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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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    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Space as an Instrument
    Atkinson, like other environmentally conscious composers such as John Luther Adams, Raven Chacon, and Liza Lim, creates an ecology when they create a piece, an environment they populate with sonic significations for their own meditation, and more so for our beleaguered world, its remaining beauty, and its tiny place in the universe. A favorite of 2024.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Candle and the Flame
    Forster produces some of the most direct and affecting songs of his singular career. ... Forster’s observational directness and simple language are always in service to the deep feeling in his songs and few better imbue the quotidian joys of domestic life and the power of memory with such poetry.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Vessel States
    Filled with an ineffable spiritual longing and a fractured sense of alienation, the album packs an emotional punch and a dark intelligence that sneaks up on you after repeated listens.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Songs of a Lost World
    The Cure emerged from the studio with a grand late-era statement, full of maturity and melancholy, but with an appropriate sort of wisdom.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Window Is the Dream
    Though short, The Window Is the Dream is a perfectly formed and bewitching album that offers both immediate gratification through its measured performances, plus plenty of depths to explore as its themes gradually reveal themselves. This one will be sure to feature highly come the end of the year.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Sunlandic Twins
    Occasionally masterful, frequently evocative, and consistently lovely.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Tender Buttons
    It's so satisfying when a band is able to subtly re-invent its sound, as Keenan and Cargill have done here so well.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Rise Above
    The result is one of the most formally radical indie records in recent memory. It also happens to be Dirty Projectors’ all-around best, not least because it most closely recreates the kinetic force of their live performances.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bitch Magnet
    It's a fantastic body of work, as vital and fresh-sounding now as it was when first released.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Elephant Eyelash
    Elephant Eyelash is fantastic, an indie rock record that nicely balances absurdity and directness, pop hooks with stoned weirdness.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fleeting
    Fleeting is therefore more intimate even than your average American primitive album, with the sounds of nature adding to the authenticity and naturalism of the music as opposed to intruding upon it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Central Market
    The combination of synth, loop techniques and no-joke instrumentalists playing wild and unconventional rhythms is totally over-the-top, but that’s exactly what makes this album so dazzling.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Heat Warps
    Even at their most spacious, these songs are taut and well-crafted pieces of music. Previous Modern Nature outings showed that the band can be expressive and daring; with The Heat Warps, they’ve proved that realism can be just as intriguing.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Colour
    The record paints The Concretes’ personality in richer detail without giving up one iota of their distinctive spookiness.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Humanhood
    The album is lovely. The band as currently constituted has chops, and mixes highly polished songwriting and arrangements with select extemporizations.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Strawberry Hotel
    Whether it’s the lengthier, arpeggiating climaxes of “Gene Pool” or the shorter, more reflective burbles of “Burst of Laughter,” it feels like they haven’t lost a step.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Solar Motel
    Solar Motel is Forsyth’s most traditional album in recent memory.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beat Pyramid
    These New Puritans play it smart, but in service of an earnest query rather than their own smartness.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Will Set You Free
    Barry Adamson, formerly of Magazine and The Bad Seeds, has released his most commercial-friendly album to date.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blue Record
    I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s an overarching concept. It doesn’t matter one way or another. It’s a gallop from start to finish. Blue Record is going to be hard to top.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Paul's Tomb: A Triumph
    You’ve got death and exaltation, followed by a sly wink at rock history. Not a bad set of tools for making smart, defiant music.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Michelangelo Dying
    Le Bon’s production approach has shifted her musical universe far from the brittle, guitar-driven sounds of earlier, post-punk indebted records like Crab Day (2016) towards a distinctive sound that seems to reach backwards and forwards simultaneously. This feeling of being held in suspension characterizes many of Michelangelo Dying’s most affecting moments.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Miss Machine
    Rage, speed, and math are still here; but there’s a cinematic scope and a real attention to mood and texture that’s new.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Mystery of Heaven
    Like any good ongoing collaboration, theirs is already moving beyond its initial definition, gone past the novelty of lutist and filmmaker into something more enduringly interesting.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tresor
    A colorful, evocative dream-pop record.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Antarctica
    The sound is harder, more precise and altogether more of a sock in the gut.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sinner Get Ready
    Hayter’s voice admirably performs that complexity on Sinner Get Ready; it’s a beautiful instrument that will fill you with terrible woe, and then terrible wonder.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Silver Age
    Silver Age is a very good album, one that recalls, in all the right ways, Mould's best post-Hüsker work, and in particular his Copper Blue.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Now You Are One Of Us
    Now You Are One Of Us is worth checking out for its amazing production alone.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With a Beaker on the Burner & An Otter in the Oven
    The band sounds more at home playing these than they do on the Invisible Hands’ two albums, and the empathetic accompaniment of guitarist Cherif El Masri and organist Adham Zidan contributes immeasurably to this project’s success. Despite being recorded in Cairo and Seattle between 2014 and 2017, they sound more like they were done on the set of a spaghetti western or live in Nashville the day after Bob Dylan recorded Blonde On Blonde.
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