a little bit less direct in its approach, leaning more on the natural beauty of Lipstate's sonics rather than pronounced melody, but there's plenty of detail to turn over here as well.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Toward the Low Sun
    The sparsity of their arrangements allows textures--the shushing of brushes on the snare, the scratch of the violin, the edge of distortion on the guitar--to shine through.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Saturnalia
    Musically the most important aspect of this collaborative effort is that their voices work so nicely with and against each other.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
    Akron/Family are in a state of constant flux, ever changing, so Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free strikes me as no great sea change (no more than usual, anyway). It’s just the latest iteration of a band that’s never twice the same.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Bay Of Pigs [EP]
    I love that Bay of Pigs sounds like an extended triumphant version of most things Dan’s attempted in the past, only bigger, better, and with more of a plot.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Last Secrets
    Even though it strictly operates in one gear, Last Secrets navigates all the richness the high road has to offer.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    In The Reins [EP]
    In the Reins is a clear success.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Late Registration
    Late Registration really wants to be an album album, which makes all the more frustrating and undermining the fact that it mirrors the flaws of its predecessor: the glut and the stilted sequencing.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Love Songs For Patriots
    Little of the album fails to impress in its striking melodic strength or its lyrical intelligence---which shouldn’t surprise Eitzel’s long-time fans. But the album does have one recurring flaw: overextension of its ideas.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Dark Days/Light Years
    At the risk of sounding redundant, this being Super Furry Animals, there just isn’t that much to dislike.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Two Suns
    Anyways, ignore the write-ups (uh, except this one), which won’t be able to help quoting all the spiritual mumbo jumbo about dualism, and enjoy what seems, to me, unstated genre practice at play on a very large stage.
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