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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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    • 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.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Sun Awakens
    The opening seven tracks on The Sun Awakens are probably the strongest sequence of songs on any Six Organs release so far.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    DJ-Kicks
    It's just a smart encapsulation of underground dance music's better qualities, but not so showoffy that it can't work as an hourlong immersion tank.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hive Mind
    Everything on this oddball album demands your attention, often in unexpected ways.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Year of Magical Drinking
    If you come to this record for the title, expecting rueful literacy and songwriterly self-deprecation, you might be pleasantly surprised by how hard it rocks and what an undemanding good time it can be.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Model of You
    Model of You is neither sparse nor overstuffed, relying on a few, highly polished elements to make up each song and allowing each of them ample space to unfold.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Emanon
    Emanon moves through dimensions and times with a surprising fluidity. That the album includes three discs and a graphic novel gives it unusual heft, but Shorter’s construction of the segments provides insight into his recent era, particularly stemming from 2013’s Without a Net.
    • 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.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    African Electronic Music 1975-1982
    African Electronic Music 1975-1982 is a deceptively smart compilation sequenced at least as well as Bebey's own albums.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow
    Pollard’s imagistic lyrics and ragged musicality create a bridge between the mundane and the exceptional.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Angel Tears in Sunlight
    Her soundscapes are transportive and evocative, but they also contain detail and texture that plays with a sense of natural versus unnatural soundscapes, the real versus the imagined. Left in the between space, this is fascinating stuff.
    • 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.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Breaking the Balls of History
    So yes, the combination of energies works as well as it ever did, a remarkable 30 years after it started. The pandemic, far from crushing the joy out, coaxes an unexpected giddiness from two lifers playing as hard as they can for the love of it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Moral Crossing
    Autobahn makes a very recognizable kind of dark, dramatic post-punk-into-new-wave music, and the easy thing would be to dismiss them as a mid-1980s knock-off. But The Moral Crossing is a very enjoyable record from a band that is already pushing the contours of its sound to find its own center.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shelter From The Ash
    It’s bit of a risk for Chasny to polish his sound, but he’s succeeded in bottling the imaginative, audacious overflow of his past efforts into perhaps his most cohesive record yet.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nina
    There is something very powerful about these interpretations, as Stewart and his crew cut past the elegant phrasings and the precise constructions of Simone’s songs, and expose their bruised and bleeding vulnerabilities.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Smoke Ring for My Halo
    I'm more than happy to take this album as it is, blemishes and all.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    FEET OF CLAY
    If you’d said in 2014 that by 2019 Earl Sweatshirt, a scrawny kid from Odd Future, would be one of the most well-regarded hip hop artists, nobody would have taken it seriously. But after 2018’s Some Rap Songs, it has become evident that it’s true, and the new EP proves it.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    True North
    Michael Chapman’s songs are gorgeous, dark-tone places, full of the work of musical collaboration, but also haunted and spare. Lovely stuff.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In The Future
    Black Mountain won’t win any prizes for innovation, but their slightly bruised brand of retro is far more fertile than that of their contemporaries.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If...
    Far from being liabilities, such disparate moments help define If… for the better: as a work that frolics in different directions without losing control or coherence.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Takes
    Takes is most worthwhile for Adem fans, but intriguing for anyone who enjoys a new perspective on old tunes.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mothertongue
    What makes Muhly’s work particularly interesting then is not only his use of this style--comprehending the four movements of the title track is particularly vexing as bits of voices mingle and move at different velocities--but the use of the style in a dynamic way itself, reminiscent of Nyman’s compositions.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Follower
    With The Follower we have the first truly top-tier Field album that seems to draw its energy more from refinement than innovation, from the spin of the wheel rather than the speed of the car.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Exploded View
    This crew has figured out how to make it work as a quartet.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Father Divine
    Father Divine ranks among the best of Ladd’s efforts, and is easily one of his most adventurous.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Musik
    He’s a better photographer than he is a musician, but Eggleston’s passion and restless, searching creativity shine through here. And as with his finest images, these deceptively simple pieces can conjure a range of emotions and narratives for more complex and rich than what an initial impression might hold.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tago Mago [40th Anniversary Edition]
    We have a groundbreaking album re-released, with some strong live material
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Summer Through My Mind
    It may be that he doesn’t have a country bone to stand on, but he obviously knows all about the music’s spirit.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    River of Souls
    Sonically these songs are crafted out of beautifully thin, translucent textures that brush over one another to create half hues and harmonies. And lyrically, too, they pile evocative, not definitive, images one on top of the other, until a song can encompass two diametrically opposed ideas without any tension at all.
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