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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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    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Heavy Like A Headache
    For while standout ‘These Depopulate Hours’ fizzes with what has made the Glasgow group so inviting in the past - a bubbling menace underpinning everything thanks to a screaming synth - and ‘What Makes You A Man’ employs curious sounds to back its ‘80s influences, it’s not matched by what’s found elsewhere.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Amelia
    Expectations [are] built by her collaborators - who aided artists like Dua and Kylie in carving revered pop niches - weigh detrimentally on the record: it doesn’t push itself nearly as far. Yet, undeniably, it’s a dependable, invigorating debut.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    AVANTI
    Though as a whole it might not be as indelible as its predecessors, Malice K is certainly an artist to keep your eye on.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Anything In Return
    Anything In Return is an album applicable to plenty of palettes.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Think Later
    No, ‘Think Later’ doesn’t come close to reinventing the wheel (or pop), but it does drench itself within a pop maximalism full of fuel, energy and modernity.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mirrors the Sky
    There's so much to like about Mirrors The Sky that could've been loved instead.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Conversations
    This album is, in reality, the sound of perfectionists giving into instinct. And once they shun exactitude and all its side effects, they emerge with a dazzling debut.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Altar
    The Altar is very close to being a razor-sharp pop blueprint.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Cerulean
    His most cohesive work to date, finding parity in both its nostalgia and its modernity, and yes, through its forward-thinking and innovative collaborators. It’s a dance-pop album in parts, and a creative powerhouse in others.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rapor [EP]
    It stands before you with the reverence of a cathedral and leaves you with a lasting sense of piety and clarity.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Young Hunger
    It's easy to see from this record just why Hugo Manuel is in such demand and his debut, as Chad Valley will provide a significant springboard to ever more exciting climbs.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mechanical Bull
    Uninspiring, unexciting, largely forgettable--this is nothing more than Kings of Leon by numbers.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Boombox Ballads
    For the most part, this is a record about chasing a specific kind of pop aesthetic instead, which largely comes at the detriment of any kind of real connection.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kids in L.A.
    It doesn't try too hard to be cool or rock climb your intellect but makes you smile, dance and sing away to yourself in places you shouldn't.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Black Soul Choir
    Chunky, neatly devised and deeply satisfying--this is the sound of staring into a black winter puddle while a nearby bird squirts a veneer of soothing melody onto proceedings.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Collections from the Whiteout
    Melancholy, meticulous and achingly grand, it extends his artistic narrative in resplendent form.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ghostory
    Fantastically glossy and mystical.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Death of a Bachelor
    An unpredictable but spectacular ride through pop, rock and everything in between, it’s hard not to bowled over by Urie’s efforts yet again.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Point of Go
    This is a good start but, after losing half of their line up, you get the feeling Jonquil need to add a bit more character, and a bit more bite, into their new pop noise.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blood Speaks
    It's a bold step, and one that can't quite sustain itself but Blood Speaks is a force of nature, and in more senses than one.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Optica
    There’s palpable relief when ‘Sugar’ gets proceedings underway and the thinking is all; 'Yes, Shout Out Louds, yes, this is how you start a record'--no dilly, precious little dally, instead wham-bam-slam straight into this behemoth of a pop tune.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Something To Tell You
    It’s as if Haim are pulling apart the production strands of their debut, and pitting them against one another. For majority of the time it works, on a surprisingly low-key second album that’s worth spending some time (or rather, Haim?) with.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thank You for Today
    Thank You for Today marks the stirring opening of a new chapter in this band’s already storied history.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jaded & Faded
    On Jaded & Faded, Cerebral Ballzy sound more visceral and raw than ever before--they’ve ditched the radio-ready gleam, the whole thing sounds recorded in an abandoned crack den on a half-broken tape player, and they’re all the better because of it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Comfort
    It's a short and sweet affair, clocking in at just over half an hour, but Splashh don't need any longer than that to make their stamp.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    New Skin
    While we’ve not heard Nick’s vocals out front before, those frantic fretwork and well-trodden chord changes work like an aural comfort blanket. Yet this is no carbon-copy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Need Your Light
    Following two discouraging albums, Need Your Light represents another stumble in the New Yorkers’ career. A disappointment.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Making Mirrors
    This is a varied album that combines old and new musical styles without the fear of pastiche.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Full Circle
    HÆLOS are clearly intent on shunning tradition. With that in mind, this is a promising start.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Anagrams
    Anagrams is the product of a musician fast maturing.
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