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For 4,812 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 It Won't Be Like This All the Time
Lowest review score: 0 BE
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,477 out of 4812
  2. Mixed: 1,220 out of 4812
  3. Negative: 115 out of 4812
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Future Ruins
    Future Ruins progresses at a pleasing rate, though it never really pushes beyond its genre confines. Every track here is solid-to-good-to-occasionally-great with a friendly, familiar vibe of a bygone nature without ever really presenting anything new or challenging.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Too Old To Die Young
    In all Too Old To Die Young could be listened to in 20 years and it wouldn’t sound a day older, but it is unlikely to warrant interest past the first weeks of purchase.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Chorus of Storytellers
    A Chorus Of Storytellers fits in quite succinctly alongside its predecessors, and while perhaps not scaling the skyscraping heights of An Orchestrated Rise To Fall or In A Safe Place, doesn't rally represent a decline in standards either.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Neck of the Woods
    Neck of the Woods on its own is a good album, sure, but sabotages itself by giving us less to latch on to.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    New Wild Everywhere
    It's fine. It's well-rounded. It's cosy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Thank You for Today
    Nine albums in, Death Cab for Cutie are just about holding it together, but you have to wonder if the title Thank You For Today belies nothing more than a grateful acknowledgement of continued existence.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Two-Way Mirror
    Crystal Antlers have delivered a record that, rather than making good on the promise of their early work, is simply serviceable. But there's evidence here of a band still finding their feet and defining their sound.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Day & Age
    It’s difficult to be bowled over by the fact that The Killers have essentially crafted an enjoyable but fairly throwaway pop record.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Machineries of Joy
    Machineries of Joy is an improvement on its predecessor but far from a dramatic leap forward.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Keys To The World
    A deeply personal, occasionally lifeless but equally insightful passage into the latest chapter of Richard Ashcroft's life story.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Shallow Bed
    It's too precise, too ordered to fully lift, and, unlike the band's live shows, too damn earnest.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Personal Life
    The Thermals are in transition, sitting awkwardly between their lo-fi roots and a clear desire to do something grander. They seem stuck at a point where their skeleton is no longer fit for purpose.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Impossible Song & Other Songs
    While Woomble has a gift for an engaging lyric, the same perhaps cannot be said tune-wise.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Murs 3:16 The 9th Edition
    He's effectively run aground in the middle of the alt-rap landscape.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Comfort Of Strangers
    It's sweet, comforting music with a nice warmth to it. Not too political, nothing too clever. Not as good as Trailer Park, but her best thing since.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Flaws
    Flaws is perfectly executed and well produced and if you inhale the album in short, sharp breaths, then you may just find the middle of the road a charming place to be, for a brief moment anyway.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ornithophobia
    Troyka have the tools make his dream a reality. Well, they would do, if they'd just stop with that dastardly noodling.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Acid Tongue
    The scrappy indie bite of Lewis’ early work may be gone and you won’t find much in the way of Marshall’s emotional bloodletting. But even if it’s likely to cost Lewis the affections of online tastemakers, she looks set to charm an increasingly large audience for years to come.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    First Impressions Of Earth
    Cast away the politics and the last twenty minutes and you'll still be left with two or three top tunes to add to your daily playlists, but it was never going to be ground-breaking or innovative.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sushi
    In the case of Sushi, about half the album is worth hearing.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Climb Up
    The result is intricately experimental in style and form but while there are some glorious successes, as a whole Climb Up feels blunted.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Thought So...
    Even if it doesn’t quite represent the grand tour Nightmares On Wax originally envisaged, the album at least provides an enjoyable detour or two.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Trouble in Paradise
    La Roux returns on its own terms, with at least five minutes and 40 seconds that capture tremendous artistic growth and expression.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Natalie Merchant
    Sometimes the sheer sumptuousness of the sounds, of Merchant’s cold, clear voice negotiating lush jungles of brass and cathedral-like groves of cello, is enough in itself. Sometimes, you can’t help but wish for more.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Last Night
    Last Night is sensible, clean, pleasant. But it lacks that essential injection of endeavour and emotion.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wake Up The Nation
    Overall, Wake Up The Nation isn't a bad record, but it can be a bovine test of endurance, at least if one is to devour all sixteen tracks in one sitting. Had the quality control officers had the guts to stand up to its creator in chief, this could have been an endearing re-affirmation.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sodium
    Sodium does slay. But Dasher whizz through in such a hardcore blur, that the highlights of the album get buried in the carnage.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Yucca
    Having played with Wild Nothing, Titus Andronicus, Crocodiles and Male Bonding they are finely adept in the art of live performance and worth catching. But the album? Yeah it's alright: simple and catchy fuzz pop.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Self Help Serenade
    Much like binging on Haagen Daas ice cream when you’re depressed, a little bit of Marjorie Faire is really rather great. Too much can only make you feel bloated and regretful.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Seeing Sounds
    While Seeing Sounds is a marginal improvement on N*E*R*D’s second album, and a massive leap forward from Pharrell’s damp-squib of a solo record, it doesn’t quite reach the heights of (either version of) their debut, let alone the pick of Pharrell and Chad’s production work for other people.
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