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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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Transcendental Youth
    Ultimately the album adds another respectable line to The Mountain Goats' discography.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Que Aura
    The remarkable thing about Kelley Stoltz up to now has been how seamlessly he absorbs his influences, finds their essences and out of that irreducable core makes songs that are entirely fresh and new.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brickbat
    Brickbat is a worthy addition to the growing canon of bands and performers addressing the powers that be.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Oh Me Oh My
    Moor Mother, Michael Stipe, Sharon van Etten, Bon Iver, Rokia Koné, and Jeff Parker lend their talents to Oh Me Oh My, affording its arrangements and production a mutability that supports, never dilutes, Holley’s aesthetic. ... Holley without guest stars is no less compelling.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    English Tapas
    It returns to the sly humor, the hypnotic barking aggression, the occasional whiffs of wistful tune-ish-ness slipped in between robotic beats of Divide and Exit and maybe does it one better.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Congotronics 2: Buzz'N'Rumble From The Urb'N'Jungle
    This compilation goes for breadth where Konono’s Congotronics went for depth.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Microcastle
    The music doesn’t go far enough--it’s too restrained and mellow--but the point of view is crystal clear. This is alternative rock clinically perfected in a perpetual adolescence.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Engravings
    Engravings does find Barnes reaching new peaks, even if he’s not radically adding to his sound.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You Are Not Alone
    There's nothing self-consciously modern or calculated about You Are Not Alone, no visible strain from trying to mold Staples' style into something she's not. It's just her, as she is at her best, and Tweedy deserves credit for bringing that out.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Wonder Working Stone
    In A Wonder Working Stone, Roberts continues to tinker thoughtfully with the shared tradition of the Isles, always somewhat familiar but modern and discordant enough to render pause and consideration.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Someday Everything Will Be Fine
    Someday Everything Will Be Fine is a wrecked and wreckless antidote to a world that most definitely is not.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    ForeverandEverNoMore
    The album is full of the small noises and cosmic visions that encapsulate life, death, microbe and universe, a tick of time, like a chord, both stark and larger than itself, establishing and destroying its boundaries. This all-in-all unity gives the album astonishing power and a uniquely familiar beauty.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Three Bells
    Recorded mostly solo, with Segall on guitar and drums, it pushes classic guitar rock into complicated corners, with choral motets sidling up to blistering guitar solos, noodle electric keyboard textures glittering atop blasts of pared down percussion.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mercy
    It’s not that these songs are bad, just that they sound a lot alike: elegant, chilled, full of foreboding.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You're Better Than This
    Pile is a challenging band to listen to casually--but its dense, exquisitely crafted bombast pays both immediate and long-term dividends over repeated listens, as the mutated strands of their musical DNA infect and take over.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sweet Heart Sweet Light
    This uneven album takes time to break in, but each successive spin deepens the relationships among the songs and reveals more details.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Crossing
    Escovedo and Don Antonio play with that search through country, rock, cool jazz, and more, reflecting chaotic but exciting sensory experiences. The Crossing, with its big scope and questionable coherence, can be a bit much, but it’s a welcome and valuable statement from an artist capable of pulling it off.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Jellywish
    The album’s consistent tempo and tone end up making Jellywish feel strangely longer than its concise 34-minute runtime. But, when the band cuts loose a little, such as the lead guitar breaks on “This Was A Gift” and “All the Same Light,” it’s tantalizing to imagine where Jellywish may have ventured given more of a loose rein and a sense of adventure.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    MM..Food
    When MF Doom takes the time to plot and scheme it, no idea is too outlandish, no beat too unorthodox, and much of MMâ?¦Food? is the work of a master chef cooking up some marvelous shit. However, masters get held to a higher standard.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nightmare Ending
    It’s restlessly beautiful stuff.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    We're Not Talking
    The songcraft has gotten notably sharper in just two years as well, making this very much a band to enjoy now but also one to keep an eye on for later.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
    Although non-fans will likely continue to dismiss the band as over-the-top pop marauders, Hissing Fauna proves that there’s plenty of depth to their delirium.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Bravest Man in the Universe
    [The production] intrudes on the songwriting, distracts the listener, and interferes with what are otherwise solid and sometimes deeply moving performances.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Age of Adz
    Stevens inspiration or jumping off point for The Age of Adz was outsider artist Royal Robertson, and, much like Robertson's artwork, the themes in the album vacillate between the mundane and heartfelt and surreal and grandiose.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Golden Years
    Trapist isn't experimenting anymore; the trio is using the tools they know best to subvert nostalgia and keep you ill at ease.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    From Scotland with Love
    This album is more grounded in sounds recognizably made by physical instruments. It’s also, in places, openly archaic in its devices and treatments.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Foothills
    Foothills further distills this soft-focus, rueful vision, purifies it and delivers exactly what you expect from this band, only a little prettier and more touching than the last time.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Intimate Landscape
    Though there’s less of Chasny’s questing idiosyncrasies at play, it’s hard to pick fault with music that taps into such a universal sound, like stepping out of the way of the self to see things anew. It’s beautiful yet strangely daunting; like waking up somewhere familiar and having to reacquaint yourself all over again.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Springtime
    They weave their instruments around each other deftly, with nobody stomping on toes. ... The anger and the grief are broken up by moments of beauty. ... These moments of respite from the darkness, where Springtime lets the sunshine part the clouds, are where they are the most powerful.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Still, Here
    In times of uncertainty, you might very well look to the music Anderson interprets—folk, blues, gospel—for reassurance. But the uneasiness works its way in, even to these lovely songs. Anderson captures that conjunction of solitude and stress, of beauty in the moment and angst about what’s next, in a way that reflects very clearly on the last couple of years.
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