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For 3,422 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Superbloom
Lowest review score: 20 Let It Reign
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,498 out of 3422
  2. Mixed: 911 out of 3422
  3. Negative: 13 out of 3422
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Land of Sleeper
    It’s eerie, it’s weird, and maybe a tad too long (it could still perhaps work as a three-minute interlude or similar) but regardless, it still somehow manages to feel like Pigs x7 while offering a welcome change. By its last quarter, ‘Land of Sleeper’ feels like it’s said all it can.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unclouded
    Overall, ‘Unclouded’ is a further incantation of psych-pop goodness.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    If I Could Make It Go Quiet
    ‘if i could make it go quiet’ has all the qualities of a blockbuster pop record - incessant hooks, A-list producer credits - but hone in on each track and you’ll find intimate vignettes that are fully-formed in themselves.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Milano
    Milano doesn’t come with the cinematic sensibilities or the polish that ‘Rome’ did, but its sheer boisterousness and rough-and-ready sonic approach does justice to the underground movement that it aims to serve as homage to.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    GN
    Inventive, rough-edged, and darkly witty at times, Ratboys’ second record isn’t just a well-crafted listen; it’s thoughtful, tender, and incisive at every turn.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hole in My Head
    There’s something inherently welcoming in the short, sharp, and lyrically open songs, as Laura looks both inwards and outwards at her identity, her chosen music, and her vices. Each track unfolds with an ease only reserved for somebody with so much skin in the game.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gallows
    Gallows at their harshest, their angriest and their most thrilling and it turns out that no change in frontman can stop that.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bulldozer
    It's not as acoustic and stripped back as some will expect but it does not disappoint (unless you were waiting on eleven 'Ballgames').
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Every Valley
    It’s not light-hearted or easy to stomach, but for placing themselves into the shoes of others and broadcasting from the inside, there’s no real match for Public Service Broadcasting.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Most Normal
    Uneasy and unpredictable, yet invigorating.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Keep You
    Whilst songs from this new record will actually fit nicely besides tracks from ‘Old Pine’ and ‘The Lack Long After’, Keep You as a whole, is somewhat forgettable.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Try Not To Freak Out
    Handling pop punch with the same rightful care as punk rebellion, Sløtface aren’t indebted to any of their touchstones. Instead they’re mashing them to new, distinctive effect.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gist Is
    Without a doubt an audacious first effort, Adult Jazz have lovingly crafted a record of intriguing, ear-catching pop music on Gist Is.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Migration
    You’d hope there’d be more new ideas injected in to Simon’s music. As it is however, Migration feels disappointingly close to home.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In a Dim Light
    Complex, and replete with glitches, slow beats and breakdowns, In A Dim Light is as captivating as 'Condors', yet with an evident sense of renewed direction and focused calm and quietude.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Standing at the Sky's Edge
    Another triumph.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Threads
    An album which is deluged in melancholy of the sweetest kind, 'Threads' undoubtedly deserves your ears.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lesser Evil
    In the wider picture, this may not make the impressive strides 'Visions' or Purity Ring's 'Shrines' did, but there's every chance Lesser Evil can find an audience to smother it in all the affection it deserves.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While a Nation Sleeps
    Admittedly, there is probably nothing on While A Nation Sleeps that quite scales the peaks of the their finest works, there is no 'Rookie', no 'My Life in the Knife Trade' but there are plenty of pulse quickening moments for fans and non-fans alike.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
    [Singer Colin Meloy's] ability to write hooks is still as strong as ever, and the narrative prowess he has always made absolute use of is ever stirring.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Why Choose
    Shopping want to be moody and want to be fun; they want to be taken completely seriously and want you to laugh with them. Though the album switches between states of feeling, it rarely drops beneath being anything less than brilliant.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    And the Anonymous Nobody
    It’s only in the moments with somebody else in the driving seat that The Anonymous Nobody shines.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wild Imagination
    Overall, it’s hard to escape the sense that the concept behind the record has played to its favour in some parts and gone against it in others; this is, therefore, not even close to being the most balanced Sweet Baboo effort to date.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Full Closure and No Details
    There’s a lot to like on Cohen’s debut, and plenty to suggest a follow-up could soar to far greater heights, but not enough to suggest a commercial breakthrough could be on the cards.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Basic Behaviour
    Even as they strain between varying poles, Frigs still manage to find moments of great, if sombre, beauty. That’s not basic at all.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bon Voyage
    Melody’s weird medley may not be as accessible as her debut, but it’s a work of art that deserves to be beheld for its impressive and unique innovation.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Acts Of Fear And Love
    By keeping enough of the old--and allowing themselves the space to go a little heart-on-sleeve--their tales of 2010s disillusionment are a resounding success.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Keeping Up Appearances
    Patrick is found confronting familiar ideas of inner contentment alongside upbeat surface shine on this bittersweet work - full of charm and integrity
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Breach
    It’s refined, mature and an affirmation of the levels she could reach, on a similar path to star labelmates Phoebe Bridgers, Mitski and Japanese Breakfast.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Contender
    ‘Contender’ is a marked step forwards from one of Britain’s more endearingly idiosyncratic indie rock outfits.
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