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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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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    untitled unmastered.
    For all of its discordance, there is both the degree of palpable cohesion belying To Pimp A Butterfly and the unorthodox narrative of GKMC that lures the listener close.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forever Sounds
    The shining jewels in Forever Sounds’s crown are the ones where Warner takes centre stage, and shines a light on her own cryptic narratives.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    More Rain
    As one would expect, the 12 brief songs on M. Ward’s More Rain hit, plow, and bulldoze their way right into the sweet-spot of joyous existential-wonderment.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    You Know Who You Are
    They have yet again created a record of consistent dependability, but sadly it fails to excite and veers too close to the middle of the road.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Gospel
    Årabrot are still unhinged. There’s still the sense that this is a dangerous band.... However, here we also see a side of Årabrot that’s ever more suitable for the fading, decaying grandeur that surrounds all of us: one that is increasingly sonically diverse and eloquent.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Distance Inbetween
    It's a strong departure from the more sedate haunted seaside sounds of their last album, Butterfly House. It’s the sound of a band revitalised after a five-year-hiatus, ready to conquer the world once again.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    United Crushers
    Despite its heavy subject matter, this record sparkles and whirrs in a way that is very easy to fall in love with.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    LNZNDRF
    LNZNDRF lacks the deft, enchanting musical nuance of The National or Beirut but it does make for enjoyable, if not startling, interim listening.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Convenanza
    The album traverses a rich genre spectrum and incorporates contrasting moods and atmospheres that make for an exciting listen.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Waiting Room
    Imperfections define personality and The Waiting Room wears its flaws well. Don’t let them put you off. This is a rich, warm, comfort blanket of a record, marbled with veins of darkness and light.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Keep It Together
    Each track contains a melodic or harmonic flourish, a synth layer, a moment of unexpected aggression or vulnerability which shows that, at the same time as delivering a potentially career-defining album, there is the exciting potential of so much further that Lily and Madeleine could go.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Grandfeathered
    Grandfeathered is another distinguished addition to an already impressive body of work.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
    What they’ve made is a bold body of work that sounds effortless and odd and sophisticated. What they do next is likely to be stadium-filling and bonkers and brilliant, but it matters little when what they're doing now is so sensational.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Jesu/Sun Kil Moon
    This is a challenging listen, the rewards often buried, but they are there.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Meet the Humans
    Meet the Humans is the most concise and immediate record Mason has released in over a decade.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Ridge
    What Neufeld shows again in The Ridge is that the violin and her superbly expressive playing is more than enough to make for a great record but it shows this at the expense of making the other elements thrown in occasionally feel superfluous or underdeveloped by contrast.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    99 Cents
    99 Cents doesn’t exactly deliver the discussion on commodity and the self promised on the cover. But Santigold have assembled a fine package, one which showcases White and her undeniable swagger.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Blue Hour
    One of the most hauntingly beautiful records you'll ever hear.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Traditional Synthesizer Music
    As the listens pile up--one realises suits Traditional Synthesizer Music (both the album and the notion) more than anticipated. A welcome return to top form.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    SVIIB
    The whole thing is put together with such love that nothing ever feels like a burden, nor an obligation. First and foremost, this is an LP which can be enjoyed by anyone. You don’t need to know the album’s backstory to be swayed by its charm.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here Be Monsters
    Whether this will go down as one of Motorpsycho's best albums (and there are a lot of contenders for that crown) only time will tell. Clearly though, they are a band as vital as they've ever been.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Daze
    Daze challenges the listener more than most dime-a-dozen electronic music.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Marlon Williams
    Given his richness of experience before he entered the studio, it makes sense that the nine tracks here are as so assured.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Painting With
    There's a sort of admirable purity to this approach, and it suggests that if Animal Collective decide they'd like to make brilliant albums again then probably will, but this time they're probably better off painting alone.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Life of Pause
    It is hard to criticise such a well-crafted, enjoyable album that appears to have been made specifically with someone like me in mind. The thing is that in six weeks’ time it will be even harder to remember it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Life Of Pablo
    Once again, Kanye has released music filled with contradictions and confusion. Once again, it’s like nothing heard before. Once again, it’s good to have him back.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Neo
    Neo, the Seattle group’s debut, is as painfully Sub Pop as it gets, and it’s painful in a wonderful, wonderful way.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Still in a Dream: A Story of Shoegaze
    Overall, Still In A Dream: A Story Of Shoegaze 1988-1995 is an essential purchase for anyone with an interest in the genre. And while the omission of certain acts make it just fall short of being definitive, there's more than enough sonic gold here to compensate.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Infinite Summer
    Whilst there are many other bands doing futuristic disco, many of which band members have worked with, NZCA Lines’ unrelenting quest for a great hook and massive chorus pushes them ahead of the pack.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wonderful Crazy Night
    Everything about Wonderful Crazy Night is utterly predictable, from its subject matter to its comprising 100% mid-tempo ballads, be they boogie-woogie piano (‘Looking Up’, ‘England and America’) or acoustic guitar lighter than a Peter Kay show (‘I’ve Got 2 Wings’, ‘Tambourine’). But despite this--and perhaps in no small part thanks to T Bone Burnett adding a lovely warm country tinge in the production--none of it grates.
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