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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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Canyon
    With no warning whatsoever, this is an incredibly thoughtful, articulate modern rock record that stands toe-to-toe with anything released this year.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Flash Flood of Colour
    A sterile, witless turn here.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Romance Is Boring
    Their sloganeering, haughtiness and mocking dismissal of their dislikes will always remain contentious, but never suggest they don’t mean it. This matters more to them than it does anybody else; Romance is Boring is the openly flawed but often brilliant proof.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sound Kapital
    Sound Kapitol is a successful, if slightly creatively stifling refinement of a fruitful and unique musical partnership.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Outrun
    A lot of the magic of Kavinsky was the box freshness of his reimagining of the past, but across these 13 tracks the allure of Beverly’s Hills Cop high-tops and alien blasting game soundtracks begins to sound tired and worn out
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sunlit Youth
    For all the globe-trotting that went into the album, this is a band that--perhaps more than any other at the moment--innately sound like and capture their Californian home in all its beautiful complexity.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Certain Trigger
    A magnificent album where every verse fills you with excitement for the next chorus, where wide-scoping fields of sound work in unison to stage the perfect pop-rock riot and where every meticulously crafted melody comes back to haunt you when you least expect it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The 20/20 Experience
    Whilst it in no way compares with the leap in ambition we saw between his first two albums, The 20/20 Experience is nonetheless another interesting inter-genre move, this time into alternative R&B and neo-soul.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An Argument with Myself [EP]
    Pretty much everything about Jens except the scale of his melodies is gentle and unassuming, and there is a quiet honesty here that is unique pleasure.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kurr
    Amiina now daintily rap at the doors of a larger audience with a sound that is as delicate as it is arresting.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Big Wheel and Others
    It’s a record to get lost in, and to find yourself in. And to put it as plainly as possible: it’s a record as emotionally and musically rewarding as anything Cass McCombs has ever released.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Wasteland Companion
    Like all Ward's best records, his eighth solo album plays like an intimate knees up. You'll swoon. You'll smile. You'll spin it over and over again.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Meat + Bone
    Against such a strong back catalogue, Meat and Bone looks set to go down as an addendum rather than a milestone.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    All-Amerikkkan Bada$$
    The strange thing about the record is that the tracks just keep getting better and better as you go along.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3
    For those of us who hadn't got our hands on the earlier mixtapes or his remixes for the likes of Blackalicious and Rob Sonic, Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 is an opportunity to assess El-P as a beatmaker on his own merits.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ringleader Of The Tormentors
    While it may be the most proficient musical record that Morrissey has put out in aeons... it doesn’t quite measure up to the high standards set by You Are The Quarry or the superlative debut that was Viva Hate.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There Is No Enemy
    There is something exorbitantly satisfying about enjoying what you might deem to be a comeback album, especially when it arrives from an established band that many - including myself - thought were out of fresh ideas.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Centre Cannot Hold
    If you’re looking for ease and comfort there’s a deluge of that available, but there are aren’t many records like The Centre Cannot Hold. Frost has achieved a thrillingly precarious balance whereby there is always the tiniest spark of light to glean amongst the relentless dirge.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Glider
    The weight of it all means it could be quite impenetrable for some, and it nearly crashes under it's own heaviness sometimes--but for those of us with a melancholic heart, this could be our record of the year.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Let's Build A Fire
    [An] inventive, if uneven collection.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Me And Armini
    It's more adventurous than the album prior–-and generally more successful in this eclecticism than her debut, certainly--yet that Torrini’s best work lies ahead of her seems indubitable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    1-800 Dinosaur Presents Trim
    The real power of this album is not only the showcasing 1-800’s collective musical prowess and their ability to mix and merge genres and style effortlessly to create music that sounds like nothing that has been released commercially in recent month, but of Trim’s vocals. Throughout the album he is the glue that holds everything together.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Broken Side Of Time
    Some real quality lies within, but it’s difficult to lose yourself entirely when you know you can’t trust it not to wander off down the wrong path.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everything Else Matters
    Refined yet audacious both in execution and delivery, Pinkshinyultrablast exemplify sonic pulchritude. Despite its lengthy gestation, Everything Else Matters offers living proof all good things come to those that wait.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    B-Sides & Rarities
    If... you’re already a fan, this is definitely worth a listen, not only for the interest value, but for the multiple songs which are simply brilliant Bad Seeds moments.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blue Eyed In The Red Room
    A noble, high-headed intelligent record.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Crab Day
    Across Crab Day, though, there is a lightness to Le Bon’s arrangements. She doesn’t go for dramatic shifts in tempo or tones, which makes subtle additions more obvious.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shadow of the Sun
    Come album three, they’re not tied down to something tired or fumbling around experimenting with ill-suited sounds, but instead are simultaneously concentrated and expansive, defined by an addictive and inclusive sense of purpose.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Five Spanish Songs [EP]
    Regardless of their supporting tropes, the songs prove themselves consistently memorable and enjoyable. It’s another home run for Bejar--an all-too-short taster that will leave you dreaming of Spain’s mountains and deserts, and longing for more.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Happy Birthday
    These tunes are fun and youthful, but also grown up and varied--there’s something for everyone here, whether you’re blasting this record at the park with mates or in the car on a road-trip or sitting on the beach--all you need is a little sunshine and wine (not in the car, though, please) and let Thomas, Garbus and Weisman take you to that place we all remember well (fondly or not).
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