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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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    • 70 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Axes
    Two thirds of a great album.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Phosphene Dream
    By showing a willingness to diversify their sound while cutting down on bloat, Phosphene Dream is easily the Black Angels most listenable record to date. It also suggests that they're keen on that most outmoded of concepts in the blog era: career longevity.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    FutureSex / LoveSounds
    While it’s nowhere near Thriller or Purple Rain, it does manage a healthy attempt at a reinterpretation of both.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    Valhalla Dancehall
    It's to British Sea Power's credit that Valhalla Dancehall seems far less concerned with mainstream sermonizing than their last full length, opting to indulge in the off-kilter charm that drew us to them in the first place
    • 70 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Ghost Town
    Luckily, as his focus on formative heartbreak has slowly graduated to the trials of marriage and children, Owen's catalog has likewise matured in sound.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 56 Critic Score
    B'Day
    Beyoncé’s an artist who’s not sure how to sell her full personality and craft in lieu of selling what she thinks we want.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    Within and Without
    The entirety of Within and Without is a mishmash of half-recalled thoughts sterilized in a cloud of sh*t production.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 94 Critic Score
    Blueberry Boat
    The Friedbergers have made a cogent statement that leaves most other contemporary acts in the dust.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Intuit
    Intuit makes sense, easy enough; it elucidates Knopf’s part in his more popular band, as if that were a secret, and it tentatively allows a familiar songwriter some more control, some new ground.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    That Lucky Old Sun
    Though absent any truly great songs, That Lucky Old Sun is the most engaged and consistent effort from pop’s lonely genius in decades.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    The Red Light District
    So, Ludacris is still a distance from a definitive, unmatched hip hop statement, but I’m content with his glaciered pace and middling “a-a-a-a-b-b-b-b-etc” frame. It’s just too much damn fun to pass up.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Terrorbird
    It’s more challenging than the indie-rock that makes its way into heavy rotation on college radio, and in the end, has the potential to be infinitely more rewarding as a whole.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
    Oh, charm abounds; what the album lacks is direction.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Black Mesa
    As far as drone or ambient records go, Black Mesa is accessible and melodious.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 62 Critic Score
    Smoke
    There’s wit and meticulous posturing in the hills: we’ll be waiting right here for tomorrow. After all, there are enough immediately delectable grooves in his eleven tracks today.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hippies
    Good songs, great times, and maybe it's a bit too long and short on variety but whatever. Plus, this record actually came out months ago and none of the songs have soured yet. That's something.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Welcome To Condale
    Welcome to Condale is a study in tactless excess, the sheer volume of inebriating nostalgic moments intended to overwhelm the lukewarm medium by which they're delivered.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Get Awkward
    This means that even though Get Awkward starts at a frenetic pace and pretty much keeps slapping you about the face for the next half hour--there’s hardly a song that goes above 2-minutes-30--it doesn’t feel like an assault.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Joan Of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain...
    Kinsella’s unrelenting lack of melody, his horribly self-absorbed and nebulous lyrics, and an overall misuse of timing force the rest of the mix into the periphery for a more numbing, frustrating listen.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    The People's Key
    The People's Key is not a bad album. In fact, boil the meat off these tracks, and you'd probably have the skeleton of a quite good album.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    The Forgotten Arm
    The best songs on The Forgotten Arm reveal the extremes of love and despair under their smiling masks, but the sorrows of the album are tempered by what can only be Mann’s own joy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Clear Heart Full Eyes
    With Clear Heart Full Eyes he's established himself, tentatively, as a man apart from his band.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    3121
    Instead of wrenching free of every single confinement that’s ever been placed around his tiny waist, like he’s pretty much always done, Prince is settling into 3121, accepting the decades of his career as what he should be content in emulating.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 64 Critic Score
    First Impressions Of Earth
    Unfortunately, First Impressions of Earth takes a steep drop in quality after “Ask Me Anything” and never finds its way again.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Innings
    Innings succeeds as a minor expansion and development of the band's essential sound, and it's a progression that makes clear sense.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Blow Your Head: Diplo Presents Dubstep
    While most dubstep producers are working with the same ingredients, Blow Your Head reveals how those ingredients can yield beautifully varied results.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy
    Nada Surf have not reached outside their comfort zone with The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Motion To Rejoin
    Apart from these few times when the band touches on musical history, lyrically there’s still the same ridiculous preoccupations: rugged, Midwestern imagery; new age-y spirituality; rather obvious weather-related metaphors.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Common Era
    No matter how good these songs are (and many of them are quite good), the finished product is underwhelming, and I can only hope that I don't have to wait another half-decade to hear where they go next.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Clay Class
    There is always a feeling of constructive clarification at the heart of Clay Class, and that reappraisal of the traditional sense of progress is something that is cemented by the ideology shining through the holes that Prinzhorn Dance School so artfully poke through the fourth wall.
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