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For 1,396 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 29% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 77
Highest review score: 100 The Stand Ins
Lowest review score: 10 The Raven
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,197 out of 1396
  2. Mixed: 180 out of 1396
  3. Negative: 19 out of 1396
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
    My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky sounds more like the essence of Michael Gira than the Angels Of Light ever did, and ought to also serve as another broadside to the idea of reformations being inherently grubby and uncreative ventures.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Drift
    His slick production and meticulous attention to detail show promise of future mastery, and stand as evidence of his uniqueness.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Inside Your Guitar
    Don’t relegate Inside Your Guitar to personal music players such as your PC or mp3 player. Make sure you give it a couple of attentive spins on the big stereo in order to fully enjoy it’s resonant beauty.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jay Stay Paid
    Rounding out his catalog, Jay Stay Paid makes a worthy addition to any hip-hop aficionado’s collection.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dead Zone Boys
    Craftiness, when it’s this imaginative, can go a long way and for Jookabox, these bizarre ideas seem to work even when they shouldn’t.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Magnificent Fiend
    This album is a feast for the uninitiated.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The King Is Dead
    The King is Dead serves as enough solid music to lull us over until the next official album.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Bravery
    The Bravery treads the same well worn path as bands like The Smiths and The Cure but manages to avoid tripping on its roots by adding a unique personality.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I'll Be Lightning
    Whatever it is that Finn has done in his lifetime to create such a compelling album is wondrous; he has taken the natural gifts from his father and paired them with his own musical capability.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Diver
    An intoxicating brand of synth-pop that's slicker than a Gordon Gekko coif.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Medulla
    This record is so far beyond anything that she has done in the past that it is absolutely certain to alienate the majority of the listening public and more than a few of her fans.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    AmERICa
    Although amERICa perhaps lacks a few more songs that could standalone from its conceptual connectivity, as a combined entity it captures Eric Goulden catching an inventive and much-deserved third wind for his charmingly contrary career.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    To Realize
    It's always great to see a band showcase all of their strengths but when you can take everyone by surprise it's going to require just that much more skill.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Two Thousand And Ten Injuries
    All 12 tracks on Love Is All’s new LP Two Thousand and Ten Injuries provide instant intrigue, and after 20 listens to the album – it’s that addicting--not one of the songs managed to lose its initial charm.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love This Giant
    Pop sensibilities are allowed to swell over, into and around each other; each song blends the seams of the core into a fragmented, disjointed, appropriately-meshing of sounds and in the end, Love this Giant is a magnificent triumph because of it all.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Is All Over... The Map
    Although this is one of the most linear and easy-to-navigate Giant Sand records, some might be put off by the album's lapses in noisier and raucous dynamics.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Zoo
    Whatever the band loses in spastic energy and volatility on Zoo, it gains in melodic constancy.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    L' Avventura
    Phillips and Wareham manage to toe just the right line between diverse arrancements and album-wide cohesion - it's a little like listening to Luna in an alternate universe where they only play weddings and bar mitzvahs.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    MM..Food
    In the end, most of the songs on MM..Food? are of typical Doom quality (for the uninitiated, that means â??excellentâ?), but the album is severely bogged down both by a few duds and by a trio of interludes in the middle of the album.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Thing Called Divine Fits
    Each man delivers touches that are downright unique to their brand of music, but together, they carry a strong penchant for the greatness of indie rock. It's never groundbreaking, but it doesn't have to be either – A Thing Called Divine Fits celebrates music with terrific, yet humble, results.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    21st Century Breakdown
    21st Century Breakdown is far from a bad album, and, like Idiot, will likely be the best release this year from such a popular band.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Real Feel
    There is not much on The Real Feel that is daring or new in terms of musical explorations, but the emotionally energetic vocals and intestinal fortitude of the lyrics coupled with the honesty and the understated transcendence of the songs is quite alluring.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Home Acres
    The vocal parts are slathered in a hazy, echoing ambience and aren’t smoothly integrated with the songs. That being said, it’s not reason enough to dismiss the album, as there is enough substantive music to overcome this imperfection.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cool Planet
    Whilst at times Cool Planet could have benefitted from more of the cohesiveness that marked out Motivational Jumpsuit, its detours and greater collaborative ethos also give Pollard, Sprout and co. greater room for ongoing creativity.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's Never Been Like That
    If there were ever an album that fulfilled the requirements for a “summer album,” this is it; Phoenix offers songs that offer little in the way of innovation or substance but a wealth of top-notch musicianship, catchy melodies, and transcendent choruses.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Safe Travels
    This is a transitional album, it seems: there are a lot of attempts here to do something new, not all of them successful. Still, it will be exciting to see what they transition to.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Let's Build A Fire
    One of the most accessible, pleasant releases of 2006.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Spilt Milk
    Whilst sonic variety isn’t perhaps the strongest card pulled out on Split Milk, it does play out with some charming Astor songcraft and insistent hooks.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    District Line
    A solid if not completely earth-shattering act of restitution for loyal Bob-watchers
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Not Your Kind of People
    All of the pop-coated rock that was immediately catchy, aggressive, melodic, seductive, melancholic, and driven from those two albums [Garbage and Version 2.0] can be found here – from the ramped up, unrelenting beats to the bright electronics and propulsive guitar lines, to Shirley's changeable, ever-engaging vocals.
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