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For 1,511 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Untitled
Lowest review score: 10 United Nations of Sound
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,005 out of 1511
  2. Mixed: 449 out of 1511
  3. Negative: 57 out of 1511
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    We are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
    Re-emerging after a mere eight month gestation with their second album (they're referring to it as an extended EP just to be difficult, but whatever), the only natural assumption would be that the whirlwind of inconsistency smashes on unabated. And in some respects it does, but key to this record's fortunes is a sense that first they're running out of ideas and second have chilled their bones to become less rigidly obsessed with quantity and cleverness and proving their self-worth.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Echo
    It's a far bolder and more convincing album than her first, and suggests Lewis might be able to pull off an even bigger and more unexpected triumph than winning "X-Factor" and scoring an international hit.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pawn Shoppe Heart
    The four Von Bondies remain terrific players, and Stollsteimer's sustained indignation is always good for a laugh. But at times, the calculated nature of it all is distracting, and you long for the harebrained rawness which made "Lack Of Communication" the best record (besides those by The White Stripes) that the Detroit revival has produced.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    La Roux
    There is more than enough pop fuel here to maintain La Roux's unlikely momentum for a while.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Love Is Hell, Part 1 [EP]
    More commercial - and much better - than 'Rock'n'Roll', occasionally resembling the grandstand melancholia of Coldplay, and more frequently their antecedents The Smiths and Jeff Buckley. [Review applicable to both Part 1 and Part 2]
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    '64 - '95
    Despite the wide range of musical styles used here, each one is absorbed into that unique Jellies sound, smoothed and polished almost beyond recognition into a sumptuous, unthreatening ambient groove with echoes of The Orb, Groove Armada and Zero 7.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hourglass
    There are a couple of moments where Hourglass works perfectly.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Up At The Lake
    "Up At The Lake" may not be The Charlatans' finest effort, but it’s certainly good enough to suggest they could still be around for another 14 years.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Amber
    "Amber"'s glow increases with each listen, but existing fans have just cause to feel forsaken.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Walk the River
    Though there are still moments of eyeball rolling twee, the darker undertones are enough to more than keep us interested.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Proof of Youth
    Proof Of Youth was made for rolling back the years and the rug, not chin-stroking contemplation. If shredded Axminster was The Go! Team's aim here, then mission well and truly accomplished.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Welcome To Goon Island
    Ultimately, it's not that XX Teens throw everything including the kitchen sink at it, but rather that they drink everything under the sink and wait to see what happens. Welcome To Good Island is that kind of experience.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ready For The Weekend
    It's also terrific fun, though so lightweight you might want to weigh your stereo down with bricks before pressing play.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Show Your Bones
    It's flawed, but applause for adding vulnerability to their game plan, at the very least.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Reality Check
    Buy into the notion that The Teenagers are in fact a satirical comment on the "Shockwaves Generation", and this is a dry, impeccably observed album, closer in spirit to Arab Strap than any of the nu-rave favourites.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Made of Bricks
    It's one of the most exciting debuts by a young female pop artist in ages. If occasionally it veers a wee bit too much towards the cutesy-kooky.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Go
    There's a connection with the contemporary world, with the apparatus and detritus that layers 2010 up around us all, that hasn't really been seen in Sigur Ros's music before.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Under Rug Swept
    Alanis is back on course and heading in the right direction.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lullabies To Paralyze
    For the most part, "Lullabies To Paralyze" keeps up the high musical standard set by its predecessors.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You
    Flamboyant, excessive and more Mikado than Micachu, you get the feeling that 'Life Is Sweet...' is an album that'll polarise people. But hey - if you don't like this one, Dev will be onto the next project tomorrow anyway.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Never Never Land
    Compared to 'Psyence Fiction''s ruthlessly cut glass exterior, this is a rounded, more human record, considerably less calculated and therefore far more approachable.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Ecstatic
    Around the world in 60 minutes, then, Mos embraces both the jet-setting film star lifestyle and a re-found love for the game, making for the Deffest jam since that label gave Jay-Z the keys.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    OCD Go Go Go Girls
    The songs of OCD Go Go Go Girls stand-up to a certain mood--one, passed a certain age, that's usually buoyant and beer-fuelled.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Reality
    It's the sound of a man who's worked out how to be good again, who finally understands his own strengths and limitations.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Flesh Tone
    Perhaps the most fascinating aspects of Flesh Tone are the songs named 'Segue 1', 'Segue 2' and so on through to 'Segue 6' which are positioned to avoid gaps between songs. They're the album's most imaginative moments, and suggest that although Kelis is refining her sound to become queen of the disco, there's still dozens of ideas waiting to announce themselves.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hunting My Dress
    This is a contemporary collection of eclectic modern folk songs by a bold woman who has more in common with an interesting raft of contemporaries than her mentor.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Libertines
    Everywhere you look on this record there is a sense of magic escaped, accompanied by the ever-tantalising presence of a great band just beneath the surface.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sleep Through The Static
    At its heart there is a beautiful record in there for anyone with the time and patience to find it.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    American Life
    When she turns from fathoming everyone else's existence to her own, and stops frantically waving her style icon credentials, the genius of hers and Mirwais' partnership is overwhelming.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mr. A-Z
    Deceptively hard to resist.
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