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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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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Parklive
    So it wasn't because Blur gave the most outstanding performance of their two-decade career that justified their rejection of what I'll call the Seymour route. It was the timing, the sense of 'crowning achievement', the feeling of poetic justice. As a document of that, Parklive is worth your money.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sushi
    In the case of Sushi, about half the album is worth hearing.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood
    An enjoyable offering from a genuine treasure.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Most Beautiful Ugly
    Like other effective instrumental LPs, The Most Beautiful Ugly compiles a series of vignettes into one coherent stream.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Contrast
    More than anything, what impresses about Contrast is the quality of songs on offer.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Silver & Gold [Boxset]
    It's very odd, varies wildly in tone and has its fair share of clunky bits, but it's all done in the spirit of fun and is always endearingly sincere.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Our Nature
    As an album it's neither bombastic enough to immediately grab you by the throat and refuse to let go, nor subtle and intricate enough to demand and reward repeated listens.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    DJ-Kicks
    It's great, but for all Butler's desire to bring this to the now it's best enjoyed by those who are able to take this as a polished trip down memory lane or as a launch pad to jump back into the history of dance music.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hello Skinny
    Although he makes Hello Skinny as unique-sounding as he can, Skinner also keeps it listenable, his hybrid sounds coming across as warm rather than overpowering.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Lovers
    A compelling record then all told, and one which should hopefully ensure Marshall has the benefit of a label suitor for his next release if there's any justice.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A List of the Burning Mountains
    A Oneida stop-gap rehearsal session is more satisfying than most bands' carefully crafted showcase albums, but this LP doesn't reach the same dizzy heights as their previous run of mind-blowing releases.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bastards
    The music is returned front and centre for an album that's finer than the Biophilia source materials that spawned it.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Carry On
    Carry On is a solid, if rarely remarkable work, showcasing an artist maturing at his own pace, and sounding content and comfortable in his form.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Somethin' 'Bout Kreay
    It is the preponderance of bland dance tracks (the inane 'Go Hard (La.La.La)', 'Twerkin'' and the abysmal 'luV haus' et al) lacking the wit of her previous singles, which consign this debut to a failure.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Inner Classics
    There are no bad songs on Inner Classics,, no painful moments, no dodgy production or misjudged directions. But there's not much else either.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Accelerator [Reissue]
    Accelerator's savage vitality hasn't diminished one iota in the intervening decade-and-a-half: quite what point it's ultimately trying to make remains typically elusive, but you get the sense that it's somehow been proved right in the long-run.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Warrior
    Warrior is never dull, always fun, and frequently a thrillingly unpredictable ride.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Field Music Play...
    Play might be a bit of a thrown together casserole of tracks, but it's an enjoyable one that only the coldest hipster would begrudge the Brewises.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cells
    Cells is coherent, yet not without the odd welcome respite or a few anomalies.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mad Love
    Although Kember's trademark floaty production sound is omnipresent at the forefront throughout, its Porpora's disconsolate vocal performance that steals the show.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hands of Glory
    Moments of quality do intersperse these drags.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Spiderwebbed
    Spiderwebbed is dreamy, it's beautiful and it's one of 2012's finest debut albums without question.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Defenestration of St. Martin
    Raving, romantic and graceful, it's what might happen if Britpop had gone to finishing school, and even includes a final guitar treat for anyone who tuned in the hope of another round of Olympian.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Melody's Echo Chamber
    Whatever happens next, she can rest assured safe in the knowledge that together with her beau they've conjured up one of 2012's--or any other year in recent memory--finest debuts.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Skelethon
    For Skelethon is the kind of record an artist only makes once in their career; the culmination of long-gestation, departing loved ones and having to innovate out of your comfort zone.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Unapologetic
    In spite of Rihanna's best efforts, Unapologetic is more depressing than offensive.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Instrumental Tourist
    They're not concerned with clunky subgenres or fitting into anyone's neat little boxes. With Instrumental Tourist, it is what it is.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Living with Ghosts
    Living With Ghosts, probably his most punishing set of tracks to date, is a British techno album whose ancestry lies in (to name only five) James Ruskin, Oliver Ho, Surgeon, Regis and Planetary Assault Systems.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    These Walls of Mine
    It's those thematic ideas of self-worth and pride that beget the sort of personal, intimate relationship that we've come to recognise in the music of many of the Erased Tapes family over the last five years, and that's something that will always be worth hearing.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Celebration Day [Live]
    Celebration Day is a fitting title: it's an enchanting tribute to the eternal power of rock, no matter the age of the music or the performers themselves.
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