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For 3,271 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: 2,655 out of 3271
  2. Mixed: 581 out of 3271
  3. Negative: 35 out of 3271
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Likewise
    While it doesn’t wield the heft of a Hop Along release, Likewise demonstrates Quinlan’s adept melodic sensibility and enviable vocal delivery. It’s a short, sweet collection, easily digestible and ripe for revisiting.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    America's National Parks
    Preserved and proffered in sound, the Parks, both physical and cerebral become a source of solace and wonderment.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Letter to Yu
    There’s something very moving about Pupul’s attempt to understand his mother by vacuuming up the sights and sounds of Hong Kong and fitting them carefully into his Western-style DJ art. It works on a human level — we can all relate to losing people that we love — but also as music. Letter to Yu is poignant and powerful.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Life Will See You Now
    The result is his most fully realized album to date, and a reminder after those lower-profile years that Lekman’s voice is a singular and valuable one.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Infinite Dissolution
    Infinite Dissolution paints with the boldest of rockist strokes and then tears them all down again.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Black Up
    Though the harsh synth textures and borderline-disjointed edits from the EPs remain, the record as a whole is simultaneously hazier and more distinct: more fine detail in the cavernous reverb, more impact with every tumbling, hypercompressed stack of drum samples.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Window
    She swoops and swoons and growls like Kristin Hersh but more country, and it’s worth a listen just to hear what she’ll do next.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Andorra
    Despite its music-geek-pleasing period references and psychedelic density, this is ultimately a frothy pop record full of hopeful love songs.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Royal Toast
    For those unfamiliar with this exemplary quintet and its composer, there's no better place to begin.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
    The organic feel and sense of Shabaka’s humility and vulnerability makes Perceive its Beauty, Acknowledge its Grace a moving and impressive album.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Boy
    Throughout Boy, the action recedes into a murky distance from which disembodied details reach out like the tiny malevolent creatures that hide under the staircase in your nightmares.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nektyr
    This is a relatively brief album but one so rich and with such a definite sense of itself that it’s hard to feel shortchanged; Demen gives us a rapturously enchanting world to live in, but one you could imagine becoming too much.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mandatory Enjoyment
    It’s full of sharp edges and rough noises, but it’s also kind of like a pillow. How do they do both things at once? That’s a mystery, one that makes for one of the best rock records of 2021.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Viewfinder
    Viewfinder works because of the way it sounds, at times bright and harsh as neon, at others soft and ambiguous and elusive. You may not be able to discern exactly what it means, but the colors are bright, the edges sharp and the turns often surprising.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Phonetics On And On
    The quality of the songwriting hasn’t diminished, but the setting has changed.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Teen Dream
    Teen Dream’s best material comes up front (“Zebra,” “Silver Soul,” “Norway” “Walk in the Park”) , and there’s a bit of a sag in the middle (“Lover of Mine,” “Better Times”), with songs that are pretty enough, but without any big payoffs.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    ()
    When the mood allows, and there's time to let it all sink in, an album like ( ) is indispensable nearly from beginning to end.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Why Do the Heathen Rage?
    Sugar and spice and everything twisted, Daniel continues to write music for people who like to think about why they like something and can appreciate creative, sincere homage.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    (a)spera
    Throughout, Mirah picks her soft, knowing way through songs that soothe even as they challenge. Her melodies curl gently up into question marks, as she asks you to make sense of life and love and loss.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    East Of Eden
    It is at once too ambitious (in the recording process and change of milieu) and not ambitious enough (in its failure to push Bergsman’s music to unexpected and truly experimental places).
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shattered
    With Shattered, he isn’t just showing today’s garage-rock young guns he’s still got it. He’s showing them how it’s done.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
    There are moments here that feel like being carried aloft by a parade, and moments that feel like the jail doors shutting. There are pools of calm and surges of impossible triumph.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    METZ
    Thirty minutes of METZ feels more like hard work than fun playtimes, and the sameness of the venture underscores the futility of whatever it is they're trying to accomplish, which falls somewhere between "artist defending bowel movement on a gallery floor" and "third demo tape by an up-and-coming new band."
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Creature I Don't Know
    Barely out of her teen years herself, Marling explores a whole spectrum of female experience with empathy and intelligence.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Negative Fascination
    The end result is as fascinating as Silent Servant has ever been.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fighting Season
    She embodies strength and resilience, mustering loudness when necessary and fluttering a little with vibrato and emotion, but never giving in to it. The quieter songs as equally powerful.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    some kind of peace
    Using simple piano motifs and minor key strings augmented with electronics and voice, some kind of peace is an album of delicate beauty. It is beguiling in the way it shifts focus between the general and specific.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blind Date Party
    Callahan’s honeyed, slightly gravelly bass-baritone, which comes across as dispassionate to the point of being noncommittal on Blind Date Party at times, and Bonnie Prince’s tenor, consistently vulnerable, raw, wide open, complement each other in a compelling way, establishing dramatic tension and unearthing emotionally resonant inner dialogues within the album’s songs.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Spirit Exit
    The music sometimes meanders as perspectives shift and but Barbieri’s juxtapositions of church and club in which transcendence through music can be both a public and intensely personal experience is never less than transporting.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    O Monolith
    You can hear both elements jostling for precedence, the celebratory euphoria of live performance filtering through the doubts and uncertainties and complications of extended time in one’s own head. It’s the combination that’s so thrilling here, in a sound that swirls and envelopes and jitters but remains just out of reach, like the dream of a dream of a dream of life before.
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