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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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    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Push Barman To Open Old Wounds
    As a document of the way Belle And Sebastian have grown up in public to the sturdy staple of indie pop they now represent on a global scale, 'Push Barman...' is an essential collection of work that simply cements their status as one of the most inspirational musical collectives to have embraced punk's D.I.Y ethic since the late 1970s.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Secret Migration
    The Secret Migration is a wonderful record, full of exquisite indie-rock epics. But so was the last Mercury Rev record. And the one before that. So what’s changed? Nothing, basically.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mezmerize
    Perhaps they're settling into their identity... Fast and furious often, melodic often, powerful often, diverse always.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tourist
    Athlete seem to have found a formula in the studio and left the autopliot in reverse.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gimme Fiction
    You know a good sound when you want to take out a second mortgage to buy headphones good enough to appreciate it.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hal
    So what is there to learn here? How about ‘Hal are generally good, although they’re usually better when they’re trying to blow our minds rather than win our heart’.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kidnapped By Neptune
    If you’re looking for dusty, cavernous melancholia entwined with hard rockin’ and speckled with magic, then consider it found.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    13 & God
    In execution, 13&God is a surprisingly sombre album that'll appeal to fans of forward-thinking hip-hop and beyond.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cold Roses
    Despite the fact that a few of these nineteen tracks could easily have been cut, or that its mid-tempo pacing may drive it dangerously close to sounding monotonous, the evidence still points to that of a songwriter clawing back to his best.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Milk Of Human Kindness
    Snaith... continues his legacy of making constantly challenging, changing music that never gets beyond itself, that always remains immensely human.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    With Teeth
    Individual instruments are easier to identify, and NIN now sound like more of an organic unit that's augmented by machines and electronics, rather than driven by them. It also contains some of the most accessible and light-hearted numbers that Reznor's produced in his career.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Wedding
    Whereas previous Oneida albums could be criticised for being inconsistent and almost too art-rock for their own good, this sounds both absolutely complete and wonderfully concise.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pretty In Black
    To call 'Pretty In Black' disappointing would be an understatement in the least, particularly for a band whose delivery has matched their promise over their previous releases.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Celebration Castle
    Celebration Castle does rather suffer from a midsection slump.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Waiting For The Sirens' Call
    Mellifluous, yet unenticing.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Blinking Lights And Other Revelations
    It's an absolute must-buy release.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Songs For Silverman
    If you hate Ben Folds, you’ll hate this album just as much as anything else he’s ever done. If you’re a fan, you’ll be quietly satisfied.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Devils & Dust
    Inevitably, critics will place Devils & Dust in a trio with Springsteen's other quiet albums Nebraska and The Ghost Of Tom Joad, but be aware that there’s significantly more production polish on Devils & Dust, as well as a wider palette of moods.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Untilted
    While in recent years the work of Autechre has widened to include bursts of melody alongside their cut-and-paste sonic structures, it’s here on 'Untilted' that Booth and Brown get the mixture right.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Illuminated By The Light
    It is both accessible and challenging at times, and a few bloopers aside a perfectly worthy release, providing the purchaser can tolerate Ian Svenonius' occasional lapses into horrendously irritating vocal histrionics.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Case We Die
    Part pep rally, part school-time innocence, In Case We Die is nothing if not full of life and enthusiasm.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bleed Like Me
    There very well may be a human heart beating at the centre of 'Bleed Like Me', but thanks to the walls of effects and static, it's sometimes impossible to hear it.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Open Season
    Whether they're prepared for it or not, 'Open Season' is set to transcend indie cliques and hardcore raving mentalist fanbases and blow BSP wide open.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Odyssey
    The songwriting is definitely more consistent than before.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Elevator
    Initally, it all rushes by so fast as to rock you onto your heels, but further listens offer a quick grasp of a set of insidiously catchy songs.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Suspended Animation
    Fucking insane, whatever way you listen to it.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Warmer Corners
    'Warmer Corners' is a timely reminder that the art of songwriting hasn't died - it just goes away and hibernates in the Adelaide Hills every so often.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Guero
    'Guero' contains several familiar sounds merely repackaged and freshened up - remnants of the party album mentality of 'Midnite Vultures' sit next to the eclecticism of 'Odelay' and the folk sensibilities of 'Mutations'. What negates this is the conviction with which it's all delivered.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Language. Sex. Violence. Other?
    Stereophonics have in effect 'done a U2', packing in the arena-filling songs but with added AOR. Elements of rock dinosaurs such as ELO, Chicago and Fleetwood Mac all crop up over the course of 11 songs.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Alternative To Love
    A realistic, delightful and emotionally accessible record.
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