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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
    • 80 Critic Score
    April
    At times hypnotic in their understatement, every so often they gently erupt with vivid melodies that bring the underlying air of tension to its peak.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Funplex
    Funplex then: a bit like that school re-union. Good for a few hours’ reminiscing every once in a while but over-familiarity will only breed contempt.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pretty.Odd.
    It may not be an album to die for, but it is a rare album of note, as much for its context as its content.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Consolers Of The Lonely
    Consolers of the Lonely is often grotesquely overblown despite moments of genuine excitement.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    In A Cave
    The production is sublime, every beat and note fully realised in glorious colour. The songs, however, sound tired, and despite determined efforts to sound upbeat and jaunty, they end in a slump of indie-pop lethargy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
    13 Blues… scores 10 in almost every sense, but to award such an accolade would imply this is a record never to be bettered.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Show
    There’s only two real weak points to the album.... That’s it. The rest of this is good to great.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Twenty One
    Twenty One revels in fun found in the cobwebbed corners of Alkan’s mix and the nightlifing minds of its lyricists.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Red
    Red’s a grandiose statement of intent, crammed with aspirational symphonies that run the gambit of popular culture over the past 40 years without ever succumbing to grating pastiche.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Get Awkward
    Now they’re back, back, back (repetition absolutely necessary) with a second dose of barely-pubesced raucousness and, a mere two spins down the line, DiS is seriously reconsidering the prospect of having children, like, ever.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beat Pyramid
    Cut adrift with its own bewildering reference points, peppered with glimpses of cryptic brilliance and slabs of deceptive nonsense, Beat Pyramid is a flawed patchwork masterpiece.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Midnight Boom
    It's a record that certainly stands up to comparison with their previous outings - sometimes bettering them--and, if you've been seduced by their charms in the past, be prepared to fall in lust all over again.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Trouble In Dreams
    Trouble In Dreams is full of amazing poetic adventures which could never flourish in the harsh light of the public eye.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Street Horrrsing
    Though far from flawless, removed from any brouhaha Street Horrrsing sees Fuck Buttons carve their own niche and not only produce a debut record that will claw at any prejudices over its 40-minute span but show up their drone brethren as too often resiliently stuck in the mud.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Reality Check
    If you’ve got the savvy to work out how some of Reality Check is actually occasionally brilliant, then you should also be able to figure out it’s also absolute shit.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Stainless Style
    All fascinating stuff, and the resultant album is a fitting testament: exciting, yet flawed like the man (John DeLorean) himself.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Odd Couple
    Solid and safe fun perhaps.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Volume One
    It’s the sound of Chuck Schultz’s Peanuts, dusky ‘70s Californian sunsets and the sound of a talent transcending her artistic straitjacket. Here’s to volume two.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crystal Castles
    Glass’s voice, too, is the same that’s been luring lusty seamen onto the rocks for millennia, but the way it and the drums are textured--so that the machines they’re passed through sound like they’re melting away--brings Crystal Castles to the outer edges of greatness.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sixes & Sevens
    Sixes & Sevens might be a drawn-out mess, but break it down to its constituent parts and you suddenly have rich pickings for the perfect mix-tape.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Visiter
    Visiter has a hidden treasure aspect implying future generations may be more willing to appreciate this album.
    • 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.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Alopecia
    There’s nothing else like this out there that’s as perfectly realised as this, and to draw upon previous, albeit indirect precedents, that leaves only one outcome from this unruly verbiage.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dreaming Of Revenge
    While not all of King’s attempts to focus her talent into ‘proper songs’ come off, when she nails it, we can’t help but agree with Dave Grohl that she’s one of the greatest guitarists in the world.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    These Are The Good Times People
    These Are The Good Times People is a mere shadow of its ‘90s counterpart that struggles to retain any of the President’s early charm.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hello, Voyager
    This is a fascinating record that enjoys toying with musical boundaries and unnerving the listener.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Go Away White
    Those aforementioned past tense references are telling, because that’s exactly where Go Away White sounds as if it belongs: in the past.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Real Emotional Trash
    Polished production and an ironing out of the music’s creases creates a less-relaxed feel than we’re used to hearing, but there’s also a sense of warmth which was largely missing from the previous Jicks-aided album, "Pig Lib."
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Quaristice
    Its layers upon layers of ideas and electronic noise require a level of repeat digestion far, far removed from the instant gratification and heart-on-sleeve emotions dominating the musical landscape. And that’s never a bad thing when done with the innate skill and passion for progression heard here.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Red Yellow & Blue
    It’s a frustrated listen, thanks to unrealised ideas and a potential that you sense has yet to fully unlocked, but there are enough good songs and great moments studded amongst the mire to make Red, Yellow and Blue both a worthwhile purchase to cherry-pick the best from as well as an indicator of good things to come from the Canadian trio.
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