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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cansei De Ser Sexy
    If it weren't all so much fun, CSS would be really objectionable. But if it wasn't so objectionable, it certainly wouldn't be this much fun.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Century Plaza
    Sartain has always sounded wild and dangerous, but Century Plaza is, if anything, more hair-raising than usual.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dream Get Together
    A bit of guitar jangle pushes up under her voice, a subliminal rumble of bass, but mostly, notes are allowed to ripen, carry and decay slowly, on their own terms. On a record that runs a flag of hedonism over brainy complications, here is the real thing, swooning, wordless and headily scented.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Car Alarm
    Car Alarm feels different, though. What’s difficult to figure out, however, is whether that’s merely a feeling or whether there’s something actually, appreciably novel about the album.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Clutching Stems
    Despite its lackluster production and a dearth of strong songs, Clutching Stems isn't quite a bust. Olson still turns in some strong tracks, which are not coincidentally the ones that sound like they would have been most at home on earlier albums.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Orcas
    While Orcas hits on a heavier emotional level than I'd initially expected, that tendency to drift does endure on repeated listens.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Neverendless
    Cave never quite summons the lyrical beauty that Neu! was capable of, nor do they rock with the blithering, obliterating tension that Oneida brings to its hardest bangers, but once or twice during Neverendless, they do turn locomotive precision into something transformative.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sunshine
    The balance of melody to unease is rarely this well maneuvered.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-Blooey!
    While bubblegum’s reliance on the hook has afforded Collins the opportunity to write some of the catchiest songs of his career, Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-Blooey!’s strongest selling point is its extraordinary attention to detail.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fomo
    There are perhaps ways to defy expectations and still capture that truth about oneself, though that's not present in Two Matchsticks. Holding that against The Wooden Birds is certainly unfair in many ways, but still must be accounted for.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Schoozzzmmii
    One major problem is the Lone Pigeon’s tone of voice: earnest, slightly keening, with no core or crag, no edge or clamor. Combined with melodic and lyrical art that often borders on the perfunctory, Anderson is left flailing.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    C'est Com...Com...Complique
    This disc has all the ingredients that made Faust the force it once was, plowing headlong through rock establishment and leaving us to reassess the wrecked landscape.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Harmonics
    In the end, it feels wrong to call this album a solo record, since it is defined and elevated by the people Goddard works with. He’s been adventurous in seeking out partners, choosing some familiar ones and some that no one would have predicted, and the risks, especially, have paid off.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Surrounded By Silence
    Silence easily matches, and likely exceeds, Mike Ladd’s recent Negrophilia in regard to hip hop’s lack of limits.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Seasons on Earth
    By keeping everything in proportion, she's made the most easily approached record of her career.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Inside the Ships
    I can't say I'll be giving Inside the Ships more spins this year, but it's offbeat charm never felt like a waste of my time when I did, and that's more than I can say for most albums this year.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Peer Amid
    The sound is physically propulsive, enveloping and mildly psychoactive. The beat pounds hard on the most lizardly parts of the brain, bringing a catharsis, a sheer rush of physicality.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ear Drum
    Ear Drum is his sprawling, messy 2007 manifesto, loaded with rhymes that take weeks to unpack, to say nothing of the bizarre diversity of producers and guests.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dancer Equired
    The ratio is fixed, and any intimations of possible ineptitude is eradicated in a batch of songs that transition from anthem to chaos with ease.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Love Has Made Me Stronger
    Kleyn sounds just fine accompanying herself with adept piano and efflorescent harp flourishes, her music FX-free except for a little echo, and I can imagine a less skyclad presentation simply gumming things up with New Age goo.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood
    For a man who long ago turned the fear of change into his best friend, it's disappointing how uneven his explorations are in Nookie Wood.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    And Everything Else
    For the most part, it sounds like giddy, faux-innocent psychedelia filtered through a kaleidoscope, moody but never mopey.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Era of Manifestations
    There is certainly not much to coax the ladies onto the dance floor here. Still visions are visions, and whether you find them through hedonism or self-denial, worth having. In some cases, it is hard to tell the difference.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This Gift
    It's a party, not a revival meeting, This Gift, but a good one.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    West
    What was once an exciting examination of a seldom-explored corner of rock and roll has become a listless, mechanical affair.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    City Center
    Every song in the first half of the album tries so hard to get somewhere, but just ends up breaking down when it becomes obvious there’s no end in sight.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tapes
    It’s great fun, but it’s all boundless energy without centre.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Family Sign
    The Family Sign is mature in its way, soured by age and wisdom, but it's no fun.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    God Bless Your Black Heart
    God Bless Your Black Heart is one of the best noise rock records in recent memory – and not in the sense that it’s bafflingly original, but in that the Paper Chase are amazingly good at what they do.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Magic Chairs
    For now, the experience of listening to Magic Chairs is a frustrating one: the sound of a group with one foot remaining in art-pop territory and the other pointed toward an arena-sized sound. Efterklang might pull off either mode, but their occupation of the same space is a source of unwanted friction.
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