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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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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Who We Touch
    Sure, there's no serious wheel re-invention taking place here, and only a sycophantic fool would suggest that. Nevertheless, Who We Touch can hold its head high, safe in the knowledge that its creators are by no means a spent force.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Heavy Blanket
    Overall, this'll be way more easily digested by trad-minded hard rock consumers.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Animal Races
    Ultimately it’s a response to sugary summer pop songs that won’t keep you warm then the sun goes down.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Phantom Radio
    This is an impressive record that occasionally tries to cram too many ideas into one place but more than makes up for it in sheer song-writing quality.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Antiphon
    Is it Pulido? The absence of Smith? The third act crawl? In truth, all play a damaging part. Despite these irks, Antiphon is everything that it needs to be; a new beginning, loaded with promise. That's enough for now.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Further
    Further is at times a thrilling listen and barely puts a foot wrong, yet at a time when electronic music is expanding so quickly, it doesn't shine as brightly as it might have a decade ago.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Damned Devotion
    While it sometimes isn’t the smoothest of rides, there’s more than enough here to help maintain a sense of devotion to Wasser’s work.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Ghosts of Then & Now
    Ghosts of Then and Now floats just out of time and is as versatile a record as they come--your interpretation will change with each setting and mood.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Live At Reading
    So it’s good, but given the large amount of quality Nirvana concert stuff out there, does Live At Reading really have much by way of USP? Probably, yeah, if only because it's the band's sole full electric gig commercially available.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wild Go
    Though their own spirit may have mellowed and darkened over time, on Wild Go Dark Dark Dark couldn't be moving more resolutely towards the light.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hall Music
    Hall Music, continues this reticent foray, concealing its quaint charms until six or seven concentrated plays have been sucked up and digested.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Good, The Bad & The Queen
    But for all its momentary highlights, this is a record that doesn't tend to grow on you as much as sink and seep into your skin: and it does this slowly.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Time the Teacher
    Severe and melodic, Time the Teacher is a shapely journey to the byzantine innards of DeCicca’s mind.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Centipede Hz
    It's jolly and kinetic and greater than the sum of its songs.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gutter Tactics
    Having explordd hiphop's darker alleyways for years, Gutter Tactics is at once appealing and familiar, yet resists understanding more than anything that springs to mind... or rather, complicates and perhaps even undermines its message.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Angels of Death
    What compels here, is Castle’s ability to have created a piece of art so intimately descriptive of her personal fear of death, and how it links to the songwriter process and her thirst for immortality.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    See Mystery Lights
    A generally rambunctious mid-fi indie electropop sitting at an odd remove from the band’s devotional cause.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Plain Where the Palace Stood
    This album is Grubb’s most cinematic and balanced offering yet. It slowly burns through his moods, explores his Western panoramas and phantasmagorical musings.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Invisible Girl
    Yes, this thing is ridiculously derivative. It won't change lives or rearrange the musical landscape of nations but Kahn was never going to win any awards for originality. It may just raise some roofs and shake some foundations though.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Paddywhacking
    What's instantly charming about Paddywhack is its welcoming aspect as Friley's honesty and sincerity creates a warming romanticism.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bobbie Gentry's the Delta Sweete Revisited
    The Delta Sweete Revisited probably isn’t destined to be anything more than an interesting footnote in the career of anybody involved. But it certainly has something to it: a mood, an ambience, an ethereal sultriness, chilly northern mists turning to hot southern steam.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Intimacy
    Intimacy is not quite the radical statement its makers might think it is (I’m not sure what could be given the group’s evident ambitions), but it’s definitely a little bit of invigorating redemption at a time when doubts were beginning to cloud what was, initially, a flawless reputation.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fallen Angels
    Rather than playing the same bars he’s actually always dangling a carrot, and this time with the tenderest of touches.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    New Clouds
    New Clouds is as good a record as any to soundtrack disconnection from deep thought.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dream Get Together
    It's nice, pretty sounding brain candy, sugar-coated technical ecstasy. But it sometimes leaves the listener wanting a bit more substance and a little less style.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Borrell 1
    Ultimately Borrell 1 is a better-than-serviceable rock record complicated by myriad preconceptions, all which are further skewered by some fantastically hubristic song titles.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Savage Heart
    It probably is all going to sound a little more raucous and electrifying in the flesh, but this will definitely keep you sated in between those doses delivered in person.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Begin To Hope
    If the elitist few who hold Regina almost too close to their bosom can get past the shiny façade of the first few tracks, they'll find a whole new Regina to love.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Asleep At Heaven's Gate
    Similarities in vocals will mean that Lazy Shins Comparisons are inevitable, but when Rogue Wave break out of the confines of indie-by-association they prove they are a fine band indeed.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Damage and Joy
    Although not entirely perfect. And it's highly unlikely even the most wisened Mary Chain diehard would have expected it to be. Damage and Joy heralds the dawning of a new era in its creators' colourful history, providing a worthwhile addition to a canon of musical eminence in the process.
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