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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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Artificial Dance
    Ultimately, however, too many of these tracks, whilst foundationally strong, don’t linger much in the memory. The Neo-Realist (At Risk) remains the strongest aspect whilst the singles and outtakes feel more like filler. As such, Artificial Dance feels more like a beguiling curiosity than a lost masterpiece of American post-punk. And yeah, those Eno and Byrne and Talking Heads similarities are a bit problematic at times.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Metalmania
    All in all, Metalmania is a lovely little album.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Natural Facts
    These are not songs that wander aimlessly, that get lost in mandala-like intricacies that make sense only in large, sunny green spaces, late in the afternoon, preferably in Vermont. There’s a tight cohesive tunefulness to this second album from the New Jersey-based band that transcends the genre.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thrashing thru the Passion
    The Hold Steady will probably never match the thrill of their first three releases, but Thrashing Thru the Passion is the most enjoyable record they’ve made in thirteen years.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ensemble Pearl
    The members of Ensemble Pearl have made an album that takes heavy, and turns it into a contemplative virtue.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Slow Summits
    The music is a lot more accomplished here than on, say, Up for a Bit, but still loose, unpremeditated and a little bit straggly.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Arrow
    These are rather beautiful ambient sound worlds, however she created them, full of dread, anticipation, joy and peace. Perhaps it’s best if you can’t see the wires and knobs and plugs that make them possible.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mirror II
    Mirror II finds The Goon Sax deep in the lovely, perplexing mess of life, embracing the pain and pleasure, savoring the taste of change, finding inner strength and the consolations of a collective that allows individuality to flourish and supports it with an empathy which seems so sorely lacking in our world.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Morgan Delt
    Morgan Delt is too academically rooted in the past to really disconnect from it. Still, as a debut, it shows some promise.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Out My Window
    Out My Window, Koushik searches for--and at times strikes--the fine balance between structure and flexibility, rigidity and looseness, body and soul.
    • 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Ferneaux
    Dream logic rules this world, with periods of calm beauty, eruptions of noise and the sense that for every step forward there are delays, disruptions and detours that must be dealt with in order to proceed to a distant destination. If abstraction is the rule, the emotional resonance is real and deeply felt.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hymn To The Immortal Wind
    It’s the sound of epic detail in exquisite registration, and Albini perfectly vivifies Mono’s Technicolor wall of sound.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Voidist
    There is the danger that The Voidist comes off as a collection of songs, not an album. But for the most part they’re really good songs, and sometimes that’s more than enough.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Go Easy
    While there’s not that much darkness in this album, there’s plenty of scratch and friction to balance out the pop.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    One Armed Bandit
    JJ continue to build on the promise of their early albums with an eclectic sound which appeals to devotees of many different musics including jazz, rock and beyond.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ce
    It is quite elegant in its clarity and cleanliness.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    H-P1
    Anyone seeking the nightmarish flipside of a Herzog soundtrack will find H-p1 a rewarding listen.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mess
    They’re still nodding to early Pop synthesizer proponents (The Human League, Fad Gadget, A Broken Frame era Depeche Mode), and now mixing in a beefed-up, contemporary EDM blast with the je ne sais quoi that the group infuses into everything it touches.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dignity And Shame
    A dramatic, often fascinating work, it inspires repeated and careful listening, and stands alongside the best of Bachmann’s work.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Amore del Tropico
    Often more conceptually interesting than practically solid.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    L' Avventura
    Wareham’s sideline fantasy life becomes the Luna fan’s candy-infested playground.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Radical Connector
    Even if Radical Connector beckons with a shelf-screaming sheen of freshness, much of its contents are merely the microwaved scraps from Basement Jaxx’s block party.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ruler of the Night
    Subtle differences aside, Magic Trick delivers the same kind of trippy, guitar-jangling, tambourine-shaking pop as Fresh & Onlys.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hospitality
    These songs are smart and ingratiating, and slightly squeamish about the world of privileged, post-collegiate ennui they inhabit, and... that's what they are.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Immolate Yourself
    It’s a confident outing from an outfit with all the right reasons to be confident, a unified and often arresting record with few qualms about what it’s supposed to be.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gem
    GEM isn't just a fresh take on an old sound; it's an audit of the constraint placed on female artists in the past and a table-turning journey into what might have been possible if musical freedom meant more than obedience to parents, husbands and record producers.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    King Tuff
    Thomas has a near prodigy-like ability to generate indelible hooks that pull from a relatively deep well of inspiration.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Broken Boy Soldiers
    I was really hoping that some critical insight the bigger publications had missed would shine through here, and on this front I am let down, albeit pleasantly: all this record strives to be is a power-pop record, of second-string Lennon/McCartney-crossed-with-Americana type that proliferated in the ‘70s and has carried on, doggedly, through the decades.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sound Kapital
    Sound Kapital never quite settles into a comfortable pattern of pop.
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