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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
    • 80 Critic Score
    Some Nights I Dream of Doors
    His distinctive voice, ranging from guttural lows to a glittering falsetto, is the tool he uses to sculpt out his vast sonic vision.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Here Is Everything
    ‘Here Is Everything’ lands in the sweet spot; it’s creatively ambitious, pushing the quartet into new ground, but it does so with a renewed sense of fun.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Full Moon
    Styles twist and turn, from the unabashed radio pop sound that excites on ‘To Kill A Single Girl (Tequila)’ to surprisingly vulnerable closer ‘I Was The Biggest Curse’ via ‘Sweet & Savage’, which has all the mindbending pace shifts of an early 2000s Xenomania production. Lyrically, meanwhile, she barely misses.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    FEVEREATEN
    On ‘FEVEREATEN’, Witch Fever are relentless in their pursuit of textural and sonic intricacies, dancing through eerie, Midsommar-esque soundscapes to vividly paint their sonic vision.

    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stardust
    Perhaps most thrilling is when those two sides merge, as they do on the epic, stylistically fluid ‘The End’, which runs nearly nine minutes and confirms - as does ‘Stardust’ as a whole - that his ambition remains undimmed as he opens this new chapter.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    La Isla Bonita
    For anyone who’s ever wondered what sort of album a hybrid of Joan Jett and Janet Jackson would make, the answer is right here.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Impersonator
    Even when 'Turns Turns Turns' or the astonishingly upfront 'Bugs Don't Buzz' offer vital, personal refuge, an evil, grating side to you will crave a crescendo, a clamouring climax all coloured and epic. Majical Cloudz is the antithesis of such, but when he flirts with dangerous grey areas, he actually ends up striking gold.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fibs
    It’s a frankly overwhelming listen first time around, with everything tearing along at a hundred miles an hour, but it’s all fizzing and crackling so exhilaratingly that you’re happy to let her sweep you along.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    O Shudder
    Dutch Uncles’ most direct and user-friendly album yet.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Every Open Eye
    More confident in their own musical skins, it all adds together to make Every Open Eye a second album even better than the first.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mykki
    Mykki is a promising starting point for some, a jump into a different league entirely for his following.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Shadow I Remember
    Raw and uncompromising, yet always harbouring a degree of melody, it’s the product of ten years of learning, and succeeds in deftly balancing subtle nuance with a sense of uncompromising aggression.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Atomic
    It packs a ferocious punch without compromising subtlety, operating with coiled concealed restraint. With their offering, Mogwai prove once more that, after more than twenty years, they’re a constantly evolving beast of a band.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Understated
    Granted, even now it's difficult to assess his work wholly objectively given his recent, well-documented struggles, but strip away any unnecessary contextualisation and the record stands up proudly and defiantly on its own two feet.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Power
    Some of these songs could have been picked out from different eras altogether, they’re from such distant worlds. But once this record finds its structure, its own voice beyond the ugly context, it’s hard to imagining it arriving in any other form.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Cutthroat
    This fourth album is undoubtedly a return to something: full of raw, barely restrained bite, it’s as if they’ve taken all the sparky, unself-conscious vigour of their 2018 debut and, in their relative maturity, learned to wield it even more potently. Ever the rabble-rousing ringleader, Charlie Steen is on vintage lyrical form.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    I Don’t Want: The Gold Fire Sessions
    Iit feels like a natural extension from what’s come before rather than a bold move forward, but you can tell Santigold had fun making it all the same.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Everything Ever Written
    The Idlewild comeback may not see them scale the heights of their previous output, but this album is certainly a heart-warming success.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Give You the Ghost
    Combined with the hypnotic instrumentation that blankets the record, it's easy to immerse yourself and get lost in its alluring character.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Routines
    Routines isn’t an album that’s going to change the world, but it is a pretty good reminder to stop, slow down and take things in once in a while.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Home For Now
    Richly nuanced, effortlessly cool and at times beautifully bleak, ‘Home for Now’ feels like the sound of Babeheaven finding their feet in an atmosphere of uncertainty.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Seems Unfair
    Sonically, it does what it sets out to do, delivering on the playful, biting riffs, singalong moments and charming, scrappy harmonies that accompany one big swell of emotion after the next.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    So When You Gonna...
    The middle run of ‘U Do U’, ‘RH RN’ and ‘Old Flame’ is so mid-paced and lacking in audible spark that it’s as if the record has momentarily dozed off. And for a group who have seemed so overflowing with ideas, so strong in their convictions and so urgently essential, it can’t help but feel a bit disappointing
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Trying Times
    A record that couldn’t be more consistently him. It paints this, his seventh studio album, as a compendium of his best parts, and perhaps his first to truly do so.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dying
    Despite the luxurious, audible excess, Dying is a masterclass of refrain.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Soft Bounce
    Ultimately Beyond The Wizards sleeve sounds like what it is--a hobby. As an outsider, it simply doesn’t reap the same rewards as it might have for its creators.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Untitled]
    Not consolidating or scaling back their ambition in the slightest, mewithoutYou continue to be one of indie-rock’s most consistently fascinating voices, and on ‘[Untitled]’ they’re as weird and wonderful as ever.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    IV
    Taken on their own, each track solidifies the group’s wild imagination, but IV is tough to stomach as the free-flowing, full-bodied juggernaut that it is.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cosmic Wink
    Cosmic Wink is largely free from inhibition though, documenting the big changes in life over beautiful, sweeping folk. While the album doesn’t hold all the answers, it’s still sure enough in its message to connect and remind you of the important things.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
    ‘The Death of Randy Fitz­sim­mons’ feels like a return to their roots; there’s a pleas­ing lack of pol­ish to the pro­duc­tion on what is a suc­ces­sion of punk rock blasts, from quick-fire bursts like ​‘Trap­door Solu­tion’ and closer ​‘Step Out of the Way’ to sus­tained sal­vos, with the bass-driv­en ​‘Count­down To Shut­down’ a case in point. There’s play­ful evid­ence of new ideas being worked in, too.
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