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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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    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Fishscale
    "Fishscale" is a purist's delight, an album seemingly crafted solely for those who've been chasing his maverick tail for the past decade.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This New Day
    Live, there's little doubt, these tracks will find their own groove and grow, but here they're like show dogs, primped and primed and hard to love.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Back Room
    "The Back Room" is, principally, a triumph.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Keys To The World
    How the mighty have truly fallen.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Drum's Not Dead
    Through the course of "Drums Not Dead", you'll endure an unsettling, slightly terrifying experience, the likes of which is rarely committed to record.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Born Again In The USA
    Thematically, "Born Again In The USA" is a bold album that tries hard - perhaps too hard - to bind together the inter-related twines of culture, politics, history and entertainment.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    3121
    But while "3121" might suggest that, at 47, Prince isn't looking to change the face of music anymore, he's clearly still more than capable of delivering classic Prince albums.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kicking The National Habit
    It makes for a cool sound that might be too inoffensive at times but which grabs all the right places most of the time.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Stars Of CCTV
    The triumphant "Star's Of CCTV" will be to guitar bands what The Street's "Original Pirate Material" was to the UK urban music: essential listening.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love Travels At Illegal Speeds
    A cohesive and satisfying listen crammed with generous melodies.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cuts Across The Land
    An energised and impassioned, justly confident debut.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Supernature
    "Supernature" is the rarest of records - one which arrives late in the life span of a genre but defines it so completely and perfectly that a full stop can be placed right there.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mr. Beast
    There are no huge surprises on this album - it sounds and feels exactly how you'd expect - but somehow "Mr Beast" still seems vital and forward thinking.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ballad Of The Broken Seas
    So while this isn't "The Desert Sessions" - sadly, Isobel Campbell is no Polly Harvey - "Ballad Of The Broken Seas" remains an engaging curio whilst we wait to see what both artists do next.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    You See Colours
    Lighter, brighter and yes, more colourful than its predecessor.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Making Dens
    "Making Dens" is an immensely graceful, charming record that does a flawless job of capturing the air of good-natured abandon that defines the Jets' live shows.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Everything Is
    Their dark yet energetic, garage pop - all needling, pivot-on-a-penny riffs, eruptive noise and high tensile dynamics - borrows from Buzzcocks, Pixies and Nirvana/Foo Fighters but, for all its tautness and intensity, there's little on Nine Black Alps' debut LP likely to change the world.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Breaking Up
    A nudge in the wrong direction and this would be too saccharine for comfort.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    OK Cowboy
    Beyond the grooves etched in this record, what is most exciting is the ease with which Arbez brushes aside the canon of 90s giants.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Leaders Of The Free World
    A... winning blend of seemingly spontaneous, humanised warmth and brooding, existential contemplation.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
    Such is the depth and quality of Turner's songwriting, it plays like a best of.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sound Mirrors
    Such a ratio of misses to hits was not expected but, all things considered, this is still one of the best electronic-based albums you're going to hear this year.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Down In Albion
    Many of The Libertines' finer qualities are made all too apparent in their absence on "Down In Albion", none quite so painfully as Carl Barat's Django Reinhardt via Johnny Marr charm with a guitar.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution In Sound
    This release at least gives some sense of the visual brilliance, media spectacle and utter fertility of artistic energy that came together in Tropicalia.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Life Pursuit
    Hence we get an album which, musically at least, veers all over the place, from chamber pop to glam to, God help them, hotel lobby jazz. In other hands, this would be a terrible mess, but in each instance you feel like the group are inching ever closer to that perfect pop moment.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Senor Smoke
    There are some truly great moments on "Senor Smoke".
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Comfort Of Strangers
    It just sounds like she cannot be roused to feel very passionate about anything.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Eye To The Telescope
    Beautiful songs one and all, there’s much to recommend "Eye To The Telescope", and given enough time and patience, Tunstall’s subtle charm seeps through making it an album to love.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lantern
    The best approach here is to set aside genre delineations (who needs 'em?) and simply surrender.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This Is My Demo
    There's no denying Sway's dazzling verbal chops and it's not just the speed and flow of his delivery that impresses.... His musical backdrops, however, are very much less adventurous and anyone looking to "This Is My Demo" for grime's trademark, darkly paranoid, tacheometric beats will be disappointed.
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