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For 3,270 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Ys
Lowest review score: 0 Rain In England
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,654 out of 3270
  2. Mixed: 581 out of 3270
  3. Negative: 35 out of 3270
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Orange
    Orange is another worthy and replayable stack of oddball tunefulness.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Undone Is Done Again [EP]
    Who knew we needed a brace of medieval Christmas carols to get through our current morass? Not me, but Brokaw and Donnelly did somehow.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Future Present Past
    Displaying intensity, versatility and musicality in equal measure, Irreversible Entanglements is an indomitable force. Future Present Past is their best work yet.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sanctions
    Whether this record is a swan song or the beginning of a very late-career renaissance remains to be seen, but, like the band’s previous releases, Sanctions is perfect for the moment and likely to prove another timeless treasure for those perceptive few.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Total Dive
    This is a big album with quiet moments, and if you like your alt-country dialed up and unapologetic, go find Brown Horse at your local Total Dive.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection 3
    Volume three caps off the series on a high note with its refined, layered sound, featuring contributions from a range of musicians including Allison de Groot, Erin Rae, Annie Williams, Oisin Leech, and Rich Ruth.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    PLAY ME
    Gordon’s vocals remain strong, but Play Me is a jittery record. The brevity of the songs captures the nervous mood, flitting from one worry to another, staying sharply focused for a couple minutes before veering into the next disaster.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    sunn O)))
    Perhaps more than any other record the band has issued in the last 20 years, Sunn O))) best recalls the austere glories of The Grimmrobe Demos (1999).
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fables
    Pine is deft with a bow. She’s also a skilled arranger, layering violin, viola, cello, and bass elements with a photographer’s eye; the depth of field expands and contracts as each piece unfurls.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    News From Planet Zombie
    The density and rushing tempo are balanced by more laidback, acoustic numbers such as “Snow” and “Who We Used To Be.” And there’s also a couple of unexpected cover versions — Neil Young’s “Red Sun” and Lovers’ “How the Story Ends” — that integrate seamlessly into the tracklist.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hoggar
    Heavy stuff, but the music is often not. Cuts like “Erghad Afewo” keen and wail ecstatically, the eerie vocals taking you to other, more triumphant places, the insistent rhythms urging your feet and butt to move. A Tinariwen concert is always a celebration, and since we won’t have access to that, the transporting joys of Hoggar will have to do for now.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hen's Teeth
    The songs start bare and personal, and if they swell with strings or rollick with muted celebration (as in whirling “In Your Ocean”) they never really escape the quiet, contemplative category. Not that this is an entirely bad thing. There are still effortlessly shapely melodies, fitted like skin with perceptive turns of phrase. There are still very lovely arrangements, a little airy this time around, but neither slack nor stuffed nor overly attention hungry. And the musicianship is, as always, excellent.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    DISCOMBOBULATED
    It conveys the confusion and frustration of living in a 21st-century reality that conspires against the reassuring normalities of everyday life. Hen Ogledd meets this challenge with humor, defiance, and playfulness, resulting in music that’s colorful, chaotic, and occasionally deeply moving.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Highway To Heavenly
    Here’s an album that gets at the balance between pure, raucous, positive punk energy and the elegiac textures of lush, baroque pop.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    My Days Of 58
    Callahan can give us no answers. But some of us find the struggle, the ride, much more interesting when the answers are lacking.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shaking Hand
    Shaking Hand demonstrate a cleverness with the reins, balancing looseness and restraint. This is typically found in long-tenured outfits; it’s hard to believe this is their first record.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Sama'a] (Audition)
    As Keepnews said in the original liner notes, “There can be room for vast newness within the unhampered framework of this ‘old’ music.” [Ahmed] have continued to mine that sense of discovery with ongoing zeal.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    low clouds hang, this land is on fire
    This is the prettiest album Dorji has made so far, though it’s more than that, profound and spirit moving and just what we need at the moment.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    So Much Country ‘Till We Get There [EP]
    In veering so hard and so often, they manage to be that rare thing: interesting. Save for later the development of brand identity and a recognizable aesthetic.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jana Horn
    They sound very private, though not uninviting, and, compared to the first album at least, less fanciful and more grounded in everyday events and relationships. Yet while these songs are spare and not at all weighted down, they integrate diverse sounds into the mix. .... The harmonies are what’s lovely here, and a little different from before.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Secret Love
    Another essential album in Dry Cleaning’s discography, and the first great album of this young year.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Desert So Green
    What’s key here is that Winged Wheel is travelling together, as a unit. The eclecticism in mood proves that they’re enjoying the voyage.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Demise Of Planet X
    At some point, you may, in fact, find yourself hankering for unaccompanied Mods, and to that end, let me direct you to “Megaton” with its loopy, pinging beat, its hammering bass pulse, its artful disdain.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Your Picture
    I’m not sure anyone was looking for a doo-wop revival led by a father and three sons, but here it is, and it’s a kick.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    England Screaming
    The songs on England Screaming sound very much in line with Wreckless Eric’s recent output, brash and tuneful, the words barked out in the artist’s clanging, faintly tremulous tenor, the choruses exploding in swaggering hooks. And they are very good songs, not a real dud in the bunch, and a couple that rank with the artist’s very best.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unclouded
    The vocals on cuts like “The House That Doesn’t Exist” may be soft and high, but the melody slashes forward with determination and force. Even the Nico-esque whisper psyche of “Flowers Turn Into Gold” exudes intention. Daydream soft sonics swirl in clouds around Prochet’s mic, but she, herself, is wide awake and in control.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Imaginational Anthem Vol. XIV : Ireland
    This is a lovely album, its only drawback being its brief running time of barely 30 minutes.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thick Rich And Delicious
    The songs are good, full of fetching turns of melody and surrealist images, but they sound especially excellent bashed out with clanging chords and pounding rhythms and intuitive rock-and-roll energy.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Balloon Balloon Balloon
    Slater has found a way of collating a raft of familiar guitar tropes and injecting them with fresh energy. He seems to have ideas simply pouring out of him, plus enough of a quality-control filter to stack up an album’s worth of songs that fizz with inspiration.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    1985: The Miracle Year [Box Set]
    A number of the record’s best songs sizzle and churn on Miracle Year. The atmospherics of the live setting suit the combination of incisive melody and the chaotic fuzz-and-feedback issuing from Bob Mold’s guitar; check out “If I Told You,” “Powerline” and especially New Day Rising’s title track. .... 1985: The Miracle Year includes another four LP sides of live Hüsker Dü, from various gigs in ’85, and you can hear some serious hard psych: “Chartered Trips” from a show in Switzerland, “Eiffel Tower High” from Salt Lake City, “Sunshine Superman” from Hoboken.
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