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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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    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Positive Songs for Negative People
    Perhaps it’s even a more accessible album for smoothing off the edges and toning down the vitriol, but it’s also largely forgettable in a way that Frank Turner’s best could never be accused of.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Marks to Prove It
    This is not a perfectly crafted album; instead, it’s an incredibly human one.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blood
    There’s two sides to Blood, that much is certain, and it’s the juxtaposition of these cradling tracks with the gut punchers that really leaves you breathless for more.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    St. Catherine
    St. Catherine is a quasi-nostalgic LP that’s sonically soothing, while exhibiting finely-woven musical textures. It’s clever, without being intimidating or pretentious.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Currents
    It might not hit with the sit-up-and-listen immediacy of previous albums, but make no mistake, Currents is just as accomplished.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    How Does It Feel
    Something that gradually becomes clear is that this is an album of uncertainty.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Communion
    Broaching love, lust, power-dynamics, jealousy, and heartbreak along the way, Years & Years bring that all important human touch to their massive pop anthems.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Working Girl
    Working Girl isn’t the sleekest of albums but the stumbles and scrapes that Little Boots overcomes are a testament to her desire for change.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hot. Reckless. Totally Insane.
    With an astute sense of mischief and a knack for snazzy hooks, Best Friends’ debut full-length offering is as endearing as they come.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Distractions
    Distractions is a highly intelligent, subtle and thoroughly immersive record. Each hook and strained vocal witholds a considered approach that is testament to the brittle nature of the music that Sauna Youth create.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Work It Out
    she’s written a brilliantly fun pop record in the process.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Perpetual Motion People
    This is a messy, disorderly but beautifully blissful and idiosyncratic record--and that seems like the statement he’d like to make.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Freedom
    Persuasive, pummelling, precise, Refused may have--quite literally--set the agenda with ‘The Shape Of Punk To Come’ but here they’re proving that they can still translate the blueprints regardless of how much time has passed.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Inji
    Inji is the sound of Dust discovering his own identity. And to achieve this, he tries just about anything and everything that crosses his path.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cemetery Highrise Slum
    Cemetery Highrise Slum is a maze; disorienting and satisfying in equal measure.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jaakko Eino Kalevi
    With layer upon layer of vocal, groove, and percussion, Jaakko Eino Kalevi is a reminder that pop can be both for your head and your feet.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bones
    Though Bones is almost as dramatic as a standard week on Albert Square--occasionally to its detriment--it’s also impossible to fault this album’s single-minded pursuit of sheer, maxed out saturation.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Coming Home
    This debut sets a nice, if mostly safe, blueprint.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    My Love Is Cool
    After years of the slow build, the release is here. Believe the hype.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Don't Weigh Down the Light
    Baird has produced a record that you know deserves to be heard, yet want to keep all to yourself.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Payola
    This is an album designed to move people, and Payola manages to do so in so very many ways.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Slowness
    Slowness doesn’t surrender its wonders easily. But when it does, and there’s no guarantee it will for everyone on every listen, it can be perfect.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Year of the Hare [EP]
    This is music in its purest, most experimental form. This is a record which doesn’t make sense, because it doesn’t have to.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Get to Heaven
    Everything Everything have sculpted a masterpiece.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A Dream Outside
    It’s still a work that’s defined by its own dynamism. Anyone following these guys from the start won’t have doubted their capabilities, but that doesn’t stop A Dream Outside from dwarfing expectations.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lantern
    Lantern is this duality between experimental and easily-grasped embodied. Unsurprisingly, it is the more left-field elements to the production that are the most intriguing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Home Economics
    The streets of home are always going to stir emotions but rarely does that cocktail of of loneliness and belonging get articulated with the gut-felt precision that Prinzhorn Dance School manage on their third record.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chrissybaby Forever
    There’s a real sense of optimism and summer to the record.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    FFS
    While some moments are clearly domain of a single entity, the truth is that the six-headed monster don’t always make it that easy, instead opting to blur their sensibilities into a playful, dance rock smear.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beneath the Skin
    On the surface Of Monsters And Men’s second album is a lush master-class in pop sensibilities and folk storytelling but Beneath The Skin is more than a name. Scratch below that glittering surface and you’ll discover a band that has discovered themselves.
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